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This years Nordic Larp Talks are out! You can watch them all in the embedded playlist below, or go over to Nordic Larp Talks to get some more context and background.
As a bonus, we can also present Nordic Larp Talks Oslo 2017! They are all in the embedded playlist below, and can also be found on the Nordic Larp Talks website.
Enjoy these and keep an eye out for our own video documentation from Knutpunkt 2018.
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The third Living Games Conference will take place May 17-20, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Inspired by the Nordic Knutpunkt tradition, the conference focuses on the academic and practical aspects of larp, including scholarship, design, and play. This year, the conference theme is Our Full Potential. The conference plans to feature A Week in Boston, with events and activities leading up to the conference, including an edu-larp conference at Northeastern University.
For more information, visit the Living Games website here.
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Knutpunkt 2018 goes online!
The companion publication for the Knutpunkt 2018 international larp conference wants your contribution! We are now accepting submissions for all kinds of digital content. In this announcement you can find details on what kinds of content we are looking for, what the themes are for the 2018 companion, and how to learn more about contributing to the Companion publication.
The Companion will first and foremost be a digital publication, including all kinds of media. We have no limits on what kind of content we accept, as long as it’s technically possible to be published online. A text, a video, a podcast, a computer game, a piece of music…? Send us your suggestions! We cannot promise to publish all submitted content, but we will consider everything.
Content will be published on Nordiclarp.org, on a weekly basis over the months leading up to Knutpunkt 2018. The idea is to let the community digest and discuss the companion content even before Knutpunkt. We hope this can inspire the conference participants, as well as create interesting conversations and exchanges in other spaces before, during and after the conference.
There will also be a print on demand book available with a selection of articles. We aim to have this ready so that it can be ordered around the time that content is beginning to come out online. Only magazine style texts will be considered for the printed book, you can read more about this format further down.
The theme of the Knutpunkt 2018 conference is “Shuffling the Deck”. We have chosen to interpret that as highlighting the diverse nature of larp, wanting to showcase a multitude of themes in a variety of formats. We especially want to lift the scenes that have been less visible in previous Knutpunkt publications.
The publication will have five main themes, roughly mirroring the five tracks of the conference. We encourage you to use them as starting points for your contributions and be as creative as possible!
Larp analysis, discussion and reflection.
Larp design tools, tips and tricks.
The practicalities of organizing larp.
Participant stories and designers’ post-mortems.
Discussion and reflections on issues within and opportunities for the (Nordic) larp community.
To contribute to the publication, please read the full Call for Content on the Knutpunkt 2018 website.
The Companion is a collaboration between the editorial staff of Nordiclarp.org and the Knutpunkt 2018 organizers.
Johannes Axner is the founder and Editor in Chief of Nordiclarp.org, an online magazine and knowledge portal about larp.
Annika Waern is a professor in the field of Human–computer interaction at the department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is an established and seasoned researcher and author on the topic of games in general and larp specifically.
Besides the main editors, the talented editors of Nordiclarp.org will help edit the content.
Any questions, ideas or feedback can be sent by email to:
You can read more about the Knutpunkt 2018 conference and the Companion publication on the Knutpunkt 2018 website:
https://knutpunkt.se/
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The Norwegian edition of the Nordic larp conference Knutepunkt, Knutepunkt 2017, is now over. This post will be continuously updated with links to articles, reports, photo albums, videos, slides, books and other relevant documentation.
If you have any content you want published but lack a place to host it we will gladly host it here at Nordiclarp.org, please contact us on: contribute@nordiclarp.org
Last update: 2017-03-13, 23:15 CET
While not specifically written for Knutepunkt 2017, Elin Nilsen’s guide to handling the post Knutepunkt blues is quite relevant for participants:
The official journal for Knutepunkt 2017 is called Once Upon a Nordic Larp… Twenty Years of Playing Stories and was edited by Martine Svanevik, Linn Carin Andreassen, Simon Brind, Elin Nilsen, and Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand.
We made a series of interviews on site during the conference. All 14 of them can be found in this playlist.
Slides are available on the linked page.
Here you can download my cookbook slides, and an example excel sheet showing how to crunch those numbers. On the first page of the excel sheet there’s also a link to my living storage of survey items used so far.
KPTV
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Knutepunkt 2017 starts tomorrow with the opening ceremony at 17:00 CET. We will be on location to report. We’ll also try gather all material and links to other reports from the event we can find.
Knutepunkt is a conference about larp that rotates between the Nordic countries. It gathers people from around the world who want to share knowledge and experiences about larp. The program consists of a wide variety of content. There are talks, panels, workshops, larps, parties, performances and other types of activities.
This years conference is held in Norway, where the first Knutepunkt was held in 1997.
Because most of our crew is at Knutepunkt we won’t be able to publish or edit content for the next couple of days. We will answer questions as fast as we can, as usual. We’ll especially try to keep an eye on our Facebook page and we might publish some exclusive content there.
We’re bringing our video equipment to Knutepunkt and we hope to do some video reporting for our YouTube channel. We have some ideas about what to report on, but we’d love your input. Please tell us who you want us to interview and what to ask them!
If you have material relating to your program items at Knutepunkt we’d love to publish it here on the website. If you write something about the event we’d also love to link to it.
After Knutepunkt 2017 is over we will gather all reports, material and links in a round-up post.
We of course also welcome reports and articles inspired by things happening at Knutepunkt. We have a handy guide here if you want to write for us.
We’ll be there, and we hope you’ll come up to say hi if you are too.
PS. If you want to know more about Knutepunkt 2017, check out their website:
https://knutepunkt.org/
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The official book for Knutepunkt 2017 is called Once Upon a Nordic Larp… Twenty Years of Playing Stories and it’s out now!
It promises to be a very interesting read weighing in at an impressive 404 pages. Here’s how the editors introduce it:
Being a complex grimoire of received wisdom, forbidden wisdom, and questionable wisdom; techniques (both meta- and otherwise); lies, damn lies, and associated ephemera. It was written by an eclectic mix of wonderful people from across the globe and
edited by
Martine Svanevik, Linn Carin Andreassen, Simon Brind, Elin Nilsen, and Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand.
You can download and read the rest of the book over at the Nordic Larp Wiki:
https://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Nordic_Larp…_Twenty_Years_of_Playing_Stories
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In our never ending quest to be a resource to the larp scene we have gathered some humble equipment to help video production for larp. If you want to make a production diary, larp promo, interviews, larp report or anything else larp related we’ll lend you the gear free of charge.
You can read more about what equipment we have and how to borrow it on our new video equipment page.
Cover photo: A plush figure photographed using the simplest lights from our video equipment collection.
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We want your brilliance! Have an idea you want to share? Write for Nordiclarp.org!
We accept text contributions and you can read more about our process here:
https://nordiclarp.org/write-for-us/
If you don’t want to write but contribute in other ways we have some suggestions here:
https://nordiclarp.org/contribute/
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Blodsband Reloaded is a Swedish larp campaign inspired by over the top post apocalyptic fiction like Fallout and Mad Max. The event is run once a year and the 2016 edition was played on 16-18 September.
The larp has a very high costuming standard with many different groups doing different concepts. One group is The Machine Dogs who are vehicle borne raiders.
Group members Sabina Sonning, Marta Hansbo and Hans Vrede took some amazing photos at the event and allowed us to publish some of them here:
You can see the rest of the photos on the Facebook page of The Machine Dogs:
https://www.facebook.com/themachinedogs/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1271914492861273
You can read more about Blodsband Reloaded at the larp’s website:
http://www.bbreloaded.se/
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Danish larp producer Bjarke Pedersen of Odyssé is talking at the Future of StoryTelling conference in New York in 5-6 October 2016. Here is a short talk (3m 26s) where he eloquently and concisely describes what larp is. It’s well worth your time.