AdventureX submissions open on 13 April for exhibitors and speakers. An AdventureX exhibitor wearing a lanyard and glasses discusses their game

Save the date! On 13 April, exhibitor and speaker submissions open for AdventureX 2026. Be part of the UK’s only convention dedicated to narrative games.

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Hotel room hotel rooming

Stranded in Gothenburg Landvetter along with 15 other Dutchies following a plane cancellation. Guess I'm not flying back till Tuesday early morning, and getting two nights in the airport hotel

Good thing I brought a switch I guess!

In particular we'd love to see more mentors from:
Art (any type)
Narrative/Writing
Voice Acting
Journalism
Legal

I've been holding my tongue for months, but can finally say I was on the Jury for this year's BAFTA Games Awards -- Narrative. Super congrats to all the nominees and the winner

Honored to have been a part of this, super exciting stuff!

Game storytelling was eating GOOD this year

And that's it for the Nordic Talks! Very worth checking the stream of any of these piqued interest.

Now I need to go eat a burger as big as my head. And I have a pretty big head.

Last slide solo for emphasis.

Katrine Wind ends on a light note, Larping Fascism. I think this one is important to not truncate, so have all the slides.

Darya Skorokhodkina, Belarusian LARP community--what happened, where are they?

Adrian Hon talks Austenland, which is apparently an amazing representation of LARP in pop culture, even though the term is never used

Sounds it!

More sliders!

Suus Mutsaers, designing for performing arts in larp. Proposing some sliders for helping calibrate this stuff 1/2

Trine Lise Lindahl, There Must Be A Simpler Way. Ways of writing large amounts of characters without fucking dying (as much)

Various examples of just writing elements and assembling full characters from them, shifting the writing and reading burdens around

Intermission: what *is* royalty?

Royalty is performance art, says the freelance royal

Important: this performance needs to not be ironic. Kayfabe? Kayfabe.

"Do you think you've experienced bleed?" "I've bled dry"

"What have you learned through the practice of royalty?" "Power and power dynamics"

Inge-Mette Petersen, Body and Soul. Our identities and souls are formed by our bodies and people's perceptions of them--so what happens when we suddenly inhabit a new body, a new character and persona?

What if those bodies experience pain?

Can LARP unite mind and body? Can it transform who we are?

Nór Hernø, on meta reflections and direct and indirect methods of encouraging these in players.

Frederikke Sofie Bech Høye, Simon Brind, and Anne Grove presenting the KP26 book, a yearly publication on larp theory. Lots of hard work from editorial and contributors!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

www.canva.com/design/DAHGX...

Lara Hartung, Shadows OF THE BACKSTORY - shadow relations as a tool to bring internal play to the surface

Talk about shadow relations, a mechanic to actually incorporate unused backstory with other characters, using principles from transference

First up, Julia Lesniewska is working on LARPs to combat sexism in young men. Here's a form for suggestions: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Royalty is a continuous cutting motion

Royalty is a continuous keynote motion

And we're back for the Nordic Larp talks! There's a livestream, too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs7F...

Short defense of memetic bleed, which has been published and peer reviewed as of 2024

And that's it for now! Rest is breakout rooms and food which don't document well

Good stuff today, now for something caffeine shaped

Will be back in a few hours with a separate thread on the Nordic LARP talks

And lastly, Sarah Bowman again with Democracy in Live Action: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Political Larps and Participants who Play Them

Talk about the huge Erasmus+ Larpocracy project again, how does larp affect democracy?

"A lot of larps about democracy are really about being oppressed"

Surprise repeat showing of last slide, noice

Last segment of the research seminar, two more talks!

The Afterlife of Larp: Re-Plat, Meaning-Making and the Ludic Dilemma by Alessandro Giovanni

Missed the final slide again, rip. Request for a bit more breathing room if you end on a text heavy slide, all!

Scripts of th Past: How Just a Little lovin' shapes Queer Historical conciousness, by James Lancaster

No slide deck!

Now for Alexandra Schreiber, Kjell Hugaas and Sarah L. Bowman with Role-Playing Games and Conflict Transformation in Higher Education

Presenting the ROCKET Erasmus+ project

Missed that this was Bachelor's level work, fantastically done!