Millions tune in to watch and listen to RPG players on podcasts and streaming platforms, while virtual tabletops connect online players. The Digital Age has created massive technological and disciplinary shifts in tabletop role-playing, increasing the appreciation of games like Dungeons & Dragons. Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop RPGs and FandomĮdited by Stephanie Hedge and Jennifer Grouling Some game entries also include behind-the-scenes knowledge from the developers themselves, providing exclusive details on the Marvel video game universe. All video games are covered in depth, with each entry including game background and a detailed review from the author. This is the first-ever book assessing the video games starring “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.” Featured games span consoles and platforms, from popular PlayStation and Xbox titles to an arcade game in danger of being lost to time. Over time, the games grew to include more and more heroes, culminating in playing experiences that featured the Avengers assembled. Similar to the chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Avengers video games first started with titles driven by single characters, like Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America. The Avengers in Video Games: A Guide to Solo Adventures and Mighty Marvel Team-Ups, with Creator Interviewsįor decades, Marvel Comics’ superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar grossing films or video games. Far from being an accidental offshoot of marginalized fan communities, role-playing games’ ability to hold contradictions in dynamic, creative tension made them a necessary and central product of the twentieth century.
All the paths of this journey are connected by the very quality that has made fantasy role-playing so powerful: it binds the limitless imagination into a “strict” framework of rules. This book also addresses race, religion, gender, fandom, and the place these games have within American capitalism. It looks at the earliest fantasy stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the fans–both readers and writers–who wanted to bring them to life, at the Midwestern landscape and the middle-class households that were the hobby’s birthplace, and at the struggle to find meaning and identity amidst cultural conflicts that drove many people into these communities of play. This new look at the hobby searches for the historical origins of role-playing games deep in the imaginative worlds of Western culture. Role-playing games seemed to appear of nowhere in the early 1970s and have been a quiet but steady presence in American culture ever since. Strictly Fantasy: The Cultural Roots of Tabletop Role-Playing Games Topics covered include racial inequality and white supremacy, gender construction and misogyny, the politics of modding, rhetorics of gameplay, and narrative features. These essays show how playing Skyrim, in many ways, is akin to “playing” 21st century America with its various crises, conflicts, divisions, and inequalities. Being Dragonborn, then, comes to signify a host of ethical and ideological choices for the player, both inside and outside the gameworld.
Beyond its visual spectacle alone, Skyrim is an exemplary gameworld that reproduces out-of-game realities, controversies, and histories for its players.
From the return of world-threatening dragons to an ongoing civil war, the province of Skyrim is rich with adventure, lore, magic, history, and stunning vistas. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the bestselling and most influential video games of the past decade.
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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.īeing Dragonborn: Critical Essays on The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimĮdited by Mike Piero and Marc A. This edited collection of essays focuses on Dungeons and Dragons actual play and examines this phenomenon from a variety of different disciplinary approaches. 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 new medium has allowed the playing of games to become a digestible, consumable text for individuals to watch, enjoy, learn from, and analyze. Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing GamesĪctual play is a movement within role-playing gaming in which players livestream their gameplay for others to watch and enjoy.
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