The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

by Jon Peterson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544903
• ISBN13: 9780262544900
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"