Join us this month in Athens! Dragons Nest from Erasmus+ EDGE is running a dissemination event at ICPS – College for Humanistic Sciences March 27-28, 2026. We will provide some information on the textbooks, curriculum, Tech Toolkit, and Lumen larp, including a design workshop based on the app and archetypal character types offered in the

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What a beautiful day in Visby, Sweden, for our dissemination event at Gotland Game Hub at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design! Today, Sarah Lynne Bowman and Kjell Hedgard Hugaas shared an overview of Erasmus EDGE, then led a student group through parts of the character creation workshop from the larp Lumen, which was created

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We are excited to share photos from the Lumen larp we ran Oct. 2-5, 2025 outside of Florence, Italy! Lumen was a highly experimental educational larp that had the aim of teaching our curriculum in transformative role-playing game design while experiencing a transformative larp. 34 characters engaged in off- and in-game lessons ran by 7

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We are delighted to announce our larp script for Meet Me Halfway is now available! Developed for Erasmus+ EDGE, the larp was primarily designed by Sarah Lynne Bowman (Uppsala University), Josephine Rydberg (volunteer), and Angie Bandhoesingh (Dragon’s Nest) with guidance and implementation from other members of the consortium. Taisto Suominen (TUAS) served as technical lead. The premise

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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. Click here for the graphical version of the Tech Toolkit. Click here for the

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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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