Spinning off from the previous post, what is the difference between ‘larp’ and similar but ‘not-larp’ activities?

Consider:
- “Two people read a script and then play out that scene as fictional characters, following that script”

I think most people would accept this is drama / theatre, not larp.

now consider:

- “Two people agree the general ( Read more... )

I got reminded about the 'VHS interactive board games' from back in the 90s (I played Atmosphere at the time, but there were plenty of others). With hindsight, it's interesting to view them as trying to push the transmedia / interaction at a point when the techology wasn't quite ready for it, and that idea of physical playing pieces interacting ( Read more... )

Lately there been another discussion on whether high profile larps should be called larps (promoting and adding value to that term) or another term, perhaps situated it as a type of theatre. Some people prefer to apply to the term 'larp' broadly to rasie it's value, but that is also eroding it's meaning (if they succeed, it will become a largely ( Read more... )

Friday evening ( Read more... )

I'm currently in Denmark for Fastaval, the national 'semi-live' / freeform convention which runs weds-mon over easter each year ( Read more... )

5.5 of 7 months into my time here:

Academic update ( Read more... )

Tallinn larp festival

https://tallinnlarpfestival.wordpress.com/

Last weekend I went over to the Tallinn larp festival. (Tallinn is 2.5 hours on the ferry from Helsinki). Tallinn itself is well worth a visit, with cheap prices, great food, lots of tourist locations and a medieval ‘old town.’

It’s a ‘budget’ festival, with four scenario slots, basic ( Read more... )

Legion

http://legion.rolling.cz/

A week ago I went to Czech for Legion, a larp about soldiers and hangers-on on the Czech legions marching across Siberia at the end of the first world war, being hounded by Trotsky’s red Russians who had turned on them.  The pretty amazing photo are going round ( Read more... )

4 of 7 months into my time here in Tampere. January has been a tough month here, with extreme cold (-27 at the lowest point) even by Finnish standards.

Current status:

• My hypertext experiment paper (paper 2 in my thesis) is still going through a review process
• My gamergate paper got rejected by one journal, but is now resubmitted as a conference paper
• ( Read more... )

Two months into my scholarship here in Tampere ( Read more... )