@goldencobra.bsky.social
A friendly annual games contest that explores the boundaries of freeform larp. Check out this year's contest and all past submissions here: https://goldencobra.org
Fight Truck isss Golden Cobra 2015
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This came in during an intense production week so I completely missed it, but my first little LARP got an honorable mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge! You can read it, and many other amazing short LARPS, on their website!
26.11.2025 01:47 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Congrats to all! Especially to 2025 MAS author Peter Hagmann on the win!
08.11.2025 02:23 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Check out all this cool art! I have so much reading material now to prepare me for next year!
08.11.2025 01:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hssssss
08.11.2025 01:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0WHAT? @goldencobra.bsky.social invented a special category...for me?! I'm FLOORED. Thank you!
08.11.2025 00:43 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Woo it was a joy to judge for the Golden Cobra Challenge this year!
(Also this might be the first time I’ve live presented a game award? I want to do this more often…)
super congratulations to @luckoftheharbor.com on her Honorable Mention!!!
08.11.2025 00:12 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Omfg I got an honorable mention!! I'm so freaking hyped!! I wrote Final Commencement 🎓
08.11.2025 00:14 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Thanksssssss to the judgesssssssss and congratssss to all the winnerssssss
08.11.2025 00:14 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I want to play this for my next book. And I’m scared to.
08.11.2025 00:18 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratssss to all the winnerss, and please participate in our shared month of #GoldenCobraPlay in January 2026!
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* Game We're Most Excited About
Together, We Are Infinite by Chelsea Riexinger
"Together, We Are Infinite is a celebration and reframing of a ... friendship absent from many adult lives, a life-affirming friendship that maybe we actually need. [It] may spark the embers of that sort of friendship."
* Game The Credit-Card Processors Would Flag For Possible Licentious Content
The Bonds of Fate by Aidan Dawn
"Bonds of Fate is not *exactly* pornographic, just y'know edging that way. Players must physically rope themselves together and then contend with unaddressed issues..."
* Game That Brings Community History Alive
These Walls Talk, Too by Gabe Sopocy
"We invented an award category for this game, since it invited so much intrigue and discussion. A charming all-around entry to a very specific community history by way of embodying walls that gossip."
* Game That Celebrates Play For Its Own Sake
Glory to the Dwarves! by Rob Prag
"Toasting and boasting turn out to be really fun! In Glory to the Dwarves, players take on the roles of dwarves from 3 clans who will naturally create a bustling atmosphere of a medieval fantasy tavern."
* Best Game That’s Easy to Pick Up and Play
Our Tiny Dragon's Tiny Hoard by Peter Hagmann
"We are going to drag this game under our couch and add it to the hoard of larps we want to play. This game is cozy, evocative, whimsical, and a little heartbreaking..."
* Game That Best Incorporates Connection and Community
A Farewell to Kinfolk by Alexander Trott
"The depth of communal worldbuilding and rich emotional potential make the star of this game not the intrepid Youth with an important calling, but the community of Kinfolk that supports them."
Honorable Mentions
Final Commencement by Francine Wildt
Gods of Nothings by Shing Yin Khor
LOOP GAIN by Lin Codega
Our Queenblessed Bodies by Natalie Pudim
Paranormal Parasocial by Hazel Anneke Dixon
WE WILL NOT SPEAK OF THIS by Allison Rassmann
Find them here: www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
Ssssssss -- The 2025 Golden Cobra Challenge winners announced at Metatopia:
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IF YOU ARE THERE AND LIVE THEN QUIT LOOKING AT YOUR PHONE BECAUSSE THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THE THREAD
08.11.2025 00:10 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There are live physsical people at Metatopia presenting the awardsss thiss year.
08.11.2025 00:10 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0sssssss tesssting tesssting sssss *mic tap*
07.11.2025 22:40 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Today the @goldencobra.bsky.social awards(ssss) are announced! While I cannot make it, you can find my entry along with all those other cool games at www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
07.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Tomorrow, JOIN USSS at Metatopia, 7 pm, to hear the Golden Cobra Awardssss announced.
OR:
Ssubscribe here and we'll fill you in.
Either way: PLAY THESE GAMESS!
No need to wait for the awards to get playing! There's a "vibe edition" of Shawn Roske's Roots Underground inspired by local MN game Still Life. Plus a fresh game from past MAS contributor Alyse Leung.
01.11.2025 14:04 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0You can read ALL the ssssubmissionss now. Awardss announced THISS Friday at Metatopia!
www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
The @goldencobra.bsky.social 2025 entries are up, including my game "a person is just meat"
Go check them out!
www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
I’m enjoying reading these unhinged games.
Even the ones I’m not considering for awards are weird and wonderful.
Keep making experimental art everyone. The world needs it.
Send us your larps!!
11.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
