Watch us roll : essays on actual play and performance in tabletop role-playing games / edited by Shelly Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Shelly, 1983- editor.

Series:

Studies in gaming.

Studies in Gaming

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dungeons and Dragons (Game).

Webcasting.

Fantasy games--Technological innovations.

Fantasy games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Watch Us Roll

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"Actual play is a movement within role-playing gaming in which players livestream their gameplay for others to watch and enjoy. This new medium has allowed the playing of games to become a digestible, consumable text for individuals to watch, enjoy, learn from, and analyze. Bridging the gap between the analog and the digital, actual play is changing and challenging our expectations of tabletop role-playing and providing a space for new scholarship. This edited collection of essays focuses on Dungeons and Dragons actual play and examines this phenomenon from a variety of different disciplinary approaches. Authors explore how to define actual play, how fans interact with and affect the narrative and gameplay of actual play, the diversity of gamers (or lack thereof) within actual play media, and how audiences can use actual play media for more than mere entertainment"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : from actually playing to actual play / Shelly Jones

Actual play reports : Forge theory and the forums / Evan Torner

Birth of a new medium or just bad TV? : framing and fractality of actual play / Julia J.C. Blau

Critical role and audience Impact on tabletop roleplay / Robyn Hope

Communal narrative in actual play environments : roles of participants, observers and their intersections / Anthony David Franklin

Diversity and audience interaction in critical role and the adventure zone / G.L. van Os

Critical fails : fan reactions to player and character choices in critical role / Christine Dandrow

Actual play audience archive : analyzing the critical role fandom / Shelly Jones

Consumable play : a performative model of actual play networks / Mariah E. Marsden and Kelsey Paige Mason

Actual play as actual learning : what gamers, teachers and designers can learn about learning from actual play videos / Alex Lane

Conclusion / Shelly Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781476643434

1-4766-4343-1