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Tales for the Many: Process and Authorial Control in Multi-player Role-Playing Games

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2008)

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Multi-player Role-Playing Games form rare examples of interactive, collaborative storytelling systems, especially within the tabletop format. However, despite recent advances in the theory and general knowledge of the field, models of the operation of the storytelling process in multi-player non-digital role-playing games remains relatively unspecific. In this paper, a critical synthesis of the available theory is combined with observations from a series of experiments, in a detailed model for the gaming process.

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  1. Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark

    Anders Tychsen

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  2. TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, CH 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Nicolas Szilas

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Tychsen, A. (2008). Tales for the Many: Process and Authorial Control in Multi-player Role-Playing Games. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_38

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