Call me generous, pretentious, an altruist: I’m all about bringing phone larping to everyone. And whether you’re familiar with traditional larping or brand-new to it, phone larping can be a great way to get more larp experience at home, without ever leaving the house or, y’know, putting on pants. There…

The indefatigable Fair Escape raises the question of whether phone larping — of the kind Mirror World Creations does — is, in fact, definitionally a larp at all. In some ways it’s not. And, in some ways, that’s a good thing. Here’s why. I’m a larpvangelist. Which is to say…

Mirror World Creations’ Game of the Month for June is Fragile Recall, a one-on-one phone larp centered around the concept of speaking to your own past life. Fragile Recall is a larp born from a cheat. Very occasionally I hang out in immersive theater forums, and more than occasionally on…

When the pandemic rolled around, we mourned the loss of in-person larping; video- and text-chat, we said, would never fill the hole in-person events left. And they didn’t. But online larps have their advantages; more than many larpers, pre-pandemic, gave them credit for. …

The vastness of space stretches out before you. You see before you myriad stars, infinite galaxies, an untouched realm of possibility ready to be charted and explored. As a member of the Survey Team for the League of Planets, it’s your job to be right on the edge of this…

I invented “Gremlin!” as a marketing gimmick. I run phone larps: they usually run about sixty-something minutes and cost forty-something dollars. Then I asked why people weren’t playing them. The usual answers: people didn’t have the time or the money. While there are reasons to be skeptical of both, I…

The Girl On The Phone was the phone larp I always wanted to write. The Girl On The Phone was the reason I invented phone larps. As soon as I started thinking of phone larps, I started thinking of this: a woman*, kidnapped, in an unfamiliar city. She’s calling you…

My name is Betsy. I write for theater. Sometimes people ask me what I’m doing, and why. There are a lot of layers to that question. *** Why do you make art? I make art because I like pretty things. There are a lot of ways people try to justify…