adrianhon
Oh hey this is my project I'm making with Alex Macmillan!
HNers will likely enjoy his more technical explanation:
https://strandfall.com/2026/04/10/an-introduction-to-mfds/
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> wyrdcurt
"Strandfall is a sci-fi story set in a
post-apocalypse, with an emphasis on climate change,
co-operation, and adaptation."I'm in the early stages
of designing a world/game focused the same topics, in
part because I simply want more stories like this to
exist. I live an ocean and a continent away, so of
course I won't be participating, but I don't know if
I've ever subscribed to a newsletter so quickly. Looks
like an absolutely brilliant idea and I hope it's
successful!I'd be extremely interested in
participating if a version of this ever came to my
corner of the world. Even if it doesn't, just knowing
about it is inspiring and motivating :)
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> > adrianhon
Thank you! We will be documenting the larp a lot
more in the coming weeks, including videos and a
tech rundown, so sit tight :)
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> snowpid
Great idea! Unfortunately sign ups are closed so any
plans to repeat it?
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> ErroneousBosh
So, what is it actually scanning or monitoring?Or is
that something constructed within the game world?
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Triphibian
The whole paragraph that starts with, "Smartphones are
anti-enchantment devices" is gold. Love where you are
coming from with this.
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amarant
Today I learned the Nordic larp style is not the global
default. As a Swede who's only ever participated in 2
larps,I hadn't realised people do it differently
elsewhere!I really don't see how leveling and experience
points would work in a larp, but then I'm not exactly a
experienced larper!
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manincharge
McNair-Feldman Device sounds very futuristic. Props for
coming up with that name. I want to participate just to
find out what we could do with it.
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teucris
I love that there's an organization nurturing this kind of
experience in the UK - Immersive Arts[0]Are there any orgs
like this in the US?0: https://immersivearts.uk/
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> fragmede
That does immersive art? In the US, it's packaged up
as an experience that you can post to Instagram. Meow
Wolf would be the first that comes to mind, especially
for adults, but there's no shortage of escape rooms.
Don't forget the Star Wars experience at Disneyland.
Though closed now, the Star Wars hotel experience was
probably the best one on the planet.If you want less
corporate, there's Neotropolis,
https://www.neotropolis.com/which is a large scale
cyberpunk event held in California yearly. Don't
forget about Renfaire either.
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> > Arainach
> Though closed now, the Star Wars hotel
experience was probably the best one on the
planet.No. Nope. About the furthest thing from it.
Not even the best Disney has done.This video is 4
hours and somehow was engaging to me (who never
went to the Star Wars park) for its entire
duration: https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4Doing proper
immersive experiences where the participants are
involved is a ton of work, often without a ton of
replay value. This makes them tricky to attract
customers to and limits the potential for massive
returns, so they are overwhelmingly passion
projects.
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> > > BOOKHOUSEUK
This is something our Institute is trying to
solve. Albeit in a slightly different
way.https://bookhouse.uk
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> > > adrianhon
Here's an alternate take on the Star Wars
hotel from the person making
Strandfall!https://mssv.net/2023/08/07/star-wa
rs-galactic-starcruiser/tldr: I found it
fascinating and quite impressive. Definitely
flawed, but nowhere near as much as you would
think from the four hour video, which is based
on a visit from the start of its run.
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> CyberDildonics
The US doesn't even track diseases or fund vaccines,
they aren't going fund a string of fanfiction
buzzwords.
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eichin
Only vaguely related: is that tiny receipt printer at the
end of the article real or is it itself a mockup? (It
appears to be smaller than any of the ones I've come
across, and google image search was unhelpful.)
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> adrianhon
It's real! It's an Epson TM-P20II, designed for mobile
use - it even comes with a belt clip.
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> > paulhart
No wonder people don't believe it exists - it's
crazy expensive (super cool, and crazy expensive).
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readthenotes1
Worth the read If just to find this sentence"Smartphones
are anti-enchantment devices."Full disclosure: I am using
a smartphone right now.
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Havoc
>"McNair-Feldman Devices" (named after its fictional
inventors)Is it just me or are a disproportionate amount
of fictional technologies named after *man
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