This is a remake of an old article I made around 2015. I have learned a lot since then, so it is time to improve on the fruits of my already infinite wisdom. It’s basically a checklist for getting larp ideas, Like Art of War but not so needlessly cryptic. I like to call them […]
I don’t remember the names of the events anymore, and frankly, who gives a damn. Screw-up #1:I decided to play a character who would “shift” from one persona to another, like in a theatre performance. It was a challenge for me – I thought about it, even rehearsed how it would work.The idea was that
I kept calling them “comic clouds” because that’s what we called them in comic books. You know the ones, little clouds of text floating above character, showing you what they are saying. But it turns out the “official” name is “speech balloons“ We wanted to have those in Cloak and Boffer and it is definitely
Once again, I was playing an NPC. Honestly, I don’t see any difference in enjoyment between playing a PC or an NPC—I give my all to both. You? This time, I was playing a Satyr. To prepare for the role, I downed four shots of pelinkovac. Just to clarify: in Croatia, LARPing often goes hand
As you may know, Cloak and Boffer is a narrative first game where people will talk a lot. Most 2D video games have a very small amount of animations for conversations. We decided to go wild and have characters emote a lot. Here’s a small WiP showcase of animations specifically for talking. The list will
Once again, the game took place in a mountain lodge. The food was excellent, offering everything from wild boar to the famous fried porcini mushrooms. This event also provided a valuable lesson for LARP organizers: when food and drink are involved, it’s best to pause the game. People get caught up in enjoying themselves, and
Back in 2018, the somewhat newly formed Croatian larp company Terrible Creations got together with the local Harry Potter fan club and made a wizard school larp for grownups. It was called called Tajna Stare Sušice.
A friend Siro explained to me what LARP was, and my first thought was: “Wow, that sounds so stupid that I have to try it.” It was in March 2010, at a mountain lodge near Zagreb. Since this was a LARP in Croatia, it was completely normal that alcohol was involved—I downed about a liter
Back in spring, we made a survey, sent it to a number of larp groups across the internet and got some pretty interesting results from around 100-ish people. As this isn’t a food recipe, let’s skip the long intros and look at some numbers!
More sane developers would probably just put cartoonish closed fists and call it a day, but we decided to do A LOT with hands
