Verbal Communication of Story Facilitators in Multi-player Role-Playing Games

Anders Tychsen; Thea Brolund; Michael Hitchens

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_31

Verbal Communication of Story Facilitators in Multi-player Role-Playing Games

Anders Tychsen
, Thea Brolund
, Michael Hitchens

Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Conference article › Research › peer-review

Abstract

Multi-player role-playing games form one of the key examples of interactive, emergent and collaborative storytelling systems available. These games and the collaborative stories that they create, are commonly facilitated by a specialized participant, the game master. In the current study, the verbal communication of game masters in a series of role-playing game sessions is categorized and analyzed depending on form and content, using protocol analysis, establishing a model for the verbal communication of game masters.

Original language	English
Book series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Issue number	5334
Pages (from-to)	242-249
ISSN	0302-9743
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_31
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	The 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008 - Erfurt, Germany Duration: 26 Nov 2008 → 29 Nov 2008 Conference number: 1

Conference

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

Keywords

Role-playing games
Collaborative storytelling
Game master communication
Protocol analysis
Verbal communication model

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10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_31

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