Jaakko Stenros (b. 1976) is a game scholar working at Tampere University. He has published nine books and numerous articles, has co-create a few larps, and has curated exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Games.
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…