Tag: USA
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Larp out of Character
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Larp out of Character is an American blog with video interviews of larpers and larp designers. Here is they’re own description of the blog: As a LARPer for about 20 years now, I have probably been in more LARP theory discussions than in actual games. I have tried a lot of LARP styles, and in my experience
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Living Games Conference Crowdfunding
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The first ever academic larp conference in the US has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help finance the event. It lets people who can’t attend but want to support them do so. Read more and contribute at the campaign website: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/living-games-conference
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Living Games Conference 2014
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The Living Games Conference is the first academic conference on larp in the US. The program and academic committees is a veritable who’s who of Nordic and US larp academia. It looks to be a very qualitative and interesting conference. This is what the organizer have to say about the event: The Living Games Conference is a live-action
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The Larp Factory Book Pre-Order
You can now pre-order The larp Factory Book through their IndieGoGo campaign. This is how they present the project themselves: The Larpfactory Book Project will be a collection of 23 Norwegian ready-to-play larpscripts, written in English, and a website containing game materials and videos showing all methods and techniques mentioned in the book. The larps
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Nordic Style Battlestar Galactica Larp in the US
American larpwrite Shoshana Kessock has written a report from a Battlestar Galactica larp she took part in writing and organizing at a recent convention. Here is a small excerpt from the text: Tales of the Rising Star was an ambitious idea inspired by the amazing work done by the Monitor Celestra team overseas and fantastic
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Seekers Unlimited
Seekers Unlimited is an nonprofit organization that produces educational larps. It’s run by Aaron Vanek who’s active in the nordic larp scene. They have just released a video showcasing some of their work:
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The Verge Covering The Monitor Celestra
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American tech site The Verge has written av The Monitor Celestra, a large scale Nordic style larp played in Sweden this spring. Check it out! http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4391736/real-life-battlestar-galactica-larp-could-be-coming-to-america
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New Larp Non-profit Started in Seattle
Larp Lab is a new Seattle (US) based non-profit. A representative of the group had this to say about it: I just needed to share this good news: After a year and a half of research, meetings, and filling out paperwork a group of us from Seattle have successfully launched our LARP based nonprofit: LARP
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Knutepunkt 2013 Report by Shoshana Kessock, Part 1
American larper and game designer Shoshana Kessock has written a report about her time at Knutepunkt 2013: http://shoshanakessock.com/2013/04/29/larping-like-its-cold-knutepunkt-2013-part-1/ Read more about Knutepunkt in the Nordic Larp Wiki: http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Knutepunkt Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum: http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
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Knutepunkt 2013 Report by Lizzie Stark
American larper and author Lizzie Stark has written a report about her experience at Knutepunkt 2013: http://lizziestark.com/2013/04/30/my-knutepunkt-2013/ Read more about Knutepunkt in the Nordic Larp Wiki: http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Knutepunkt Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum: http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6