ＲＰＧ研究 Role-Playing Game Studies : Transmedia Foundations

Deterding, Sebastian (EDT)/ Zagal, José (EDT)

Routledge（2018/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 494 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138638907

Full Description

This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 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 Fallout 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 transmedia worldbuilding, immersion, transgressive play, or player-character relations. Each chapter includes definitions of key terms and recommended readings to help fans, students, and scholars new to RPG studies find their way into this new interdisciplinary field.

Contents

1 The Many Faces of Role-Playing Game Studies

Sebastian Deterding and José P. Zagal

PART I: DEFINITIONS

2 Definitions of "Role-Playing Games"

José P. Zagal and Sebastian Deterding

PART II: FORMS

3 Precursors

Jon Peterson

4 Tabletop Role-Playing Games

William J. White, Jonne Arjoranta, Michael Hitchens, Jon Peterson, Evan Torner, and Jonathan Walton

5 Live-Action Role-Playing Games

J. Tuomas Harviainen, Rafael Bienia, Simon Brind, Michael Hitchens, Yaraslau I. Kot, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, David W. Simkins, Jaakko Stenros, and Ian Sturrock

6 Single-Player Computer Role-Playing Games

Douglas Schules, Jon Peterson, and Martin Picard

7 Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games

Mark Chen, Riley Leary, Jon Peterson, and David W. Simkins

8 Online Freeform Role-Playing Games

Jessica Hammer

9 The Impact of Role-playing Games on Culture

Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Jaakko Stenros, and Staffan Björk

PART III: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

10 RPG Theorizing by Designers and Players

Evan Torner

11 Performance Studies and Role-Playing Games

Sarah Hoover, David W. Simkins, Sebastian Deterding, David Meldman, and Amanda Brown

12 Sociology and Role-Playing Games

J. Patrick Williams, David Kirschner, Nicholas Mizer, and Sebastian Deterding

13 Psychology and Role-Playing Games

Sarah Lynne Bowman and Andreas Lieberoth

14 Literary Studies and Role-Playing Games

David Jara and Evan Torner

15 Learning and Role-Playing Games

Jessica Hammer, Alexandra To, Karen Schrier, Sarah Lynne Bowman, and Geoff Kaufman

16 Economics and Role-Playing Games

Isaac Knowles and Edward Castronova

17 Science and Technology Studies and Role-Playing Games

Rafael Bienia

18 Game Design and Role-Playing Games

Staffan Björk and José P. Zagal

19 Communication Research and Role-Playing Games

William J. White

PART IV: INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUES

20 Worldbuilding in Role-Playing Games

Karen Schrier, Evan Torner, and Jessica Hammer

21 Role-Playing Games as Subculture and Fandom

Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Aaron Trammell

22 Immersion and Shared Imagination in Role-Playing Games

Sarah Lynne Bowman

23 Players and Their Characters in Role-Playing Games

Sarah Lynne Bowman and Karen Schrier

24 Transgressive Role-play

Jaakko Stenros and Sarah Lynne Bowman

25 Sexuality and the Erotic in Role-Play

Ashley ML Brown and Jaakko Stenros

26 Representation and Discrimination in Role-Playing Games

Aaron Trammell

27 Power and Control in Role-Playing Games

Jessica Hammer, Whitney Beltran, Jonathan Walton, and Moyra Turkington