The Persuasive Language of Action

2014 ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Martin van Velsen
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

Besides the visual splendor pervasive in the current generation of digital video games, especially those where players roam simulated landscapes and imaginary worlds, few efforts have looked at the resources available to embed human meaning into a game's experience. From the art of persuasion to the mechanics of meaning-making in digital video games and table-top role playing games, this chapter investigates the changes and new opportunities available that can extend our understanding of digital rhetoric. Starting with a breakdown of the role of choice, workable models from psychology and the untapped body of knowledge from table-top role playing games are shown to allow game designers to enrich their products with a deeper human experience.

The Persuasive Language of Action

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1848-1864
Author(s):  
Martin van Velsen
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

Besides the visual splendor pervasive in the current generation of digital video games, especially those where players roam simulated landscapes and imaginary worlds, few efforts have looked at the resources available to embed human meaning into a game's experience. From the art of persuasion to the mechanics of meaning-making in digital video games and table-top role playing games, this chapter investigates the changes and new opportunities available that can extend our understanding of digital rhetoric. Starting with a breakdown of the role of choice, workable models from psychology and the untapped body of knowledge from table-top role playing games are shown to allow game designers to enrich their products with a deeper human experience.

What qualities can make TRPG more appealing to new players?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Huayu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Role Playing Games

<p>Tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) have more than 40 years of history and have achieved far-reaching influence, especially in countries where English is the primary language. However, even though many new games appear every year, TRPGs still does not occupy a dominant position in the game market. Most gamers prefer video games and board games to TRPG. The aim of this project is to use qualitative analysis to investigate which parts of TRPG design prohibit players from engaging with TRPGs and then to create a novel TRPG that addresses these design problems. This project will combine newly formulated design elements into a game designed to attract new players and ensure that player engagement is sustained in subsequent play. The project focuses on the example of China, where many people play video games and board games, but few know about or play TRPGs. Therefore, this research will mainly study the gaming behaviour and feedback of Chinese participants to study what methods can attract Chinese players to TRPGs.</p>

scholarly journals Exploring Partnerships between Local Communities and Timber Companies: An Experiment Using the Role-Playing Games Approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Herry Purnomo ◽  
Philippe Guizol ◽  
Guillermo A. Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Role Playing ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Simulation Framework ◽  
Multiagent Simulation ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Decision Environment ◽  
Plantation Company ◽  
Collaborative Decision

Cooperation among stakeholders is widely accepted as an effective management strategy. This paper describes an experimental study that explores this cooperation using role-playing games, which is formulated within a multiagent simulation framework. This framework enables participants to take active roles in mimicking the collaborative decision environment and the behaviors and attitudes of the different stakeholders. The paper examines a forest plantation company in South Sumatra, Indonesia, which has cooperated with local communities since 2000. The experimental pilot study described in this paper explored the role of communication in partnership relationships between the company and the local communities living within and around the surroundings of the company's plantation. These partnerships were explored and analyzed using the gaming approach involving university students taking the role of forest stakeholders, from both the timber company and the local communities. Lessons learned from the game provided the rationale for the establishment of a communication institution called “Forum Sebahu Sejalan.” This formal forum was constituted after a facilitated ex-postinteraction between representatives from the timber company and local communities. Results and observations drawn from the interactions show the potentials of the RPG approach and the formal forum in crafting resilient partnerships among stakeholders.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI ALGORITMA A-STAR PADA PERMAINAN KOMPUTER ROGUELIKE BERBASIS UNITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendi Hermawan ◽  
Hari Setiyani
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Shortest Path ◽  
System Development ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
The Right

<p><em>There are many genres found in video games, one of which is role-playing games (RPGs). Roguelike was originally a type of RPG subgenre whose game was based on a risk-aware pattern. The Roguelike game is synonymous with games that require players to play efficiently in order to minimize the risk of losing game progress. This research is in the form of making a Roguelike game by implementing the A-star algorithm to search for the shortest path in the process of chasing enemies against player characters. Overall, this final assignment research is carried out by applying a prototype system development model. The results of this study are able to prove that using the A-star algorithm is one of the right methods for the shortest search in the process of chasing enemies against player characters.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: </em><em>A-star, Roguelike, unity</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals A Body of Knowledge: The Role of Human Experience and the Living Body in Knowing

2020 ◽  
pp. 002216782097450
Author(s):  
Magali Ollagnier-Beldame
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Experiential Research

The study of ways of knowing is a major topic in psychology and cognitive science. However, one might argue that subjectivity and human experience as roots of knowing are seldom addressed, despite the perspectives that they may offer. Our work investigates the epistemic status of experience and the living body in knowledge processes. It asserts that human experience contains a myriad richness and argues that a first-person epistemology and precise methods are needed to genuinely conduct experiential research. The stakes of such a proposal are not only epistemological but also nourish an ethical and societal goal.

The Social Impact of Gender and Games

2011 ◽  
pp. 1117-1120
Author(s):  
Russell Stockard Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Area

An increasingly important area of gender and information technology is that of Internet, computer, and video games. Besides women increasingly playing conventional entertainment-oriented or role-playing games, there are a number of pertinent developments in gaming. They are adver-games, casual games, games for change or “serious” games, and games aimed at women and/or developed by women. Computer and video games are a significant area of interest for a number of reasons. In the United States, games generate substantially more annual revenue than motion picture exhibition, totalling over $11 billion for three consecutive years from 2002 to 2004 (Hollywood Game Daemon, 2004; Traiman, 2005). Research by the Entertainment Software Association indicates that: half of all Americans play computer and video games, with women making up the second largest (demographic) group of gamers. Games are steadily becoming a dominant way that people spend their leisure time, often stealing time away from traditional media, like television. (Games for change mentioned at NYC Council Hearing, 2005) In addition, games often reinforce traditional gender roles (Cassells & Jenkins, 2000) and reproduce negative racial and ethnic stereotypes, even as male players comfortably assume female identities (Baker, 2002). As greater numbers of consumers spend time gaming, the advertising industry has taken notice and is following the population into the game world with advertising. The game enthusiasts comprise a desirable target, freely spending on games and other products. Gamers spend an estimated $700 a year per capita on games (Gamers are spending 700 dollars a year, 2005).

Character Attachment in Games as Moderator for Learning

2009 ◽  
pp. 593-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Lewis ◽  
René Weber
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Parasocial Interaction ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Role Playing Games

The Entertainment Education Paradigm (EEP) offers a new way to think about education by blending entertainment with educational experiences. Video games provide an excellent format for entertainment education because of both the prevalence and enjoyment of playing video games and the ways in which individuals of today learn. Role-playing games are one of the better game genres for entertainment education. They provide both high levels of entertainment and a strong connection between player and game characters (models) which lead to an increase in learning. Based on the theories of parasocial interaction, identification, and social learning, this chapter offers a measurement for character attachment and introduces this new construct as a moderator for learning in role-playing video games.

“This is like an RPG where you pick up friends along the way”

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-151
Author(s):  
Sylvia Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Oregon Trail ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Constructed Dialogue ◽  
The Oregon Trail

This chapter examines how Millennial friends in their late twenties appropriate texts from video games they have played to serve particular social interactive functions in their everyday face-to-face conversations. Speakers use references to the video games Papers, Please, The Oregon Trail, Minecraft, and Role Playing Games (RPGS) to shift the epistemic territories of conversations when they encounter interactional dilemmas. These epistemic shifts simultaneously rekey formerly problematic talk (on topics like rent, money, and injuries) to lighter, humorous talk, reframing these issues as being part of a lived video game experience. Overlapping game frames are laminated upon real-life frames and are strengthened by embedded frames containing constructed dialogue. This chapter contributes to understanding how epistemic shifts relying on intertextual ties can shift frames during interactional dilemmas in everyday conversation, which is ultimately conducive to group identity construction.

Gaming Works! Mental Health and Wellness in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Rasmussen Neal ◽  
Caroline Whippey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Massively Multiplayer

The popularity of video games as a source of entertainment is undeniable, but games attract unfortunate attention regarding the potentially negative impact on gamers’ lives. Through semi-structured interviews and phenomenographical analysis, we will explore the relationship between hardcore gamers’ views on MMORPG features and their feelings of mental well-being.La popularité des jeux vidéo comme source de divertissement est indéniable, mais malheureusement les jeux suscitent des craintes quant à leurs effets potentiellement négatifs dans la vie des joueurs. Grâce à des entrevues semi structurées et une analyse phénoménographique, nous explorerons la relation entre l’opinion des joueurs avides de jeux RPG massivement multijoueur sur les caractéristiques des jeux et leurs sentiments de bien-être mental.

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