2019 Submissions
Here's a list of the eligible games submitted in 2019. The games and some information about them are available below.
5ECompatibleLarp
by Mendel Schmiedekamp
http://www.silvergardengames.com/projects/5ECompatibleLarp.html
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Tabletop/Pencil & Paper
Where you larp playing D&D without words.
Tags: d20; nonverbal communication
All Good Things
by Steffie de Vaan
https://steffiedevaan.wordpress.com
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
There's a box in the room. Inside the box are all good things. Players need to decide which of them gets the box
Tags: Connections, Optimistic, Honesty
Are You There God? It’s the Quarterly Earnings Report
by Margo Gray
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Chat/Message;Streaming/Online Face to Face
A larp about faith, friendship, and finding meaning for a group of five to eight players and one facilitator conducted through a video conferencing system. You are an angel convening with your coworkers for your quarterly meeting, where you'll be electing the angel who will lead this division for the next thousand years. It could get ugly.
Tags: humor, online synchronous gaming, the divine
Bleeding Heart of the Woods
by Sean Chitty and the List of Contributors
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCNnOTg11_-sn0o-8nK2JdI2rjrBC1kV5aUkRYa6GH4/edit?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Larp
Bleeding Heart of the Woods is an in character scavenger hunt for props followed by a group storytelling exercise.
Tags: Scavenging, Campfire, Story Circle
Burial by Ash
by Sadia Bies
https://witchstitches.itch.io/
https://twitter.com/sadiabies
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
It's the end of the world and you've gathered together to be less alone. Ash falls outside and silence looms as you try to make your last night together count.
Tags: apocalypse, drama, ash, collaborative
But Still We Must Cherish It
by Natalie the Knife
Styles of Play: Larp
You are humanity. The plant is the land. You must keep it safe.
Tags: Environmentalism, Solo, Stewardship, Kinship
Casting
by Katarzyna Suppan
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.)
The New Image Agency is looking for beautiful, exceptional people for their ranks. You, the player, are tasked with showing your best self in front of the judges. The trick is, you differ a bit from what the judges were expecting!
Tags: casting, modeling, portrayal, identity
Catharsis
by Laurel Halbany
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
Human volunteers act as mediums for women of Greek myth to talk through their ancient grievances.
Tags: freeform, emotional, myth, memory
ClusterFubar
by Dustin Freeman
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.)
A roleplay, and investigation, of one of those familiar action scenes, set in a small space, that went horribly wrong.
Freeform larp;Larp;Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.)
Tags: action, genre-savvy, comedy
The Court of Ferns
by Alexa Kirchner
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Pervasive Game/Public Play;Zero-Player Games;Arts
An arts and crafts bureaucracy game.
Tags: bureaucracy, houseplant, roles, crafts
Cybercracker
by Eric Fritz
Styles of Play: Larp;Chat/Message
Players take on the role of cyber criminals sitting at their own computer.
Tags: cyberpunk, digital, computer, security
The Decline and Fall of the Family Birthday
by Dan O'Hanlon
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
A freeform LARP about a tight-knit extended family which is slowly falling apart.
Tags: Family, Petitions, Realism
Dwarf Fortress Analog Build
by Shawn Roske
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16iF4eaXoilOFKoktFjFrNuphBJ0hyfKj/view?usp=sharing
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Tabletop/Pencil & Paper;Arts & Crafts
Build a world where civilizations rose and fell, then embark into it with 7 stalwart dwarfs and establish a place to live. !FUN! will be had. !SCIENCE! will be done. STRIKE THE EARTH!!!!
Tags: Simultaneous, simulation, collaboration, contruction
The Elect
by Suzanne Schenewerk
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Shared meal
Residents of Heaven meet to process their regrets from Earth and after.
Tags: tea party, grief, religious trauma, afterlife
Eulogy
by Terry Crew
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.)
Telling interactive stories based off of others inputs.
Tags: Quick, Rules Light, Interactive, Improv
Forever and Never
by Julian Blechner
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
A Freeform Roleplay Game in 3 Acts about Divorce at the End of the World.
Tags: Divorce, Death, Flashbacks, Decisions
Forgetting Your Touch: A Game of Reclaiming Intimate Boundaries
by Teresa Maria E. Mison
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;somatic
The body is playing this game. Let it speak.
Tags: somatic, bodywork, memory, healing
Garden of Pathos
by Chance Jason Kallisti
www.alchemicalgaming.com/games
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Performance (ie song, lipsynch, dance etc.);Arts & Crafts
In this game, most of the players portray poisonous or carnivorous plants in Baba Yaga's greenhouse. These giant, magical plants once were human, but were transformed into plants by the witch long ago. The plant players communicate by drawing what matters to them on paper leaves attached to their clothing, and by moving their bodies in whatever ways seem logical for the plant they've chosen. When a new human intruder appears, will the plants help, trap, or eat them?
Tags: spooky, quiet, mythic, embodied
Good Morning
by Vivien Lasken
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
In a future where diseases like anxiety, depression, mania, rage, wonder, and love have all been extinguished, a few people live with a syndrome that triggers emotional neuropathy.
Tags: Emotional, sci-fi, intimate
Happy Birthday from Helen's Commons
by Alex Rowland
https://itch.io/profile/spookyslag
Styles of Play: Freeform larp, Larp
Regulars at a bar experience a military draft year after year.
Tags: Freeform, storytelling, emotional, war
HOMEFRONTING
by E.E. COLI
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
Führer first, Volk second, your bladder last.
Tags: ghosts, war, children, horror
How Do Plants FEEL About Music?
by Danielle Goudeau
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Letter Writing
A collaborative micro-fiction larp where house plants are the players and we tell their story.
Tags: Writing, music, open-door, casual
I Think We're Alone Now
by Jason Slingerland
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-yZjHC9bPmw4Vdp7ahWs97Jn7OwVU7VB
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
As the game begins, the players have just stolen an item of critical importance from an evil regime. They are now hiding out while trying to determine how to complete their mission, knowing that some or all of them may die in the process. All of this must be done in complete silence.
Tags: Sacrifice, Resistance, Silence
Julia's Lost Treasures
by Tim Devine
p>https://www.rolltoplaynetwork.comStyles of Play: Freeform larp;Streaming/Online Face to Face;Arts & Crafts
Julia's Lost Treasures is a free-form game for 2 to 6 players where you will be piecing together the life of a person who helped shape yours. It can be played in person or online in under 2 hours. The game was inspired, in part, by the life of Julia Sudakis, aka "Auntie".
Tags: Memories, Runaways, Mourning, Resolution
Leaving on a Jet Plane
by Shoshana Kessock
http://www.shoshanakessock.com
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Pervasive Game/Public Play
Leaving On A Jet Plane is a freeform larp set in a fascist world. With a repressive government locking down the country and a list of "subversives" about to go live, there is only one plane capable of getting people out. Just who will make the plane ride is anyone's guess. Plays 5-6 players with 1 Facilitator for 2 hours.
Tags: Fascism, survival, tension, choice
Medusa's Bad Day
by Kitty Stoholski
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Arts & Crafts
After a dreadful day, Medusa needs a night by herself and her Hairsnakes (sock puppets), who are doing their best to comfort her.
Tags: Touch, Sock Puppets, Tonal Dissonance
Outscored - a LAOG about social credit scores and beautiful light effects
by Gerrit Reininghaus
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Streaming/Online Face to Face;Video/Transmedia
A Live Action Online Game (LAOG) in which you control the light in the other players' rooms. A group of friends tries to escape their town by going to university. However, they need to have an acceptable social credit score. This score, how 'sound' you are, is live updated through your friends' up- and down-votes. Your current score is visible by the colour your screen is illuminating your face with in the video call.
Tags: LAOG, Social Score Sucks, Light Control
Project: Memory
by Tara M. Clapper
https://www.geekinitiative.com
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Streaming/Online Face to Face;Blackbox
In this 2-6 player digital larp, characters discover their ties to each other after previously subjecting themselves to memory wipes. This emotional larp relies heavily on blackbox techniques converted for digital larp use.
Tags: emotional, freeform, blackbox, digital
Questing to Build a New Home
by Randy Lubin
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
Play as fantasy heroes going on quests and building a new home for themselves after being teleported to the far side of the world.
Tags: Fantasy, Lightweight, Quests
The quiet game
by Laiv.it Costanza Chelidonio, Matteo Davolio, Michele Dore, Maria Guarneri, Simone Paci & Samuele Vitale
Styles of Play: Larp
The quiet game is a silent scenario, in which every interaction between characters happens through movement and contact. A group of nameless, voiceless children go through daily lives made of ritualised games and gestures, in search of their lost identities. Through the lens of this unusual childhood, players will get the chance to directly confront their base emotions, to know themselves, to see themselves in each other's eyes.
Tags: childhood, emotion, colours, growth, loss
The Real Ghost Hunters of Sandusky Township
by Elizabeth Stong
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
The Real Ghost Hunters of Sandusky Township follows the cast and crew members of a ghost-hunting television show as they investigate a dark haunted house, armed with only a flashlight and any ghost-hunting paraphernalia you brought in with you. Unlike most of their encounters, this place is actually haunted by at least one spirit.
Tags: Ghosts, reality television, flashlight tag
Seapunk 2222
by Sam Hotchkiss
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Chat/Message;Streaming/Online Face to Face
Seapunk 2222 is a real-time collaborative online text adventure (RiCOTA?) set in the climate dystopia of the not-so-distant future. Play as a group of salvage divers in the flooded remains of Manhattan trying to get their big score: a public statue worth 0.01 Bitcoin! The game uses limits on communication to convey the disorienting nature of scuba diving.
Tags: climate, scuba, silence, vaporwave
Selfie Objective
by Joe Sondow
http://www.twitter.com/JoeSondow
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Pervasive Game/Public Play;Photography, Social Media
A convention LARP. You are a visitor from planet Gleepzop, researching Earth. Your final grade in Earth Studies depends on taking (and optionally tweeting) selfies with a variety of consenting humans in specific circumstances.
Tags: selfie, convention, collection, alien
Shared Trauma Sleepover
by Ennis Rook Bashe
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
Friends who fought a supernatural evil together in their childhoods reunite.
Tags: memory, relationships, horror
Ska-mageddon: Riding the Fourth Wave
by Jeff Dieterle
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Kind of an area control thing
Ska bands fight over a post-apocalyptic New Jersey landscape, skanking their way to dominance of Central Jersey and the advent of the Fourth Wave of Ska.
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic, Dancing, Silly
Small Monsters
by Chad Wolf
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
Small monsters eat each other to form a giant monster that will be able to survive out in the world.
Tags: Silly, Monsters, Magic
Spoon River Séance
by Jason Cox
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
The Bereaved reach into the spirit world of Spoon River, hoping their dearly departed can grant their heart's desire. But at what price?
Tags: Poetry, Seance, Spooky
The Stars Recall Our Passage
by Sharang Biswas
https://sharangbiswas.myportfolio.com/
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Live Action Storytelling Game
Players are both "ihas", scholars who study the history of their people. One is the "tarihas", studying how patterns and movements of the stars can illuminate major historical events. The other is the "prithvihas", studying material remains of their ancestors to construct history. Players will lie down in darkness and use their flashlight to reveal constellations affixed to the walls. They will interpret the patterns of the stars through scholarly literature that they possess and (re)construct the history of their people.
Tags: Stargazing, Astrology, Archaeology, Intimacy
They Say You Should Talk To Your Plants
by Raph D'Amico
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
A larp about dealing with a tough life by talking to your plants, where you play the plants and the talker.
Tags: houseplants, masks, monologues, greek chorus
This Is Fine
by Jenny Bacon, Allison Cole, Jess Rowan Marcotte, Squinky
Styles of Play: Larp
You are at a networking event during a Very Important Business Conference. Out in the real world, the literal apocalypse is happening. Meanwhile, you really, really need that job. Fortunately for you, a Very Important Business Dude is about to give a Very Important Business Talk, and rumour has it that his company is hiring! Can you successfully network your way to the top and get that interview you so desperately need to survive? Until the world ends at least...
Tags: performed politeness, networking event, business dudes
https://jackrosetree.wordpress.com Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Pervasive Game/Public Play Tournament of the Jade Viper is a modified Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament with LARP, social deduction, and bluffing elements. The winner inherits the crown of the Jade Viper and commands the strongest martial arts force in the known universe. Tags: Martial Arts, Tournament, LARP, Rock-Paper-Scissors
Tournament of the Jade Viper
by Jack Rosetree
The Waiting Room at Mount Surpris
by Josh Krehbiel
https://www.patreon.com/joshkrehbiel
Styles of Play: Larp
Gods and mortals alike wait for an audience with the god of community, and fill the time with some small talk.
Tags: comedy, convention, simple
Way Back
by Rebecca Slitt
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Streaming/Online Face to Face
An online freeform larp for two players about resistance, history, and human connection. One character is near the breaking point of a crisis of apocalyptic proportions. In researching its historical origins, they somehow manage to communicate with the other character: a person living in the past, near the beginning of the crisis. The person in the Future must use their knowledge to help the person in the Past take action to stop each stage of the growing disaster. Can they work together across history to stop the crisis before it starts?
Tags: online, two-player, resistance, connection
Welcome Home, Willow!
by Jacqueline Bryk
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/13033/Jacqueline-Bryk
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp;Arts & Crafts
A new Dryad is moving into the garden, a willow tree. You are all very excited to meet them, but first you must get their home ready for their first night in the garden. A short arts-and-crafts LARP about creating space in your community for new members.
Tags: creation, community, dryads, conversation
What We Leave Behind
by Peter S. Svensson
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Larp
When a natural disaster is set to destroy their home, a family has an hour to choose what non-essential items to take with them. As they choose each object, a flashback to the past involving that item is played out.
Tags: Short, Home, Family, Drama
Whispers
by Chris Zipeto
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Chat/Message;Streaming/Online Face to Face;Video/Transmedia
A freeform horror roleplaying game about a Wendigo whispering outside your door, trying to get you to come out.
Tags: Horror, Creativity, Darkness
You Have Dropped a Dollar Bill in the Drive-Thru
by Tim Hutchings
Styles of Play: Freeform larp
A second of action is stretched out for as long as possible.
Tags: short, staring, money
You've Got This!
by Kat Jones
Styles of Play: Freeform larp;Arts & Crafts;single player
You've got this is a game about trying to create art in the stolen moments between other tasks you have to do.
Tags: art, time crunch, frustration, yogurt
Posted 21 October 2019
happy bday earth
Approved for release by the Golden Cobra Committee