States of Play (+DVD)

This book provides a snapshot of a design movement at a particular moment in time. It's a forum for new design ideas, but also an attempt to document the games we are making for posterity. By necessity, it's a confused collection, since making sense of what's happening now is a luxury that's only available to us after the fact. Because of this, the categories of "Art and Design" and "Documentation" are joined by "New Frontiers", articles that explore concepts and phenomena new to the Nordic larp scene. As befits the collective, collaborative and co-creative nature of roleplaying, most of the ideas I've had about this book were stolen from somewhere else. The documentation articles follow the lead of the Danish Do Larp book and Stenros and Montola's Nordic Larp. The physical dimensions of this book were cribbed from Larp, the Universe and Everything, the Norwegian Knutepunkt book of 2009. The variant covers were inspired by the ultra-rare "white edition" of the 2011 Knudepunkt