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Review – Snobby Robot

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Erik Urtz of The Snobby Robot selected LARPs to be this week’s #WebSeriesWednesday feature. He watched the entire first season while interviewing us live on Twitter, then published a review which you can read here. To see the entire Twitter interview just follow @SnobbyRobot!

“The show, written by long time LARPer Jon Verrall, is excellent no matter what angle I try and look at it from. As an outsider to the LARPing community I found the show insightful, hilarious and deeply honest.”

“…one of the best scripts I’ve come across this year.”

“…laugh out loud funny.” 

“LARPs gets as good of a recommendation as I’ll give a show…”

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Some WebFest Photos. Also: Snobby Robot!

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For anyone reading this with free time in the afternoon we’ll be featured today on Snobby Robot’s “Web Series Wednesday”! Erik will be watching the show and interviewing us live on Twitter. 12pm PT (3pm for us EST-ers). Follow @SnobbyRobot and use hashtag #WebSeriesWednesday to join in on the fun!

What a WebFest!

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Well, we’re back! The TO WebFest was this past weekend and a bunch of us drove down to Toronto to check it out. We boozed, we schmoozed, we met some amazing people and saw some great web series! We didn’t win any awards, but the experience more than made up for that. Many thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fun and informative weekend. I couldn’t have asked for a better first webfest for LARPs to be a part of!

Want to see what we got up to while down there? Check out this handy Vine compilation. Then follow us on Vine because, well, why not?

Photos to come!

Review- Fanboy Comics

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Jodi Scaife of Fanboy Comics wrote a great review on LARPs that just came out yesterday. Check it out here.

“Overall, I loved the costumes, the beautiful settings, the incredibly informative, and apt episode titles, and how the short storylines both made me laugh and feel emotional pain over the course of my hour or so viewing. I’ve never LARPed, and I still found the show cute and quirky, so I think that most anyone with a geeky hobby can relate.”

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Music

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For me, LARPs: The Series really came together when we added the music. The incredibly talented musicians and artists we had working with us helped create the perfect tone for the show. I love it when people specifically bring up the soundtrack in the YouTube comments. These guys deserve the recognition.

First up, the title song was performed by a Montreal-based band called Sweet Mother Logic.  We used a portion of their song “Days Into Night” and also “Fractal Hands”, but check out their other stuff too!

Graviton Flux was a big find for us. This talented artist is also based out of Montreal and specializes in chiptunes. This helped achieve the videogame feel that Julian was looking for. The following songs were arranged by Graviton Flux: 

“Continuum”- Remember that great music at the end of episode 10? 

“Quantum Manifold”- And who could forget the fantastic ending to episode 8?

Also used were “Singularity” and “Anomalous Resonance”.

Finally, we had several jazz pieces performed by the Kennedy/McLeod Quartet for episode 7: “Murphy’s Law”, “The Perfect Draw” and “Four Hour Lunch”. Donny Kennedy, of the group, was also our composer for all of season 1. Amazing!!!

WebVee Guide Review

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Well, this made my day.

WebVee Guide, a fantastic website devoted to web series news and reviews, has published a review of LARPs. And it’s pretty stellar:

“…one of the smoothest, best-acted and most entertaining series I’ve reviewed…”

“A good book or show needs more than detail, it needs characters. It needs drama. It needs dialogue. Luckily for us, LARPs has all three.”

“The cast is quite small, but each party member is developed enough to feel real and well-rounded…one heck of an ensemble performance.”

“The production values are quite high.”

Many many thanks to Kyle Price-Livingston for writing about us. To read the full article click on the WebVee Guide image below, and read other reviews while you’re at it! They’re doing a wonderful thing for web series creators across the globe.

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