Jon Peterson

The Elusive Shift (eBook, ePUB)

How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262360944
• Artikelnr.: 58856031

Autorenporträt

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.