Search results for: “bleed”
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Bleed: The Spillover Between Player and Character
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Participants often engage in role-playing in order to step inside the shoes of another person in a fictional reality that they consider “consequence-free.” However, role-players sometimes experience moments where their real life feelings, thoughts, relationships, and physical states spill over into their characters’ and vice versa. In role-playing studies, we call this phenomenon bleed.((Markus Montola,
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Nordic Larp Talks: Bleed: How Emotions Affect Role-Playing Experiences
This talk explains the concept of bleed in role-playing games & advocates for awareness of the phenomenon & discussion on emotional content in games.
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Together, Apart: Dyadic Play in Larp
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Designing characters in pairs can lead to two people locked into a singular dynamic that shapes the larp experience around them.
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Building Player Chemistry
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This article By Nór Hernø, introduces a workshop tool to help build player chemistry before a larp.
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Seeds of Hope: How to Intertwine Larp and Ecological Activism
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What could we bring into larp from the climate crisis? And what can we take home that could have an actual influence on how we act to mitigate the disaster we are living in?
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The General Problem of Indexicality in Larp Design
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When things are done “for real” there is always some confusion on how real is real, as there are numerous different levels of simulation, representation, and performance.
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Remember That Time… We Tried to Film a Larp
In this article, Sophia Seymour and Martine Svanevik discuss their experiences of filming a larp for a documentary.
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Did We Wake?
Reflections on Before We Wake, a larp played in 2015, a larp which refused to let go, which insisted on being untangled…, and utterly unlike any other larp ever played.
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Strings and Rails: NPCs vs. Supporting Characters
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NPCs are tools for larp designers to set specific events in motion. Sometimes, the presence of NPCs with complex personalities is beneficial.
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Experience vs. Imagination – Effects of Player Age
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It is often stated that imagination is the limit – that anyone can play any role – but is that the reality?