Verbal Communication of Story Facilitators in Multi-player Role-Playing Games

Playful vs. serious instruction giving in a 3D game environment

“…This questionnaire was designed to evaluate player enjoyment in roleplaying games, measuring the degree in which (1) the user lost track of time while playing, (2) felt immersed in the game, (3) enjoyed the game, (4) felt engaged with the narrative aspects of the game, and (5) would like to play the game again. The FUN questionnaire looks like a good starting point for our evaluation purposes, and could easily be adapted to our own game context, as was also done by Tychsen et al [17]. Another potentially useful questionnaire is the Game Experience Questionnaire, which measures game experience along dimensions such as flow, immersion, affect and competence, as identified by [11].…”

Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-Telling

“…Both plot-and character-based approaches have looked at the role of story management, facilitation or direction [6,27,30,47], which can be placed at any of the four CAUSE points in Figure 1. RIDERS has a part to play in supporting a growing investigation of story-shaping in genres such as improvisational drama [41,45] and table-top role-play [6,47].…”

“…RIDERS has a part to play in supporting a growing investigation of story-shaping in genres such as improvisational drama [41,45] and table-top role-play [6,47].…”

“…Here it seems much more appropriate to focus on evaluating the impact on the user. This is the way Game Masters in table-top role playing games behave: their concern is more for whether the impact of the events in the story is satisfying for their players, and less for whether the events of the game would read as a satisfying story after the fact, were someone to write them down [47].…”