Transformative Play Initiative member Kjell Hedgard Hugaas presented our Erasmus EDGE textbook in Oslo, Norway last week at the Nordic Larp Research Network 2025! In this brief talk, he shared basic information about the book, Transformative Role-playing Game Design, which is available as a free PDF and print-on-demand for a relatively charge here. Big thanks…

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Hello everyone, We are delighted to announce that Transformative Role-playing Game Design textbook is now available for download and print on demand! The book is the first in a series of two developed by the EDGE Consortium, an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership, featuring authors from Uppsala University, Dragons’ Nest, Avalon Larp Studio, Chaos League, and Turku…

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Hello, Applications for Lumen are now open until February 14 23:59 CET! The Lumen Player’s Guide is now available. The Guide contains information on the narrative framing, application procedures, the schedule, safety, accessibility, and other practicalities. Access the Player’s Guide here. Access the Application form here. Application Timeline As Lumen is run within an Erasmus+…

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The Erasmus EDGE team assembled for two days in Oslo, Norway to plan the next steps for the project! The group met in a converted building that used to serve as an electrical transformer for a city block in Oslo. They brainstormed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats around the use of technology in larp. They…

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On November 28, Uppsala University’s Kjell Hedgard Hugaas and Sarah Lynne Bowman had a wonderful time presenting content from the Erasmus EDGE curriculum for Oslo School of Architecture and Design! While EDGE volunteer Nadja Lipsyc showed them around the school, the students also shared their creative interactive design projects created in the school’s impressive makerspace.

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The full website for Lumen is now available! Click here to read about the larp. Lumen is a larp about a group of seeming strangers – the seekers – who attend a retreat at a mysterious location known only as Hope. There is magic to be found at Hope, for those who truly need it. …

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On October 7, Uppsala University’s Josefin Westborg and Sarah Lynne Bowman represented Erasmus EDGE and the Transformative Play Initiative at the ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference in Tartu, Estonia! They presented a workshop for the Serious Games track based on our Master’s in Transformative Game Design curriculum entitled “How to Use Role-playing Games in Teaching.”…

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The video and captions are now available for “Immersive Aesthetics: VR, Larp, and Art” by Nadja Lipsyc! Stay tuned for more events from the Transformative Play Initiative and the Erasmus+ EDGE project. Click here to watch the video. Description: This research explores the aesthetics of immersive and interactive storytelling in Virtual Reality, around the development…

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The Erasmus EDGE project is excited to share photos from our two dissemination events in April in Tampere, Finland related to our Tech Toolkit! For A Week in Finland 2024 before the Solmukohta Nordic Larp conference, we developed a chamber larp called Meet Me Halfway. The larp featured 12 characters trying to find their soul…

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Join us for our lecture in the Erasmus EDGE Event Series: “Larp and Community: Between Design and Ethnography” by Cosmo Esposito and Alessandro Giovannucci from Chaos League! This event is part of our Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership for curriculum development in transformative game design. When: Tuesday, March 19 from 7:00-8:30pm CET Where: Online on Zoom Register…

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