Nordic Scene

As part of the yearly conference on nordic style larps, Knutpunkt/Knutepunkt/Knudepunkt/Solmukohta, an anthology is published with articles about larp, roleplaying, theory about larps, game reviews and reflections on the larp hobby.

This year is no different, and the Solmukohta book will be released on March 31 in Helsinki. You can see the table of contents at the book website, and the book will have three parts: Journalism and Community, Art and Design and Research and Theory.

The book is given to all participants of the Solmukohta conference, but will also be published online like all the books from the last few years of conferences. The books are a continuting debate on what larp is or could be and a platform for ideas and experiements to spread from one larp culture to another. You will find both academic style papers on roleplaying theory and columns, rants, game analysis and political vision in these books. They are an excellent starting poing if you want to know more about what kind of larps happen on the Nordic scene and what some of the ambitions in the community are.

Following is links to the online versions of previous conference anthologies:

Knudepunkt 2007 in Denmark: The book is called Lifelike.

All of the 30 articles in Lifelike can be downloaded as pdf documents here:

Lifelike Table of Contents

Knutpunkt 2006 in Sweden: The book is called Role, Play, Art

The book includes 12 articles and can be downloaded as a pdf document:

Download the entire book (2 MB)

Knutepunkt 2005 in Norway: The book is called Dissecting Larp

The book contains 15 texts that can be downloaded as pdf documents.

If you want to know a thing or two about the Nordic larp environment (at least as it was in 2005), make sure to read Knutepunkt and Nordic Live Role-playing: a crash cource by Eirik Fatland.

Download the whole book at this page: Dissecting Larp

Solmukohta 2004 in Finland: The book is called Beyond Role and Play -Tools, Toys and Theory for Harnessing the Imagination

The book has almost 30 articles that can be downloaded as pdf documents at the book website:

Beyond Role and Play

Knudepunkt 2003 in Denmark: The book is called As Larp Grows Up

As Larp Grows Up has five chapters on larp, including a dictionary. All chapters can be downloaded as pdf documents here:

As Larp Grows Up - The Book from Knudepunkt 2003