The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity - Couverture souple

Peterson, Jon

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ISBN 10 : 0262544903 ISBN 13 : 9780262544900

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2022

Synopsis

How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre.

When Dungeon & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, it sparked a renaissance in game design and critical thinking about games. D&D is now popularly considered to be the first role-playing game. But in the original rules, the term "role-playing" is nowhere to be found; D&D was marketed as a war game. In The Elusive Shift, Jon Peterson describes how players and scholars in the D&D community began to apply the term to D&D and similar games--and by doing so, established a new genre of games.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jon Peterson, a leading scholar of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games, is the author of Playing at the World and Dungeons & Dragons & Arcana: A Visual History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262544903
• ISBN 13: 9780262544900
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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