Nordic Larp

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  • Nordic Larp Talks: Three Ways to Make Games More Inclusive

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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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  • Nordic Larp Talks 2013: Welcome to Larp. Let’s Play

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    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 a great way to guide adults towards participation and active learning. Pouchla has an education from theatre university and currently works in the larp company Court of Moravia.

    Here is the movie Jana shows in her presentation. Make sure to turn on the English captions if you don’t speak Czech:

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  • Nordic Larp Talks 2013: What does Nordic Larp mean?

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    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 at the University of Tampere, Finland. Currently he is working on a dissertation on the limits of games. Together with Markus Montola, Jaakkohas edited three books on larp, Playground Worlds (2008), Beyond Role and Play (2004) Nordic Larp (2010). They are also authors of Pervasive Games: Theory and Design (2009).

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  • Nordic Larp Talks 2013: Knutepunkt 2013 Book Project Presentation

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    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 to do – and showing what it has become.

    Karete Jacobsen Meland is a larper, organizer and now editor, from Oslo. Currently living in Trondheim, she is supposed to be studying towards becoming a clinical psychologist, while being a part of “the gaffa” (organizer crew) at the Larp Factory in Trondheim, an actress at the students’ theatre and writing a play for the student festival UKA-13.

    Katrine Øverlie Svela is the other editor and the graphic designer of this year’s book. She comes from Oslo, but studies industrial design in Trondheim, where she also is one of the organizers at the Larp Factory. Currently Katti writes a children’s play for the student festival UKA-13, organizes seks:førti about design and architecture, and dreams of a larpful summer.

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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 and ideas from the Nordic tradition of live action roleplaying games.

    The talks will be held on Wednesday April 17 at Litteraturhuset Wergelandsveien 29 in Oslo.

    You can read more about the individual talks and see them streamed lived here:
    http://nordiclarptalks.org/

    The starting time for the live stream will be the following for different time zones:

    20:00 CEST (UTC+2 hours)
    Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czech republic, France

    21:00 EEST (UTC+3 hours)
    Finland, Palestine, Israel

    22:00 MSK (UTC+4 hours)
    Russia – Moscow

    19:00 BST (UTC+1 hour)
    United Kingdom

    14:00 EDT (UTC-4 hours)
    U.S.A. – New York

    11:00 PDT (UTC-7 hours)
    U.S.A. – California

  • Monitor Celestra Video Report

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    Petter Karlsson has produced a video report from the third instalment of the larp Monitor Celestra.

    Read more on Petters blog:
    http://petterkarlsson.se/2013/03/19/the-monitor-celestra-battlestar-galactica-larp/

  • Krigshjärta Campaign Trailer

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    Krigshjärta (Heart of War) is a Swedish low fantasy larp campaign centered around a large scale conflict. Though it is combat heavy, it’s quite different from American style combat heavy fantasy larps. Check out their campaign trailer here:

    Read more on their website (in Swedish):
    http://krigshjarta.com/