Designing a convention is much like designing a larp. You have to design for interaction, participation, and people’s insecurities. How you manage the social design affects how people meet one Continue Reading →
We talk so often about player safety, and so seldom about organizer safety. As an organizer, I don’t feel safe. In organizing larps, I’ve experienced far more vitriolic reactions than I Continue Reading →
Swedish designer Niclas Hell, who speaks several different languages, brings us this post about how his multilinguality impacts his larp experiences. ”I’m certainly dumber in English” –Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary Continue Reading →
Today, a guest post from indie game and larp designer Julia Ellingboe, on the design of her game “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby,” for the #Feminism anthology of nano-games. Continue Reading →
Today LeavingMundania.com breaks new ground, with our first guest-post from Danish freeform designer Troels Ken Pedersen. I recently returned home from the larp Just a Little Lovin’, a larp about Continue Reading →
Watching Treasure Trapped, a new documentary about larp by the UK company Cosmic Joke, brought back feelings of nostalgia from my days of reporting for Leaving Mundania. There were the reporters at their Continue Reading →
While scouring the Internet for examples of my speechifying ability for a gig, I came across this hitherto-unknown, but 100 percent awesome interpretation of my book Leaving Mundania. It’s a mash-up Continue Reading →
This Miracle is a freeform game about religion written by Nick Fortugno and me. Download the free script for This Miracle here. Below, we’ve got the quick pitch for the game, followed by Continue Reading →
Autobiography has a place in game design. The truth has a powerful force to keep audiences interested and invested in a story. In a novel, a guy who can pull Continue Reading →
Freeform is SO HOT right now, if contests like the Golden Cobra Competition are any measure. But there’s a lot of confusion about the word “freeform” and what it means. Continue Reading →