April 16th-19th 2009, at Haraldvangen, Norway
Game: Anger Management
Description
Anger Management is about a man, James, who is in therapy to deal with his anger and violence, towards others and towards his family. This game is played out over three scenes in a therapist’s office, where James had to confront a difficult moment that tried his patience that possible pushes him to beat his wife and child. The game is an unfinished draft. We'll collect feedback from players, possibly videotape or record parts of the sessions and feed that back to Ryan.
Who
Ryan Macklin is an American game designer from the Forge tradition and a known voice in RPG podcasting (e.g., Masterplan) and the editor of Finis, a collection of fictive last pages from solo adventure books sold for the benefit of the Katrina victims. Ryan is 30 and lives in California, US. Sadly, Ryan will not attend Knutepunkt, but is sending his latest manuscript for this game, that's been in development for several years. The on-site GMs are Tobias Wrigstad, Frederik Berg Østergaard and Thorbiörn Fritzon—a Swede in the US, a Dane in Switzerland and another Swede in Denmark. They are gamewrights from the freeform tradition.