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There Is No Nordic Larp – And Yet We All Know What It Means

2016-04-25 1 Stefan Deutsch

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. “Nordic larp is like porn. I know it when I see it.”[1]Adaptation…

Techniques

Workshop Practice, in Practice – A Functional Workshop Structure Method

2016-04-20 0 Mo Holkar

The pre-game workshop tradition in Nordic larp is mostly oral, with little written material. People take part in workshops as players, then borrow and develop ideas from those experiences to construct workshops for their own larps. So I thought it…

Documentation

The Golden Cobra Challenge: Amateur-Friendly Pervasive Freeform Design

2015-05-20 2 Evan Torner Whitney "Strix" Beltrán Emily Care Boss Jason Morningstar

Once upon a time – actually, at GenCon 2014 in Indianapolis, USA – several of us discovered a design problem for live freeform games. For the last five years, the independent role-playing game scene here in North America has run…

Theory

The Blockbuster Formula – Brute Force Design in The Monitor Celestra and College of Wizardry

2015-05-06 4 Eirik Fatland Markus Montola

2013 and 2014 may be remembered as the conception of the Nordic blockbuster larp. Two ambitious larps – The Monitor Celestra in Sweden and College of Wizardry in Poland – succeeded in attracting an unprecedented level of international attention from…

Theory

The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together

2015-04-29 7 Markus Montola Jaakko Stenros Eleanor Saitta

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…

Theory

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…

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

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…

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…

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