Tag: Knutepunkt
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Nordic Larp Talks: How Can we Know what Actually Happened in a Larp
Is there a way to understand what actually happened in a larp, and can we tell a single more coherent story about how a larp played out? This talk is about techniques to study larp. Annika Waern (Ph.D) is a professor and game researcher at the department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden. She
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Nordic Larp Talks: Bleed: How Emotions Affect Role-Playing Experiences
This talk explains the concept of bleed in role-playing games & advocates for awareness of the phenomenon & discussion on emotional content in games.
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Nordic Larp Talks: No Training can Replace Experience, or Can it?
Larp is great in building strange realities, far-away worlds and fantasies unheard of. But can it also be used to recreate authentic situations from real life to enable development workers to not only know about intercultural competence, but maybe even develop it before really coming in touch with a foreign culture? Stefan Deutsch plays and
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Nordic Larp Talks: The Mixing Desk of Larp
This talk explores how this can make larp design easier to teach as a game design discipline. It also helps designers become more aware of the default positions of their larp design. Martin Eckhoff Andresen is a larper, organizer and game designer from Oslo, Norway. He has been involved with Fantasiforbundet’s “Larpocracy” projects in Belarus,
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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
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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,