Play Report: The Solution
Today, Swedish larpwright Siri Sandquist discusses her recent experience as a gamemastering character in The Solution. In this review of the larp The Solution I have chosen to focus on Continue Reading →
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How it feels to larp in another language
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 →
How to Get Your Game into Fastaval
Fastaval is a Danish roleplaying convention that operates a bit like a film festival–designers pitch games to a committee that selects 30 or so to run in the final juried Continue Reading →
Your Larp’s Only As Safe As Its Safety Culture
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 →
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 →
Bringing Games Across International Borders
This past weekend, I hung out with US designer Emily Care Boss and Danish designer Asbjørn Olsen. Asbjørn and Emily had run his excellent short poetic freeform Exile earlier in the weekend (I was Continue Reading →
Defining Meta-techniques
“Meta-techniques” gets thrown around gaming discussions often. I have a sneaking suspicion that most people put meta-techniques in the category of “I know it when I see it.” As an Continue Reading →
The J. Tuomas Harviainen Larp Collection
I’m pleased and proud to present this collection of three freely downloadable larps by Finnish designer and doctor of larp, J. Tuomas Harviainen. Harviainen’s larps are the drug of choice Continue Reading →
Larp’s Oral Tradition Is Dying
As the art form gets older, larp is increasingly moving from an oral tradition to a written one. That has consequences.