Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds

AvNicholas J. Mizer

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Based on four years of interviews and game recordings from locations spanning the United States, this book offers a journey that explores how role-playing games use a combination of free-form imagination and tightly constrained rules to experience those realms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-21
Mått:148 x 210 x 11 mm
Vikt:251 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Games in Context
Antal sidor:174
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030291297

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Mer om författaren

Nicholas J. Mizer is a lecturer in games and culture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. His work has been published in numerous edited collections and in such journals as the Journal of Popular Culture and Evolution and Human Behavior. Mizer serves as co-chair of Game Studies for the Popular/American Culture Association, and is an editor at The Geek Anthropologist.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Entering Imagined Worlds through Enchanted Rationalization.- 3. A Life Well Played: How the Past Shapes our Experience of Worlds.- 4. Color, Song, and Choice Diction: Using Chromomancy to Summon Worlds.- 5. Responsibly and Accurately: Dwelling in Imagined Worlds.- 6. Journey's End.