Author: Petter Karlsson
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Ship Ahoy! Mark your calendar for Solmukohta 2016!
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On Wednesday the 9th to Monday the 14th of March 2016 it’s once again time for the international roleplaying conference Solmukohta. The conference often known as Knutepunkt is this year in Finland and therefore goes by it’s Finnish name Solmukohta for 2016. This Solmukohta will be truly Baltic as the location is a Tallink Silja cruise…
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All the Mistakes I’ve Done Episode IV
A classic program item at Knutepunkt is the “All the mistakes I’ve done” session. At Knutpunkt 2014 we once more got larp designer and producers to tell some of their dark secrets. Sharing mistakes this round was Juhana Pettersson, Anna-Karin Linder, Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo & Hanne Grasmo. The session was hosted by Rasmus Høgdall. Once again…
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New Tastes in Brazilian Larp – From Dark Coca Cola to Caipirinha with Nordic Ice
What’s up in the Brazilian larp scene? In this session from Knutpunkt 2014, Wagner Luiz Schmit talks about how Nordic Larp has influenced parts of Brazilian larps. The video is unfortunately cut short in the end. Debate about the recent influence of the Nordic larp and transformations in larp community on Brazil, focusing in the…
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Larp Design: Theory and Practice
In this great talk at Knutpunkt 2014, larpwright Eirik Fatland give a very good breadown of larp design. Why do people do the stuff they do at larps, and how can you make them do other, more interesting, things? Characters! Relationships! Dramaturgy! A primer on what we think we know about larp design. The lecturer…
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Spatial Design – Experiences
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How can we create a spatial experience with which we design the player experience? Jonas Trier-Knudsen & Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo hosted this session at Knutpunkt 2014 where several organizer shared their best practices and experiences in short talks. The video is unfortunately cut short in the end. How do we change scenography from backdrop to active…
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Short Presentations of Larps and Projects for 2014 and 2015
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At Knutpunkt 2014, a bunch of larps, festivals and events was presented. It was hosted by Magnar Grønvik Müller The video is unfortunately cut short in the end. Short and sweet presentations of upcoming larps, larp festivals, larp conventions and other interesting events.
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Social Media in Larps
The presentation and panel about social media in larps was filmed at Knutepunkt 2014. It was hosted by Petter Karlsson & Rasmus Høgdall and the panel included Eleanor Saitta, Stefan Deutsch, Johanna Macdonald, Magnar Grønvik Müller & Eirik Fatland. Petter and Rasmus will walk the audience through the different social medias, talk about how they can…
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Knutpunkt 2014 – Summary
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The larp conference Knutpunkt 2014 is now over and in this post we will gather as much material as possible. This post has been updated with all the filmed presentations, many of the slides, blogposts etc. Last updated 2014-05-08 Blog posts The Event Lizzie Stark: A Few Cool Things I Saw at Knutpunkt 2014 Thomas B.: Knutpunkt…
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Voices from Knutpunkt
Voices from Knutpunkt is a crowd-sourced initiative to document and share the experience and the people at the Nordic larp conference Knutpunkt 2014. You are welcome to take part in the collaboration. If you want to discuss it, please join the facebook group. At Knutpunkt there will also be a program item in the beginning…
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State of Siege – A Palestinian-Finnish larp project
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Last August the larp Till Death Do us Part was organized as a cooperation between Norwegian and Palestian larp designers. It was the first bigger Palestian larp project and since then many projects has has happened in and in connection to the emerging Palestinian larp community.