Tēnā koutou i tēnei ahiahi~~! Good evening all~~! We are so very delighted to have Maury Brown and Tara M. Clapper running some amazing digital larps (or LAOGS) at Gauntlet Con 2018!!
Tara M. Clapper is a professional storyteller with a background in publishing and content marketing. Tara is the founder and publisher of The Geek Initiative, an online community devoted to women in geek culture. After larping and marketing larps for nearly a decade, Tara co-wrote “The Poe Project,” a single-actor play about the death and life of Edgar Allan Poe. She’s also the creator of “She’s Got a Gun,” a four hour salon larp exploring women, marginalization, and power. Best known for her innovative foray into digital larp, Tara creates and runs digital events in multiple genres, also writing and running supplemental digital content for others’ traditional larp events. Together with two other women in gaming, Tara hosts the interactive talk show “Larp Chat Live” on Twitch.
During Gauntlet Con, Tara will be running CHARIOT Larp, and First Bite, Second Birth: A Contemporary Vampire Digital Larp Experience.
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Maury Brown is President of Learn Larp, a US company that produces high-immersion, mechanics-light destination larp experiences and of Snow Dragon Games, a games publisher seeking to improve the accessibility, inclusion, and diversity of representation in the gaming community. A pioneer in using safety and calibration tools in games, Brown applies instructional design principles to her design and organization. She researches how games can create radical empathy and personal transformation and writes allegorical games that cause players to examine social norms and issues.
During Gauntlet Con, Maury will be running Magimundi.
Be sure to check out other Gauntlet Con news and register yourself for a game or two on the website. http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html
Outstanding!
Outstanding!