The Weight of the Sky-LARP game

Weight of the Sky was created for ‘Echoes of the Innocents’, a LARP design competition addressing the topic of Gaza. The game provides a symbolic interpretation of the topic, so this is not a game about finding solutions or making agreements for the common good. We invite players to step on the shoes of people from both sides of the conflict and explore those feelings, while keeping in mind that to do that in this game, conflict cannot be avoided.

In this game the players portray two different teams, both having their unique identity, but not playing on the same terms. One of the teams, the In Rope (IR) team, inhabits a territory symbolized by a rope circle which gradually gets smaller and smaller. The shrinking of their territory is caused by the second team, team Out of Rope (OR), who want to get to the middle of the circle to claim something of great importance to their group identity. The game plays between times of peace and war, until the scene ends or one of the teams has all its members immobilized.

The game was created in collaboration with Anastasya Wish. Check out his work here: https://foxoffire.wixsite.com/stories-of-inferno