The folks at Punchdrunk (http://www.punchdrunk.org.uk/) have created an intriguing thrillride of an interactive drama production in Sleep No More (http://sleepnomorenyc.com/) which the very good folks at io9 have called LARP plus Shakespeare plus Absinthe plus Orgy Masks with a very strong reccommendation for folks to give it a go. Their full review can be...
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The folks at the Dog and Pony theatre troupe in Washington, DC, have created a fresh interactive theatre experience in their new production of Beertown that sounds like it is a real blast. See the review at http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/dog-and-pony-dcs-beertown-a-fun-place-to-visit/2011/11/14/gIQA5T2FMN_story.html for an intriguing look at this piece of interactive theatre. All the best, Brian
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The live action trailer for the new Dragon Age game has been released so fanboys and fangirls can enjoy seeing fan favorite Felicia Day run around in Elven garb kicking demon butt. Told you. - Brian
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Captain Robert (Robert Brown) of the steampunk band Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com) visits the League of STEAM podcast to discuss the crossover of stampunk music with roleplaying games. The tabletop RPG, AIRSHIP PIRATES, was recently released and is based upon the music of Abney Park (I have my autographed copy in front of me, ooooh...
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As many readers here know, I teach Communication as well as Acting at the university. One of the innovations I use in my English as a Foreign Language courses is a set of interactive games known as Improvisational Language Structures (ILS) which are a series of activities I have adapted from theatre games and...
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Yet another special episode of Community kicks more than a whole lot of butt. Seriously, fun episode. Makes me want to get out the dice and play D&D again . . . perhaps we will too. See discussion of the episode at io9 at http://io9.com/#!5752137/how-community-exposed-the-world-to-the-imaginative-wonderland-of-dungeons–dragons. Seriously, really gets me goin’ on starting up some...
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They most certain are not and Moss should know. - Brian
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Well, yesterday, Lorraine and I went over to our friend Michael’s to play a game of D&D with his wife Beatrice and our friend Tom who is visiting Taiwan for a week or two. Long ago – twelve years ago, actually – Tom was our DM for a Dungeons and Dragons game we had...
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DARK KAMELOT An Afternoon of Interactive Drama http://www.interactivedramas.info/tdarkkamelot1.htm directed by Brian David Phillips and Lorraine Phillips 1 January 2011, 3:00pm http://www.interactivedramas.info/tdarkkamelot1.htm followed immediately by Pot-Luck Dinner/Game Party 6:30pm-ish to whenever folks leave join us for costume roleplay fun in a Dark World of Arthurian Alternate History Weirdness An afternoon of improvisational interactive drama roleplaying...
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I just added more players to the cast list of THE BIG BAD THYNG for this weekend . . . there’s still some time to join us for this interactive drama live action roleplaying game costume party pot luck thingie . . . but please contact me soon. See http://www.interactivedramas.info/tbadthyng.htm for complete details. -...
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Please email director@interactivedramas.info with your character request for this upcoming THE BIG BAD THYNG Halloween-themed interactive drama session. You are more likely to get what your request if you sign up and confirm earlier rather than later. Chinese correspondence goes to lorraine@briandavidphillips.com (since it’s Halloween, we’re loosening things up so the session is open...
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JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE DRAMA A Multi-Discipline Peer-Reviewed Journal of Scenario-Based Theatre-Style Interactive Drama Freeform Live Action Roleplaying Games Call for Papers The Journal of Interactive Drama is an online peer-reviewed journal on scenario-based interactive drama freeform live action roleplaying games which provides a forum for serious discussion of live roleplaying game theory, design, and practice....
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the performance of PARADISE LOST our first official reboot scenario for the Taiwan Interactive Theatre Society after an overlong hiatus. Glad to hear you all enjoyed it. Congratulations to Michael Cheng for winning the Best Roleplayer Award and Beatrice Wang for snagging Best Costume! We had a...
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Awesome and a half . . . take a whole bunch of fans of the Mad Max Road Warrior films, put ‘em into costume, hack some cars, and you’ve got yourself an awesome looking experience . . . oh yes!  WASTELAND WEEKEND looks like it’s got a whole lot of goodness goin’ on. See...
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Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montol present their paper on “Critical Strategies of LARP“ to the Nordic LARP Talks (http://nordiclarptalks.org): About the Presenters: Markus Montola (M.Soc.Sc.) has worked as a researcher both at University of Tampere and at Nokia Research Center, with role-playing and pervasive games as main research interests. Currently he is a doctoral...
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