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Sweet home Alabama – Making fun serious

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Danish Live action roleplaying game Sweet Home Alabama entertains Danes and internationals in July 2013 in Denmark. Organizer Kasper Brandt presents the LARP for LOKI:

Imagine a small town in Alabama, south-state USA. Let us call it Hicksville.

Imagine now that Hicksville is everything you’ve ever heard about redneck and white trash stereotypes. Imagine a small town, of 100 rednecks, during the annual farmer’s expo, where families gather and intrigues blossom. Spice this up with illiteracy, incest, religious fanaticism, racism, violence, alcohol and banjos.

You get the idea.
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LARPs can change the world

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This article was originally posted to Imagonem.org  27th of March 2012.

LARPs can change the world

At least according to Norway’s new Minister of International Development, Heikki Holmås.

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– I started playing with Ian Livingstone’s The Forest of Doom when I was 15, the minister from western Norway says.
From the series of Fighting Fantasy books, the leap wasn’t long to Dungeons & Dragons.
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Come to Oslo! – Grenselandet, the Norwegian international larpfestival

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This text was written by Martin Nielsen from Grenselandet’s organizer team.

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When the winter is setting in in Norway, Oslo larpers gather inside Chateau Nuef to play the finest chambergames from all over Europe. For the third year, we invite larpwrights from many different countries to come and run their blackbox, freeform and other kind of chambergames for two days. And you are more than welcome to join us playing!


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Dissertation review: Montola, 2012

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J. Tuomas Harviainen writes about Markus Montola’s doctoral dissertation.

While to be defended in September, 2012, Markus Montola’s doctoral dissertation, On the Edge of the Magic Cirle: Understanding Role-playing and Pervasive Games, has already seen print, and I had the privilege of receiving an advance copy (and I admit to commenting on its manuscript at several points, so I may not be totally objective here, to be honest).

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