The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp

The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp
Author: Eleanor Saitta
Publisher: Knutpunkt
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9163745666

Official book of Knutpunkt 2014. Published in conjunction with the Knutpunkt 2014 conference.

Nordic Larp

Nordic Larp
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2010
Genre: Acting games
ISBN: 9789163378560

Role-Playing Games of Japan

Role-Playing Games of Japan
Author: Björn-Ole Kamm
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030509532

This book engages non-digital role-playing games—such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays—in and from Japan, to sketch their possibilities and fluidities in a global context. Currently, non-digital RPGs are experiencing a second boom worldwide and are increasingly gaining scholarly attention for their inter-media relations. This study concentrates on Japan, but does not emphasise unique Japanese characteristics, as the practice of embodying an RPG character is always contingently realised. The purpose is to trace the transcultural entanglements of RPG practices by mapping four arenas of conflict: the tension between reality and fiction; stereotypes of escapism; mediation across national borders; and the role of scholars in the making of role-playing game practices.

The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larp

The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larp
Author: Jon Back
Publisher: Knutpunkt
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9163752182

Official book of Knutpunkt 2014. Published in conjunc- tion with the Knutpunkt 2014 conference.

The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies
Author: José P. Zagal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2024-06-27
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1040029760

This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 40 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live-action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Baldur’s Gate, Genshin Impact, and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like worldbuilding, immersion, and player-character relations, as well as explore actual play and streaming, diversity, equity, inclusion, jubensha, therapeutic uses of RPGs, and storygames, journaling games, and other forms of text-based RPGs. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help students and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this interdisciplinary field. A comprehensive reference volume ideal for students and scholars of game studies and immersive experiences and those looking to learn more about the ever-growing, interdisciplinary field of RPG studies.

Analog Game Studies: Volume I

Analog Game Studies: Volume I
Author: Aaron Trammell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1365015475

Analog Game Studiesis a bi-monthy journal for the research and critique of analog games. We define analog games broadly and include work on tabletop and live-action role-playing games, board games, card games, pervasive games, game-like performances, carnival games, experimental games, and more.Analog Game Studieswas founded to reserve a space for scholarship on analog games in the wider field of game studies."

Shuffling the Deck: The Knutpunkt 2018 Printed Companion

Shuffling the Deck: The Knutpunkt 2018 Printed Companion
Author: Johannes Axner
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1387535021

The printed companion for Knutpunkt 2018, the yearly conference on Nordic larp that takes place in Sweden this year. It includes twenty selected essays on the theory and practice of larp design; including designer and organiser experiences, practical tips and tricks for designers as well as players, theoretical contributions, and debate articles.

Role-Playing Game Studies

Role-Playing Game Studies
Author: Sebastian Deterding
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1317268318

This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Fallout and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, or player–character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.

Immersive Theater and Activism

Immersive Theater and Activism
Author: Nandita Dinesh
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476634114

Immersive theater calls upon audience members to become participants, actors and "others." It traditionally offers binary roles--that of oppressor or that of victim--and thereby stands the risk of simplifying complex social situations. Challenging such binaries, this book articulates theatrical "grey zones" when addressing juvenile detention, wartime interventions and immigration processes. It presents scripts and strategies for directors and playwrights who want to create theatrical environments that are immersive and pedagogical; aesthetically evocative and politically provocative; simple and complex.

Bauhaus Futures

Bauhaus Futures
Author: Laura Forlano
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0262354934

Essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and a play explore the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. What would keep the Bauhaus up at night if it were practicing today? A century after its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, as an “experimental laboratory of the future,” who are the pioneering experimentalists who reinscribe or resist Bauhaus traditions? This book explores the varied legacies, influences, and futures of the Bauhaus. Many of the animating issues of the Bauhaus—its integration of research, teaching, and practice; its experimentation with materials; its democratization of design; its open-minded, heterogeneous approach to ideas, theories, methods, and styles—remain relevant. The contributors to Bauhaus Futures address these but go further, considering issues that design has largely ignored for the last hundred years: gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability. Their contributions take the form of essays, photo-essays, interviews, manifestos, diagrams, and even a play. They discuss, among other things, the Bauhaus curriculum and its contemporary offshoots; Bauhaus legacies at the MIT Media Lab, Black Mountain College, and elsewhere; the conflict between the Bauhaus ideal of humanist universalism and current approaches to design concerned with race and justice; designed objects, from the iconic to the precarious; textile and weaving work by women in the Bauhaus and the present day; and design and technology. Contributors Alice Arnold, Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Karen Kornblum Berntsen, Marshall Brown, Stuart Candy, Jessica Charlesworth, Elizabeth J. Chin, Taeyoon Choi, B. Coleman, Carl DiSalvo, Michael J. Golec, Kate Hennessy, Matthew Hockenberry, Joi Ito, Denisa Kera, N. Adriana Knouf, Silvia Lindtner, Shannon Mattern, Ramia Mazé, V. Mitch McEwen, Oliver Neumann, Paul Pangaro, Tim Parsons, Nassim Parvin, Joanne Pouzenc, Luiza Prado de O. Martin, Daniela K. Rosner, Natalie Saltiel, Trudi Lynn Smith, Carol Strohecker, Alex Taylor, Martin Thaler, Fred Turner, Andre Uhl, Jeff Watson, Robert Wiesenberger