How to tell stories with larp: The eXperience method
22
May
You can now download on Electro-LARP a new guidebook.
It will propose a method to tell stories when you are designing larps.
You can find it...
LARP DAY
18
May
Today is the international day to celebrate all larpers around the globe!
Please feel free to share this event with other players from your area and around the world.
More information on the website:...
Shooting – A game about intimacy and complicity
16
Apr
This game is made to be played in a small space : a plain dark room is the ideal game space.
This a game for two players. The first is a photographer and the second her model. It doesn’t matter if the characters are men or women.
There’s no need for an organizer. The two players can follow the instructions below and play.
The game lasts one hour or so but can as well lasts 4 hours if you want to.
Game’s content
During the game the photographer is going to shoot (take...
Writing a LARP – Boost your creativity
02
Apr
Original article: http://www.electro-gn.com/286-ecrituredegn-boostezvotrecreativite
Translation: Karine Coquelin & Leïla Teteau-Surel
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We had already written a paper in the same vein. But the methods to improve one’s own creativity are legion. Amongst the most famous books by creativity theorists, we’ll name Gianni Rodari’s “Grammar of Fantasy”. A work that groups together the most important games and exercises. I’m going to do my best to apply...
Larp Review: Ash wedding
21
Mar
Original post: http://www.electro-gn.com/461-critique-lesnocesdecendre
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The LARP « Les Noces de Cendre » (Ash wedding) takes place in 1945 in Argentina with its troubled politic events. Two sessions have been organized by the association Rôle, in april and may 2012[1]. Véronique Gresset, who signed here her first game, worked during three years to achieve this result. The writing was long; the fictionalized character sheets let us see complex characters mixed up in many plots; the...
PoRtaL2 – How it was
13
Mar
Original post: http://www.crolarper.com/2014/03/portal2-how-it-was.html
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I spent the last weekend in Budapest, on the second PoRtaL convention. If you’ve been following this blog [Note of electro-larp: http://www.crolarper.com] or our local scene, you might remember that I was one of the organizers of the first PoRtaL convention last year, together with Ana Rajner and Božo Špoljarić. It was the first such event in region, and we decided it would be awesome if it became a...
Interview with the Larp Girl: Kaza Marie Ayersman, Avegost larp
06
Mar
Original post: http://www.crolarper.com/2012/11/interview-with-larp-girl-kaza-marie.html
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There are many people who love larp, but only some decide to take an extra step to actively promote it where they can. Kaza Marie didn’t just take an extra step, she took a giant leap as she’s active on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube – she literally has tens of submissions every day. She quickly became recognized online under the Larp Girl pseudonym.
But...
The world of larps
03
Mar
After a long winter break, Electro-LARP is back.
We published last week an article about larp in the EU, sign of our wish to be more international than ever. We created a page for every country, with informations about larps in these countries. You can see all these pages here: http://www.electro-larp.com/countries
We don’t claim to be exhaustive, so if you don’t see your country, or if a page seems to be false or incomplete, please contact us, we will be pleased to correct. For this...
Larps in EU
25
Feb
Original post: http://www.crolarper.com/2013/07/larps-in-eu.html
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Today Croatia has acceeded into the European Union as its 28th state. EU has loads of diverse and different larp scenes and cultures in them. Some of them are local, some are national, some encompass all speakers of a certain language, some are regional, and some are world-famous. Here’s a short window into a couple of EU larps and larp scenes, carefully selected and profiled by the criteria of “those I...
Larp documentation – part 3
17
Dec
Original article: http://www.electro-gn.com/1315-quelles-traces-pour-le-jeu-de-role-grandeur-nature-partie-3
Translation: Leïla Teteau-Surel
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Read the 2d part
I talked about the larp testimonies and tried to make you aware of this issue for your next larps. It’s now time to see which testimonies we can leave and how to think about them during the game creation.
The assumption made by these articles is to say the testimonies left by a larp run shoudn’t be left out but quite the...
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