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American writer and larper Lizzie Stark went to Europe to participate in Fastaval in Denmark and Knutepunkt in Norway. Now you can read her thoughts on the Knutepunkt pre-event A Week in Norway on her blog:
http://lizziestark.com/2013/04/26/a-week-in-norway-recap/
You can read her Fastaval 2013 report here:
http://lizziestark.com/2013/04/04/fastaval-2013/
Read more about Fastaval & Knutepunkt in the Nordic Larp Wiki:
http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Fastaval
http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/Knutepunkt
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French larper Thomas B. has written a recap of his experience at Knutepunkt 2013, here’s the second part:
http://www.thomasbe.com/2013/04/25/knutepunkt-2013-a-subjective-recap-part-2/
You can read part one here:
http://www.thomasbe.com/2013/04/23/knutepunkt-2013a-subjective-recap-part-1/
Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum:
http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
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Ole Peder Giæver from Norway has written a report of his experience at Knutepunkt 2013:
http://snarglebarf.com/2013/04/23/knutepunkt-2013/
Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum:
http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
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German larper Stefan Deutsch has written a report of his experience at Knutepunkt 2013:
http://operation-brainfuck.de/wordpress/?p=110
Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum:
http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
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French larper Thomas B. has written a recap of his experience at Knutepunkt 2013:
http://www.thomasbe.com/2013/04/23/knutepunkt-2013a-subjective-recap-part-1/
Discuss and read more about Knutepunkt 2013 in the Nordic Larp Forum:
http://nordiclarp.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
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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 has a long-standing experience of studying games that play out in the physical world, including but not limited to larp. Together with Markus Montola, and Jaakko Stenros she is author of Pervasive Games: Theory and Design (2009).
Annika’s website:
Annika Waern
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This talk will explain the phenomenon of bleed in role-playing games and advocate for greater awareness of the phenomenon and increased discussion surrounding the emotional content of role-playing games.
Sarah Lynne Bowman (Ph.D.) teaches as adjunct faculty in English and Communication for several institutions including The University of Texas at Dallas. McFarland Press published her dissertation in 2010 as The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, and Explore Identity. Together with Aaron Vanek, Bowman co-edited The Wyrd Con Companion 2012, a collection of essays on larp and related phenomena. Her current researchinterests include examining social conflict and bleed within role-playing communities, applying Jungian theory to role-playing studies, studying the benefits of edu-larp, and comparing the enactment of role-playing characters with other creative phenomena such as drag performance.
Sarah’s website:
Sarah Lynne Bowman
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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 facilitates larps for nearly 20 years, co-wrote one of Germany’s most controversial larp rules system and was one of the organizers of the MittelPunkt larp conference in Germany. He lives in Germany and Tanzania and works as a consultant for a software company and larp.
Check out Stefans website here:
Reality check
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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, that explore the role of games as a tool for informal education. He has edited Playing the Learning Game – A practical introduction to educational roleplaying (2012). At daytime, he’s finishing a master thesis in economics.
Read more about the Mixing Desk at the Nordic Larp Wiki:
http://nordiclarp.org/wiki/The_Mixing_Desk_of_Larp
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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), a Swedish company that designs and runs educational larps for children, teenagers and adults. Apart from his work as game designer and project manager, Lars is deeply involved in issues of social justice and equality.
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