Destination Wedding 2070
Destination Wedding 2070 is a netprov that attempts to make data about climate change more comprehensible. Netprov is networked, improvised storytelling in available media. Although climatologists have strong predictive models of the decades to come, they typically report it via graphs and charts. #DW70 goes beyond visualization by bringing the data to life through data dramatization as participants experience the effects…
Realitycraft
Realitycraft: An RPG Rulesmithing Game (2019) is an analog game that breaks down and explores the creation of diegetic code (Steele 2016a), applying the work of structuralist Gérard Genette to explore how intradiegetic objects (Steele 2018) are developed for codic Role Playing Games (RPGs). This piece highlights the way codic RPGs may offer a material intervention into the normalization of…
Sivad
Sivad is a Live Action Role Play (larp) game set in a solarpunk universe that playfully re-articulates concepts from physics and chemistry. It is a “code-based” campaign boffer larp with aggregate code- and content-generation, offering participants the opportunity to practice RPG rulesmithing, worldbuilding, and basic larpwrighting techniques while gaining fluency in the game’s codebase. This project…
Ugly Robot Studios
Ugly Robot Studios formed during the 2019-2020 academic year as UC Davis’ premiere larp studio with Steele serving as the project’s director. Based out of the ModLab, Ugly Robot Studios brings together larpwrights, performers, designers, and worldbuilders in the development and launch of larp productions that span a variety of larp styles, structures, and forms. URS takes…
What Happens in the Lab…
Larpwright: Samara Hayley Steele, MFA Download the Larpscript (Coming Soon) An American freeform larp in four acts about the interdynamics of an X-ray Nanochemstry Lab at UC Davis on the fateful day in 2037 when the laboratory and everyone inside of it vanished, never to be seen again. What happens in the lab…. (2019) is influenced by…
The Slingshot Collective
The Slingshot Collective has been making media in the utopian margins for over 30 years, producing a quarterly newspaper that elevates the voices of freegans, radical squatters, guerrilla gardeners, prisoners, sex workers, punk rockers, bossless workplace organizers, abuse victims, tree-sitters, rioters, and others who aim to co-create “the better” through a diversity of tactics that include…
Thermophiles in Love
“Welcome to Thermophiles in Love, the five-gender dating game for microorganisms! Learn your true thermophile gender and find your “special three someones” in a microscopic world where everyone longs to be come part of to the perfect quadrouple.” Thermophiles in Love, the Larp Thermophiles in Love (2016) is a multimedia collaboration between Samara Hayley Steele, Mark…
Land Action
The Activist Squatting Movement in the United States often traces its roots back to the European Autonomous Movements of the 1970s, when those seeking social change turned away from the overtly political tactics of ’68, and began to occupy abandoned buildings, creating “autonomous” spaces that attempted to operate outside of the logic of capitalism. This…
The Living Games Conference
Steele been an active part of the Living Games Conference since its inauguration in 2014 as a scholar and mediamaker. Her scholarly presentations have explored interactive narrative media in conjunction with gender, political economy, and critical code studies (CCS). Her paper The Reality Code: Interpreting Aggregate Larp Rules as Code that Runs on Humans was printed by the…
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