Near the end of my third week as a scholarship researcher ( Read more... )

I'm here in Tampere for the next 6-8 months (with some scholarship funding) working on my PhD full-time. I'm working on an 'anthology PhD' (different to the UK style), so need to build up a collection about papers to present, with an introduction.  Currently I'm lacking a second supervisor (pro bono ( Read more... )

I moved to Finland on the 24th September and been settling in ( Read more... )

Been a while since I updated this blog. I’ll be moving to Finland in late September to work on my PhD, and I’ve been trying to get my different projects in a good place by then.

A few weeks ago I went to the Ars Magica micro-convention Grand Tribunal. I presented Magus, playtested Midsummer, played in one ArsM tabletop and two ArsM freeforms.
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I’ve been reflecting lately on what my personal interests and likes are in larp. Naturally, this is something that has changed and developed with time, but I’m reminded of the saying “We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” Trying to articulate this:

-       I am interested in playing on different social dynamics, ( Read more... )

Over easter I went to Denmark for Fastaval, their freeform-ish (or ‘semi-live’ as Danes would call them) convention (with board game side track). This was my seventh time there. I was taking it a bit more relaxed than previous years (some years I’ve got in 8-9 or even 10 scenarios).

Things I did there:
-       Meeting for Inside Hamlet players.
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Busy times here ( Read more... )

Last week I spent in Denmark for Knudepunkt. A short summary ( Read more... )

- The first KP book for this year is out ( Read more... )

A brief recap on my larp activity over the last year ( Read more... )