The Elusive Shift

The Elusive Shift
Author: Jon Peterson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2020-12-22
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0262360942


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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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Language: en
Pages: 332
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Categories: Games & Activities
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-22 - Publisher: MIT Press

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