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The Elusive Shift

by Jon Peterson
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How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games—and established a new genre!
When Dungeon & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, it sparked a renaissance in game design and critical thinking about games. D&D is now popularly considered to be the first role-playing game. But in the original rules, the term “role-playing” is nowhere to be found; D&D was marketed as a war game.
 
In The Elusive Shift, Jon Peterson describes how players and scholars in the D&D community began to apply the term to D&D and similar games—and by doing so, established a new genre of games.
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Series: Game Histories Publisher: MIT Press

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  • Release date: December 22, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780262360944
  • Release date: December 22, 2020

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  • ISBN: 9780262360944
  • File size: 957 KB
  • Release date: December 22, 2020

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Games Sociology Nonfiction

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English

How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games—and established a new genre!
When Dungeon & Dragons made its debut in the mid-1970s, followed shortly thereafter by other, similar tabletop games, it sparked a renaissance in game design and critical thinking about games. D&D is now popularly considered to be the first role-playing game. But in the original rules, the term “role-playing” is nowhere to be found; D&D was marketed as a war game.
 
In The Elusive Shift, Jon Peterson describes how players and scholars in the D&D community began to apply the term to D&D and similar games—and by doing so, established a new genre of games.
Expand title description text
Games Sociology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    MIT Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: December 22, 2020

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780262360944
    Release date: December 22, 2020

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780262360944
    File size: 957 KB
    Release date: December 22, 2020

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English