Lecture: Documenting the Nordic Larp Scene

Description
Larps cease to exist the moment they end. Yet we have a responsibility to the ones that come after us to document what we do and have done. Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola are planning a coffee table book that document the achetypical games of last 15 years of the Nordic larps scene. Come and discuss what that book should include.

Who
Jaakko Stenros is a game researcher at the University of Tampere Game Research Lab. For the past few years he has been specializing in pervasive games and is writing a book on the subject with Markus Montola. He has role-played for 20 years, and has written on the subject in numerous places for over a decade.

Markus Montola is a game researcher and a doctoral candiate in University of Tampere, Finnland. He is writing his thesis on role-playing and pervasive gaming. During the last 20 years he has tried out most of the various forms of roleplaying and i's a regular writer for Roolipelaaja magazine.

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