'''Kjell Hedgard Hugaas''' is a northern Norwegian larp designer, organizer, writer, and trained actor. He has been active within Nordic larp communities for about two decades and contributes to the ongoing discussions on larp theory on a regular basis, his particular field of interest being the transformative effects of larp. As such, he is one of the authors of the Butterfly Effect Manifesto.
He writes and designs on a freelance basis for a number of different larp studios and creators and creates chamber larps on his own. His design work tends to be quite political and often addresses societal issues. He theorized the ways in which ideas impact larpers through the process of memetic bleed and how the physicality of larping impact larpers through the process of procedural bleed. In addition he is the originator of the concept of bleed components and complexes, as well as the bleed complex identity bleed and the concept of the bleed perception threshold.
He has also done safety consultant work for an number of different studios and organizations.
He holds two MAs in Game Design, and in his daily life he works as a Project Manager at Region Gotlandand a Project Assistant at Uppsala University. In addition he works with local, regional and national trade unions, and is a part-time legal consultant.
==Games=====Writer/Co-Designer=== *[[The Forbidden History]] (2018 & 2020)*[[Tale of The North Wind]] (2019)*[[1912]] (2019)*[[Beyond the Neural Horizon]] (2019)*[[Vætter i Natten]] (2019)*[[Sahara Expedition]] (2020)*[[If I Could See Your Face Again]] (2021)*[[Agents of Empowerment]] (2021-2023)*[[Conflict Transformation Academy]] (2021-23)*[[The Last Song]] (2022)*[[97 Poets of Revachol]] (2024) ===Larpwright=== *[[Norwegian Prine]] (2018)*[[Hello In There]] (2019)*[[0.[ZERO] K]] (2021)*[[Summers End]] (2022)*[[Take The Star Out Of The Window]] (2022) ===Voice Acting / Other=== *[[Demeter]] (2017)*[[Requiem: Reichskinder]] (2019)*[[Re:Boot]] (2021)*[[If I Could See Your Face Again]] (2021)*[[SoulShift]] (2022) ==Articles on Larp==
*[https://nordiclarp.org/2019/01/25/investigating-types-of-bleed-in-larp-emotional-procedural-and-memetic// Investigating types of bleed in larp - emotional, procedural and memetic] by [[Kjell Hedgard Hugaas]]
*Memetic Bleed - A tool for Societal and Political change - KP 2019
*A Trinity of Consciousness - KP 2018
*To Bleed or Not to Bleed - KP 2017 ==Games=====Writer/Co-Designer=== *[[The Forbidden History]] (2018 & 2020)*[[Tale of The North Wind]] (2019)*[[1912]] (2019)*[[Beyond the Neural Horizon]] (2019)*[[Vætter i Natten]] (2019)*[[Sahara Expedition]] (2020)*[[If I Could See Your Face Again]] (2021)*[[Agents of Empowerment]] (2021-2023)*[[Conflict Transformation Academy]] (2021-24)*[[The Last Song]] (2022)*[[97 Poets of Revachol]] (2024) ===Larpwright=== *[[Norwegian Prine]] (2018)*[[Hello In There]] (2019)*[[0.[ZERO] K]] (2021)*[[Summers End]] (2022)*[[Take The Star Out Of The Window]] (2022) ===Voice Acting / Other=== *[[Demeter]] (2017)*[[Requiem: Reichskinder]] (2019)*[[Re:Boot]] (2021)*[[If I Could See Your Face Again]] (2021)*[[SoulShift]] (2022)
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