From an article on Wired's GeekDad blog:
If you’re an adult who knows about the power and fun of larping (live-action role-playing), then you’ll want to pass that experience on to your kids. But perhaps there’s no organization offering larping for young people in your community. Guard Up! wants to change that.
Guard Up!, based in Burlington, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, is raising funds via a Kickstarter campaign to create a license for their youth program called "Wizards & Warriors." The licensing program would allow activity providers anywhere, such as recreation centers, martial arts schools, fencing clubs, after-school groups, gyms, and fitness centers with youth programs, to run weekly adventures and monthly events using their game system.
Guard Up! currently runs overnight and day camps using the system as Wizards & Warriors Summer Camp at several campgrounds in the Boston area, and they'd like to let others do the same.
From the Kickstarter:
We already have a good chunk of our start-up content... it just needs some final assembly and polishing. We also have the License agreement completed. We are testing an online repository system as we write this. And we are already play testing additional curriculum.
So your money will be for helping us shoot more How-to videos and developing additional written and visual content as well as helping us to upload all of this content into an online repository (which charges us a substantial annual fee). This will let us meet our January 2013 release deadline – which happens to be the best time of year for adventure enrollment.
The Kickstarter page has a nice list of the things licensees receive as part of the license. (Also, some of the Kickstarter reward levels include personal access to sword training videos, which might be useful if your boffer form, like mine, could most politely be described as "enthusiastic but not very effective".)
The project closes on Tuesday, October 30. As of this writing, they're about 60% of the way to full funding!
(Also, holy cow that's an awesome spot from NECN in the YouTube video up top. "From the battlefield to the boardroom," indeed. There's one news organization that Gets It. Props to them.)
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