It Lives Again!

For a while there, we were sure it was dead. Like that scene in E. T. where the machine that goes “beep” no longer goes “beep”, and you cry because E. T. is gone and it’s all horribly sad. And then all of a sudden he moves, and is all like “phone home” and the audience is like “yay” and you go out and party and get drunk and have an orgy and the aliens finally land on earth FOR REAL and things are AMAZING!

It’s like that with Playground right now. The Danes have arrived to make it all better again.

The future of Playground Magazine

Dear Playground readers,

This last year has been interesting, fun, challenging and troublesome. We’ve got three issues out, and the fourth one is being done as I’m writing this.

And it will be our final issue.

Update: Playground will continue with a new Danish editor during 2012.

An interview with the editor

Here’s a quick little interview about the first issue.

 

Four pages from issue #1

Here are four pages from our first issue, which will be released at the Knudepunkt festival in Denmark.

Theme
The theme of the first issue of Playground is bleed, the way fictional experiences affect people and how our lives affect our fictional experiences. What happens when you fall in love with a videogame character? When you ask your neighbor to murder you in the name of art? Is it possible to make a game about a subject like gang rape? Apart from bleed, we also talk about larp in Poland, the S&M games of J. Tuomas Harviainen and getting laid through roleplay.

Pages

From “Creation of a Killer”:

First page : Second page

From “9/11 and Back to the future”:

First page : Second page

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A teaser!

This is a mockup for the first issue – the magazine will look something like this, but not exactly; the article is one that we like, but it won’t be in the first issue.

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Article by Eirik Fatland. Design by Li Xin & Thomas Hanssen.

Vision document

Right now, you can download our vision document here.