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The Puzzle Monster
Whoa! A post not exclusively about LARPing on a site about Game Design! Wow! Ok, that’s out of the way. On to the topic at hand! A puzzle monster is an encounter in a game in which the standard beat it...
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LARP Bullies
A while back I wrote about How To Win A LARP, and one of the first steps is to Be A Colossal Jerk. While people trying to win a LARP are almost always colossal jerks, there are other people there that...
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I’m Taking It Back
With the whole GamerGate fiasco that’s been going down in recent months, the idea of “Gamers are dead” because everyone plays games now, whether it be on their phones on the subway, for hours on a PC,...
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Player Vs Player Needs Consent
In and of itself, I have no problems with Player vs Player in games. The idea of a “We Vs They” or “Everyone For Themselves” in games is certainly not new. Competitive games encourages sportsmanship,...
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Don’t Puke On The New Carpet
I recently participated in the 2015 Global Game Jam, the first video game jam that I’ve been to in a couple of years. Whenever I go to one of these events, I try to do something different or try to...
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A Review of Secrets of Magic LARP
This review is very very late, like many of my posts. But a new LARP has emerged, and it seems to be very promising. Secrets of Magic is a fantasy-based LARP that has just opened up this year. I’ve had...
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Video Game Inspirations for LARPs
There are many people who often compare LARPing to video games. This is not unexpected, as it’s very easy to compare a LARP like NERO to a video game like World of Warcraft: Get a bunch of people to...
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