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Nordic Larp Talks: Three Ways to Make Games More Inclusive
How do you, as a game designer, work to get a diverse group of participants to feel welcome and included? Lars Nerback talks from his experience in working with educational larps in schools, and gives three examples for making inclusive games. Lars Nerback is one of the owners of LajvVerkstaden (”The Larp Workshop” directly translated),…
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Nordic Larp Talks 2013: Welcome to Larp. Let’s Play
In this talk Jana Pouchlá describes some basic arrangements that make new larpers feel safe and enjoy the game. She also argues why newbies sometimes are better larpers than super experienced players. Jana Pouchlá is a professional lecturer of larp and soft skills. Her favourite challenge is to connect these two worlds as larp is…
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Nordic Larp Talks 2013: What does Nordic Larp mean?
Now there is something at stake. In this talk one of the editors of the Nordic Larp book explains what he thinks the term means, where it came from, who gets to define it, and what is so damn special about it anyway. Jaakko Stenros (M.Soc.Sc.) is a game researcher at the Game Research Lab…
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Nordic Larp Talks 2013: Knutepunkt 2013 Book Project Presentation
Larps, people, theories and ideas are crossing international borders, and we want to know what it’s like! In what ways is it encouraging us to explore our own, personal preconceptions and habits? What does it all look like? The two editors will be interviewed by Johanna Koljonen, explaining what kind of book they set out…
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Nordic Larp Talks 2013
Soon it’s time for this years edition of the Nordic Larp Talks. They will be held during the event A Week in Norway which is an extended part of the Knutepunkt 2013 conference. The organisers describe the talks like this: Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects…
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Knutepunkt 2013 Book Preview
This years Knutepunkt book is available in a preview format without final layout. The production team has this to say on the matter: Finally! The texts from the four anthologies that together constitute this year’s Knutepunkt book project are now available through knutepunkt.org. They have been edited by Karete J. Meland and Katrine Ø. Svela,…
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Forum 2013: Call for Program
Forum 2013 is a Danish larp convention organised by Bifrost. It’s being held September 20-22 at Midtfyns Fritidscenter in Ringe. Now they are asking partipants for their contribution to the convention program. Read more about the call to program here (Danish only): http://forum2013.dk/?page_id=40 The event is organised by Bifrost: http://www.landsforeningenbifrost.dk/ Discuss Forum 2013 in the…
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Yxengaard – A Permanent Larp Area in Denmark
Tipster Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo sent us this interesting piece of news: A danish organisation is very close to being able to build a permanent area for live action roleplaying. The just need the last bit of funding to get the entire project rolling. One of the ways they hope to get the last few hundred thousand…
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PanoptiCorp 2013
PanoptiCorp 2013: A satirical larp about an advertising agency is a larp organised by Rollespilsakademiet in Denmark in June. They summarise the larp with these words: PanoptiCorp is meant to be a satirical reflection of the early 21st century, seen through the eyes of a trendier-than-thou transnational advertising/PR corporation. Central concepts for the larp are:…
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Fantasy Larp in Serbia
We’ve received a tip about a fantasy larp in Serbia in May this year. The organisers sent us this information: It is biggest larp event we have in Serbia. It is placed in Serbia/Vladimirovac. Vladimirovac is north-east of capitol city Belgrade. Place is big and have GREAT capacity. We have Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian and soon…