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Living Games Conference Crowdfunding

2014-02-01 0 Johannes Axner

The first ever academic larp conference in the US has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help finance the event. It lets people who can’t attend but want to support them do so. Read more and contribute at the campaign website:…

Events

Living Games Conference 2014

2013-12-08 0 Johannes Axner

The Living Games Conference is the first academic conference on larp in the US. The program and academic committees is a veritable who’s who of Nordic and US larp academia. It looks to be a very qualitative and interesting conference.…

Documentation

The Larp Factory Book Pre-Order

2013-09-21 0 Johannes Axner

You can now pre-order The larp Factory Book through their IndieGoGo campaign. This is how they present the project themselves: The Larpfactory Book Project will be a collection of 23 Norwegian ready-to-play larpscripts, written in English, and a website containing…

Documentation

Nordic Style Battlestar Galactica Larp in the US

2013-07-11 0 Johannes Axner

American larpwrite Shoshana Kessock has written a report from a Battlestar Galactica larp she took part in writing and organizing at a recent convention. Here is a small excerpt from the text: Tales of the Rising Star was an ambitious…

Documentation

Seekers Unlimited

2013-06-13 0 Johannes Axner

Seekers Unlimited is an nonprofit organization that produces educational larps. It’s run by Aaron Vanek who’s active in the nordic larp scene. They have just released a video showcasing some of their work:

Media

The Verge Covering The Monitor Celestra

2013-06-03 0 Johannes Axner

American tech site The Verge has written av The Monitor Celestra, a large scale Nordic style larp played in Sweden this spring. Check it out! http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4391736/real-life-battlestar-galactica-larp-could-be-coming-to-america

Organizations

New Larp Non-profit Started in Seattle

2013-05-02 0 Johannes Axner

Larp Lab is a new Seattle (US) based non-profit. A representative of the group had this to say about it: I just needed to share this good news: After a year and a half of research, meetings, and filling out…

Documentation

Knutepunkt 2013 Report by Shoshana Kessock, Part 1

2013-04-30 0 Johannes Axner

American larper and game designer Shoshana Kessock has written a report about her time at Knutepunkt 2013: http://shoshanakessock.com/2013/04/29/larping-like-its-cold-knutepunkt-2013-part-1/ Read more about Knutepunkt in the Nordic Larp Wiki: http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Knutepunkt Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum: http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

Documentation

Knutepunkt 2013 Report by Lizzie Stark

2013-04-30 0 Johannes Axner

American larper and author Lizzie Stark has written a report about her experience at Knutepunkt 2013: http://lizziestark.com/2013/04/30/my-knutepunkt-2013/ Read more about Knutepunkt in the Nordic Larp Wiki: http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Knutepunkt Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum: http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

Documentation

A Week in Norway Recap by Lizzie Stark

2013-04-26 0 Johannes Axner

American writer and larper Lizzie Stark went to Europe to participate in Fastaval in Denmark and Knutepunkt in Norway. Now you can read her thoughts on the Knutepunkt pre-event A Week in Norway on her blog: http://lizziestark.com/2013/04/26/a-week-in-norway-recap/ You can read…

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