Thomas B.
After a small taste in The Spiral, the Franco-German TV channel Arte goes full-on larp and will organize a Nordic larp in Paris and Berlin on October 29th.
The goal is to roleplay a sequel to the burlesque movie Tournée by Mathieu Amalric.
It’s a great idea, […]
Years ago, friends were raving about this new book series from George R.R. Martin that seemed to be the next best thing in fantasy since Lord of the Rings. I read very little fantasy because so much of it is shitty remixing of classics, and have better things to discover than yet another Tolkien […]
I first heard of The Spiral at a Solmukohta party, presented as a transmedia thingie about an international art heist combining a TV series, online gaming, social network roleplay and live events (I’m afraid I will miss the latter due to work and not exactly living in the right […]
A funny thing about joining a larp scene is hearing about past larps from “the good old days” and wondering how they were really like.
Envy
I had seen photos from some of the five previous demon-themed games and was a bit envious, but none had been run […]
Finally, an English-language review of the larp I created all those steampunk props for! L’Exposition Extraordinaire d’Aven was organized by the Société des Transports vers un Imaginaire Mécanique (translations are pretty transparent). S.T.I.M. (francophones use a “ee” sound for both “steam” and “stim”) gathered about seventy players in Moutier, Swiss Jura […]
Sure, sometimes they overhype things. They twist the meaning of words like “alibi”. They say “fucking amazing” when any reasonable person would say “great”. They take a full page to describe a “game” that is actually just an improv exercise that could be summarized in one sentence. By the time you’ve understood what their […]
In 2010, before going to Knudepunkt, before going to Solmukohta, before starting this blog, and even before reading Leaving Mundania, I talked to the French audience of Les GNiales about my experience larping in the USA (mostly Vampire) and Switzerland (all kinds).
Two years later, here […]
For English speakers : No kids : 40 good reasons not to have children has been translated into English. You can buy it here, for a very a toned-down and moderate summary, you can watch an interview of the author there.
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L’ami Loris a eu la bonne idée […]
Conquest of Mythodea (CoM) is the largest larp event in the world, with roughly 7000 participants. I attended it in 2010 and 2011, but this year I decided not to and organized a larp for 4 people instead.
Why I originally went
Curiosity: what could a larp with several thousand characters look […]
While I couldn’t attend the larpwriter summer school (which looks awesome, if only for the mixing desk of larp), I did write a larp this summer, and learned or re-learned many things in the process.
Technocculte
As its name suggests, Technocculte deals both with technology and with the […]
