Within days of getting sent home from my in-person job in March 2020 as a result of the pandemic, I started Social Distancing LARP Jam (https://itch.io/jam/social-distancing-larp-jam), a game jam about writing LARPs playable online... and since then the online LARP world has exploded. A lot has changed since March 2020. New innovations have been made. Lots of LARPs have been written. And more people know that larping online is possible! So I decided it's time for another jam, this time with way more resources.

If you’re not familiar, LARP stands for Live Action Roleplaying. It’s what you get when you mix tabletop roleplaying games with improv theater and play a character by physically acting as them. Feel free to use any style or interpretation of what a LARP is for the purposes of this jam. Creative interpretations welcome! Also, this jam is un-ranked and open to anyone. Just don’t be an asshole.

Rules:

• You may submit games you wrote before the jam began!
• You may submit an unfinished game as a demo.
• You may work on a game you started previously.
• You may submit multiple games if you have time!
• Teams of any size are permissible, as is working alone.
• Since this is a chill jam with no winners or losers, feel free to start your game whenever you'd like. Only use assets you have the right to use, though. No breaking any copyright laws. (Or other laws!)
• Your game can include sexual content, but no sexualized depictions of characters under 18. If your characters are teens, no relationships with age gaps over 3 years. No promotion or glorification of non-consent should be present in your game.
• Content warn in your game page description for common triggers such as self harm, suicide, sexual assault, etc.
• Obviously, no promoting hatred with your games. Basically, no racism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, aphobia, ableism, sexism, etc. These topics may be part of the plot, but don't use your game to promote them. Hateful games will be removed.
• No jam spam! If your game doesn't follow the rules or is unrelated to the jam, don't submit it! It will be deleted!

Resources:

• Rei's Guide to Online LARP Design - http://blog.undyingking.com/reis-guide-to-online-larp-design/
• LARP Writing Software - http://www.1000d4.com/2015/12/23/larp-writing-software/
• Communications Software for Running Online Larps (LAOGs) - http://www.1000d4.com/2020/11/15/communications-software-for-running-online-larp...
• A Manifesto for Live Action Online Games (LAOGs) - https://nordiclarp.org/2019/06/14/a-manifesto-for-laogs-live-action-online-games...
• Remote, Digital Larps, and Live Action Online Games Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/LiveActionOnlineGames
• Social Distancing - RPG/LARP Resources Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2584479148486328
• Rei's Guide to Online LARP Design - http://blog.undyingking.com/reis-guide-to-online-larp-design/
• Golden Cobra Challenge - http://www.goldencobra.org/
• Discord for Larpers - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NB-c9hYLxbAosMzQrDCSXSnX1kXVbZZo6H0CAd2PCP8/...
• Gather.town for Larpers - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JSC5-_LgyynORRR1n6wQaz0CvLf_FI2S_H8Fhvz-lk/...
• Pattern Language for LARP Design - http://www.larppatterns.org/
• How to Run Online Live Action Roleplaying Games (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-3zLxF8g8
• Live Action Online Gaming: How a Community Emerged and Brought Joy to Sad LARPers (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQkfDoUAxCU
• Talking about Live-Action Online Games and Digital Larps in 2020 (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Fd6vDcseU
• So you want to write a LARP (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0HNP8UtmRw
• Collaboration in LARP Writing (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqtBNYNT3s4
• Nordic LARP - https://nordiclarp.org/
• Game Wrap - https://gamewrap.interactiveliterature.org/
• Larp Library - https://library.interactiveliterature.org/
• Leaving Mundania - http://leavingmundania.com/start-here/
• The Mixing Desk of LARP - http://analoggamestudies.org/2016/11/the-mixing-desk-of-larp-history-and-current-state-of-a-design-theory/
• RPG Design Zine - https://ndpdesign.itch.io/rpg-design-zine
• Queer LARP Jam - https://itch.io/jam/queer-larp-jam

Some Past and Future Online LARP events:

• Extracon 2021 - https://2021.extraconlarp.org/
• Virtual Space Bubble 2020 - https://virtualspacebubble2020.concentral.net/
• Summer Larpin' - https://summerlarpin2020.concentral.net/
• International LARP Festival - https://larpfestival.it/en/international-larp-festival/

- Olivia Montoya, host of many game jams