GABRIEL WIDING

Tag: Knutpunkt

  • Against design published in the larp anthology Liminal Encounters

    Against design published in the larp anthology Liminal Encounters

    The annual Nordic live action role-play conference Knutpunkt/Solmukohta usually comes with an anthology on different aspects of larp. This year’s title was LIMINAL ENCOUNTERS: Evolving Discourse in Nordic and Nordic-inspired Larp and it was edited by Kaisa Kangas and her team. There are many good contributions to this year’s book. I can specifically recommend “The…

  • An infinite scenario

    An infinite scenario

    I put together a short experimental scenario for my workshop at this year’s annual nordic larp (live role-playing) conference Knutepunkt, which I’m happy to share. It’s easy to brief and could probably be played in 15 minutes. Rules / tips Downloadable characters (and cut it in 9 separate cards/sheet) Post-dramatic role-playing? The idea is to…

  • “Enjoy it while it lasts”

    All three books for the nordic live action role-playing (larp) conference Knudepunkt i now online as PDF. Each book has different approach, one of them being academic, another one documentary and a third one with more of a conversational style. I’ve contributed to the latter of them, with a short essay trying to read post-apocalyptic…

  • 6 Common Mistakes in Live Role-playing Design

    This article was published in the anthology Playing Reality by Interacting Arts 2010. DESIGNING LARPS IS A COMPLEX PROCESS and one must have courage to take on the responsibility of doing it. The players are demanding and bring creative power as well as infinite demands. I have assembled a few common mistakes that are made…

  • Alive and role-playing

    Published in lifelike edited by Gade, Thorup, 2007. Article in PDF. Live role-playing. For the last few years we have been talking and writing a lot about the latter part of the concept. The role-playing has been the main focus. We say live role-playing developed from talking- heads tabletop role-playing games. That is of course…

  • Läslista för lajvare och rollspelare

    Fëa, tidningen för levande rollspel, bad mig för runt ett år sedan att skriva ner några tankar om tio olika böcker relaterade till lajv. Jag skrev texten, men redaktionen beslutade sig för att lägga ner tidningen. Tanken var att låta fyra olika personer uttala sig om böckernas kvalitéer. Så blev det inte. De här utsagorna…

  • The Character, the Player and Their Shared Body

    The article is written by Gabriel Widing & Tova Gerge, published in Role, Play, Art, edited by Thorbiörn Fritzon and Tobias Wrigstad,  in conjunction with the 10th Knutpunkt Convention in Sweden, 2006. What happens to our bodies when we give them to characters and place them in new environments and situations? Where do these memories…

  • Kollektivt skrivande, experiment på Knutpunkt

    Under vår workshop i kollektivt skrivande på Knutepunkt i Norge använde vi programmet SubEthaEdit, tre bärbara macar och en projektor. Programmet hette först Hydra (innan de blev stämda, någon annan hade ju trademark på det mytiska monstret från antika grekland!) och det begreppet har levt kvar som verb i vårt gäng. Att hydra en text…

  • Post Panopticon

    This was my first text published in english and it has some weak parts but I’ve left it unchanged. It was published in the anthology Beyond role and play, edited by Montola & Stenroos in 2004. Analysing live action role-playing has always been problematic. The subjectivity of every experience makes the personal reflection a lame…