Monthly Archives: April 2015

The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together

2015-04-29 7 Markus Montola Jaakko Stenros Eleanor Saitta

The rhetorics of Nordic larp often imply that role-players play in an intuitive fashion guided by the character, rarely or never contemplating their actions during the game. In reality, however, we are often keenly aware of what we are doing…

Documentation

Murder in Helsinki

2015-04-27 0 Juhana Pettersson

Tonnin stiflat is a Finnish larp campaign played in Helsinki in 2014. Consisting of three games, it was organized by the veteran city game designers Niina Niskanen and Simo Järvelä. The setting is Helsinki in the year 1927, and the…

Documentation

Saint Summer – A 60’s Tale of Music and Hope

2015-04-24 1 Olga Shovman Mark Shovman

Genre: Rock opera Theme: Utopia and its Fall Setting: Rock’n’Roll festival in the late 1960’s, US Sources: Aldous Huxley ‘The Island’, Jesus Christ Superstar, Platoon, Hair. The Messiah has been gone for two millennia. The times of rock star messiahs…

Theory

Steering for Immersion in Five Nordic Larps – A New Understanding of Eläytyminen

2015-04-22 2 Mike Pohjola

The concept of character immersion has been a cornerstone of Nordic larp discussion for fifteen years. I was surprised by how much the concept of steering introduced last year brought to my understanding of character immersion (“eläytyminen”). In this essay…

Nordic Larp

Processing Political Larps – Framing Larp Experiences with Strong Agendas

2015-04-08 0 Kaisa Kangas

Thanks to it I turned my communist friend into a patriot. And I realized who I really am. This is how a respondent, according to Mochocki (2012), described the Polish tabletop role-playing game Dzikie Pola (“Wild Planes”) in an online…

Documentation

Nemefrego 2014 – Old School Fantasy with New Ideas

2015-04-03 0 Morten Kjærgaard Tellefsen Frederikke S. B. Høyer

Since 1995, the Danish non-profit organization Einherjerne has made one large fantasy larp in the summer with 100-300 participants. Every larp has built on the experiences of the earlier years, with core elements of the larp being a village surrounded…

Theory

Painting Larp – Using Art Terms for Clarity

2015-04-01 0 Jacob Nielsen

When I design scenarios, I try to use the terminology from the Nordic larp discourse. But many of thes styles “available” confuse me and my players instead of clarifying what the larps are actually about. One of the problems is…

The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together

Murder in Helsinki

Saint Summer – A 60’s Tale of Music and Hope

Steering for Immersion in Five Nordic Larps – A New Understanding of Eläytyminen

Processing Political Larps – Framing Larp Experiences with Strong Agendas

Nemefrego 2014 – Old School Fantasy with New Ideas

Painting Larp – Using Art Terms for Clarity

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