Knutepunkt (Solmukohta in Finnish) books have for a long time been inspiring mix of role-play theories, artistic manifestoes, and practical, larp design or game-running advice. The Knutepunkt book 2015 is no exception. Here is link to the PDF version (published ahead of the actual event), and outline of the contents:
The Knudepunkt 2015 Companion Book
Eds. Charles Bo Nielsen & Claus Raasted
- Full book link: http://rollespilsakademiet.dk/webshop/kp2015companionbook.pdf
- Table of contents:
Foreword 6
Claus Raasted
6 levels of substitution: The Behaviour Substitution Model 8
Lauri Lukka
Behind the larp census: 29.751 larpers can’t (all) be wrong 16
Aaron Vanek
Four Backstory Building Games You Can Play Anywhere!: Simple and effective 24
Peter Woodworth
Infinite Firing Squads: The evolution of The Tribunal 30
J.Tuomas Harviainen
Ingame or offgame?: Towards a typology of frame switching 34 between in-character and out-of-character
Olga Vorobyeva
Learning by playing: Larp as a teaching metod 42
Myriel Balzer & Julia Kurz
Looking at you: Larp, documentation and being watched 56
Juhana Pettersson
Now That We’ve Walked The Walk…: Some new additions to the larp vocabulary 62
Bjørn Flindt Temte
On Publicity and Privacy: Or “How do you do your documentation?” 70
Jamie MacDonald
Painting larp: Using art terms for clarity 78
Jacob Nielsen
Processing political larps: Framing larp experiences with strong agendas 82
Kaisa Kangas
Safe words: And how to use them 88
Nathan Hook
Steering For Immersion in Five Nordic larps: A new understanding of eläytyminen 94
Mike Pohjola
The Art of Steering: Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together 106
Markus Montola, Jaakko Stenros & Eleanor Saitta
The Blockbuster Formula: Brute Force Design in 118 The Monitor Celestra and College of Wizardry
Eirik Fatland & Markus Montola
The D-M creative agenda model: An axis instead of a pyramid 132
Nathan Hook
The Golden Cobra Challenge: Amateur-Friendly Pervasive Freeform Design 138
Evan Torner, Whitney “Strix” Beltrán, Emily Care Boss & Jason Morningstar
There is no Nordic larp: And yet we all know what it means 142
Stefan Deutsch
Workshop practice: A functional workshop structure method 148
Mo Holkar
Ending: The larper’s burden 156
Claus Raasted
For more, see: http://www.knudepunkt.org/
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