Yearly Archives: 2015

Steering for Immersion in Five Nordic Larps – A New Understanding of Eläytyminen

2015-04-22 2 Mike Pohjola

The concept of character immersion has been a cornerstone of Nordic larp discussion for fifteen years. I was surprised by how much the concept of steering introduced last year brought to my understanding of character immersion (“eläytyminen”). In this essay…

Nordic Larp

Processing Political Larps – Framing Larp Experiences with Strong Agendas

2015-04-08 0 Kaisa Kangas

Thanks to it I turned my communist friend into a patriot. And I realized who I really am. This is how a respondent, according to Mochocki (2012), described the Polish tabletop role-playing game Dzikie Pola (“Wild Planes”) in an online…

Documentation

Nemefrego 2014 – Old School Fantasy with New Ideas

2015-04-03 0 Morten Kjærgaard Tellefsen Frederikke S. B. Høyer

Since 1995, the Danish non-profit organization Einherjerne has made one large fantasy larp in the summer with 100-300 participants. Every larp has built on the experiences of the earlier years, with core elements of the larp being a village surrounded…

Theory

Painting Larp – Using Art Terms for Clarity

2015-04-01 0 Jacob Nielsen

When I design scenarios, I try to use the terminology from the Nordic larp discourse. But many of thes styles “available” confuse me and my players instead of clarifying what the larps are actually about. One of the problems is…

Documentation

Morgenrøde – A Game at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

2015-03-27 0 Anders Ebbehøj Jonas Trier-Knudsen Klaus Meier-Olsen

Morgenrøde (Morning Red) was our take on the Danish hippie movement. Through three acts, 31 players portrayed the peak of the Danish hippie community and their endeavors to establish Denmark’s first grand commune: Morgenrøde – the utopia of their dreams.…

Documentation

On Publicity and Privacy – or: How Do You Do Your Documentation?

2015-03-25 0 James Lórien Macdonald

In 2014, I conducted a survey about attitudes towards photography and video in larp. I got nearly 500 responses from many different countries, and while I would love to publish the full results here, they’re a bit long for the…

Documentation

Moon – A Firefly Larp Not Exactly about Firefly

2015-03-20 0 Jindřich Mašek Martin Buchtík

How we created a Firefly larp, not exactly about Firefly One day the world became too small for all of us. Then we started to settle other planets. Terraformation begun. Things changed. Lot of us became adventures, seeking freedom and…

Theory

Now That We’ve Walked the Walk – Some New Additions to the Larp Vocabulary

2015-03-18 0 Bjørn Flindt Temte

Larp is traditionally participatory in nature. Fortunately, there’s been a great introspective and analytical tradition accompanying the continuing push against the ever moving boundaries of what’s possible and what’s been attempted. Yet it seems that our vocabulary has not grown…

Events

Nordic Larp Wiki Edit-a-thon

2015-03-16 0 Johannes Axner

It’s time for another edit-a-thon! Previous events made many qualitative new articles and changes in the Wiki. An edit-a-thon is an event where we gather and work very focused on putting in content into the Nordic Larp Wiki. Let’s make the…

Documentation

Mare Incognitum – Trapped in the Ice

2015-03-13 0 Olle Nyman Sebastian Utbult

The Fate of the M/S Lyckan Our story took place aboard the M/S Lyckan, a former German navy freighter with a horrific history of atrocities. A research expedition to Kirkenes in Norway had unearthed a strange statuette, which was brought…

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