The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (Game Histories) - Tapa blanda

Peterson, Jon

 
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Sinopsis

How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre.

When Dungeon & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, it sparked a renaissance in game design and critical thinking about games. D&D is now popularly considered to be the first role-playing game. But in the original rules, the term "role-playing" is nowhere to be found; D&D was marketed as a war game. In The Elusive Shift, Jon Peterson describes how players and scholars in the D&D community began to apply the term to D&D and similar games--and by doing so, established a new genre of games.

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Jon Peterson, a leading scholar of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games, is the author of Playing at the World and Dungeons & Dragons & Arcana: A Visual History.

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9780262044646: The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (Game Histories)

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ISBN 10:  0262044641 ISBN 13:  9780262044646
Editorial: The MIT Press, 2020
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