Tän päivän Hesarissa on peräti kolme mun tekemää videopeliarvostelua. Mukana on isompi juttu Fallout 3:sta (josta ylläoleva kuva on peräisin) ja joukko miniarvosteluja, joista Fable II ja LittleBigPlanet on mun aikaansaannosta ja Mirror’s Edge ja Dead Space Jussi Ahlrothin käsialaa.
Games
Race in D&D
The way race is treated in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy stuff becomes harder to swallow as I get older. Even when I played the game as a kid, I had trouble with the orcs and goblins because there was just no real world equivalent to the idea of Continue Reading
Roolipelaaja 18 is at the printers!
Issue 18 of the roleplaying magazine I edit, Roolipelaaja, is at the printers. Here’s the cover:
Antarctic Research Blog #79 – LittleBigPlanet
Video game: LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule, 2008) LittleBigPlanet is a game in which a little critter (pictured above) runs around complex levels. The selling point of the game is that users can create their own levels, which are then shared on the game’s network. A number of these user-created levels are Continue Reading
Roolipelaaja 17 is now at the printers
Issue #17 of Roolipelaaja (The Roleplayer), the roleplaying magazine I edit, is now at the printers.
Lumimyrsky documentation
(Photo by Aarni Korpela) I created a documentation page for my larp Lumimyrsky (Snowstorm), played in Ropecon 2008. You can access it by clicking on the link in the right sidebar or here.
Post-Ropecon
Ropecon is over for now. I saw a lot of interesting programs, didn’t manage to see a lot of stuff I’d wanted to, and held a few program items of my own. My Roolipelaaja presentation experienced almost insurmoutable technical difficulties, but my larp Lumimyrsky (Snowstorm) went well. I’ll put up Continue Reading
My DD4-review in Helsingin Sanomat
My review of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition was published in Helsingin Sanomat today. Its also available on their website here. Its in Finnish.
Juhana Pettersson in Ropecon
The roleplaying event Ropecon is on 8.-10.8.2008 in Espoo, Finland. I have a number of programs there. Friday 20:00-22:00, the panel discussion Roolipelien dokumentaatio, in Sali 26 A Finnish-language discussion about the documentation of roleplaying games, led by Jaakko Stenros and featuring Johanna Koljonen, Juhana Pettersson and Jussi Ahlroth. 23:00-01:00, Continue Reading
RPGnet review of Playground Worlds
RPGnet has a review by Ryan Paddy of this year’s Knudebook Playground Worlds. Here’s what he has to say about my article, The Age of Indulgence: Juhana Pettersson is a funny guy, given to mock-serious writings. Here he discusses the potential of larp as a vehicle for physical indulgence. He Continue Reading