Designing Autobiographical Games
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 →
Larp Design: Write More Flat Characters
As a discipline, roleplaying draws from many different others–it’s got aspects of theater, psychodrama, spectacle, film, and novel. In some of my previous posts, I’ve explored the relationship of larp design to Continue Reading →
Want to Write for LeavingMundania.com?
I’ve decided to open this blog to guest posts. I can’t be everywhere in the world, and I don’t know everything about larp. So I think it makes sense to Continue Reading →
The F&F Manifesto: Fail better, forgive better
I want a larp culture of failure and forgiveness. As a game designer, I need the freedom to experiment with wacky, absurd, or edgy ideas, and that also means I need Continue Reading →
The Feng Shui of Larp: The golden chair-to-butt ratio
When it comes to larp, venue matters, because spatial design is a huge part of the experience of a larp. On some level, this is obvious. Harry Potter in a Continue Reading →
Freeform for Noobs
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 →
Social Justice in Larp: A practical approach
My first two posts in this series–about larp as a potential tool of social activism and how the real-world element of larp fits into social justice–are really geared toward saying, “it’s Continue Reading →
Larp’s Physicality Raises Social Justice Questions
This is part 2 of a post on larp’s potential as an activist tool. You can read part 1, about why larp might be a good tool, here. So we’re Continue Reading →
Larp and Activism: A match made in heaven?
Over the past few days, prompted by a bunch of discussion on social media, I’ve been thinking a lot about larp and social justice, and how the two go together. Continue Reading →
A Wheelchair Ramp for Larp
It’s not easy to be a larper with disabilities. A couple weekends ago, US designer Shoshana Kessock and I put our heads together and workshopped the issue. What we need, Continue Reading →