You can now buy tickets for Knutpunkt 2014, get them while they last!
Author: Johannes Axner
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Knutpunkt 2014 Call for Volunteers
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Knutpunkt 2014 is need of volunteers. This is what they have to say about it:
Making Knutpunkt is an effort from all of our community. One way for you to contribute is by being part of the on site crew. To make Knutpunkt 2014 possible we need a bunch of great volunteers.
Almost anyone is welcome to be volunteer but we have some requirements. You need to be able to communicate in Swedish and English. You have to be available for volunteering no later than noon 3rd April either in Gothenburg or at Gullbrannagården. As a volunteer you will be expected to work about 4 hours per day.
Read more and sign up to volunteer on the Knutpunkt 2014 website:
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Book Review: Larps from the Factory
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Danish larper and larp designer Oliver Nøglebæk has written a review of the larp script collection book Larps from the Factory.
Here is an excerpt from the review:
I know how much work the creators put into making this book and it shows. It is well written and consistent, which is extra impressive considering the huge number of people who actually wrote the larps in the book. It is also lovely to see a book that both celebrates a strong tradition of larpwriting and provides new opportunities to rerun the games or take them apart for use in new projects. It is definitely at in the top of my list of “most useful books on larp.” And together with the Nordic Larp book for the pretty pictures of big larps, I think we’re very well covered when it comes to approachable reading material to introduce the scope of norp to outsiders.
Read the complete review on his blog:
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Halat Hisar Photo Report
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Larper and talented photographer Tuomas Puikkonen has posted his photos from the larp Halat Hisar (State of Siege).
Check them out here:
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Living Games Conference 2014
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The Living Games Conference is the first academic conference on larp in the US. The program and academic committees is a veritable who’s who of Nordic and US larp academia. It looks to be a very qualitative and interesting conference.
This is what the organizer have to say about the event:
The Living Games Conference is a live-action roleplaying games conference held at New York University. It will serve as a place where scholars, game designers, and community leaders from across the country and across the world can come together to talk about LARP. Sponsored by the NYU Game Center, the conference will offer panels and discussions by leading innovators in live action games, as well as provide a place for designers to present their work at a games showcase.
They are looking for content, so please check out how you can contribute on their participation page. They are also looking for photo documentation from all kind of larps, send them and attribution information to:
livinggamesnyc@gmail.comRead more at their website:
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Knutpunkt 2014 Sign Up Information Released
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Knutpunkt 2014 has released information about their sign-up process. Regular tickets will cost 2000 SEK (~220 EUR) and economy tickets will cost 1200 SEK (~135 EUR), both will be released on Monday, 20 January 2014. Early sign up for program contributors will open a week before that on Monday, 13 January 2014. Business class tickets will be released a week before that on Monday, 6 January 2014 and cost 4000 SEK (~450 EUR).
More details on the sign up and reasoning behind the process can be found at the Knutpunkt website:
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Larp Tumblr Roundup
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Recently there has pop-up a couple of Tumblr blogs related to the Nordic larp scene. We mostly handle serious stuff here and in the larps of the Nordic scene, so some humor is a welcome break in the gloom.
The Nordic Larper is about the Nordic larp scene in general:
http://thenordiclarper.tumblr.com/When You Organize Larps is a bit more Swedish in it’s perspective, but a lot of fun for most larpers:
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KOLA 2013 Larp Conference Publication
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Polish larp has reached a milestone: Very first international publication from this years KOLA conference now in english!
Please take a moment to browse through it, as it is a big step for polish larp and a huge effort on their part to make their scene available to the international larpers.
You can find the publication here:
http://issuu.com/wielosfer/docs/kola13-publicationYou can read about next years KOLA conference on their website:
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Larpwriters Winter Retreat 2014
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Bjarke Pedersen is organizing a retreat for experienced larpwrights to exchange experiences and ideas about larp theory. He has this to say about it:
It came to me: If I could gather some of the brightest minds of larp for a weekend of talks, we might all leave the retreat better at understanding our craft, and where it will take us in the coming years. Perhaps it could also help us make Knudepunkt better. We could use this time to think and verbalize new thoughts, try out new ideas and figure out pedagogical ways of inviting people who haven’t been around for decades into the larp design conversation.
The retreat will take place in Denmark, 13-16 February 2014. Read more here:
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Report from H.P. Lovecraft Horror Larp Terra Incognita
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Swedish larper Petter Karlsson has written a report from the HP Lovecraft themed horror larp Terra Incognita (Sweden, April 2013)
Here is a short video report to complement the longer text report:
Read the whole report here:
http://petterkarlsson.se/2013/10/21/terra-incognita-a-swedish-1920s-lovecraft-larp/