Playground Worlds
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| Country | Finland |
| Published | 2008 |
| ISBN | <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css" />978-952-92-3579-7 (ISBND <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css" />ISBN 978-952-92-3580-3) |
Playground Worlds: Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-Playing Games is the sixth annually published Knutebook. Published in conjunction with the Solmukohta 2008 conference, it was edited by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola. The book contains 25 articles and an introduction. The book was published by Ropecon. It is available as a free pdf on the web.
Contents
Markus Montola & Jaakko Stenros: Introduction
Section A: Journalism & Community
Malik Hyltoft: The Role-Players’ School: Østerskov Efterskole
Jussi Ahlroth: Leave the Cat in the Box: Some Remarks on the Possibilities of Role-Playing Game Criticism
Johanna Koljonen: The Dragon Was the Least of It: Dragonbane and Larp as Ephemera and Ruin
Anna Westerling: Producing A Nice Evening
Kåre Murmann Kjær: Design for Work Minimization
Nathan Hook: The Children of Treasure Trap: History and Trends of British Live Action Role-Play
Section B: Art & Design
Justin Parsler: Frail Realities: Design Process
Andie Nordgren: High Resolution Larping: Enabling Subtlety at Totem and Beyond
Bjarke Pedersen & Lars Munck: Walking the White Road: A Trip into the Hobo Dream
Katri Lassila: Adventurous Romanticism: Enabling a Strong Adventurous Element in Larp
Matthijs Holter: Exhuming Agabadan
Tobias Wrigstad: The Nuts and Bolts of Jeepform
Anders Hultman, Anna Westerling and Tobias Wrigstad: Behind the Façade of A Nice Evening with the Family
Jonas Trier-Knudsen: Stupid Stories:Using Narrativism in Designing Agerbørn
Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo: Levelling the Playing Field and Designing Interaction
Juhana Pettersson: The Age of Indulgence
John H. Kim: Parlor Larps: A Study in Design
Section C: Research & Theory
Heidi Hopeametsä: 24 Hours in a Bomb Shelter: Player, Character and Immersion in Ground Zero
Erling Rognli: We Are the Great Pretenders: Larp is Adult Pretend Play
Andreas Lieberoth: Are You the Daddy? Comparing Fantasy Play in Children and Adults through Vivian Gussin Paley’s A Child’s Work
J. Tuomas Harviainen: Kaprow’s Scions
Emily Care Boss: Key Concepts in Forge Theory
Marie Denward & Annika Waern: Broadcast Culture Meets Role-Playing Culture
Gabriel Widing: We Lost Our World and Made New Ones: Live Role-Playing in Modern Times
Lars Konzack & Ian Dall: Fantasy and Medievalism in Role-Playing Games
Downloads
- Playground Worlds (PDF)
