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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789163378560
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Nordic Larp written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lizzie Stark
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613740670
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Leaving Mundania written by Lizzie Stark and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing a subculture only beginning to enter the imagination of mainstream America, this is the story of live action role-playing (LARP) games. A hybrid of games—such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend—LARP games are thriving and this book explores its multifaceted culture and related phenomenon, including the Society for Creative Anachronism, a medieval reenactment group that boasts more than 32,000 members. The history of LARP is detailed and is shown to have arisen from the pageantry of Tudor England and is currently being used as a training tool for the U.S. military. Along the way, the author duels foes with foam-padded weapons, lets the great elder god Cthulhu destroy her parents' beach house, and endures an existential awakening in the high-art LARP scene of Scandinavia.
Author : David Simkins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617309
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Arts of LARP written by David Simkins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography of a live-action role play (LARP) community examines the structure of play, how new participants are introduced and apprenticed into the culture, player expectations and motivations, and games as they are designed and as they are performed. The main focus is on LARP’s affordance for learning across a variety of disciplines and interests. The book is intended for LARP participants, academics interested in play or in collaborative development, those interested in new uses of familiar learning environments, and game developers with an interest in creating games with highly interactive narratives and co-creative play experiences in which the role of designer and player is blurred.
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Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868287394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (873 download)
Download or read book LARP written by and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warriors of Chaos, orcs, dwarfs, gunfighters, streetwalkers, zombies, mutants, Soldiers of the Apocalypse and vampires... the Duesseldorf-based photographer Boris Leist transports us into the world of Live Action Role Playing. The players in this book create characters, which have the power to shut out the modern world and one's own social surroundings. Liberated from customary structures, rules and conditions, they immerse themselves and move about in an alien world. After nearly four years, the photographer describes this project as an 'impressive journey through time and space'.
Author : Eleanor Saitta
Publisher : Knutpunkt
ISBN 13 : 9163745666
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp written by Eleanor Saitta and published by Knutpunkt. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official book of Knutpunkt 2014. Published in conjunction with the Knutpunkt 2014 conference.
Author : Jon Back
Publisher : Knutpunkt
ISBN 13 : 9163752182
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The Cutting Edge of Nordic Larp written by Jon Back and published by Knutpunkt. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official book of Knutpunkt 2014. Published in conjunc- tion with the Knutpunkt 2014 conference.
Author : Justin Calderone
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781515336266
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Larp - the Battle for Verona written by Justin Calderone and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes even a geek can become a hero. Dennis and his friends have been LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) since high school. Now, in his 20s, Dennis is seriously considering giving up LARPing for good. He's tired of dealing with his overzealous friend Mark; he's tired of his older brother Brad's constant put-downs; and he's tired of the fact that he doesn't have a girlfriend. Check that. Not a girlfriend, but the girlfriend. Alyssa--the one woman he's been pining over for years. Dennis and his fellow LARPers have never been considered cool, in their small island community of Verona, located off the coast of Washington State. But all of that is about to change . . . While Dennis and his friends are attending a big LARP tournament on the mainland, a rogue terrorist group of Mongolians in medieval garb, led by an American madman, invade Verona and take its citizens hostage--including their families and friends. When the LARPers find out what's happening in their home-town, they do what any dedicated LARPer would do: they put on their armor, strap on their swords, and fight their way home--LARP-style!
Author : Mike Sciandra
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1538212129
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Modern Nerd's Guide to LARPing written by Mike Sciandra and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "LARPing, or live-action role playing, is one of the hottest hobbies today. Its devoted participants develop detailed characters, inventing names and personalities, as well as costumes and props. The improvisational nature and opportunity for creativity at LARP events makes for a new experience every time. Readers will dive headfirst into this fascinating pastime, guided by experienced LARPer and writer Michael Sciandra through the ins and outs of participation. Age-appropriate engaging text and full-color photography from actual LARPers brings readers into this whole new exciting world."
Author : Katie Salen Tekinbas
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262240451
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Rules of Play written by Katie Salen Tekinbas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.
Author : Michal Mochocki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000367657
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Role-play as a Heritage Practice written by Michal Mochocki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop role-playing games (TRPG), and hobbyist historical reenactment (RH), from a combined game studies and heritage studies perspective. Demonstrating that non-digital role-plays, such as TRPG and LARP, share many features with RH, the book contends that all three may be considered as heritage practices. Studying these role-plays as three distinct genres of playful, participatory and performative forms of engagement with cultural heritage, Mochocki demonstrates how an exploration of the affordances of each genre can be valuable. Showing that a player’s engagement with history or heritage material is always multi-layered, the book clarifies that the layers may be conceptualised simultaneously as types of heritage authenticity and as types of in-game immersion. It is also made clear that RH, TRPG and LARP share commonalities with a multitude of other media, including video games, historical fiction and film. Existing within, and contributing to, the fiction and non-fiction mediasphere, these role-enactments are shaped by the same large-scale narratives and discourses that persons, families, communities, and nations use to build memory and identity. Role-play as a Heritage Practice will be of great interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, memory, nostalgia, role-playing, historical games, performance, fans and transmedia narratology.
Author : Vanessa Agnew
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429819374
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Reenactment Case Studies written by Vanessa Agnew and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics. Reenactment is a global phenomenon that ncompasses living history, historical reality television, performance art, theater, historically-informed music performance, experimental archeology, pilgrimage, battle reenactment, live-action role play, and other forms. These share a concern with simulating the past via authenticity, embodiment, affect, the performative and subjective. As such, reenactment constitutes a global form of popular historical knowledge-making, representation, and commemoration. Yet, in terms of its historical subject matter, styles, and subcultures, reenactment is often nationally or locally inflected. he book thus asks how domestic reenactment practices relate to global ones, as well as to the spread of new populisms, and postcolonial and decolonizing movements. he book is the first to address these questions through reenactment case studies drawn from various world regions. Forming a companion volume to the Reenactment Studies Handbook: Key Terms in the Field (2020), Reenactment Case Studies s aimed at a wide academic readership, especially in the fields of istory, film studies, memory studies, performance studies, museum and heritage studies, cultural and literary studies, and anthropology.
Author : Kipjo Ewers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Elf and the LARP written by Kipjo Ewers and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the land of Ferrin, Faylinn, a half-elf/half-orc woman, lives with her mother and works the life of a farmer enduring bigotry and cruelty.Until one fateful day, she is accidentally saved by a human ranger named Brian in the woods near her home.The problem is Brian is not a real ranger. He is a live-action role player that was somehow transported to her world.Can the two solve the mystery of how Brian ended up in Ferrin while avoiding the land's perils and, most importantly, ...killing each other?From the mind of Kipjo K. Ewers comes a comical fantasy tale for the ages. Find out what happens when fantasy meets roleplay in the Elf and the LARP.
Author : Jason Andrew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991131211
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Mind's Eye Theatre written by Jason Andrew and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a new night! Mind's Eye Theatre: Vampire The Masquerade is a new edition of a classic game that draws on more than two decades' worth of material from the iconic World of Darkness setting. The rules are designed and adapted specifically for the Live Action Roleplay environment, while maintaining the fidelity of the original game. Whether you're a veteran player or discovering live-action roleplaying for the first time, this book contains everything you need to create and play a vampire character or create your own live-action chronicle. All the clans. All the bloodlines. All the disciplines. This is a complete game, containing everything you need to enjoy Vampire The Masquerade in one of its most thrilling formats...plus an updated and unique storyline, designed specifically for Live-Action Vampire: The Masquerade, in which players and Storytellers can develop their own chronicles.
Author : Martin Eckhoff Andresen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471601978
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Playing the learning game written by Martin Eckhoff Andresen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Ewalt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451640501
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Of Dice and Men written by David M. Ewalt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive look at Dungeons & Dragons traces its origins on the battlefields of ancient Europe through the hysteria that linked it to satanic rituals and teen suicides and to its apotheosis as father of the modern video game industry.
Author : Toshiyuki Kaneda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811005753
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Simulation and Gaming in the Network Society written by Toshiyuki Kaneda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17–25 July 2015. Simulation and gaming has been used in a wide variety of areas ranging from early childhood education and school-age children, universities, and professional education, to policy exploration and social problem solving. Moreover, it now been drastically changing its features in the Internet Of Things (IOT) society while taking over a wide variety of aliases, such as serious games and gamification. Most of the papers on which this book’s chapters are based were written by academic researchers, both up-and-coming and well known. In addition, simulation and gaming is a translational system science going from theory to clinical cross-disciplinary topics. With this book, therefore, graduate students and higher-level researchers, educators, and practitioners can become familiar with the state-of-the-art academic research on simulation and gaming in the network society of the twenty-first century.
Author : José P. Zagal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029760
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies written by José P. Zagal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
