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Martine Svanevik

Martine Svanevik is a concept and content developer, game designer and writer. A founding member of Avalon larp studio, she is currently working for one of the largest publishing houses in Norway, and her work has featured in both AAA games and indie productions. She is published in both English and Norwegian.

Documentation

Remember That Time… We Tried to Film a Larp

2024-06-06 0 Sophia Seymour Martine Svanevik

In this article, Sophia Seymour and Martine Svanevik discuss their experiences of filming a larp for a documentary.

Solmukohta 2020

Larp Hacking

2021-02-02 0 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

Sometimes a larp does not work, either for us as individual players or for a number of participants. Sometimes in order to play the game, you need to change the rules.

Larps

I Feel Released – How Designing for Inclusivity Might Mean Including Oppression

2018-08-06 0 Martine Svanevik

Sometimes you learn from your failures. Rocky Horror Larp changed the way I approach designing gender, sexuality and oppression in larp.

Joker

Playing Safe?

2018-01-22 9 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

A number of high profile articles and discussions about safety in Nordic larp seem to imply that safety has become the primary concern for larp design. This article interrogates that implication by a series of interviews with larp designers, and…

Research

Pre-Bleed is Totally a Thing

2017-04-21 0 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

Pre-bleed is the experience of emotional bleed prior to ever playing the character in a larp setting. This paper considers pre-bleed before College of Wizardry 5.

Opinion

Response to Charles B. Nielsen

2017-02-21 0 Martine Svanevik

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Nordiclarp.org or any larp community at large. This text is a response to an earlier text by Charles Bo…