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| | analoggamestudies.org
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| | [AI summary] The text discusses the experiences and challenges of queer individuals participating in live-action role-playing (LARP) games, highlighting the intersection of identity, community, and the role of LARP as a space for exploration and expression. It explores how queer LARPers navigate societal norms, find belonging, and use LARP as a tool for self-discovery and empowerment. The text also touches on the importance of creating inclusive spaces, the role of specific LARPs like 'Just a Little Lovin'' in fostering queer communities, and the academic and theoretical frameworks that support these practices. The research methodology involved a Facebook group, emphasizing the need for careful design to ensure participant engagement and data quality.
| | coe-gamecult.org
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| | In this blogpost, Doctoral Researcher Hanne Grasmo reports from her new university course, Larp Design in Theory and Practice, where the students used their own bodies to role-play serious, impactful, and even erotic scenes in Nordic-style larps. She discusses how physical bodies and other materiality impact play-experience and emotions in a study context.
| | nordiclarp.org
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| | Participants often engage in role-playing in order to step inside the shoes of another person in a fictional reality that they consider "consequence-free." However, role-players sometimes experience moments where their real life feelings, thoughts, relationships, and physical states spill over into their characters' and vice versa. In role-playing studies, we call this phenomenon bleed.[1]Markus Montola, "The Positive Negative Experience in Extreme Role-playing."Proceedings ofDiGRANordic 2010: Experienci...
| | ameditativejourney.com
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| Ritva writes that "we work so hard to learn the photography rules, at least I do but now it is time to BREAK them!! The problem is just that in order to break a rule, you must know that there is a rule in the first place!" The composition guidelines (rules) used within this image:...