Kuparihärkä-romaanin julkaisua juhlistetaan 4.10. Toverissa!
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Non-Digital: Our History
The Finnish Museum of Games opened a new exhibit on the history of tabletop roleplaying games in Finland yesterday. It’s wonderful stuff and I expected the feelings of nostalgia revisiting all these old things brought me. But the real surprise was in how much there was I’d never heard of Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Analog Game Studies vol. 1
I’ve worked a lot on tabletop games this year because of my involvement with Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition, and I developed a yearning for the kind of design writing about tabletop games that we have for larp in the form of the Knutepunkt books. As sometimes happens, it turns Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #166 – Kohteena Etelämanner
Discussion panel: University of Helsinki: Kohteena Etelämanner (Focus on Antarctica), 2018 Kohteena Etelämanner (Focus on Antarctica) is a public discussion held by the University of Helsinki on 27.8.2018. It’s also available as a video recording on the university website. In the discussion, three Finnish scientists who have worked at the Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #165 – Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
Musical: Lisa Peterson: Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (U.S.A. 2017) Ernest Shackleton Loves Me is a New York musical about a Brooklyn single mother and Ernest Shackleton’s Transantarctic journey. I didn’t see it live; a recording appeared on YLE Areena, where it will be for two more weeks. In the story, Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #164 – The Winter Over
Fiction: Matthew Iden: The Winter Over (Thomas & Mercer, 2017) At first glance, The Winter Over by Matthew Iden falls into the familiar category of Antarctic thrillers where manly men face the travails of human weakness and the unforgiving environment. And indeed, superficially the book seems to have some of Continue Reading
Juhana @ Ropecon
Meitsillä on Ropeconissa kaksi ohjelmaa: Tuhannen viillon kuolema -larpin con-versio lauantaina. Lisätietoja täällä. Apurahahakemustyöpaja sunnuntaina jossa käsitellään sitä miten roolipeli- ja larppiprojekteille saa kulttuuriapurahoja.
Rikkaiden unelmat -trilogian toinen osa Kuparihärkä ilmestyy syksyllä
Rikkaiden unelmat -trilogian toinen osa Kuparihärkä ilmestyy syksyllä 2018! Kirja on ennakkotilattavissa täältä!
Working on Vampire 5th Edition (also: Nazis)
I spent this spring working on the 5th edition of Vampire: the Masquerade. The first releases on the 5th edition line are the Corebook and the Camarilla and Anarch books. I’m the lead writer on the Anarch book but I also contributed to the two others. It’s been a strange Continue Reading
Chernobyl, Mon Amour now in crowdfunding!
In 2016, I published a roleplaying game about love and radioactivity in Finnish, called Tsernobyl, rakastettuni. The crowdfunding campaign for the English version, Chernobyl, Mon Amour, just launched, so check it out and back it!