Non-fiction: Richard E. Byrd: Little America (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930) Little America is the U.S. explorer Richard Byrd’s account of his first Antarctic expedition. I’ve written before about Byrd’s two other Antarctic books, the account of the second expedition, called Discovery, and the account of Byrd’s winter alone (called Alone) Continue Reading
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Tilt-Juhana: Gravity Rush ja Sleeping Dogs
(Kuva: Sleeping Dogs) Tiltin sivuilla on julkaisut mun tekemät arvostelut peleistä Gravity Rush, Sleeping Dogs, New Super Mario Bros. 2 ja Spec Ops: the Line. Kirjoitan myös osallistumisen ongelmista videopeleissä ja teatterissa.
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #3: Astrópía & Role Models
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (Astrópía) Larp is a Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #2: Darkon, Monster Camp & Screw It, I’ll Play Make-Believe
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Darkon, Monster Camp and Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #1: Supernatural
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (A gay couple larping Continue Reading
Palestiinan ensimmäinen larppi
Palestiinan ensimmäinen larppi pelattiin Bir Zeitin kylässä 10.-12. elokuuta, 2012. Täällä Hesariin kirjoittamani artikkeli pelistä.
Stats for polar bears and space hamsters
Jukka Särkijärvi created stats for both polar bears and space hamsters for Valley of Eternity: There are many strange things in the Antarctic, and the giant space hamster is probably the strangest. This white-furred rodent is the size of an elephant seal, but much quicker in its movements. Nobody is Continue Reading
An Israeli airline borrowed my cell phone
(Copyright: an unknown El Al security person) I was traveling from Helsinki, Finland to Tel Aviv, Israel in August 2012. I was going to participate in a Palestinian larp, the first of its kind. Prior to this, I had no involvement with anything related to Palestine or Israel. The possibility Continue Reading
Greatest penguin RPG out there
Jukka Särkijärvi writes nice things about Valley of Eternity, now out in English. What is Valley of Eternity, you ask. Well, it is nothing less than the greatest penguin RPG of all time. Drawing from spaghetti westerns, Conan the Barbarian and March of the Penguins, it depicts a bleak and Continue Reading
Valley of Eternity published in English
In 2009, I published a roleplaying game called Ikuisuuden laakso. It was about the heroic struggles and tragic fates of lonely penguins and anti-penguins. In 2011 the game was translated into Danish as Evighedens dal by Rollespilsakademiet, and now in 2012 into English by Vagrant Workshop. The English title is Continue Reading