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I would desperately love to do something like this. Either as a participant or as an organizer. Honestly, if anyone wants help in my local area (denmark) or remote help organizing web stuff or part design/3d sculpting for 3d printers id be happy to donate some time.

I had heard of similar things in the UK, fantasy stuff. and also Evermore park in the US which was like an even more ambitious theme-park sized one that had a continuous ongoing story.

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"Nordic Larp" and the Knutepunkt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knutepunkt) conference is close to you. I worked with a guy who organized an earlier battlestar galactica larp: https://petterkarlsson.se/2013/03/19/the-monitor-celestra-ba... and they do things like - rent a medieval castle and larp courtly drama, etc.

I'm in the US and they don't do this kind of thing often, but if you're interested by Odyssesus then nordic larp scene will totally be your jam, and honestly I'm jealous.

If there's anyone in Seattle doing this kind of thing, say something!

OP here! Denmark has a very strong larp scene with a lot of young people involved due to the popularity of larp for children and at schools. I’m not sure if there’s anything on the scale of Odysseus planned but the skills certainly exist.

You should look into the Artemis Spaceship Simulator: https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/ (also on Steam)

While not nearly as extensive as what's in the article, it's a first step achievable with a small group of friends.

Also the article mentions that the Larp mentioned here directly used an Open Source relative (competitor?) to Artemis named EmptyEpsilon: https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/

Artemis Tom is cool and deserves the revenue and has a lot of cool scenarios and stuff out of the box. EmptyEpsilon is when you start to need more customization, down to source level, and GM tools. (The article mentions a lot of what this Larp did was not heavily automated and somewhat directly in EmptyEpsilon's GM tools.)

Don't forget (my own) Space Nerds in Space: https://spacenerdsinspace.com (discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28343941)

you might check out Copenhagen Megagames[1] which is the other name I've seen for this type of stuff

[1] https://www.cphmegagames.dk/

> Evermore park in the US

Another great Jenny Nicholson review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9OhTB5eBqQ

Then start organizing something like this. :-)

My remote hope was that something like spontaneous organization could form here in the comments :P but honestly i'm aware this kind of thing requires years of putting yourself out there making smaller events, building up etc. But I've not really ever been in this world, it might be nice to know someone with a bit more experience to guide me, or hear about something already going before diving into organizing something myself

Looks like they are. Why don't you start responding to comments exhorting the person to do what they're already doing in the very comment you're responding to?

to be fair to them, my comment was a lot shorter when they responded, they were very fast aha

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