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Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences

Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences is a 2019 book about larp design. It was edited by Johanna Koljonen, Jaakko Stenros, Anne Serup Grove, Aina D. Skjønsfjell and Elin Nilsen. Two physical copies are available in the public library system of every Knutepunkt host-country.

Larp Design: Creating Role-play Experiences
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CountryDenmark
Published2019 (Knudepunkt 2019)
Pages428

In 2021 the book was revised and published in pdf-form on Library of Tampere University servers. New elements include: interactive index, interactive Table of Content and active links. Minor typos were addressed. This work was mostly carried out by Anne Serup Grove and Johanna Koljonen.

Contents

Part I. The Foundations of Larp Design

Part 2. Designing What Happens Before Runtime

2.1 The Pre-larp Process
2.2 On Site Before the Runtime

Part 3. Designing the Runtime

3.1 How to Make Larps Where Stories Happen
3.2 How to Design a Playable Fiction
3.3 How to Design Playable Characters
3.4 How to Design Mechanics and Rules
3.5 How to Design a Playable Environment
3.6 How to Runtime Gamemaster

Part 4. After Runtime

Part 5. How to Export Nordic Larp

Other

  • Glossary
  • Author Biographies
  • Index (Only in pdf-version)

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