Sleepover party
Welcome to BEta Larp's opening party, where every larper sense of celebration meets the chill of a pajama party ! Larp is not just a cultural practice, but above all a social hobby, so why not take advantage of this...
Opening conference | C’est vrai parce que c’est faux : les émotions en GN (in French)
(in French) We often speak about Larp as a profound experience, during which we feel emotions first-hand and carry them with us for a long time. But where do these emotions come from? How do organizers generate them, and how...
How to play a storm / LARP in SAR(search and rescue) operations
1) How to play a storm is about how LARP can be implemented in simulations and scenarios for Disaster managament, also how can we go from there to the business world and make educational or stress test simulations for our...
Souvenirs d’une gauchiasse repentie(in French)
(In French)What do you do when you have to play a character who is clearly not the good guy of the story? What do you do when you have to play an oppressor, even though in real life you campaign...
The Sustainability Roleplaying Club Formula
What could be a workable model for sustaining a role-playing community in the long term? This presentation will look at the goals, aspirations and intentions to achieve this and the formula that the presenters propose for European teams. Conference...
Les comportements nocifs en GN sous l’angle du droit – De responsabilité civile et pénale dans le time in (In French)
(In French)Debate on the legal issues surrounding the implication of time-in facts in civil and criminal law. Conference | Flo Saturday, October 28, 11:30-12:30 a.m.
Toilettes sèches démontables sans outils, aux normes handicapées (in French)
(In French)Manufacture, use and assembly of a prototype dry toilet kit, to disabled standards. Demonstration and discussion of the object's usefulness for LARP sites without toilets. Workshop | Briareos Saturday, October 28, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Drop your sword! How to regulate your emotions and check in with yourself inside and out of LARP
Drop your sword! No, for real. Drop it! How many times do you catch yourself stressed, angry, frustrated during the day? We'll work with how you can 'check in' with yourself, your emotions and your current state and regulate, if...
Broderie, Blason et récits de Baston
Discover the BA-Ba of embroidery, as well as some tricky tips to make yourself an incredible coat of arms to decorate faction tabards and futuristic uniforms. Epic tales and GN memories welcome once the needle ballet begins! Workshop |...
Le groupe de GN : vie, mort et (éviter les) remords (in French)
(In french)In LARP, it's sometimes expected to the larpers to organize themselves into groups. This can mean one-off groups of 5-6 people, but it can also often mean groups of 15-40 people with the ambition of lasting several years and...
Engagement et GN : un travail d’équipe (in French)
(In French)Volunteer involvement within our organizations and associations is the driving force behind our projects. So it's only natural that the challenges of building, retaining and renewing volunteer teams are major issues for our structures. In the course of our...
Mi-conférence mi-table ronde autour de la précarité + 10 façons d’aider les GNistes pauvres (in French)
It's well known that Larp is an expensive hobby, so while it may seem strange to build a conference looking at the needs of poor Larpers / people with structural poverty who would like to try Larp, it's more necessary...
Larp in Erasmus+. Case studies and opportunitie
LARP events seem distinctively interesting in the eyes of the Erasmus+ Program, which is funding learning opportunities for young people. What makes it so special? What kind of opportunities are there waiting for young players and larp organizations? You will...
Créer un scénario court : la méthode danoise (in French)
This workshop invites you to work on your short-form scenario (3-8 players for 4-5 hours of play), inspired by the scenario creation workshops conducted in Denmark as part of the Fastaval gaming convention, an institution in its almost 30-year history....
Lessons Learned: the evolution of a larp
The change of a hungarian larp through the years in scope and quality and what we larned from it. Difficulties and challanges when your game gets successfull and doubles in size and how you have to adapt as an organizer....
De la Chouine à la Cogne : que recherchent les GNistes ? (in French)
(In French)From drama to brawl, from tears to blades, from oppression to rebellion... But what are larpers looking for these days? The results of a Larpalot survey! Conference | Larpalot Saturday, October 28, 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Join the Dark Side, we have cookies !
The Dark Side has cookies! Yes the Sark Side are the international larps. Why should you go to them. You get experiences from players from Belgium, Italy and Germany. Workshop | Sven, Cora, Christine & Alessandro Saturday, October 28, 4:15pm...
Très sourde et joueuse, c’est possible !
Some of you may have come across me in LARP. I'm very deaf and I've been playing LARP for a while now. So I'd like to share with you my experience and my accessibility needs, as well as how best...
Mais t’avais dit qu’on ferait pas du Cthulhu (in French)
(In French)At a time when today's Larp movement is promoting the use of notes of intent and transparency, can an organization still afford to produce scenarios with a 180° plot twist? Super surprise effect or breach of social contract? What...
Du seum au fun : gestion de la frustration en GN (in French)
(In French)Whether you're a player or an org, there's one enemy worse than the Necromancer of the final battle: frustration. Here's some advice and discussion on how to deal with feelings of frustration in GN! Interactive Talk/span> | Gaspard...
TechnoLarp : objets de jeu interactifs à portée de toustes (In French)
(In French)Following our first presentation of Technolarp at BEtaLarp 2021, we're back with a finalized project. TechnoLarp is a "turnkey" device design project aimed at making it possible for any organizer to integrate interactive game objects or scenery into their...
La joie de nuire(in French)
(In French)Embodying immoral characters, actively seeking to do harm... in short, "Villains", can happen to you in LARP. How do you manage your emotions before, during and after the game? Should you feel guilty about having fun playing someone who...
Non, ce n’est pas sale ! Ce que l’entreprise peut apprendre au GN (in French)
L'entreprise, c'est un peu un gros mot dans le monde du GN. Pourtant, les outils d'organisation de groupe qui y sont utilisés pourraient faciliter la vie de bon nombre d'orgas. Nous vous présentons quelques pistes en espérant que cela suscitera...
Nouveaux venus : une barrière à l’entrée ? (in French)
(In French)When describing the concept of GN to a newcomer, who hasn't heard the phrase "I didn't even know it existed"? This lack of awareness of the hobby is linked to a number of factors: poor (or incomplete) representation in...
Découpe laser et impression 3D pour les armes de GN
We're going to talk about how you can more easily make beautiful foam weapons for LARP and trollball.Pre-registration required: link to form. Workshop | Briareos Saturday, October 28, 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. We're going to talk about how you...
BEta Larp : Larp Awards
If all the arts have their rewards and prizes, Belgian Larp is glaringly lacking in them. Who said that Larpers weren't capable of admiring the achievements of their peers? Without judgement or trash-talk, come and join us in rewarding the...
The Whims
Welcome to the neighborhood! You have just moved into your new home and it is time to start living your new life! This is a blackbox-larp strongly inspired by the game The Sims. In this experience half of the participants...
Life Lessons
Drawing a live human model can sometimes reveal more about you than it does about the subject. In this larp, you will play a group of students at a weekly life-drawing class, across a series of six lessons. The process...
Les derniers bars avant la fin du monde [In French]
A team of 5 "new explorers" embark on the "Unsinkable"®, a revolutionary pocket submarine prototype designed and piloted by billionaire entrepreneur Dick Johnson. Their goal is to be the first tourists to be able to descend to a depth of...
Larp Quizz
Do you know the name of every edition of Avatar and the scenario of the first opus of Ragnarok? Do you know all about the meta-techniques used in Nordic LARP or about LARP romance? Have you memorized the resolution of...
Il faut que GNesse se fasse (In French)
(In French)Several organizations organize Larp for kids and teens. I'd like to facilitate a meeting between them. Let them ask each other questions about the different aims and objectives they have set themselves, or ask each other questions about observations...
Moi, moche et méchant : comment éviter les clichés (nuls) dans l’écriture des méchants en jeu (in French)
Destroy the universe, that's a no. Sardonic laughter, no. Neo-Nazis in flip-flops and gel-filled hair, no. Using the literature and psychology spearheaded by yours truly, we're going to set the record straight on what nastiness is, the real kind, the...
TechnoLarp : atelier-découverte et mise en pratique
In this hands-on workshop, we invite you to discover the possibilities of TechnoLarp for yourself. Specifically, we'll take you step-by-step through the implementation of several TechnoLarp interactive game objects that can easily be used in Larp. This workshop is designed...
Filmer un GN : Retour sur 2 aftermovies d’Avatar Stronghold – Mon témoignage sur l’expérience capturer des scènes dans un GN (in French)
Filming a Larp: A look back at two Avatar Stronghold aftermovies - My testimony of the extraordinary experience of capturing scenes in a role-playing game. Conference | Alexandre Mottart Sunday, October 29, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m.
The Way of Cooperative Larp design – From the beginning to future possibilitie
The workshop is based on our experiences in organizing our game, called ‘The Frozen World’. Based on its historical timeline and the different concepts of gameplay, we collected our ideas and methods about how to organize a game from the...
Évaluer une proposition de jeu (in French)
(In French) Larps are co-creations, meaning that the story evolves through proposals made by different players (organizers, PCs, NPCs, groups, etc.) and accepted (or rejected or modified) by the other parties involved. How do you identify a game suggestion? And...
It’s not bad to feel good. The meaningfulness of slice of life and feelgood larp
(En Anglais) Larp needs to be packed with action and activities. Or with tears and type two fun. Or with high drama and soap opera moments. Go big or go home, ideally with a panda face because of all the...
GN & EcoResponsabilité – “Make Larp Sustainable Again”
At a time when our Western societies are becoming increasingly aware of the challenges posed by ecological issues, I'd like, after a brief introduction, to invite you to reflect together on the following topics: - Which elements of current Larp...
(Français) Il n’y a pas de petites émotions
What if a Larp didn't need big emotions, tears, unforgettable passion and untold drama to be a success? From the initial idea to the note of intent to the interpretation, this workshop is here to give you an accelerated experience...
Limbo
The larp takes place in the realm of Limbo, betwixt and between life and death. Beyond time. A waiting place to reflect on life as it has been so far before either returning to life once again or facing the...
Gay mais pas cliché : l’inclusion passe aussi par l’écriture des personnages (in French)
(In French)Our view of the world is influenced by the stories we are told. Although this has improved in recent years, the TV and film industry too often uses the "Bury your gays" cliché (LGBT characters die or suffer tragedy...
« Juste des émotions » : penser le GN et la justice sociale avec Sara Ahmed [in French]
« La justice devient une forme de ressenti, qui relève d’un « sentiment-de-semblable », une capacité de ressentir des choses pour autrui et de compatir à sa douleur. » This year, I propose to revive my own tradition of over-ambitious...
C’est quoi tes valeurs ? (in French)
(In French)Who hasn't experienced a moment of disagreement between their personal off-game values and those of their in-game character? How often are we tempted to recreate democracy in a feudal society? To play a heretic in a religious world? Role-playing...
The workshop workshop
Workshops! They seem to be the cool thing to do, the conditio sine qua non for a true 'nordic style' or even international larp. They also seem to be shoved around and into events for the sake of having a...
Co-narration : retour de l’expérience In Taberna (in French)
(In French)In our Larp "In Taberna", participants take turns being PCs and NPCs. The scenario is co-written by all participants in a workshop prior to the game. Combat and magic are not framed by rules. In this talk we'll look...
Retour d’expérience en tant que photographe de GN (in French)
(In French)I've been going to Larps as an amateur photographer for 9 years now. I go wherever the lore, the universe, interests me to take pictures. During this meeting I'm going to talk about how I prepare before the GN,...
