Live Game Labs
Live Game Labs
Gaming since 1988...
- Location
- Greater Los Angeles Area, USA
- Genre
- any, generally Theatre-style
- Established
- December 2009
- Chapters
- 1
- Credits
- The LGL Scientists
- Website
- LGL Homepage
Live Game Labs is a larp collective in the USA. It is part of the California larp community.
LGL consists of approximately twenty larp authors and runs primarily one-shot theatre-style larps in the greater Los Angeles area, as well as the ongoing Starship Valkyrie campaign. LGL attempts to present a diverse range of genres, including historical, science fiction, horror, fantasy, westerns, crossover genres, adaptations of known shows, movies, comics, as well as experimental larps such as STEEDS
Many of the founding members of the LGL have strong historical associations with Enigma, the UCLA speculative fiction and gaming club. A handful of Enigma larp designers founded LGL in 2009 with the name "Enigma Live Game Labs", but dropped the "Enigma" moniker a year later. Over the past few years, more designers have joined the organization, and the connection to Enigma has diluted. The LGL had had a strong presence at Wyrdcon in its early years.
LARPS run
- Starship Valkyrie (Ongoing)
- Limbo! Designed by Kirsten Hageleit, produced by Aaron Vanek. Run at Intercon J. March 13, 2010.
- Monsieur Beauregard’s Hollywood Speakeasy. Run at WyrdCon, 2010.
- Casino Arcana, designed by Mike Tice. Run at Wyrd Con. June 11, 2010.
- Rock Band Murder Mystery, designed by Aaron Vanek & Morgan Joeck. Run at Wyrd Con. June 12, 2010.
- Starship Valkyrie, designed by Christian Brown & Roselle Hurley. Run at Wyrd Con. June 12, 2010.
- Snow White, run by Rizwan Kassim, written by Shifting Forest Storyworks. Run at Wyrd Con. June 12, 2010.
- The Road Not Taken (Vanek version), run by Aaron Vanek, based on a game by Mike Young. Run at Wyrd Con. June 12, 2010.
- Trail of the Necronomicon, designed by Andy Ashcraft & Aaron Vanek. Run at the West Hollywood Book Fair. September 26, 2010.
- Rock Band Murder Mystery, designed by Aaron Vanek & Morgan Joeck. Run at Intercon K. March 5, 2011.
- Steeds, designed by Aaron Vanek. Run at Two Wyrd. June 10, 2011.
- The Mirror Room, run by Morgan Joeck, written by Shifting Forest Storyworks. Run at Two Wyrd. June 10, 2011.
- Gatsby & the Great Race, produced by Aaron Vanek, written by Paul Fricker. Run at Two Wyrd. June 11, 2011.
- Starship Valkyrie, designed by Christian Brown & Roselle Hurley. Run at Two Wyrd. June 11, 2011.
- Limbo! Designed by Kirsten Hageleit, produced by Aaron Vanek. Run at Two Wyrd. June 11, 2011.
- ChronoAgents Reloaded, designed by Aaron Vanek. August 27, 2011.
- The Magnificent Market of Marvelous Curious and Miraculous Contraptions, designed by LGL et al. Run at Her Royal Majesty’s Steampunk Symposium. January 13-16, 2012.
- 24 Hour Live Game Lab, organized by Aaron Vanek & Alejandro Komai. January 28-29, 2012.
- The Game of Sunken Places, designed by Kirsten Hageleit. February 24-25, 2012.
- Starship Valkyrie: Shakedown, designed by Christian Brown & Roselle Hurley. Run at Tri Wyrd, June 22, 2012.
- The Game of Sunken Places, designed by Kirsten Hageleit. Run at Tri Wyrd, June 22, 2012.
- Starship Valkyrie: Harm’s Way, designed by Christian Brown & Roselle Hurley. Run at Tri Wyrd, June 23, 2012.
- Death in Valhalla, designed by Mike Tice. Run at Tri Wyrd, June 23, 2012.