Lifelike – Knutepunkt 2007

Character

• • Alive and Role playing
  • Stop saying “immersion”!
  • Immersion Revisited: Role-Playing as Interpretation and Narrative
  • Technologies of Experience
  • Role Conceptions and Role Consequences: Investigating the Different Consequences of Different Role Conceptions
  • Playing Beyond Facts: Immersion as a Transformation of Everydayness

Game

• • Larp Experience Design
  • Breaking the Invisible Rules: Borderline Role-Playing
  • Testing Larp Theories and Methods: Results for Year Three
  • Larp as Complex Networks: Measurable Quantities of Larp and their Uses
  • Five Weeks of Rebellion: Designing Momentum
  • Social Play Modes in Momentum
  • Castle Caldwell – Redux!
  • The Bristol Manifesto
  • My Name is Jimbo the Orc
  • What Was the Story About: Poetics for Larp in Practice

Scene

• • Eye-Witness to the Illusion: An Essay on the Impossibility of 360° Role-Playing
  • The ”Bigger! Better! More!” Problem – and Thoughts on How to Solve It
  • Impact of Relationships on Games
  • The Norwegian Larp Archive

Society

• • Warhammer Freestyle: Larp in Pedegogical Work
  • Confessions of a Schoolteacher: Experiences with Role-playing in Education
  • ’I Play Roles, Therefore I Am’: Placing Larp in a Broader Cultural Perspective
  • Larps and Their Cousins Through the Ages

Openings