I’ve read the second of the Analog Game Studies books in my quest to catch up on the series. You can check out the book here or read the articles here. After the introductory first book, this second volume is where the series really gets going. It feels like in Continue Reading
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Non-Digital: Slowquest and Roleplaying Game Culture
I was at the Helsinki Comics Festival recently, lured in by the promise of roleplaying game related indie stuff. The Australian illustrator Bodie Hartley was there with a series of little booklets published under the title Slowquest. They’re interesting because while they are not roleplaying games, they are most definitely Continue Reading
Kuparihärkä-romaanin julkkarit 4.10.!
Kuparihärkä-romaanin julkaisua juhlistetaan 4.10. Toverissa!
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!