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Our Friends in the LARP World
Here are a few groups we've worked with in the past. (Note to the easily offended: just because you're not in this list, doesn't mean you're not our friend. Send me an email and ye shall be added.)
Foam Brain Productions
Foam Brain Productions is a LARP group based primarily out of RPI in Troy, New York. They largely run LARPs written by other groups, and they do a really good, careful and professional job of it. Foam Brain has a well-deserved reputation for high-quality productions and skilled GMing.
Foam Brain has run several AE games, including Snaf University and the 10 Bad LARPs series.
You can visit Foam Brain on the web at http://www.foambrain.com.
Immortal Sociopaths
The Immortal Sociopaths are a LARP troupe based in Somerville, Massachusetts. According to their mission statement, "the mission of the Immortal Sociopaths is to perpetrate simulations of realities and unrealities, blurring the line between reality and fantasy, comprehensibility and incomprehensibility, and life and death." We think that's basically just a fancy way of saying that they run really cool LARPs. :)
Immortal Sociopaths, aside from being friends of ours, is currently working on a 10 Bad LARPs spin-off: 10 Bad Utena LARPs in 120 Bad Minutes.
You can visit the Immortal Sociopaths on the web at http://www.immortalsociopaths.org.
Etherlines Productions
Etherlines Productions runs, first and foremost, Etherlines: The Morning After, which is probably the world's longest-running theatre style LARP. TMA, as it's often called, is a weekend-long amnesia game set on a starship. It's been run over 20 times at various college campuses in the northeastern United States, and many people in this part of the country got their start in LARPing by playing it. In addition to TMA, Etherlines has written and run a slew of other games, including Focus, TBA, and Naptime.
Quite a few of the Alleged Entertainment staffers are also members of Etherlines Productions, including Chad Bergeron, Josh Rachlin, and Sami Genstein.
Unfortunately, you can't visit Etherlines Productions on the web, as they have no official site. Until they do, here's an article from LARPAWiki about TMA.
Gordon's Gang
"Gordon's Gang" isn't the official name of any LARP group, but it seems that Gordon Olmstead-Dean's LARP crew doesn't have an official name at the moment, so that's what I'm going to call them. Amongst other things, Gordon's Gang has been involved in running several highly-successful LARP campaigns such as 1936: Horror and 1945: Signals, and is currently involved with Threads of Damocles.
Gordon and Eric Johnson are planning to run their take on the 10 Bad LARPs format, 10 Bad Modules in 100 Bad Minutes, at Intercon H.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I couldn't find an official web site for Gordon's Gang - however, you can visit http://www.threadsofdamocles.org/ to learn about Threads of Damocles.
Interactivities Ink
Interactivities Ink is run by Mike Young, one of the biggest names in theatre-style LARP. Mike has written and run many fabulous games, some of which are available for free on his web site.
Interactivities Ink is licensed to run (at some forseeable future point) a game called 10 Bad LARPs in 1 Bad Convention, and that's all we're going to say about that for now.
You can visit Interactivities Ink on the web at http://www.interactivitiesink.com.
Conventions We've Been To
Intercon
Intercon is a brand name licensed by the Live Action Roleplayers Association to several LARP conventions in different parts of the country. AE games have been run at both of the current Intercons: Intercon New England, run by New England Interactive Literature; and Intercon Mid-Atlantic, run by Intercon of the Baltimore-Washington Area. Additionally, we've run games at the now-defunct Intercon Northeast, run by Double Exposure; and we perpetrated an unannounced guerrilla run of IMPRESSMENT! at the also-defunct Intercon Gazebo, run by Wild Gazebo Productions.
Additionally, many of the AE staffers are involved in helping run Intercon New England.
Festival of the LARPs
Festival of the LARPs is an annual mini-convention based at Brandeis University. It's run by the BSCF LARP Conspiracy, which was founded by Nat Budin, who also was a co-founder of Alleged Entertainment. Naturally, Alleged Entertainment has had a large presence at Festival of the LARPs.
CarnageCon
CarnageCon is a Vermont-based regional convention run by Carnage Gaming. Alleged Entertainment will be running several games at CarnageCon 10, including The Trial, PRAWN, and a to-be-announced 10 Bad LARPs event.
You can visit CarnageCon on the web at http://www.carnagecon.com.
