One aspect of the hobby we have focused on has been primarily on designing tools for the LARP community to use to network, make improvements on some aspect of their costume, gamestyle, etc.

The best tool thus far has been LARPSpace, just in sheer networking potential. It will get even better as it grows.

The involvement of the Alliance with the movie Role Models is part timing, part luck, and hard work on the part of the LARPers in the film; most notably Adrianne for fighting hard to get the perks we got.

Saying that, I will echo what Mark said (and what I said before) - this is the best publicity LARP has ever gotten on a national level. This again is a tool, and unfortunately it has a time frame. The movie will come and go, it will recieve a new infusion of interest when it hits DVD, but in the end will fade as new movies and life goes on to the people that saw this film and found LARP interesting in some way.

This is the time to seize their interest, and somehow get them to be a part of the larger LARP community, even on a fringe level. It doesn't matter if you are running a MET or some other TS Style game; the comparisons can be drawn reasonably easily (although admittedly LAIRE is a battlegame). We are launching a full scale effort as the LARP Alliance to do just this; but this tool applies to all LARPers, people should grab it and run with it - as we did at our movie showing, as Mark did with his....as these folks did in San Diego...

http://www.sandiego6.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=458702
scroll down and click on "LARP in San Diego"

We worked hard on this. It would be a shame if you let this opportunity pass you by.

Rick McCoy
LARP Alliance

The movie has released TV spots the past few days. Today it is on the main page of MySpace.

IMDB has an Iron Liege credit and a LARP Alliance credit under the film.

Rick