Useful Resources for LARP

Posted by The Riders Team on Tuesday, 24 September 2013 in Features

The first of the videos for the recent LARP lecture are now up, also slides from the two day event, which will serve as a useful reference point for those that attended the event and for those that were not able to make it but are keen to learn more. Directly below are further research resources you can also follow up; the focus, Live Action Role Play.

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	FORMAT	UR
Eirik Fatlands blog	This blog is about larp dramaturgy, explaining and exploring how larps are made, and how they can be made better. It's maintained by Eirik Fatland and the occasional guest blogger	Blog	http://larpwright.efatland.com/
Interaction codes	This article deals with the concept of interaction codes: sets of player-held assumptions that create patterns in improvisation during a larp.	Text	fate.laiv.org/pub/interactioncodes.htm
Jaakko Stenros	Jaakko Stenros Jaakko Stenros (M.Soc.Sc.) works as a game researcher and a doctoral candidate at Game Research Lab (University of Tampere)	Blog	http://jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/
We go by Jeep	Games in the Jeep form tradition for download	Games	http://jeepen.org/
Rollspielsakademiet	Webshop with books on larp. We recommend the book Nordic Larp	Webshop	http://rollespilsakademiet.dk/webshop/
Nordic Larp talks	Nordic Larp Talks is a series of short, entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-boggling lectures about projects and ideas from the tradition of Nordic Larp.	Video	http://nordiclarptalks.org/
Knutpunkt (2014)	Knutepunkt is an annual conference on nordic style larp which has been running since the first event in Norway in 1997. It cycles through each of the nordic countries as hosts; in Sweden it's called Knutpunkt, in Denmark Knudepunkt and in Finland Solmukohta. In English the translation would be meeting point or nodal point.	Conference