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Querki and LARP
Jul. 28th, 2013 01:31 pmTime for a quick plug: in a couple of weeks, this year's NELCO -- the New England LARP Conference -- will be running at the Chelmsford Radisson. (Better known to many of you as the site of Intercon.) NELCO is the all-panels cousin to Intercon: where Intercon is the convention *of* LARPs, NELCO is the convention *about* LARP -- the place to discuss writing, designing, costuming and all those useful arts that surround the games themselves. (Along with things like a weekend-long Build Your Own Game track -- if you've never done one of these before, they're a hoot.)
At 1pm on Saturday, I'm going to be doing what amounts to a sneak peek of the current state of Querki, leading up to the Alpha release later in August. Querki was, of course, originally designed for LARP writing -- I wrote the original prototype for my own LARP work ten years or so ago -- and it's still a very good tool for the purpose. My original theory was that I would come to NELCO with a pre-canned LARP-writing schema to show off, but I realized that that's silly: the whole point of Querki is to make it easy to build this stuff. So my current plan is to instead do it as a hands-on workshop -- I'm going to build a LARP-writing Space during the seminar, taking direction from the audience, and answering questions about what Querki does and does not (yet) do.
Later in the afternoon, Nat and I will be doing a compare-and-contrast between Querki andJourneyVellum, his more-established and mature LARP-writing platform; we're hoping to get other folks to talk about other tools they use for writing and designing LARPs as well. I expect to learn a lot, and I think it'll be a fun roundtable. (And will probably give both of us ideas about things we ought to be implementing.)
I know that it's only a week after Pennsic, so a lot of folks will still be decompressing. But if you're into the art and science of LARP, I recommend checking NELCO out. And if you're curious about this stuff I've been talking about for the past year, come check out the Querki panel...
At 1pm on Saturday, I'm going to be doing what amounts to a sneak peek of the current state of Querki, leading up to the Alpha release later in August. Querki was, of course, originally designed for LARP writing -- I wrote the original prototype for my own LARP work ten years or so ago -- and it's still a very good tool for the purpose. My original theory was that I would come to NELCO with a pre-canned LARP-writing schema to show off, but I realized that that's silly: the whole point of Querki is to make it easy to build this stuff. So my current plan is to instead do it as a hands-on workshop -- I'm going to build a LARP-writing Space during the seminar, taking direction from the audience, and answering questions about what Querki does and does not (yet) do.
Later in the afternoon, Nat and I will be doing a compare-and-contrast between Querki and
I know that it's only a week after Pennsic, so a lot of folks will still be decompressing. But if you're into the art and science of LARP, I recommend checking NELCO out. And if you're curious about this stuff I've been talking about for the past year, come check out the Querki panel...