As Larp Grows Up – Knutepunkt 2003

Content

• • Introduction

Classics

• • The Three Way Model
  • The Dogma 99 Manifesto
  • The Manifesto of the Turku School

That’s the larp!

• • Why do Bad Larps Happen to Good People?
  • The Meilahti School: Thoughts on Role-playing
  • Interaction: The Key Element of larp
  • Relation Theory
  • The Diegetic Rooms of Larp
  • Role-playing as Interactive Construction of Subjective Diegeses

The real world

• • The use of history in larp
  • Institutional development of Larp in Oslo
  • Play is Political
  • Learning by Fiction
  • Phantasmagorie, Simulacre and the Danger of Dragonlance
  • Larp as a Way to Enlightenment
  • Zen, Roleplay and Personal Expansion

Just do it!

• • Fuck the Audience
  • The Development of Ideas
  • Essentials of project management
  • The good character description
  • Three basic concepts for LARP organizers

Dictionary

The Lost Champerts

• • The multi-tier game immersion theory
  • Postmodernism