2025
Grasmo, Hanne
Reading Larps: The Larp Experience Through Larp Scripts Journal Article
In: Anatomy of Larp Thoughts: A Breathing Corpus, pp. 389-403, 2025, ISBN: 978-82-692633-2-9.
Links | Tags: Archives, Close reading, Larp
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Grasmo, Hanne
Neurospicy Larpers: Role-play as a Method for Working with Neurodivergent Youth with Challenging Behavior Regarding Sexuality Journal Article
In: Anatomy of Larp Thoughts: A Breathing Corpus, pp. 429-442, 2025, ISBN: 978-82-692633-2-9.
Links | Tags: Larp, Larp design, Neurodivergent, Role-play, Sexuality
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2024
Stenros, Jaakko; Montola, Markus; Saitta, Eleanor
The General Problem of Indexicality in Larp Design other
2024.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Indexicality, Larp, Larp design, Representation
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In this article we aim to make sense of larp in practice. We put into writing common structures of larp that “everyone already knows”, examine them, and explain why these features have the effects that they have. To do this, minimal tools from semiotics are borrowed. We discuss this aesthetic of doing things for real from the angle of the general problem of indexicality: all strategies for representation in larp carry inherent trade-offs in terms of what can be presented, how, by whom, to whom, with what likely interpretations, and under what circumstances. Since the (general) problem of indexicality has two sides – the difficulty of similar enough interpretations, and the deeply contextual assigning of meaning – we first look at why uniform interpretations are hard to foster, and then move on to the practical challenges of striving for authenticity in larp locations, setting, actions, knowledge, and finally the living bodies of the players. On the way, we also discuss indexicality as an explicit design ideal.
Harviainen, Tuomas; Bienia, Rafael; Bowman, Sarah Lynne; Brind, Simon; Hitchens, Michael; Kot, Yaraslau I; MacCallum-Stewart, Esther; Simkins, David W; Stenros, Jaakko; Sturrock, Ian; Shuo, Xiong
Live-Action Role-Playing Games Book Chapter
In: Zagal, Jose P.; Deterding, Sebastian (Ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies, pp. 91-114, Routledge, 2024, ISBN: 978-1-003-29804-5.
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Kangas, Kaisa; Arjoranta, Jonne; Kevätkoski, Ruska (Ed.)
Liminal Encounters: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp Collection
Ropecon ry, 2024, ISBN: 978-952-69423-4-6.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Larp, Nordic larp, Nordic-inspired larp
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Do you want to know what is going on in larp and where the discourse is going? Read the Solmukohta 2024 book, Liminal Encounters: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp. The book contains opinions and debate, concrete tips on how to make larps, and academic style analysis. At 400 pages, with 58 contributors, it both delivers fresh perspectives and further develops established theories.
2022
Grasmo, Hanne; Stenros, Jaakko
Nordic Erotic Larp: Designing for Sexual Arousal Journal Article
In: International Journal of Role-Playing, iss. 12, pp. 62-105, 2022, ISSN: 2210-4909.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Alibi, Design, Design abstract, Larp, Make-believe, Marketing, Nordic larp, Oppression, Queer games, Role-play, Sex in games, Sexual arousal
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title = {Nordic Erotic Larp: Designing for Sexual Arousal},
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date = {2022-10-05},
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abstract = {Erotic larp is an emerging trend in the Nordic countries. Sexuality and socio-dramatic play have been combined in numerous ways in the past; what is new about this concentration of erotic embodied adult pretend play is that it is emerging from a culture of reflexive, critical, and bespoke design, as a tradition of art games. By studying 25 design abstracts of Nordic art larps from the last decade, this article seeks not only to map, classify, organize, and understand the phenomena of erotic larp design, but to discuss how norms of sexuality are reflected in the Nordic larp community through looking at how sexuality is thematised, described, signalled, and designed. The analysis in this article is rooted in game studies and informed by sexuality studies. In the design abstracts, we uncover how sexuality is thematised by the designers and signalled to the players, as well as how larp rules, mechanics, and expectations are designed for erotic role-play interactions. The article shows that a Nordic tradition of larps with design for erotic and sexual play has emerged during the 201 Os, how new larp mechanics scaffold erotic role-play in ways that give room for sexual arousal through layered alibis, and that these form of larps are inclusive of people of marginalised genders and sexualities, as well as of sexual kinks. The discussion also addresses the tension between liberation and oppression of sexuality in erotic larp design, as well as tensions around player agency and compelling game mechanics.},
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Erotic larp is an emerging trend in the Nordic countries. Sexuality and socio-dramatic play have been combined in numerous ways in the past; what is new about this concentration of erotic embodied adult pretend play is that it is emerging from a culture of reflexive, critical, and bespoke design, as a tradition of art games. By studying 25 design abstracts of Nordic art larps from the last decade, this article seeks not only to map, classify, organize, and understand the phenomena of erotic larp design, but to discuss how norms of sexuality are reflected in the Nordic larp community through looking at how sexuality is thematised, described, signalled, and designed. The analysis in this article is rooted in game studies and informed by sexuality studies. In the design abstracts, we uncover how sexuality is thematised by the designers and signalled to the players, as well as how larp rules, mechanics, and expectations are designed for erotic role-play interactions. The article shows that a Nordic tradition of larps with design for erotic and sexual play has emerged during the 201 Os, how new larp mechanics scaffold erotic role-play in ways that give room for sexual arousal through layered alibis, and that these form of larps are inclusive of people of marginalised genders and sexualities, as well as of sexual kinks. The discussion also addresses the tension between liberation and oppression of sexuality in erotic larp design, as well as tensions around player agency and compelling game mechanics.
2021
Groth, Anna Emilie; Grasmo, Hanne; Edland, Tor Kjetil
Just A Little Lovin': The Larp Script other
2021.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Larp, Nordic larp, Scripts
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abstract = {Just a Little Lovin' is a larp about the summer when the AIDS epidemic hit the gay communities in New York City. The Larp follows the stories of two circles of friends celebrating 4th of July in 1982, 1983 and 1984. It is a larp about fear of death, sexual desire and deep friendship.
This book is the larp script you need to run Just a Little Lovin. It is based on the original design from 2011, and developed and refined during multiple runs over the last decade. This monograph allows you to explore a Nordic larp, as an example of the custom-made design typical of this interactive artform.},
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Just a Little Lovin' is a larp about the summer when the AIDS epidemic hit the gay communities in New York City. The Larp follows the stories of two circles of friends celebrating 4th of July in 1982, 1983 and 1984. It is a larp about fear of death, sexual desire and deep friendship.
This book is the larp script you need to run Just a Little Lovin. It is based on the original design from 2011, and developed and refined during multiple runs over the last decade. This monograph allows you to explore a Nordic larp, as an example of the custom-made design typical of this interactive artform.
This book is the larp script you need to run Just a Little Lovin. It is based on the original design from 2011, and developed and refined during multiple runs over the last decade. This monograph allows you to explore a Nordic larp, as an example of the custom-made design typical of this interactive artform.
Pöllänen, Sonja; Arjoranta, Jonne
"Whose Were Those Feelings?" Affect and Likenessing in Halat hisar Live Action Role-Playing Game Journal Article
In: International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 24, iss. 6, pp. 899-916, 2021, ISSN: 1367-8779.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Affect, Affective tonality, Affektiivisuus, Larp, Larppaus, Likeness, Likenessing, Liveroolipelit, Role-play, Roolipelit, Samanlaisuus, Sosiaaliset suhteet, Subjektiivisuus, Toimintaan liittyvä rooli, Tunteet, Vaikutukseen liittyvä rooli, Yhteisöllisyys
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doi = {10.1177/13678779211023520},
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Halat hisar was a live action role-playing game (larp) organized in Finland in 2016. Halat hisar’s ambition as a larp was to mirror the current situation in Palestine. In larps, participants take on different roles and improvise without the presence of an audience. Larps offer a place where emotions and affectivities are transmitted through the embodiment of characters. Larps offer forms of likenessing, which create new affective states for the players. We conclude that larps can be powerful tools for portraying political alternatives of actual events, and they can serve a role in raising awareness. Larps offer a productive context for studying subjectivities where the focus is on affective relationalities because larps place the participants in social positions where they take up roles that might be inaccessible to them in everyday life. Larps offer a window to visit other ‘world-lines’ – and other ways of living.
Stenros, Jaakko
Foreword other
2021.
Links | Tags: Larp, Larppaus, Role-playing games
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Stenros, Jaakko
Juhana Pettersson: Artist of Experience other
2021.
Links | Tags: Juhana Petterson, Larp, Larppaus, Role-playing games
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date = {2021-01-14},
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2020
Toft, Ida Marie; Harrer, Sabine
Design Bleed: A Standpoint Methodology for Game Design Proceedings Article
In: DiGRA ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere, DiGRA, 2020, ISSN: 2342-9666.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Design bleed, Game design, Game jam, Hegemony of play, Larp, Live-action role playing, Standpoint feminism
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title = {Design Bleed: A Standpoint Methodology for Game Design},
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abstract = {In this paper we develop the concept of design bleed, a standpoint approach to game design. We adopt the terminology of bleed from the Nordic community around live- action role-playing games and use it as a lens on game development. Based on our own experiences in developing two game jam games, Lovebirds and Get Your Rocks On, we identify four ‘ingredients’ for bleed-inspired game design. We develop design bleed as a community affirming design practice which can be used as a tool for carving out shared standpoints. We suggest that this is particularly productive for game designers at the margins, as it has potential to be creatively and emotionally healing but can also invite expressions for political resistance to normative game culture.},
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In this paper we develop the concept of design bleed, a standpoint approach to game design. We adopt the terminology of bleed from the Nordic community around live- action role-playing games and use it as a lens on game development. Based on our own experiences in developing two game jam games, Lovebirds and Get Your Rocks On, we identify four ‘ingredients’ for bleed-inspired game design. We develop design bleed as a community affirming design practice which can be used as a tool for carving out shared standpoints. We suggest that this is particularly productive for game designers at the margins, as it has potential to be creatively and emotionally healing but can also invite expressions for political resistance to normative game culture.
Stenros, Jaakko; MacDonald, James Lórien
Beauty in Larp other
2020.
Links | Tags: Aesthetics, Beautiful boredom, Larp
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author = {Jaakko Stenros and James Lórien MacDonald},
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2019
Stenros, Jaakko; Sihvonen, Tanja
Queer while Larping: Community, Identity, and Affective Labor in Nordic Live Action Role-Playing Journal Article
In: Analog Game Studies, vol. 4, iss. 4, 2019, ISSN: 2643-7112.
Links | Tags: Finland, Identity, Larp, Live-action role playing, Queer
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issn = {2643-7112},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-12-23},
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Arjoranta, Jonne; Friman, Usva; Koskimaa, Raine; Mäyrä, Frans; Sotamaa, Olli; Suominen, Jaakko
Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja 2019 Book
Pelitutkimuksen seura ry, 2019, ISSN: 1798-355X.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Death, Gamification, Geocaching, Geokätköily, Kuolema, Larp, Live-action role playing, Location-based game, Mourning, Muistelutyö, Paikkasidonnainen pelaaminen, Pelillistyminen, Reminiscence work, Suru, Video games, Videopelit
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Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirjan 2019 aloittaa Joelssonin ja Reunasen tutkimusartikkeli, joka yhdistää pelitutkimusta kuolemantutkimukseen. Joelsson ja Reunanen korostavat, miten kuolema ja kuoleminen ovat keskeinen, jopa itsestäänselvä osa useimpia pelejä, mutta tutkimus on toistaiseksi kommentoinut aihetta vain vähän. He analysoivat, miten kuoleminen, hautaaminen ja sureminen näkyvät erilaisissa peleissä 1980-luvulta 2010-luvulle.
Vuosikirjan katsausartikkelit käsittelevät liveroolipelaamisen käyttämistä muistelutyön menetelmänä ja geokätköilyn taiteellistamista. Vuosikirja sisältää myös kaksi kirja-arviota, kirjoista Role-playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations (2018) ja Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games (2018), sekä pelitutkimukseen liittyvän lektion.},
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Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja on vertaisarvioitu, avoin tiedejulkaisu. Pelitutkimus on sekä monitieteinen tutkimusala että nuori akateeminen oppiaine, jonka parissa toimivien tutkijoiden huomion keskiössä on digitaalisten pelien erityisluonne. Suomessa tehdään korkeatasoista pelitutkimusta, jonka tulokset julkaistaan pääasiassa kansainvälisillä foorumeilla. Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirja tuo uusimpia tutkimustuloksia yleisön saataville myös suomeksi.
Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirjan 2019 aloittaa Joelssonin ja Reunasen tutkimusartikkeli, joka yhdistää pelitutkimusta kuolemantutkimukseen. Joelsson ja Reunanen korostavat, miten kuolema ja kuoleminen ovat keskeinen, jopa itsestäänselvä osa useimpia pelejä, mutta tutkimus on toistaiseksi kommentoinut aihetta vain vähän. He analysoivat, miten kuoleminen, hautaaminen ja sureminen näkyvät erilaisissa peleissä 1980-luvulta 2010-luvulle.
Vuosikirjan katsausartikkelit käsittelevät liveroolipelaamisen käyttämistä muistelutyön menetelmänä ja geokätköilyn taiteellistamista. Vuosikirja sisältää myös kaksi kirja-arviota, kirjoista Role-playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations (2018) ja Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games (2018), sekä pelitutkimukseen liittyvän lektion.
Pelitutkimuksen vuosikirjan 2019 aloittaa Joelssonin ja Reunasen tutkimusartikkeli, joka yhdistää pelitutkimusta kuolemantutkimukseen. Joelsson ja Reunanen korostavat, miten kuolema ja kuoleminen ovat keskeinen, jopa itsestäänselvä osa useimpia pelejä, mutta tutkimus on toistaiseksi kommentoinut aihetta vain vähän. He analysoivat, miten kuoleminen, hautaaminen ja sureminen näkyvät erilaisissa peleissä 1980-luvulta 2010-luvulle.
Vuosikirjan katsausartikkelit käsittelevät liveroolipelaamisen käyttämistä muistelutyön menetelmänä ja geokätköilyn taiteellistamista. Vuosikirja sisältää myös kaksi kirja-arviota, kirjoista Role-playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations (2018) ja Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games (2018), sekä pelitutkimukseen liittyvän lektion.
Koljonen, Johanna; Stenros, Jaakko; Grove, Anne Serup; Skjønsfjell, Aina; Nilsen, Elin (Ed.)
Larp Design: Creating Role-Play Experiences Book
Landsforeningen Bifrost, 2019, ISBN: 978-87-971140-0-1.
Abstract | Links | Tags: Accessibility, Experience design, Game design, Larp, Larp design, Live-action role playing
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editor = {Johanna Koljonen and Jaakko Stenros and Anne Serup Grove and Aina Skjønsfjell and Elin Nilsen},
url = {https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-2260-1},
isbn = {978-87-971140-0-1},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-02-07},
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abstract = {How do you create a new and original larp from scratch? How do you go from idea to execution and to debriefing? What do you need to know about designing workshops, character creation, worldbuilding, the soundscape, metatechniques, debriefing, and all the other parts of creating a role-play experience?
More than 60 larpwrights from ten countries contribute concise and informative advice on bespoke larp design to this practical and instantly useful book. Larp Design explores the tools and principles of designing collaborative, rules-light larp. Today this tradition, originating in the Nordic countries and centred on the annual Knutepunkt conference, is an international movement.
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How do you create a new and original larp from scratch? How do you go from idea to execution and to debriefing? What do you need to know about designing workshops, character creation, worldbuilding, the soundscape, metatechniques, debriefing, and all the other parts of creating a role-play experience?
More than 60 larpwrights from ten countries contribute concise and informative advice on bespoke larp design to this practical and instantly useful book. Larp Design explores the tools and principles of designing collaborative, rules-light larp. Today this tradition, originating in the Nordic countries and centred on the annual Knutepunkt conference, is an international movement.
More than 60 larpwrights from ten countries contribute concise and informative advice on bespoke larp design to this practical and instantly useful book. Larp Design explores the tools and principles of designing collaborative, rules-light larp. Today this tradition, originating in the Nordic countries and centred on the annual Knutepunkt conference, is an international movement.
Stenros, Jaakko; Montola, Markus
Basic Concepts in Larp Design other
2019.
Links | Tags: Game design, Larp, Larp design, Live-action role playing
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Stenros, Jaakko
Larp and Seriousness other
2019.
Links | Tags: Larp, Larp design, Live-action role playing, Serious games
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date = {2019-02-07},
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2018
Harviainen, J. Tuomas; Bienia, Rafael; Brind, Simon; Hitchens, Michael; Kot, Yaraslau I.; MacCallum-Stewart, Esther; Simkins, David W.; Stenros, Jaakko; Sturrock, Ian
Live-Action Role-Playing Games Book Section
In: Zagal, José P.; Deterding, Sebastian (Ed.): Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations, pp. 87–106, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-8153-6920-2.
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title = {Live-Action Role-Playing Games},
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editor = {José P. Zagal and Sebastian Deterding},
url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315637532-5/live-action-role-playing-games-tuomas-harviainen-rafael-bienia-simon-brind-michael-hitchens-yaraslau-kot-esther-maccallum-stewart-david-simkins-jaakko-stenros-ian-sturrock},
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abstract = {This chapter discusses the ways in which live-action role-playing (larp) differs from other forms of role-playing. Larps are physically performed forms of role-playing practiced in many places around the globe. Different larp communities often distinguish themselves from each other by their standards and practices related to interpersonal touch. The embodied aspect of larps often means that they are constrained by the physical locations where they are played. For example, it is difficult to play a larp that takes place in a large space in a small hotel conference room. An equally important trajectory involves larp focused on character interaction and relationships. The first popular verbal interactive events were a form of theater in which the audience played roles. Larps, as forms of physical expression, exist on the borderline of several expressive forms, owing their existence not just to tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) and reenactment but also to children's pretend play, educational applications, and commercial interests.},
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This chapter discusses the ways in which live-action role-playing (larp) differs from other forms of role-playing. Larps are physically performed forms of role-playing practiced in many places around the globe. Different larp communities often distinguish themselves from each other by their standards and practices related to interpersonal touch. The embodied aspect of larps often means that they are constrained by the physical locations where they are played. For example, it is difficult to play a larp that takes place in a large space in a small hotel conference room. An equally important trajectory involves larp focused on character interaction and relationships. The first popular verbal interactive events were a form of theater in which the audience played roles. Larps, as forms of physical expression, exist on the borderline of several expressive forms, owing their existence not just to tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) and reenactment but also to children's pretend play, educational applications, and commercial interests.