Lates Knutepunkt book, Larp, the Universe and Everything: An anthology on the theory and practice of live role-playing (larp), is now published online. The book chapters are available at http://knutepunkt.laiv.org/2009/book/
TOC:
- Introduction (Matthijs Holter, Eirik Fatland, Even Tømte)
- A bilingual history of Latvian larp (Agnese “Axa” Dzervite)
- 33 ways to have fun at a Latvian larp (Agnese “Axa” Dzervite)
- Towards a larp-acting culture: A manifesto (Morgan Jarl)
- Elements of Harry Potter: Deconstructing an edu-larp (Malik Hyltoft & Jakob T. Holm)
- Ten comparisons between UK LRP and French GN (Tadeusz Cantwell)
- Larp in Kamensky forest (Anita Myhre Andersen & Erik Aarebrot)
- Role-playing games and education in Brazil: how we do it (Wagner Luiz Schmit, João Batista Martins & Thales Ferreira)
- Notes on designing repeatable larps (J. Tuomas Harviainen)
- Tabletop RPG meets performing arts: Bringing pen & paper role-playing to the stage (Florian Berger)
- Pix or didn’t happen (Juhana Pettersson)
- Britta Bergersen: The in-game photographer (Interviewed by Eirik Fatland)
- Creating a character: A summary of a process with exercises and advice (Morgan Jarl)
- Face and figuration in RPG play (William J. White)
- The Vademecum of the Karstic Style (Andrea Castellani)
- Philosophies and strategies of pervasive larp design (Markus Montola, Jaakko Stenros & Annika Waern)
- Excavating AmerikA (Eirik Fatland)
- Fun for everybody? (Katri Lassila)
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