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One of the featured designers on this new campaign is a member of the Larp House community. We look forward to seeing your newest game Wendy!
Golden Cobra award winners
Three organizers from the Larp House bring home a Golden Cobra award for their groundbreaking freeform. Congratulations!
THE GAME WE’RE MOST EAGER TO PLAY
Still Life
by Wendy Gorman, David Hertz and Heather Silsbee
A refreshing and thoughtful metaphorical freeform larp that keeps us moving forward in thinking about the potentials for role play. Throwing out assumptions left and right, like the need for plot, action by the players, people as characters, and focuses on stillness, interior play, subtle changes in position and being with the people and issues around us.
Still Life gives us the opportunity to larp as the inanimate, to live and breathe passivity for 2 hours without being bothered to make a power play or do something beyond simply communicating (and building from there). We as judges insist that this game be played.
Still Life grabbed each of the judges immediately and wouldn’t let go. We kept returning to Still Life and marveling at it. While many contest entries tread familiar ground, the designers of Still Life took the weird path into rocky country (sorry). This weirdness pays off immensely in a game that is at once bonkers and full of strange pathos.
Wendy Gorman, David Hertz, and Heather Silsbee’s game is instantly inspiring. It’s so cunning in its vision that each judge wanted to play it almost at once. Many of the structures of play that are usually taken for granted are effortlessly tossed out the window by this game, and players are left with a broody and subtle experience. Who knew it was possible to yearn so hard for the experience of pretending to be rock! We would have said it couldn’t be done, but with Still Life we have been proven wrong.
Larp House Listing at Larp List
Larp House Listing at Larp List
We now have a listing at Larping.org’s International Larp List.
If you have an experience with the Larp House you’d like to share with the world, our profile has a space for user reviews.
New Larp Study: Researchers from Carnegie Carnegie Mellon University…
New Larp Study: Researchers from Carnegie Carnegie Mellon University…
We are a research team from Carnegie Mellon University conducting online interviews with larpers, game organizers, and other people in the American larp community about how they use technology in and around larp. If you’ve ever sent a larp-related email or posted about larp online, we’re interested in talking to you.
Building Larp Communities: Social Engineering for Good
Building Larp Communities: Social Engineering for Good » Lizzie Stark
Everything I know about building larp communities and how to make them functional. My Living Games keynote.
itpiercesskin and thejhyde attended the Living Games Conference and saw this keynote in person. Consider the linked article Words to Live By for larp community organizing.
Survey on Photos, Video, and Privacy
Survey on Photos, Video, and Privacy
The purpose of this survey is to collect information and attitudes concerning documentation of larps, particularly in photo and video form. As larp, particularly Nordic Larp, gains ground as a cultural activity, the desire to document these events becomes more prominent, while the ability to document them is assisted by the ease of photographic devices and a general culture of constant documentation and dissemination of photo and video material. At the same time, many players raise concerns about how the presence of recording devices can affect them as characters and as players, affecting their in-game experience or their real lives after the larp. There are a few smaller parts of the questionnaire, followed by a 50-question section on players’ feelings on larps and photographic documentation. Part of the aim of this survey is to develop a community-led photo and video policy document that can be used by organizers for future projects. Thanks for your participation. All answers are anonymous.
This results will be publicly available, please help the larp community learn more about itself.
An Introduction to Ars Armandi
ETA two weeks. Get ready to look extra professional.
Larp House QR code.