The General Problem of Indexicality in Larp Design
When things are done “for real” there is always some confusion on how real is real, as there are numerous different levels of simulation, representation, and performance.
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Jaakko Stenros: Retrospective: Documentation, Community, and Research
In the Knutepunkt scene there is a history of larp designers and producers giving retrospectives, where they discuss all of their work. In this talk, here presented in two parts, Dr Stenros takes that format and expands it to other…
Beauty in Larp
What makes a thing beautiful to do? In this text Jaakko Stenros and James Lórien MacDonald explore a general aesthetic theory for larp.
The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together
The rhetorics of Nordic larp often imply that role-players play in an intuitive fashion guided by the character, rarely or never contemplating their actions during the game. In reality, however, we are often keenly aware of what we are doing…