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Forum-based role playing games as digital storytelling /
"What makes thousands of players come together in role-play through writing, voluntarily typing up novel-length stories, gathering images, sounds, and video clips to weave them into one coherent narrative? Through observing websites and participating in five of them for a year, the author has c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers,
2019.
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| Colección: | Studies in gaming.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: "Do you want to thread?"; One-Stories at the Crossroads: Theorizing Forum Games; The Theory of Play and the Theory of Interactivity; Forum Games as Narratives; Play Versus Narrative; Fandom and Fan Fiction; Between pages 40 and 41 are 4 color plates containing 4 photographs; TWO-Thread by Thread: Shaping Language and Narrative in Forum Games; Improvisation and Collaboration; Regulating Language and Narrative; Regulating Language and Narrative Through Player Behavior; Between You and Me: A Case Study of Consent
- Developing Language and Writing SkillsTrends in Activity and Popularity; From Language to Multimodality; Three-Beyond Words: Multimodality in Forum-Based Role-Playing; Images-The Visual Mode; Music and Sound-The Aural Mode; Movement-The Gestural Mode; Layout-The Spatial Mode; Numbers and Coding-The Numeric Mode; Time-The Temporal Mode; The Case Study of the Mad Hatter: Representing Characters Through Multimodal Posts; Conclusion; FOUR-From Classroom to Big Screen: The Possibilities of Forum Gaming; Forum RPGs as a Distinct Gaming Style; "But is it really storytelling?"
- Forum Games and the Composition ClassroomForum Games and Language Education; Forum Games in Transmedia Storytelling Projects; Appendix A: Site Sample; Appendix B: Coding Criteria; Appendix C: Glossary of Terms; Works Cited; Index