Tag: Knutepunkt-books
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How to Run a Cheap Weekend Larp
Some tips and tricks on the practicalities of how to run a game like that, some things to keep in mind, what kind of game design works well for this format, and why to buy pre-chopped onions.
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Designing Vessels of Meaning
When it comes to larp design, the designer makes creative choices and steers the larpers; but the larpers are the ones that fill the vessel with their own meaning and story, to different extents depending on the larp.
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Relational Larp
“Relational larp” enables us to embrace the common vision and inspiration we have and work together on getting larp the acknowledgement it deserves among other forms of art, entertainment, self-expression, and means of transformation.
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Larp Critique: Why We Need It and How To Write One
At the moment, there isn’t much in terms of culture of larp critique. There is no structured reflection on how to write a critique that is analytical, constructive and well documented. There are some very good examples, but nothing systematic or with a recurring format. However, there are a lot of discussions, because organizers and…
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The Prosocial Act of Larp Crime, and Some Thoughts on Odysseus
Author’s Note: The essay below is a design thinkpiece that contains many evidence-free assertions about player behavior. This anecdotal information has been gathered from a lifetime of gamemastering and larp organizing. Your own experience and data may vary, and I welcome rebuttals with those differences in hand. Larp is a medium of relation. We invent…
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Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – The Blockbuster to End All Blockbusters
The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser was an admirable foray into creating a larp-like experience for mass audiences on a gargantuan scale. It was not perfect, but it was far from a disaster.
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Design for young adult players: The relevance of designing for hope, agency and inclusion
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How can larp designers include young adults as co-creators and peers in the design and play processes?
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Open Book: A Roadmap for Peer Editing
An explanation and discussion of the process by which 67 people came together to make the Knutepunkt 2025 book Anatomy of Larp Thoughts: A Breathing Corpus.
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The Use of Music as a Magical Element for the Larp Experience
The experiences and thoughts of the Brazilian group Confraria des Ideias on the use of music as an element in larp design.
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Magic To Fight Monsters: Larp as a spell for claiming my spaces
A guide to some of the monsters that non-binary adventurers encounter when they larp – and spells for how to deal with them.