Nordic Larp

Author: Johannes Axner

  • PanoptiCorp 2013 Mini Documentary

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    UK based video production company Cosmic Joke has produced a mini documentary about the Danish 2013 re-run of the Norwegian 2003 larp PanoptiCorp.

    Here is what they had to say about the video:

    PanoptiCorp is originally a Nordic larp from 2003, which was re-imagined in 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s a satirical larp about an advertising agency, where players take on the roles of agency employees, pitching ideas to everything from an African dictator wanting an image makeover to an earnest businessman who wants to sell adult diapers. This documentary was produced by Cosmic Joke, as part of their feature length LARP documentary, Treasure Trapped.

    For more info on the 2013 run of PanoptiCorp, see the event website:
    http://www.rollespilsfabrikken.dk/panopticorp

    You can also read this summary of the larp by Petter Karlsson which includes comments by the organizers:
    Welcome to PanoptiCorp – A satirical ad-agency larp

  • The Larp Factory Book Pre-Order

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    You can now pre-order The larp Factory Book through their IndieGoGo campaign. This is how they present the project themselves:

    The Larpfactory Book Project will be a collection of 23 Norwegian ready-to-play larpscripts, written in English, and a website containing game materials and videos showing all methods and techniques mentioned in the book. The larps have all been run in The Larp Factory in Oslo and/or Trondheim – loosely organized networks that have been putting up low threshold stand-alone larps regularly for the last four years, and inspired larpers in other European cities to do the same. The book contains everything from relationship dramas, time travel dramas, existential dramas, teenage angst, murder mysteries to straight out comedies.

    One really cool thing is that they’re giving you the option to buy one copy and give one copy away to a larper in a country where the price is too steep for most people.

    Read more and order the book here:
    http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-larp-factory-book-project/x/1085645

  • Kapo Documentary

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    A documentary about the Danish 2011 larp Kapo has been released on Youtube. This is what the author has to say about it:

    The larp KAPO was held in Copenhagen in 2011. It was a larp about dehumanization, camps and values. This is the video documenting the project. It is made by Edith Tvede.

  • Reports From the 2013 Larpwriter Summer School

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    Finnish blog Loki has posted a report in three parts from the 2013 Larp Writer Summer School

    Read them over at Loki:
    http://loki.pelilauta.fi/wordpress/?p=1842

  • Sign-up Open for Halat Hisar (State of Siege)

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    Halat hisar, or State of Siege, has been covered on this site before.

    The sign-up for the Finnish/Palestinian cooperation has now opened:
    http://nordicrpg.fi/piiritystila/practical/sign-up/

    Read more about the larp on their website:
    http://nordicrpg.fi/piiritystila/

  • New Larp Festival in Palestina

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    Beit Byout is the first larp festival in Palestine! It will be held in Ramallah from Thursday, October 3 to Saturday October 5, 2013.

    This is what the organizers have to say:

    The Festival
    Beit Byout will be a festival with a number of larps from Palestine and the Nordic countries. In addition there will be some workshops that can help you explore how to play or make larps.

    Who can join?
    We welcome all Palestinian, Nordic, Belarussian and Czech larpers. If you want to join, fill in the Sign-up form.
    If you have never larped before, this can be your first larp!

    Week in Palestine
    Before the festival there will be a possibility for visitors from abroad to spend some days in Jerusalem, Ramallah and sourrounding areas. We will organize some tours and you will have time to explore on your own.

    Organizers
    Beit Byout is organized by a group af Palestinian and Nordic larpers and The Peace and Freedom Youth Forum in cooperation with the Norwegian organization Fantasiforbundet.

    First rounds of sign-up closes on Friday July 26 2013. Read more at their website:
    http://www.beit-byout.blogspot.com/p/festival.html

  • Nordic Style Battlestar Galactica Larp in the US

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    American larpwrite Shoshana Kessock has written a report from a Battlestar Galactica larp she took part in writing and organizing at a recent convention. Here is a small excerpt from the text:

    Tales of the Rising Star was an ambitious idea inspired by the amazing work done by the Monitor Celestra team overseas and fantastic full-immersion games like PST Productions Terrorwerks. The notion was trying to design a convention game inside the confines of a ballroom setting that would harken to the Celestra’s immersive atmosphere through prop-building and a focus on more freeform roleplaying styles. Players would get the chance to play one of five groups of characters aboard the Rising Star, a medical ship in the Colonial Fleet, as it escapes from the devastating nuclear attack on the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Officers, Marines, Engineers, Medical Officers, Scientists and Civilians would work together to keep the ship from being destroyed as they dodged Cylon ships, tricky jumps, and of course internal pressure as they try to decide if they’ll join the ragtag fleet of Commander Adama or go their own way.

    Read the whole report here:
    http://shoshanakessock.com/2013/07/11/so-say-we-all-dexcon-2013-gets-some-bsg/

  • Eirik Fatland on Safety

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    Famous larp theorist Eirik Fatland has written a piece about safe words and safety at larps. Here is the first paragraph of his text:

    So, there is a fairly standardized pair of safewords used at a lot of larps around here – “kutt” which means “Cut! Stop!” and “brems”, which literally translates as “brake!” and means “slow down, buddy – don’t stop roleplaying but do less of whatever it is you’re doing to me”. These safety rules are exposed to constant scrutiny, and it is frequently claimed (for example at the player safety debate at Solmukohta 2012) that they “don’t work”.

    Read his thoughts on the matter here:
    http://larpwright.efatland.com/?p=339

  • Seekers Unlimited

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    Seekers Unlimited is an nonprofit organization that produces educational larps. It’s run by Aaron Vanek who’s active in the nordic larp scene.

    They have just released a video showcasing some of their work:

  • The Verge Covering The Monitor Celestra

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    American tech site The Verge has written av The Monitor Celestra, a large scale Nordic style larp played in Sweden this spring.

    Check it out!
    http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4391736/real-life-battlestar-galactica-larp-could-be-coming-to-america