Nordic Larp, an excellent collection of articles about games in the Nordic Larp tradition has won the prestigious American Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming. The collection was edited by Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros, and I contributed an article about the game Luminescence. Here’s the Finnish press release: Continue Reading
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Research Blog Antarctica #113: Black Ice
Novel: Matt Dickinson: Black Ice (Hutchinson, 2002) Black Ice is a paperback thriller set in the world of contemporary Antarctic exploration. It doesn’t have any particular literary aspirations, but the Antarctic milieu is depicted well. The story concerns an expedition to cross Antarctica at its widest point by two men: Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #112: Antarctica beer
(Photo: Juhana Pettersson, 2012) Antarctica is a brand of beer available at least in Argentina and Brazil. I got a can from a small supermarket on the island of Ilha Grande, close to Rio de Janeiro. There was a tiny hole in the side of the can, spraying an almost Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #111: Words of Captain Scott
Documentary: Paul Copeland: Words of Captain Scott (U.K. 2012) Robert Falcon Scott and his attempt to be first at the South Pole is probably the single most talked about subject in Antarctic literature. Words of Captain Scott is an hour-long British tv documentary trying to breathe life into the old Continue Reading
Juhana Ropeconissa
Suomen paras, hienon tai ainakin suurin roolipelitapahtuma Ropecon järjestetään Espoon Dipolissa 27. – 29. 7. 2012. Mä olen mukana kolmessa ohjelmanumerossa: Larp ja Taide Su 13.00 – Su 15.00, Sali 26 Paneeli Järjestäjä: Katri Lassila, Vili Nissinen, Mike Pohjola, Juhana Pettersson Keskustelussa larppaavat taiteilijat ja taiteelliset larppaajat luotaavat taiteen ja live-roolipelien Continue Reading
Roolipelaajan vanhoja numeroita App Storessa
Toimin vuosina 2007, 2008 ja 2009 roolipelilehti Roolipelaajan päätoimittajana. Taloudellisesti lehti ei ollut kummoinenkaan menestys, mutta sisällöllisesti olen ylpeä työstä jota minä ja edeltäjäni Mikko Rautalahti teimme. Nyt vanhoja Roolipelaajan numeroita on jälleen saatavilla, tällä kertaa digitaalisessa muodossa Applen App Storessa. Digi-Roolipelaajia voi tsekkailla iPhoneilla ja iPadeilla pientä korvausta vastaan. Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #110: Berserk in the Antarctic
Non-fiction: David Mercy: Berserk in the Antarctic (Summersdale, 2006) Berserk in the Antarctic is a travel book in which the author, David Mercy, makes his way to Antarctica from Chile in a small sailing boat staffed by him, the young Norwegian captain and an unreliable guy called Manuel. The craziness Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #109 – Happy Feet 2
Film: George Miller: Happy Feet 2 (Australia, 2011) The two biggest subsections of Antarctic books, movies and other media are the men of the Heroic Age such as Scott and Amundsen and penguins. The first Happy Feet movie is probably the best example of penguin-related Antarctic children’s entertainemnt, at least Continue Reading
About States of Play
Jukka Särkijärvi, one of the proofreaders of my larp article collection States of Play, writes about the book here.
Leaving Mundania
This is a review of Lizzie Stark’s book Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing. Since I’m in the book, I cannot claim complete objectivity. Leaving Mundania is a subjective description of Stark’s journey of discovery into the world of larp in the U.S. and later in Continue Reading