Martine Svanevik

Martine Svanevik
Nationality	Norway
Years active	1999–present
Organization	Elysium Avalon larp studio

Martine Svanevik is a Norwegian larper, fiction writer, narrative and game designer. Her work has featured in both AAA games and indie productions. She's been playing and making larps since 1999. In 2018 she became the CEO of Avalon larp studio.

Editor of Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017) together with Linn Carin Andreassen, Simon Brind, Elin Nilsen, and Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand.

Games

Larpwright (designer/co-designer/writer)

• Drømmen om Diluvrien (2003)
• The collective –take the power back (2004)
• Konstantinopel (2006)
• Enhetsfront (United Front) (2005)
• War Council (2008)
• Diluvrien 2: Keiserens arv (2008)
• CoW5 Spinoff - To Hell and Back (2016)
• The Quota - Border Crossing (2017)
• The Quota (2018)
• Where Androids Die (2018) (character writer)
• Avalon (2018)
• Midwinter (2020) (creative director)
• The Last Song (2022) (Story lead & writer)
• Gothic (2023) (Writer & Designer)

Books

• Author The Witchard's Almanack (2018)
• Editor: The Peckforton Papers - Essays from four decades of UK larp (2018)
• Editor: Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017)
• Author The Witchard's Almanack (2017)

Articles on Larp

• Larp Hacking - in What Do We Do When We Play? (2020)
• I Feel Released – How Designing for Inclusivity Might Mean Including Oppression - article on Nordiclarp.org (2018)
• Playing Safe? - article in Re-shuffling the deck - The Knutpunkt 2018 printed companion (2018)
• Response to Charles B. Nielsen - article in Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017)
• Prebleed is totally a thing - article in Larp Realia - Analysis, Design, and Discussions of Nordic Larp (2016)
• Branching off – Small Scale Larps on a large Scale(2005)
• The Collective’s little red book, A step-by-step guide to arranging larps the collective way - article in Dissecting Larp (2005)