We are delighted to announce that Erasmus+ EDGE’s Tech Toolkit is now available! The Tech Tookit was written by Taisto Suominen from Turku University of Applied Sciences and edited by Angie Bandhoesingh from Dragons’ Nest in consultation with other project members. Download the Erasmus+ EDGE Tech Toolkit here. Learn about the potential intersection between analog…

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Erasmus EDGE member Sarah Lynne Bowman from Uppsala University visited with Taisto Suominen at Turku University of Applied Sciences this week! Together, they met with the team making the Lumen app, also designed by Simon Brind at Avalon Larp Studio. The app will be used on location at the larp for character creation, relations, site…

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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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The video is now available from the Erasmus EDGE Event Series lecture: “Narrative Design for Transformation: Encouraging and Enabling Transformative Play” by Halfdan Keller Justesen, Martine Svanevik, and Sagalinn Tangen from Avalon Larp Studio. We hope you enjoy! Link to the video is here. * * * Description: This talk by members of Avalon Larp…

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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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Join us for our lecture in the Erasmus EDGE Event Series: “Narrative Design for Transformation: Encouraging and Enabling Transformative Play” by Halfdan Keller Justesen, Martine Svanevik, and Sagalinn Tangen from Avalon Larp Studio. This event is part of our Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership for curriculum development in transformative game design. When: Tuesday, January 21 from 7:00-8:30pm…

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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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