Tales for the Many: Process and Authorial Control in Multi-player Role-Playing Games

Anders Tychsen

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_38

Tales for the Many: Process and Authorial Control in Multi-player Role-Playing Games

Anders Tychsen

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Abstract

Multi-player Role-Playing Games form rare examples of interactive, collaborative storytelling systems, especially within the tabletop format. However, despite recent advances in the theory and general knowledge of the field, models of the operation of the storytelling process in multi-player non-digital role-playing games remains relatively unspecific. In this paper, a critical synthesis of the available theory is combined with observations from a series of experiments, in a detailed model for the gaming process.

Original language	English
Book series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages (from-to)	309-320
ISSN	0302-9743
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_38
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008 - Erfurt, Germany Duration: 26 Nov 2008 → 29 Nov 2008 Conference number: 1

Conference

Conference	First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008
Number	1
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Erfurt
Period	26/11/2008 → 29/11/2008

Keywords

Multi-player Role-Playing Games
Interactive Storytelling
Collaborative Storytelling
Tabletop Gaming
Storytelling Process Model

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10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_38

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