Interactive Drama

Merry Christmas . . . I’m in ur Manger Killing ur Savior

by Brian David Phillips • December 25, 2009

All the best,Brian (If you are reading this blog post via a stream, go to https://briandavidphillips.net/ to access the full post with any videos or photos included.) HYPNOSIS VIDEO COURSEShttp://www.briandavidphillips.net/store Hypnosis Shows, Sessions, Training . . . and MORE! See http://www.BrianDavidPhillips.com for details Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [brian@briandavidphillips.com] Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Intuitionist, Trance Wizard President, Society of Experiential TranceAssociate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan

A message to American Live Action RolePlayers

by Brian David Phillips • October 16, 2009

Now . . . this is interesting . . . a message to American Live Action RolePlayers (LARPers) from a European player who speaks from the heart . . . of sorts . . . what a wonderfully enjoyable ranting meltdown . . . See http://larpen.tumblr.com for more. For those who may not know .…

Frozen Grand Central

by Brian David Phillips • February 25, 2008

Merry Christmas . . .
. . . I’m In UR Manger Killing UR Savior

by Brian David Phillips • December 26, 2007

Thanks to Aaron for the snarfable post.

Bookstore Now Online

by Brian David Phillips • August 30, 2007

We’ve added a bookstore to our webpages. You can go directly there via the pages at http://astore.amazon.com/shakespeareeclec or just click on the bookstore link in the sidebars here or at our main pages at http://www.briandavidphillips.com for convenient access. Not a lot there right now, but we will be adding new products and categories over time…

Fancy Frontier 10 . . . cosplay!

by Brian David Phillips • July 31, 2007

Last weekend, July 28-29, 2007, the Phillips family headed off to the Fancy Frontier 10 comic book and cosplay convention held at National Taiwan University in Taipei. Kaye cosplayed as a character in the manga/anime Reborn and spent most of the time with a couple of her friends. The friends were supposed to also be…

I really wish this actually existed . . .

by Brian David Phillips • February 9, 2007

I do too . . . I really wish this actually existed . . . awesome idea. Now, what I’d like to see is a live public space reinactment of key scenes from John Norman’s “Gor” or the awakening scenes from Philip Jose Farmer’s “Riverworld” or even Farmer’s “Flesh” novel. Folks who know will understand.

Wildest Dreams . . .
. . . coming soon

by Brian David Phillips • November 26, 2006

Check out one of the "trailers" for the upcoming performance of Wildest Dreams, the senior graduation play for my students in the English Department at National Chengchi University to be performed Dec. 14 and Dec. 15 at the university (be there!) . . . the play is about a group of friends who play role…

Magic Arrows . . .
. . . that’s gonna sting!

by Brian David Phillips • July 31, 2006

Snarfed from David at A Hypno Groovy Guy whose son, like my daughter, has been bitten by the bug that is dee-und-dee.

Fear of Girls . . .
. . . wow, just wow

by Brian David Phillips • February 17, 2006

Fear of Girls . . . the greatest elite gamer satire ever made. Double wow. Say howdy to reality.

call for papers . . .
. . . Journal of Interactive Drama

by Brian David Phillips • February 11, 2006

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.…

Pieces of Ass

by Brian David Phillips • September 6, 2005

Where in the world can I get a copy of this playscript? Pieces of Ass . . . for some interviews and here for the official site. It looks like it would be a wonderful acting exericise for my classes . . . not as hateful or spiteful as vagina talk and yet delightfully to…

Role-Playing Stereotypes

by Brian David Phillips • March 16, 2005

What’s your Role-Playing Stereotypes? Here’s mine . . . Find your Role-Playing Stereotype at mutedfaith.com. Found via Prismfire who happens to be a Pleasure Slave and fits the bill . . . well, in the good way.

Israeli Defence Force down on Dungeons and Dragons . . .
. . . prejudicial stereotypes and nonrealities

by Brian David Phillips • March 9, 2005

Here’s a bit of nonsense we wish were fantasy . . . army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons . . . unfortunately it’s true. Evidently, Israel’s military has a standing policy that when a recruit comes in they ask if he plays D&D. If he says he does, then he is immediately disqualified from holding…

T R A N C E P L A Y
Hypnotic Holonovels and Games and Art – Trance-Based Hypnotic Virtual Reality

by Brian David Phillips • January 12, 2005

Discussing a response to his book on using hyperempiria/hypnosis for consensual adult sexual imagery (available here), Dr. Don Gibbons wrote: Voila, mes amis. We have all the mastery we need right now to knock the socks off of Hollywood! We can not only guide our participants through an experience of being Harry Potter jousting on…

Journal of Interactive Drama

by Brian David Phillips • December 28, 2004

Well, it’s now open for business . . . the Journal of Interactive Drama is now a real deal and ready to go! This is an online peer-reviewed journal on scenario-based theatre style interactive drama freeform live action roleplaying games. I’ve been working behind the scenes for a while getting things together. We’re still recruiting…

True Story . . . Pictures of people hitting each other in Tokyo

by Brian David Phillips • December 22, 2004

I quite enjoy Juergen Specht’s website as he has all these wonderful true stories and documentation galleries that chronicle his life as a photographer and as some gaijin guy living in Japan . . . the pictures of people hitting each other true story set is of particular interest. Why don’t we have stuff like…

Seeking legitimacy?
Been there, doing that!

by Brian David Phillips • December 19, 2004

Terra Nova takes a gander at Seeking legitimacy among game scholars and how the scholars hope to affect future games in some way but in reality don’t affect much at all. The problem is that we tend to be marginalized from that which we study, intended to comment upon but not participate in. More scholars…

Story Construction

by Brian David Phillips • December 19, 2004

Torill Elvira Mortensen writes on Story Construction . . . worth seeing: One point sounds familiar: how the creaters of games, the designers, are creators not of stories, but of narrative potential. I know I worded this argument years ago, but was that in one of the many sessions of discussion – argument – supervision…

Gender and Gaming

by Brian David Phillips • December 6, 2004

Was looking for some references to Live Action Roleplaying and Freeforms (interactive dramas of the type I wrote my doctoral dissertation on) and stumbled across badgerbag’s gender and gaming. While I will agree that many within the gaming community are unaware that there may be a problem regarding sexism in gaming, I would note that…

Interactive Drama . . .
Live Action Role Playing Games

by Brian David Phillips • December 6, 2004

The New York Times take on LARP (live action role playing games) is worth a read. If you’re in Taipei and would like to participate in games of this type, check out the Taipei Interactive Theatre Socity.

Busy Weekend . . . of Civil Wars, Interactive Drama, and Eroticatrance

by Brian David Phillips • November 14, 2004

This was quite the busy weekend for yours truly. Very busy. I am one dog-tired puppy . . . but . . . even so, it was a pretty good weekend. Red Badge of Courage I started off the weekend on Friday, presenting a solo paper to the Thirteenth International Symposium and Book Fair hosted…

Bitter Tears at Sad Mary’s

by Brian David Phillips • October 6, 2004

Bitter Tears at Sad Mary’s is a wonderful interactive drama freeform live action role playing game by Scott Beattie and Tonia Walden that plays with the nature of reality. It is predominately an experiment in deconstructive interactive drama with a twist. It is a small piece with merely a dozen players but it is complex…

Taipei Interactive Drama

by Brian David Phillips • September 10, 2004

As posted previously. If you are interested in joining the recreational interactive drama group, feel free to contact me or Michael Cheng so we can add you to the list of folks who would like to play. You can find photos from some of our games (Taipei Interactive Theatre Society) in the same directory as…

Vicarious Experiential Memory Machine

by Brian David Phillips • July 17, 2004

Vicarious Experiential Memory Machine . . . real experiences through Hypnotic Games and Films and Literature and Entertainment . . . and a whole lot more! You want to play a game? How about if you could play a video game or watch a movie or look at a photo album or read a good…