{"id":538,"date":"2009-01-24T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=538"},"modified":"2009-01-24T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:31:00","slug":"international-journal-of-roleplaying-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/01\/24\/international-journal-of-roleplaying-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"International Journal of Roleplaying launches"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Journal of Roleplaying<\/a> has launched its inaugural issue<\/a>. Many interesting articles.<\/p>\n

“The International Journal of Role-Playing is a response to a growing need for a place where the varied and wonderful fields of role-playing research and – development, covering academia, the industry and the
\narts, can exchange knowledge and research, form networks and communicate.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Editorial<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

The International Journal of\u00a0Role-Playing is a response to a\u00a0growing need for a place where\u00a0the varied and wonderful fields of\u00a0role-playing research and development, covering academia,\u00a0the industry and the arts, can\u00a0exchange knowledge and\u00a0research, form networks and\u00a0communicate.<\/p>\n

Hitchens, Michael and Anders Drachen. The Many Faces of Role-Playing Games<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

By examining a range of role-playing\u00a0games some common\u00a0features of them emerge. This\u00a0results in a definition that is\u00a0more successful then previous\u00a0ones at identifying both what is,\u00a0and what is not, a role-playing\u00a0game.<\/p>\n

Montola, Markus. The Invisible Rules of Role-Playing. The Social Framework of Role-Playing Process<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

This paper looks at the process of role-playing that takes place in various games. Role-play is a social activity, where three elements are always present: An imaginary game world, a power structure and personified player characters.<\/p>\n

Champion, Erik. Roles and Worlds in the Hybrid RPG Game of Oblivion<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

Single player games are now powerful enough to convey the impression of shared worlds with social presence and social agency. This paper explores a framework for defining virtual worlds. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Pittman, Jason and Christopher Paul.\u00a0Seeking Fulfillment: Comparing Role-Play In Table-top Gaming and World of Warcraft<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

Through ethnographic research and a survey of World of Warcraft (WoW) players, this study assess the relative fulfillment and frequency of online and offline role-playing for\u00a0WoW players.<\/p>\n

Harviainen, J. Tuomas. A Hermeneutical Approach to Role-Playing Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

This is an article about viewing role-playing games and role-playing game theory from a hermeneutical standpoint.\u00a0 In other words, it presents one view on how a role-playing situation can be seen as a set of texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Journal of Roleplaying has launched its inaugural issue. Many interesting articles. “The International Journal of Role-Playing is a response to a growing need for a place where the varied and wonderful fields of role-playing research and – development, covering academia, the industry and the arts, can exchange knowledge and research, form networks and … Continue reading “International Journal of Roleplaying launches”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}