News from the Larpwriter Summer School

Two of our number attended the 2015 Larpwriter Summer School, creative crucible of international larp and home of the awesome Continue reading →

Designing for Emotion

What do we mean by “designing for emotion”? A lot of historical role-playing games were designed specifically to replicate the Continue reading →

How Was It for You?

A game-like exercise that was designed to help explore the practice and effectiveness of debrief techniques, for The Game Kitchen. Continue reading →

Debrief workshop

Notes from a session where Mo H. spoke about a Knutpunkt 2014 discussion called ‘The great player safety mess’ and Continue reading →

What larp can export to other games

Notes from a session where Mo H. spoke about Elin Dalstål’s Knutpunkt 2014 presentation Larp, tabletop and other form of roleplay. Continue reading →

Blackboxification

Notes from a session where Richard W. spoke about Charles Bo Nielsen’s “Blackboxification” presentation from Knutpunkt 2014.The blurb for this Continue reading →

Pre-larp workshops in the Nordic tradition

Notes from a session where Mo H. talks about the “Pre-larp workshops in the nordic design traditions subtext – are Continue reading →