The LARP Journal
Essays on interactive fiction, worldbuilding, and AI storytelling
Long-form writing from the team behind LARP. New pieces every week.
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What makes a good interactive fiction story
From Choose Your Own Adventure paperbacks to modern AI chat partners, interactive fiction lives or dies on the same four rules. A working guide, with examples.
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The Backrooms, explained: how a single 4chan post became a mythology
The Backrooms started as one blurry photograph and eleven lines of text in 2019. Seven years later it is a shared fictional universe. Here is how it happened, and why the format worked.
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How to write a compelling RPG character backstory
A working writer's guide to building RPG character backstories that survive contact with a live table — with prompts, examples, and the three questions every backstory must answer.
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