Role-playing games: the state of knowledge

Anders Drachen; Marinka Copier; Michael Hitchens; Markus Montola; Mirjam P. Eladhari; Jaakko Stenros

Role-playing games: the state of knowledge

Anders Drachen^*, Marinka Copier, Michael Hitchens, Markus Montola, Mirjam P. Eladhari, Jaakko Stenros

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School of Computing

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Abstract

Role-playing games form one of the major genres of games and exist across all hardware platforms as well outside of the technology domain in a huge variety of forms and formats. Role-playing oriented research has focused on culture, storytelling, game processes as well as e.g. user interaction, play experience and character design. Today role-playing games research is an established component of game studies. This panel presents a state of the art of the knowledge of role-playing games research covering a great variety of angles and interests, providing an overview of the current hot topics and future research directions within one of the key genres of games.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory. Proceedings of DiGRA 2009
Place of Publication	Tampere
Publisher	Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	4th Digital Games Research Association International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, DiGRA - 2009 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Sept 2009 → 4 Sept 2009

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Other	4th Digital Games Research Association International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, DiGRA - 2009
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	1/09/09 → 4/09/09

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Drachen, A, Copier, M, Hitchens, M, Montola, M, Eladhari, MP & Stenros, J 2009, Role-playing games: the state of knowledge. in Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory. Proceedings of DiGRA 2009. Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), Tampere, pp. 1-5, 4th Digital Games Research Association International Conference: Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory, DiGRA - 2009, London, United Kingdom, 1/09/09.

Role-playing games: the state of knowledge. / Drachen, Anders; Copier, Marinka; Hitchens, Michael et al.
Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory. Proceedings of DiGRA 2009. Tampere: Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), 2009. p. 1-5.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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