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The Sense of an Ending

So this is actually some notes from a few years ago, but I thought it might be good to capture them here, rather than in the Facebook post where they first appeared. I was thinking about ways of ending a larp: and this is an initial attempt to categorize possible endings. Here I’m talking about […]

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Starting from a blank page

You might be planning to design a larp (or a freeform/semi-live scenario) in a short space of time, looking at a blank page, and wondering where to start. Or you might want to shake up your usual design practice a little with a slightly different approach. This is what I do myself: read on, and […]

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Scene but not herd: spotlight scenes in freeform

What’s a scene? In the theatre, it’s a self-contained section of action, often signalled by the curtain going up and down or the actors going on and off stage. In a game, basically the same thing, except it’s often signalled by the GM saying “Right then… what do you want to do next?” In traditional […]