Thomas B.
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Afroasiatik was a French-Swiss larp run in the zen garden of Aigle, Switzerland, in August 2013. Its goal was to expose larpers to hip-hop themes and enable them to give their first hip-hop performances.
Video documentation
French hip-hop vs. French larp
According to Afrika Bambaataa, the Godfather of […]
Warning: long post ahead. Read the short version here.
Part 1: the original reason for the game, a history of French hip-hop and its Asian influences
Part 2: how inspiration sources were used to build a game world that featured kimono-wearing rappers in a European zen garden
Part […]
Warning: long posts ahead. Read the short version here.
Part 1: the original reason for the game, a history of French hip-hop and its Asian influences
Part 2: how inspiration sources were used to build a game world that featured kimono-wearing rappers in a European zen garden
Part […]
Quand les médias, partis traditionnels, églises autres lobbies ne disent pas grand chose sur un sujet qui fâche, il faut faire le boulot soit même. La solution de base est bien sûr d’en parler autour de soi, en famille et au boulot, mais l’impact est forcément limité. Passer à la vitesse supérieure implique […]
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 […]
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 […]
My first foray into English-language larp documentation (aka bragging about my larp scene in an international setting) was a talk about larp in Switzerland at Knudepunkt 2011. I have re-recorded it in video form so you can enjoy my sweet French accent in something else than a steampunk setting. I’ve […]
