Posts Tagged With 'Scriptwriting'
5 writing tips I’ve learned…
…from designing female characters in a gender-segregated patriarchal Larp subculture
Most roles in historically-inspired Larps tend to be gender-segregated, involving patriarchal societies (which were mostly the norm, at least when European Christian societies – in the broader sense of term – are concerned). This makes the creation of female characters more challenging.
I am not talking here of larps actually focused on gender oppression. I am rather addressing social, historical...
How to tell stories with larp: The eXperience method
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...
Writing a LARP – Boost your creativity
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...
Tree LARP, part 3/3
Original post: http://www.electro-gn.com/298-legnpararborescence-troisiemepartie
Translation: Vincent Choupaut
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After reading the two first parts of this article, you now know everything about the game model I called Tree LARP. I can’t finish this article without examining the advantages and the drawbacks of this model.
Strengths
1/ A better effort management: The model breaks the continuity of play (where the only break is the night). From now on, we can catch our breath at regular...
Tree LARP, part 2/3
Original post: http://www.electro-gn.com/299-legnpararborescence-deuxiemepartie
Translation: Vincent Choupaut
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I presented in the first part of this article a larp model which is a succession of scenes on a choice tree, like a “choose your own adventure” book. We will now study some specificities of that kind of game. For that purpose, I suggest taking as an example a game about the investigation of a detective, like in a thriller.
Synchronization of players
It is a very concrete...
Tree LARP, part 1/3
Original post: http://www.electro-gn.com/300-legnpararborescence-premierepartie
Translation: Vincent Choupaut
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This article follows the article in three parts called « Game and Narration », in which I showed different problems of the free game in Larps when they try to create coherent and relevant stories. I will try now to present you a different game model, which contrasts with free game, and tries to answer this simple question: How to create a game which tells a story with...
Scriptwriting: Boost your creativity
Original post: http://www.electro-gn.com/316-ecrituredescenarioboostezvotrecreativite
Translation: Leïla Teteau-Surel
This article propose to apply to larp writing some methods used in other fields. Numerous methods has indeed been developed to improve creativity. Advertisement companies as well as politicians use them.
This blog aim at looking for initiatives to promote them and at changing conventions, that’s why it seems interesting to me to talk about how you can overcome conventions...
Game and narration, part 3/3
Original post: http://www.electro-gn.com/302-jeuetnarration-troisiemepartie
Translation: Vincent Choupaut
Read previous part.
We saw the opposition between game and narration, we studied the characteristics of larp which hamper the narrative, and we have now to think about the changes we can do to improve the narrative part of a larp. For that purpose, let us come back to the debate on tension between game and story in larp.
About linearity of story
The stories we like to live at Movie Theater...
Game and narration, part 2/3
Original post: http://www.electro-gn.com/303-jeuetnarration-deuxiemepartie
Translation: Vincent Choupaut
In the first part of this article, we saw the opposition between game and narration in video games, and we will study now the consequences for larps.
LARP: Game or narrative medium
In the world of video games, we often make a difference between two kinds of games, according to the main interaction:
– Games with dominant rules: The player interacts with the rules...
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