Here you'll find definitions and explanations of Interactive Drama, Freeform Role Play, Murder Mystery Whodunits, and Live Action Role Playing Games. If you would like to add your own information here (either as a local file or as a link), feel free to email me at phillips@nccu.edu.tw and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
- Interactive Drama: Deconstructing Theatre - This is my own piece for Theatre Central's journal.
- The Great Pretenders - Excellent Washington Post article written by Tamara Jones (14 July 1996). I've HTMLized some of the information and put a couple links in. I've also appended some net-comments by the ILF folks.
- Murder Mystery Party Frequently Asked Questions - A close cousin to Live Role Playing, Murder Mystery Parties are another form of interactive drama. This well written file will get you started with some very solid and good advice. This is another must read.
- Triangle Theory of Interactive Drama: Simulation vs Drama vs Gaming (Crosspollination) - Chris Thornett discusses alternative perspectives and approaches related to interactive drama playing styles.
- Freeform Interactive Drama Traits: The Freeform/Players Thread - This is a compilation of a series of posts made to the aus.games.roleplay newsgroup on traits of good and bad interactive drama scenarios.
- New Directions in Australian Roleplaying: Style, Innovation, and Responsibility in Convention Roleplaying (Part One: Examples, History, and Definitions) - The first in an excellent series of papers by John Patrick Hughes. A very good resource.
- New Directions in Australian Roleplaying: Style, Innovation, and Responsibility in Convention Roleplaying (Part Two: Design and Presentation) - The series of studies by John Patrick Hughes continues.
- New Directions in Australian Roleplaying: Style, Innovation, and Responsibility in Convention Roleplaying (Part Three: Sensationalism and Responsibility) - Another paper from John Patrick Hughes.
- An Australian Convention Roleplaying Glossary - Compiled by Andrew Chapman, John Hughes, Philippa Hughes, Robert MacLean, and Cathy Simpson. A good resource for Australians and non-Australians alike.
- The Nordic LARP Conference Papers. These are very worthwhile collections that anyone interested in serious discussion or exploration of interactive drama should have.
- Knutepunkt: The Book, Norway, 2001 (not online)
- As Larp Grows Up, Denmark, 2003
- Beyond Role and Play, Finland, 2004
- Dissecting LARP, Proceedings to Knutepunkt, Nordic Conference on LARP, Norway, 2oo5
