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Brighten the Corners 2023

In what is now a very rare departure, this post is not about larp, but about music – specifically, the Brighten the Corners festival, held in Ipswich over 9–10 June 2023. Unlike most festivals, it took place in the town centre. There were five stages – four of them being regular music venues, plus a […]

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Alongame

Alongame is a quite novel kind of idea in games, I think. The website describes it as a “world-building legacy game, for a community of remote players who will create several generations of an original world together.” But as well as being that as an overall game experience, it was made up of a mosaic […]

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Exoticism in games

I was fortunate enough the other week to be able to contribute a guest post to the blog of Ginger Goat Games, which is run by Josh Jordan. Josh was looking for “thoughts about storytelling, especially about underrepresented groups like girls and ethnic minorities” and as it happened I had some ideas brewing in that […]