Evan Torner

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 10:15 UTC

Medics play was advanced "playing doctor," with medical histories and scanning and blood gore effects and brain surgery prostheses. Scientists have even more direct escape-room-style puzzles to solve and use to pass on jump coordinates.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 10:14 UTC

Oh, I was on the team so I can go pretty in-depth. Repair revolved around RFID tags, sometimes connected with apps (mini-games you'd solve to, say, repair propulsion) and sometimes connected with Arduino controllers or escape-room-style wire boxes. "Fixed" tasks would be calibrated in engineering.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 10:12 UTC

We also use "storytelling card game" with no issue

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:35 UTC

We used Empty Epsilon, which is modded Artemis, and then built enemy scenarios that bound together bridge, fighter pilots and engineering. Hits would be audible in engineering, and then we would need to run around the ship and repair broken systems.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

Yeah, this is pretty accurate, and written by someone with long-term presence in the scene. The "story games" consensus term was kind of a shrug and a "meh" rather than an enthusiastic rallying cry or manifesto.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:34 UTC

It was not our scene's chosen name! But the term "indie TTRPG" was so contested after around 2006 that the "Story Games" forum became a rallying point, hence the label.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

They are called, colloquially, "story games" or "storytelling games."

The best shortform larp I use in the classroom is Ghost Court by @bullypulpithq.bsky.social

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:43 UTC

Here's some Fennoswedish coverage of Odysseus where you really get to see the sets in action.

svenska.yle.fi/a/7-10059905

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 05:24 UTC

Odysseus Larp is over! AMA (If I cannot say certain things due to information embargoes and spoilers, I'll simply say so and move on.)

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

Odysseus requires just absolute gobs of labor to realize. It is an impossibly tight experience. I can tell most larp designers "Don't try this at home," but it'd be hard to dissuade them.

Read this:
nordiclarp.org/2024/07/04/o...

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 06:44 UTC

Odysseus Run 2 is over! For all the cinematic sets and brilliant community production values infused within the game, I only managed to snag a few photos of myself and the sets. WHAT an experience that was! Congrats to the players and the volunteers on an incomparable experience.

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