Lizzie Stark

The BBC films a segment on Leaving Mundania, and a great review from Geekadelphia.

Notes I took during the player safety panel at Solmukohta 2012.

Solmukohta, the weirdly-named Finnish edition of the Knutepunkt convention ended more than a week ago, but the symptoms of Nordic withdrawal linger. Do you suffer from this dread disease? Symptoms may include: using the prefix “knute-” for everything, regardless of appropriateness greater-than-normal addiction to social media new Facebook/forum friends excessive honesty logorrhea that may include long [...]... Read More

I’ve written about the programming that I enjoyed at Solmukohta, but I’ve got more observations scrambling to escape my noggin. Here they are, in no particular order: Travel Fatigue Foreign travel depresses my natural level of pep. There’s something about the unfamiliarity of small events — the rude-sounding “toilet” instead of the “restroom,” the luncheon [...]... Read More

After my stop in Denmark for Fastaval, I headed to Helsinki to participate in Solmukohta, the Finnish installation of the Knutepunkt conference that rotates its way around the Nordic capitals, changing its name according to the local languages. The event features larps, workshops, run-downs of completed or upcoming games, and tons of talks on larp [...]... Read More

The first stop on my crazy Nordic tour was Fastaval, a convention devoted to board-gaming, larps, and freeform games. What are freeform games, you ask? No one knows for sure. They are sort of like tabletop games, except you sometimes get up and act out scenes rather than simply narrating them. And on the whole, [...]... Read More

Shout out to some of the world’s larp conventions. This list would be way longer if I included all the general gaming conventions that offer larp as part of the fun; I tried to keep it to just the larp cons here. Conventions for talking about larp, meeting larpers, and occasionally larping: Mittelpunkt — The [...]... Read More

Lonely this Valentine’s Day? Or maybe you have a date but don’t know where to bring him? Live near New York City? Come to <3 Do You Love Me <3, a free series of short talks about love and gaming put on by the indie video game design collective Babycastles. It runs from 7-9 pm [...]... Read More

Danish organizers and players Bjarke Pederson and Nynne Søs Rasmussen give us the goods on workshops, debriefs, and the mind-blowing intensity of Nordic arty larp.

Welcome to Denmark, where 27,000 kids larp, and boffers are on sale at the grocery store. Today, larpers Nynne Søs Rasmussen and Claus Raasted introduce us to the world of children's larp in the first of three installments on the Danish scene.