Roleplaying from Jousting to LARPing
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Read/Watch/Listen
Deterding, Sebastian, and Jose Zagal. Role-Playing Game Studies: a Transmedial Approach. Routledge, 2018 (available on teams, therefore must be annotated from a local file)
chap. 2 "Definitions of “Role-Playing Games” by José P. Zagal and Sebastian Deterding
chap. 5 "Live-Action Role-Playing Games" J. Tuomas Harviainen, Rafael Bienia, Simon Brind, Michael Hitchens, Yaraslau I. Kot, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, David W. Simkins, Jaakko Stenros, and Ian Sturrock
A history of LARPing (blogs):
Raven, P. G. (2012a, September 20). This Is a Game: A (very) Brief History of Larp Part 1. Rhizome. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/sep/20/game-very-brief-history-larp-part-1/
Raven, P. G. (2012b, October 18). This Is More Than a Game: A (very) Brief History of Larp Part 2. Rhizome. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/oct/18/more-game/
Raven, P. G. (2012c, December 19). Everything is a Game: A (very) Brief History of Larp Part 3. Rhizome. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/dec/19/everything-game/
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