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The Year of Freeform in Finland

Yes, it seems like we pulled it off. The last entry in this very quiet blog was early 2005 and proclaimed that we wanted to make 2006 “The year of freeform in Finland”. We’ve just come home from Ropecon where we held no less than 9 gaming sessions, two 2-hour presentations and did one entry in the Game Designers’ Challenge. Good coverage and several people have approached me saying something like “you are among the Guests of Honour who’ve given most to Ropecon in terms of time”, and that most of our gaming sessions were much appreciated. There was also this one guy who came back for at least four sessions. He must really have appreciated them.

It seems like the Jeep’s activity are rising. Frederik is starting a new campaign where he is planning to use all the techniques from the dictionary and will write them down to create actual play reports of the techniques. He also mumbled something about making some kind of product out of the campaign and I’ve volunteered to proof-read and be the guy that reads and doesn’t understand because he wasn’t in the game.

I’m planning to put a team together to PLAY at Stockholm’s Gaming Convention, and hopefully also host a game, which would be the convention’s only freeform game by the look of it. I think Martin was the one who said “We need to get this con back on track at an early age” and I agree. This means organising freeform games.

Several con games are in the making. Plans to go to cons are on the way. I’m really liking this. The Jeep is on the move. In high gear.

–Tobias

2 comments August 20th, 2006

Truths and Techniques For Free!

Over a beer after Moira, Hakkis proclaimed that 2006 would be the year of freeform in Finland. In order not make Hakkis a false prophet, and for all the benefit of all others, we are mustering our resources to this end. Thus, we proudly present a new page on the internet on Jeepform, Freeform and Terminology, targeted at gamewrights first and players second. We give away truths and techniques for free, define terms, and explain Jeepform. It is not a manifest. It is not, a manifesto.

(The information is to a large extent a reshuffling of things earlier found in the JeepWiki. The structure there is however at best suboptimal.)

Dig in! We appreciate comments, additions, error reports, spelling corrections, etc. on the comment page here.

–Olle, Thorbiörn and Tobias

The URL, as link, for clarity: http://dict.jeepen.org.

7 comments August 29th, 2005

Jeepers involved in Knutpunkt

Several jeepers are involved in Knutpunkt, the annual convention on the craft and theory of role-playing (sorry Irene), targeted against organisers and larpwrights, rahter than participants. The Call for Paper for the Knutpunkt book (edited by Thorbiörn and Tobias) and the Call for Programme for the convention can be found just next door, at http://jeepen.org/knutpunkt/.

We look forward to giving you updates about this work in this blog in the near future.

6 comments August 27th, 2005

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to violence!

That’s a Russ Meyer quote. Nothing jeepish about that. Anyway, this is the first post in the Blog o’ Jeeps. Let’s see what happens here. For now, we’ll concentrate on two things. Knutpunkt and the fact that Dennis Gade Kofod of Bornholm fame is about to become a father. Dennis — SKRIFT!

4 comments August 24th, 2005