The Elusive Shift
How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (Game Histories)
Jon Peterson
ISBN: | 9780262544900 |
Publisher: | MIT Press |
Published: | 21 April, 2022 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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The Elusive Shift
How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (Game Histories)
Jon Peterson
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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