Communication in Multi-player Role Playing Games – The Effect of Medium

Tychsen, Anders; Smith, Jonas Heide; Hitchens, Michael; Tosca, Susana

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“…While it might be expected that the CRPG format promotes role-playing due to the presence of virtual reality negating the need for coordinating the actions of the player characters in the shared and imagined game world of PnPs, Tychsen [2006] and Tychsen et al [2006b] observed the opposite effect. In their analysis of the communication of a series of PnP and CRPG game sessions, they noted that about 40-50% of the player utterances involved in PnP sessions were "in-character" (IC) (i.e., role-playing the game character), which provides an empirical measure for actual role-playing in RPGs.…”

Section: Character Use Across Rpg Platformsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Based on anecdotal evidence, as well as on extremely limited empirical material available on RPGs (e.g., Tychsen et al [2006b]), we would expect to find the highest degrees of role-playing and use of character in the PnP gaming sessions. While it might be expected that the CRPG format promotes role-playing due to the presence of virtual reality negating the need for coordinating the actions of the player characters in the shared and imagined game world of PnPs, Tychsen [2006] and Tychsen et al [2006b] observed the opposite effect.…”

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“…Following each game session the player groups were interviewed about their experiences in a focus group environment including one or more investigators. Tychsen et al [2006b] used content coding as a means of studying communication in multiplayer games, but they did not investigate the actual context of the coded utterances. utilized contextual analysis in evaluating cooperation and competition in multiplayer games, and a similar approach is adopted here in order to assess character usage across the three game platforms.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to this viewpoint is some of the very scarce empirical research on games (e.g., Mallon and Webb [2005]; Clarke and Duimering [2006]; Tychsen et al [2006b]). For example, Mellon and Webb [2005], on the basis of interviews with players following the playing of adventure and RPG-style computer games, noted that the players appreciated the inclusion of "psychological" traits, such as trust and suspicion, as the basis for behavior, relationships, and feedback between the player character and NPCs.…”

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__________________________________________________________________________________________Avatars are a commonly used mechanism for representing the player within the world of a game. The avatar forms the main point of interaction between the player and the game, and thus the avatar is an important game design feature. Character-based games combine the concept of an avatar with that of a character, enhancing the avatar with specific features that commonly are changeable, and which can be defined within or outside the framework of the game rules. Within digital games, the rules-based features have received comparatively more attention than, for example, the personalities and background histories of game characters. This article presents results from a comprehensive empirical study of the way complex game characters are utilized by players in multiplayer role-playing games across two different media platforms. The results indicate that adult players are capable of comprehending and utilizing game characters with well-defined personalities and backgrounds, as well as rules-based components. Furthermore, that the game format plays a significant role in the pattern of usage of the character elements. This pattern appears directly linked with variations in the way that the different game formats handle player characters and activate or promote the activation of, different forms of character elements. The degree to which different character elements are activated also has implications for the degree of player engagement in the character. ACM Reference Format:Tychsen, A., Hitchens, M., and Brolund, T. 2008. Character play -The use of game characters in multi-player role-playing games across platform.

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“…The role of the GM is a recurrent theme in interactive storytelling research [9,24,17,7,32,27,29] and the activity of the GM is often described at a high-level so as to illustrate successful real-time interactive storytelling management. The basic principles of GM operation have been the subject of investigation within hobbyist communities [e.g.…”

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Managing Emergent Character-Based Narrative

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for Interactive enterTAINment

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In this paper, we consider the role of narrative management in a character-based emergent narrative framework. The paper defines the problem and considers related work. It evaluates the role of the Game Master in non computer-based role-playing games and presents two initial implementations of a story facilitator within a character-based system using the FAtiMA agent architecture.Finally it considers what further work is required.

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Communication in Multi-player Role Playing Games – The Effect of Medium

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