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I Did Not Consent To Immortality
TL;DR: So-called Artificial Intelligence (or Generative Programmes) are becoming ubiquitous. Its possibilities are genuinely exciting....
leodoulton
Mar 31, 20239 min read
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LARP as score
An analogy I see pop up in a certain amount of literature about game-performance from LARPs to interactive theatre is the...
leodoulton
Mar 29, 20234 min read
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I Like Reading (Or: Caveating The Last Blog)
The other day I wrote about two well-formatted sides of A4 being an optimal amount of information for a fun experience of a piece of...
leodoulton
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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2 Sides of A4: The Optimal Length (For Interactive Theatre Knowledge)
Update: I've had some further thoughts on why this is wrong. TL;DR: it’s two well-formatted A4 pages for information that’s regularly...
leodoulton
Mar 19, 20238 min read
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Finding The Margins: Looking At Interactive Theatre Through LARP & labour
TL;DR: Interactive Theatre is LARP with the burden on the organisers. Most definitions of LARP vs. interactive theatre I know of come...
leodoulton
Mar 15, 20233 min read
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Leo: A Plug
Future Leo, here’s your one-minute pitch next time you have to give one: I’m Leo, a writer, director, game designer and performer working...
leodoulton
Mar 15, 20231 min read
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Horizontal Mechanics, 12-Handed Monopoly, and Nothing Is Ever New
I’ve recently had the pleasure of playtesting 12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of Capital, Revolution, and Blatant Theft, the second part of my...
leodoulton
Mar 14, 20235 min read
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Being and Doing: Default Modes of Play
I often start these by saying I think it will be brief.* But I have learnt. It might be brief. The core thought here is identifying a...
leodoulton
Mar 4, 20236 min read
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Outside The Dungeon: Some Possible Sources For New Kinds Of Mechanic
What would interactive theatre look like if we’d never played The Dragon Game? This is a theme that’s been touched on here before:...
leodoulton
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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The Sleeping Protagonist
The King of Saving Cats Earlier this week, I had an excellent time at the Interactive Experience Network Huddle listening to Owen...
leodoulton
Feb 22, 20235 min read
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Haha-Narrative Dissonance: A Challenge For Interactive Comedy
Introduction I am writing having spent a lovely afternoon workshopping an experiment I’ve had in mind for a while [thank you to everyone...
leodoulton
Feb 4, 20235 min read
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Show For A Sheep
The first of a sequence of projects I’m calling ’12 Shows’ has been done. It is not, as originally advertised, ‘Show For A Cow’, because...
leodoulton
Jan 28, 20234 min read
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A Plan For 2023
I have got out of a habit I had when younger: small shows at the edge of my practice in a throw-away manner. That was partly because...
leodoulton
Dec 31, 20222 min read
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Introductory Translation And Analysis Via Queen-Gazing Cats
There is a poem many of you will be familiar with: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen....
leodoulton
Dec 30, 20223 min read
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Daily Blogging: A Reflection
I am very much a writer/director. I’m not a critic. So I’m going to quietly reflect on blogging every advent calendar day, since it seems...
leodoulton
Dec 24, 20222 min read
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Notes Towards A Steampunk La Bohème
If I have a style (which, alas, I increasingly do as I stagnate away from being a young artist, and get too few opportunities to...
leodoulton
Dec 24, 20225 min read
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Comedy, Absurdism, and Farce for Interactive Theatre
While I’ve seen light-hearted and schlocky interactive theatre, I’ve never seen something that I’d class as comedy-comedy. Mockery of...
leodoulton
Dec 24, 20224 min read
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Narratives About Narrative: A Challenge For Arts Coverage
Amid the inescapable World Cup coverage recently, I was often reminded of this XKCD comic: While an over-simplification, it does...
leodoulton
Dec 23, 20223 min read
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12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of capitalism, revolution, and blatant theft
I haven’t always been a game designer, or creator of interactive experiences. But when I was a child, there was a promise on a box I’d...
leodoulton
Dec 22, 20221 min read
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In Resentment Of Functionality
I would like to write in resentment of functionality, and tying things to reality. My mind’s been twisted by Twitter, so I’m going to...
leodoulton
Dec 21, 20224 min read
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