Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies

This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume.Collaboratively authored by more than 40 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live-action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively multiplayer online RPG franchises, like Baldur's Gate, Genshin Impact, and World of Warcraft. Individual chapters survey the perspectives, concepts, and findings on RPGs from key disciplines, like performance studies, sociology, psychology, education, economics, game design, literary studies, and more. Other chapters integrate insights from RPG studies around broadly significant topics, like worldbuilding, immersion, and player-character relations, as well as explore actual play and streaming, diversity, equity, inclusion, jubensha, therapeutic uses of RPGs, and storygames, journaling games, and other forms of text-based RPGs. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help students and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this interdisciplinary field.A comprehensive reference volume ideal for students and scholars of game studies and immersive experiences and those looking to learn more about the ever-growing, interdisciplinary field of RPG studies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: José P. Zagal (Editore), Sebastian Deterding (Editore), Deterding Sebastian (Editore)
• Autori: Jose P. (University of Utah Zagal
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 13.06.2024
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9781032277783
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227778-3
• Numero di pagine: 504
• Serie: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Handbooks
• Categorie: Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, COMPUTERS / Programming / Games, Performance Studies, Games development & programming, Games development and programming, Digital Animation, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation, participatory culture, immersive storytelling, narrative immersion, player agency, interdisciplinary RPG research, therapeutic gaming