Tag: larp
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6 Common Mistakes in Live Role-playing Design
This article was published in the anthology Playing Reality by Interacting Arts 2010. DESIGNING LARPS IS A COMPLEX PROCESS and one must have courage to take on the responsibility of doing it. The players are demanding and bring creative power as well as infinite demands. I have assembled a few common mistakes that are made…
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Playground Worlds, anthology finally online as PDF
Playground Worlds. Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-Playing Games is finally here as pdf. It’s an ambitious collection of texts on live role-playing, edited by game researchers Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros. There is plenty of interesting things to read. I contributed with a reflection under the title “We Lost Our World and Made New…
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Alive and role-playing
Published in lifelike (PDF) edited by Gade, Thorup, 2007. Live role-playing. For the last few years we have been talking and writing a lot about the latter part of the concept. The role-playing has been the main focus. We say live role-playing developed from talking- heads tabletop role-playing games. That is of course true in…
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The Character, the Player and Their Shared Body
The article is written by Gabriel Widing & Tova Gerge, published in Role, Play, Art, edited by Thorbiörn Fritzon and Tobias Wrigstad, in conjunction with the 10th Knutpunkt Convention in Sweden, 2006. What happens to our bodies when we give them to characters and place them in new environments and situations? Where do these memories…
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Interacting Arts International Issue 2006 – Radical Role-Playing
A changed approach to moral concepts and view on society could lead to a sudden transformation of the role-playing hobby into a militant political movement. Örnstedt & Sjöstedt, De övergivnas armé In 1997 a book was published that caused moral panic in Sweden. It claimed that role-playing was a dangerous hobby – that it could…
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Interacting Arts International Issue 2005
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Post Panopticon
This was my first text published in English and it has some weak parts but I’ve left it unchanged. It was published in the anthology Beyond role and play (PDF), edited by Montola & Stenroos in 2004. Analysing live action role-playing has always been problematic. The subjectivity of every experience makes the personal reflection a…