Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories

Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories is the official book published in conjunction with Knutepunkt 2017.

Described in the book as:

''Being a complex grimoire of received wisdom, forbidden wisdom, and questionable wisdom; techniques (both meta- and otherwise); lies, damn lies, and associated ephemera. It was written by an eclectic mix of wonderful people from across the globe and edited by Martine Svanevik, Linn Carin Andreassen, Simon Brind, Elin Nilsen, and Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand.''

Articles

 * Introduction by Martine Svanevik

Yesterday

 * Let’s Larp This!  by Grethe Strand, told by Hanne Grasmo
 * All Our Yesterdays  by Charlotte Ashby
 * A Tale of Knutepunkt Theorycrafting  by J. Tuomas Harviainen
 * Response to J. Tuomas Harviainen  by Karete Jacobsen Meland
 * Three Roads (of Translation) Not Taken by Tadeu Rodrigues Iuama
 * The Classical Roots of Larp by Mike Pohjola

Today

 * Hamlet, Vampires and the Italian Alps by Juhana Pettersson
 * Ludo-narrative Dissonance and Harmony in Larps by Hélène Henry
 * Pre-larp Communication by Alma Elofsson and Mimmi Lundkvist
 * Keeping Volunteers Alive by Agatha Świstak
 * The Workshop Pyramid by Maryia Karachun, Yauheni Karachun, Olga Rudak and Nastassia Sinitsyna
 * Beyond Play by Simo Järvelä and Karete Jacobsen Meland
 * Response to Simo Järvelä and Karete Jacobsen Meland by Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand
 * Reply to Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand by Karete Jacobsen Meland and Simo Järvelä
 * 'Sing in Me, Muse, and Through Me Tell the Story...' by Harry Harrold
 * Do You Want to Play Ball? by Josefin Westborg and Carl Nordblom
 * Designing for Emotions by Olga Vorobyeva
 * Playing the Stories of Others by Kaisa Kangas
 * History, Herstory and Theirstory: For Thought by Mo Holkar
 * Body Playground Framework by Blaz Branc
 * Playing in Love by Charles Bo Nielsen
 * Telling Character Stories by Monika Weißenfels
 * Making Heroes by John Shockley
 * Playing Around the Event by Charlotte Ashby
 * Response to Charlotte Ashby by Matt Pennington
 * Reply to Matt Pennington by Charlotte Ashby
 * The Absence of Disabled Bodies in Larp by Shoshana Kessock
 * Food for Thought: Narrative Through Food at Larps by Siri Sandquist and Rosalind Göthberg
 * YouTube and Larp by Mo Mo O’Brien
 * Character-based Design and Narrative Tools in the French Style Romanesque Larp by Muriel Algayres
 * Loyalty to Character by Charles Bo Nielsen
 * Response to Charles B. Nielsen by Martine Svanevik
 * Reply to Martine Svanevik by Charles Bo Nielsen
 * Moment-based Story Design by Ian Thomas
 * Curious Pastimes by Emmylou Laird
 * Will to Live by Rob Williams
 * Context, Context, Context by Jamie Harper
 * Larp Tourism by Claus Raasted
 * Tensions Between Transmedia Fandom and Live-Action Role-Play by Evan Torner
 * Meanwhile in the South by Andrea Giovannucci, translation by Wendy Columbo
 * Tell Us a Story by Ian Andrews
 * Response to Ian Andrews by Simon Brind
 * Reply to Simon Brind by Ian Andrews

Tomorrow

 * On Ripping Off and Selling Out by Eirik Fatland
 * Larp in the Year 2037 by Christopher Amherst
 * Thinking Outside the Black Box by Eva Wei & Rosalind Göthberg
 * Beyond Playing to Lose and Narrativism by Jeppe Bergmann Hamming & Maria Bergmann Hamming
 * An Invitation to Dance by Lorenzo Trenti
 * Art and Larp by Nina Runa Essendrop
 * Larp and I — Til Death Do Us Part by Hanne Grasmo

Downloads

 * Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (PDF)