Art 488: Special Topics: Live-Action Role-Playing

Web page for Alan Kriezenbeck's
and Neal McDonald's class at UMBC
Spring 2012

Syllabus

Assignments:
Convention LARP
Con LARP Execution
Big LARP
Big LARP Execution

Source Material:
Nordic LARP Talks
terms list

Readings, Knudepunkt/Solmukohta:
2003: As Larp Grows Up
2004: Beyond Role and Play
2005: Dissecting Larp
2006: Role, Play, Art
2007: Lifelike--
2008: Playground Worlds
2010: Playing Reality
2011: Do Larp
2011: Talk Larp
2011: Think Larp

Games:
Fate 3: Spirit of the Century

Readings by class:

• Tuesday Jan 31: Dissecting LARP, p.11, "Crash Course"
• Tuesday Jan 31: As LARP Grows Up, p.56, "The Meilahti Model"
• Thursday, Feb 2: Beyond Role and Play, p.15, "Play to Love"
• Tuesday, Feb 7: Fate 3 Setup & Start (book, below)
• Thursday, Feb 9: Fate 3 Run
• Tuesday, Feb 14: Playground Worlds, p.216, "Kaprow's Scions"
• Tuesday, Feb 14: Playground Worlds, p.33, "The Dragon Was the Least of It"
• Tuesday, Feb 14: Beyond Role and Play, p.191, "I Could a Tale Unfold..."
• Tuesday, Feb 14: As LARP Grows Up, p.150, "Essentials of Project Management"
• Thursday, Feb 16: Dissecting LARP, p.147, "Incentives as Tools"
• Thursday, Feb 16: PRAWN (link here)
• Tuesday, Feb 21: Playground Worlds, p.125, "The Nuts and Bolts of Jeepform"
• Tuseday, Feb 21: Previous Occupants (link here)
• Tuesday, Feb 21: Beyond Role and Play, p.209, "Temporary Utopias"
• Tuesday, Feb 21: Playground Worlds, p.91, "High-Resolution LARPing"
• Thursday, Feb 23: Gizmet Game Poem #36: Office (link here)
• Thursday, Feb 28: Gizmet Game Poems #'s 27, 28 and 29 (link here)
• Tuesday, Feb 28: Dissecting, p.125, "Nothing is True"
• Thursday, March 1: Dissecting LARP, p.71, "Corresponding Expectations"
• Tuesday, March 6: Playground Worlds, p.170, "Parlor Larps: A Study in Design"
• Tuesday, March 6: Hamlet (link here)
• Tuesday, March 6: Eriadnus Rising (link here)
• Tuesday, March 6: Eriadnus Rising (link here)
• Tuesday, March 13: Playground Worlds, p.102, "Walking the White Road"