Resources

At this page, we publish larps, slides, videos and other material from the summer schools. This is not an exhaustive list of all larps and lectures held at the summer school, and only contains program items where we have some materials to share.

Materials from LWSS 2016

Mixing Desk of Larp:

Mixing Desk intro (Bjarke Pedersen)
Player motivation (Magnar Müller)
Openness (Maria Raczynska)
Environment (Jaakko Stenros)
Character as Mask (Jaakko Stenros)
Runtime direction (Maria Raczynska)
Mechanics (Bjarke Pedersen)
Loyalty to world (Johanna Koljonen)
Character creation responsibility (Grethe Strand)
Representation of theme (Bjarke Pedersen)
Pressure on players (Johanna Koljonen)

Talks:

History of larp (Eirik Fatland)
Safety and calibration in larp (Johanna Koljonen)
Art of the playable character (Eirik Fatland)
Larp as part of a learning process (Magnar Müller)
Playfulness (Jaakko Stenros)

Larp presentations:

Before We Wake (Kristoffer Thurøe)
College of Wizardry (Charles Bo Nielsen)
Kapo (Oliver Nøglebæk)
Delirium (Kristoffer Thurøe)
White Death (Nina Runa Essendrop)
Just a Little Loving (Tor Kjetil Edland)
1943 (Alexander Karalevich)
Prisoner for a Day (Erik Aarebrot)
Europa (Eirik Fatland)
Till Death Do Us Part (Trine Lise Lindahl)
Inside myself, Outside myself (Gabriel Widing)
We are Citizens (Aleksandra Franskevich)

Slides:

Slides from program items 2016

Materials from LWSS 2014

Larps

When Our Destinies Meet (2012, 2013) (game website)
The Fall of Andrea Capponi (2012) (game script)
The Family Andersson (2012) (game script)
New Voices in Art (2012) (game script)
Microscope (2012) (game website)
White Death (2013) (game script)

Larp presentations

Petter Karlsson: Skymningsland (slides, documentary)
Bjarke Pedersen: Delirium (documentary)

Mixing Desk Talks

Introduction to the Mixing Desk
Johanna Koljonen: Introduction to the Mixing Desk of Larp (2013) (slides)
Åke Nolemo: Playing style (2012)(slides)
Bjarke Pedersen: Openness (2012) (video)
Åke Nolemo: Character creation responsibility (2012) (slides, video)
Teresa Axner: Player motivation  (2012)(slides, video)
Petter Karlsson: Metatechniques (2012) (slides, video)
Lars Nerbäck: Game master style (2012) (video)
Teresa Axner: Plausibility (2012) (slides, video)
Oliver Nøglebæk: Bleed-in (2012) (video)
Åke Nolemo: Bleed-in (2013) (slides)
Bjarke Pedersen: Openness (2013) (slides)
Petter Karlsson: Metatechniques (2013) (slides)

Talks

Eirik Fatland: The Common ground of larp (2012) (slides)
Johanna Koljonen: Playing it safe (2012) (video)
Eirik Fatland: What is a Playable Character? (2012) (slides, video)
Oliver Nøglebæk and Mads Havshøj: Venue and Scenography toolbox (2012) (slides, cheatsheet, video)
Eirik Fatland: The Cost of Complexity (2012) (video)
Miriam Lundquist: Adapting to your target audience (2012) (video)
Trine Lise Lindahl: Designing for re-runnability (2012) (video)
Lars Nerbäck: Classical stories and Larp (2013) (further reading)
Åke Nolemo: Listening and fixing as a GM (2013) (slides)
Johanna Koljonen: Safety in Larp (2013) (slides)

Other programme items

Teresa Axner and others: Debrief bohnanza workshop (2012) (exercises)
Petter Karlsson: Meta-techniques applied workshop (2012) (slides)
Kristoffer Thurøe: Pre-larp workshop (2012) (slides)
Jana Pouchla: Make it theatrical! (2012) (video)

Other resources

Workshop Handbook - blog on workshop methods
Chamber games - downloadable games