Tag: Featured
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Know Yourself
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Once you understand what you can and can’t do, want and don’t want to do, it becomes easier to have good larp experiences and to co-create them with others.
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Emotions as Skilled Work
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This text is focused on the social and cultural aspects of emotion work and on our understanding of the skills involved in the context of larp.
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Metareflection
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When larping, we are often aiming to feel immersed. This article shows how other internal processes are active as well when we are roleplaying.
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Maps, Loops and Larp
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This article outlines a framework for analyzing how players decide on their actions moment to moment, as well as on longer time scales throughout the larp.
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Leaving the Magic Circle: Larp and Aftercare
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The transition from larp to everyday life can be messy sometimes. Some thoughts on aftercare in a larp context: how to do it and why.
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Solmukohta 2020 Summary
Solmukohta 2020, the Finnish edition of the international Nordic larp conference Knutepunkt, is over and you can find all the talks here.
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Review of Larp Design: Creating Role-Play Experiences
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The gorgeous and impressive Larp Design book is a collection of practical and useful essays for beginners as well as experienced designers.
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Overview of Edu-Larp Conference 2019
Edu-larp can be described as implementing live-action role-playing games in formal or informal educational contexts, “used to impart pre-determined pedagogical or didactic content” (Balzer & Kurz 2015). The aim of the Edu-larp Conference 2019 was to present and discuss recent international research as well as share best practice examples or innovative formats of edu-larp.The first…
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On the Commodification of Larp
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An exploration of the development of larp in the face of a growing tendency of contemporary culture to become commodified.
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Vedergällningen, the Vengeance: a Viking Horror Larp
Vedergällningen was a Viking horror larp in Sweden focusing on the relationships between humans, their community, and their gods.