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Book Synopsis Forum-Based Role Playing Games as Digital Storytelling by : Csenge Virág Zalka
Download or read book Forum-Based Role Playing Games as Digital Storytelling written by Csenge Virág Zalka and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people hear the term "role-playing games," they tend to think of two things: a group of friends sitting around a table playing Dungeons & Dragons or video games with exciting graphics. Between those two, however, exists a third style of gaming. Hundreds of online forums offer gathering places for thousands of players--people who come together to role-play through writing. They create stories by taking turns, describing events through their characters' eyes. Whether it is the arena of the Hunger Games, the epic battles of the Marvel Universe or love stories in a fantasy version of New York, people build their own spaces of words, and inhabit them day after day. But what makes thousands of players, many teenagers among them, voluntarily type up novel-length stories? How do they use the resources of the Internet, gather images, sounds, and video clips to weave them into one coherent narrative? How do they create together through improvisation and negotiation, in ways that connect them to older forms of storytelling? Through observing more than a hundred websites and participating in five of them for a year, the author has created a pilot study that delves into a subculture of unbounded creativity.
Book Synopsis Digital Storytelling by : Carolyn Handler Miller
Download or read book Digital Storytelling written by Carolyn Handler Miller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the 'how' and 'why' of interactive storytelling to develop powerful characters, structures, and storylines specifically for digital entertainment.
Book Synopsis Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age by : Stephanie Hedge
Download or read book Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age written by Stephanie Hedge and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Digital Age has created massive technological and disciplinary shifts in tabletop role-playing, increasing the appreciation of games like Dungeons & Dragons. Millions tune in to watch and listen to RPG players on podcasts and streaming platforms, while virtual tabletops connect online players. Such shifts elicit new scholarly perspectives. This collection includes essays on the transmedia ecology that has connected analog with digital and audio spaces. Essays explore the boundaries of virtual tabletops and how users engage with a variety of technology to further role-playing. Authors map the growing diversity of the TRPG fandom and detail how players interact with RPG-related podcasts. Interviewed are content creators like Griffin McElroy of The Adventure Zone podcast, Roll20 co-creator Nolan T. Jones, board game designers Nikki Valens and Isaac Childres and fan artists Tracey Alvarez and Alex Schiltz. These essays and interviews expand the academic perspective to reflect the future of role-playing.
Book Synopsis Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling by : Chris Crawford
Download or read book Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling written by Chris Crawford and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a game designer or new media storyteller, you know that the story is critical to the success of your project. Telling that story interactively is an even greater challenge, one that involves approaching the story from many angles. Here to help you navigate and open your mind to more creative ways of producing your stories is the authority on interactive design and a longtime game development guru, Chris Crawford. To help you in your quest for the truly interactive story, Crawford provides a solid sampling of what works and doesn't work, and how to apply the lessons to your own storytelling projects. After laying out the fundamental ideas behind interactive storytelling and explaining some of the misconceptions that have crippled past efforts, the book delves into all the major systems that go into interactive storytelling: personality models, actors, props, stages, fate, verbs, history books, and more. Crawford also covers the Storytron technology he has been working on for several years, an engine that runs interactive electonic storyworlds, giving readers a first-hand look into practical storytelling methods.
Book Synopsis My Guide to RPG Storytelling by : Aron Christensen
Download or read book My Guide to RPG Storytelling written by Aron Christensen and published by Loose Leaf Stories. This book was released on 2012-10-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ve been role-playing all my life and I’ve run a lot of well-received campaigns. My players asked me what made my games work and this book is the result. This isn’t a rulebook for any gaming system, but it’s a how-to for my style of creating memorable NPCs, planning games, and engaging with your players. - Foreword, by Erica Lindquist - On Storytelling - Before the Game - Building Your Story - Running Your Game - Players & Player Characters - Problems - Rules & Mechanics - Setting & NPCs
Book Synopsis The Digital Role-Playing Game and Technical Communication by : Daniel Reardon
Download or read book The Digital Role-Playing Game and Technical Communication written by Daniel Reardon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.S. dollars each of the last two years, the digital games industry may one day challenge theatrical-release movies as the highest-grossing entertainment media in the world. In their examination of the tremendous cultural influence of digital games, Daniel Reardon and David Wright analyze three companies that have shaped the industry: Bethesda, located in Rockville, Maryland; BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta, and CD Projekt Red in Warsaw, Poland. Each company has used social media and technical content in the games to promote players' belief that players control the companies' game narratives. The result has been at times explosive, as empowered players often attempted to co-op the creative processes of games through discussion board forum demands, fund-raising campaigns to persuade companies to change or add game content, and modifications (modding) of the games through fan-created downloads. The result has changed the way we understand the interactive nature of digital games and the power of fan culture to shape those games.
Download or read book Being Dragonborn written by Mike Piero and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the bestselling and most influential video games of the past decade. From the return of world-threatening dragons to an ongoing civil war, the province of Skyrim is rich with adventure, lore, magic, history, and stunning vistas. Beyond its visual spectacle alone, Skyrim is an exemplary gameworld that reproduces out-of-game realities, controversies, and histories for its players. Being Dragonborn, then, comes to signify a host of ethical and ideological choices for the player, both inside and outside the gameworld. These essays show how playing Skyrim, in many ways, is akin to "playing" 21st century America with its various crises, conflicts, divisions, and inequalities. Topics covered include racial inequality and white supremacy, gender construction and misogyny, the politics of modding, rhetorics of gameplay, and narrative features.
Book Synopsis The Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games by : Jennifer Grouling Cover
Download or read book The Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-Playing Games written by Jennifer Grouling Cover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the rise of computer gaming, millions of adults still play face to face role playing games, which rely in part on social interaction to create stories. This work explores tabletop role playing game (TRPG) as a genre separate from computer role playing games. The relationship of TRPGs to other games is examined, as well as the interaction among the tabletop module, computer game, and novel versions of Dungeons & Dragons. Given particular attention are the narrative and linguistic structures of the gaming session, and the ways that players and gamemasters work together to construct narratives. The text also explores wider cultural influences that surround tabletop gamers.
Book Synopsis Story Engine Plus Edition by : Christian Aldridge
Download or read book Story Engine Plus Edition written by Christian Aldridge and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is one of the oldest living traditions, continuing today as theatre, literature, television and film. Roleplaying games evolved their own version of storytelling by piecing together a tale based on the outcome of dice rolls and player choices. Story Engine breathes new life into this multi-authored game format, infusing it with the fluidity of oral tradition while liberating it from the confines of turn-based mechanics. Create characters using adjectives and phrases. Like novels, the different elements of a character all contribute to the story -- even flaws and foibles. Collaborate to tell a story of the characters. Pool resources to work as a group to solve conflicts. Narrate the outcome of scenes based on success. This updated 2011 edition of the original ground-breaking Story Engine roleplaying game features: Complete rules, plus introductory Story Bones(TM) rules Optional rules for customizing the system Extensive advice on running games Three plug-ins for running different genres: Six Guns & Whiskey(TM) (Wild West), In the 'Zone(TM) (Sci-Fi), and Of Legend(TM) (Fantasy) Plug-in for use with the Maelstrom Storytelling(TM) world Two adventures
Book Synopsis Games and Narrative: Theory and Practice by : Barbaros Bostan
Download or read book Games and Narrative: Theory and Practice written by Barbaros Bostan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction and overview of the rapidly evolving topic of game narratives, presenting the new perspectives employed by researchers and the industry, highlighting the recent empirical findings that illustrate the nature of it. The first section deals with narrative design and theory, the second section includes social and cultural studies on game narrative, the third section focuses on new technologies and approaches for the topic, the fourth section presents practices and case studies, and the final section provides industry cases from professionals.
Book Synopsis Interactive Storytelling for Video Games by : Josiah Lebowitz
Download or read book Interactive Storytelling for Video Games written by Josiah Lebowitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really makes a video game story interactive? What's the best way to create an interactive story? How much control should players be given? Do they really want that control in the first place? Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds with the unconscious preferences? All of these questions and more are examined in this definitive book on interactive storytelling for video games. You'll get detailed descriptions of all major types of interactive stories, case studies of popular games (including Bioshock, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Heavy Rain, and Metal Gear Solid), and how players interact with them, and an in-depth analysis of the results of a national survey on player storytelling preferences in games. You'll get the expert advice you need to generate compelling and original game concepts and narratives.With Interactive Storytelling for Video Games, you'll:
Book Synopsis Storytelling in Video Games by : Amy M. Green
Download or read book Storytelling in Video Games written by Amy M. Green and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the structural features of design and play, this book explores video games as both compelling examples of story-telling and important cultural artifacts. The author analyzes fundamentals like immersion, world building and player agency and their role in crafting narratives in the Mass Effect series, BioShock, The Last of Us, Fallout 4 and many more. The text-focused “visual novel” genre is discussed as a form of interactive fiction.
Book Synopsis Interactive Storytelling by : Ulrike Spierling
Download or read book Interactive Storytelling written by Ulrike Spierling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008, held in Erfurt, Germany, in November 2008. The 19 revised full papers, 5 revised short papers, and 5 poster papers presented together with 3 invited lectures and 8 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submission. The papers are organized in topical sections on future perspectives on interactive digital storytelling, interactive storytelling applications, virtual characters and agents, user experience and dramatic immersion, architectures for story generation, models for drama management and interacting with stories, as well as authoring and creation of interactive narrative.
Download or read book Tellings written by Edmond Y. Chang and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tellings is a pen-and-paper, high fantasy role-playing game. Tellings is a point-based, skills-based RPG. This newly updated Tenth Edition (25th Anniversary) features a rich and robust character creation, 100+ combat and non-combat skills, 50+ character strengths and advantages, 30+ character weaknesses and limitations, a detailed and distinct magic and prayer system, unique fluid-time combat mechanics, and guidelines for role-playing and game mastering.
Book Synopsis So You've Landed in a Fantasy World by : Josiah Lebowitz
Download or read book So You've Landed in a Fantasy World written by Josiah Lebowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, it seems as if everyone from heroic-yet-angsty teenagers, to giggling schoolgirls, to middle-aged businessmen, to bored moms are finding themselves whisked away to save distant worlds from some kind of unspeakable evil. But how do you prepare for such an amazing adventure? And, more importantly, how do you make it through without getting horribly maimed or killed along the way? Fortunately, this handbook has analyzed the accounts of numerous heroes who have traveled to magical lands and returned to tell the tale in order to create the definitive guide to survival and success no matter where in the fantasyverse your adventures may take you. In these pages, you'll learn how to increase (or, if you prefer, decrease) your chances of successfully being chosen, what types of preparation and training you should undertake beforehand, and how to hit the ground running on arrival and become the legendary hero that you were always destined to be.* *Makes no guarantees of destined heroism and cannot be held liable if it turns out that you are instead destined to be eaten by a giant toad.
Book Synopsis Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America by : James Scorer
Download or read book Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America written by James Scorer and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and political disenfranchisement.
Book Synopsis Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning: Digital Role Playing as a Motivator of Study by : Baek, Young Kyun
Download or read book Gaming for Classroom-Based Learning: Digital Role Playing as a Motivator of Study written by Baek, Young Kyun and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of an international dialogue between researchers in educational technology, this title investigates where games can motivate students to learn and improve their knowledge and skills.
