Designing Goals for Online Role-Players
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The increasing popularity of persistent worlds and the predicted rise of pervasive gaming, both having a strong inherent potential for role-playing, stress a classical challenge of persistent world industry: in addition to the regular gamer audience, the role-player audience is growing. Catering to role-players requires re-thinking in the design of game structures and narrative structures. The most fundamental conceptual differences between role-player and regular gamer playing styles regard goals, game worlds and the idea of meaningful play.
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The social contract of role-playing is constructed and enforced similarly to other social contracts, rarely made explicit, and enforced only by social pressure.
“This social contract is constructed and enforced similarly to other social contracts, meaning that it is rarely made explicit (see Montola 2005), and is enforced only by social pressure.”
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The paper describes role-players’ “implicit consequence negotiation” (Abstract), which supports the idea that some expectations are left unstated. It does not say that the social contract is rarely made explicit or enforced only by social pressure; the Meaningful Role-Play section also gives an example of an explicit community rule. (LLM, conf=0.72)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredA parallel system to deconstructing role-playing into exogenous, endogenous and diegetic goals exists.
“A parallel system to deconstructing role-playing into exogenous (player-brought), endogenous (inherent to game) and diegetic (in-game) goals also exists (for this division system, see Montola 2005).”
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A Hermeneutical Approach to Role-Playing Analysis
Harviainen, J. T. (2008) · International Journal of Role-Playing · doi:10.33063/ijrp.vi1.188 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
- Authors
- Montola, M.
- Affiliations
- Tampere University (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Montola, Markus
- Venue
- DiGRA Digital Library
- Published
- 2005-01-01
- Volume
- 3
- ISSN
- 2342-9666
- OpenAlex
- W2154801947
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 3.86
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Summit (Simon Fraser University) (submittedVersion)
- Digital Games Research Association Conference
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence in Games
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
- Keywords
- role-playing games, game design, game goals, pervasive gaming, narrative structure, meaningful play, player motivation
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