This chapter presents the different ways that players, theorists, and researchers discuss
immersion in role-playing games, establishing six major categories: activity, game …

Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-
enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop role-playing games (TRPG), and …

This chapter explores role-playing from different existing scientific frameworks, including
developmental, cognitive, behavioral, motivational, clinical, and social psychology. It …

Games are pervasive in contemporary life, intersecting with leisure, work, health, culture,
history, technology, politics, industry, and beyond. These contexts span topics, cross …

This chapter explores topics pertaining to the relationship between players and their
characters. These topics range from the psychological, such as identity and personality …

This chapter begins with the basis of role-play as ritual performance, moves to an
exploration of how we understand the rules of performative play and then concludes with a …

Abstract In Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant asserts that “fantasy [can serve] as a life-
sustaining defense against the attritions of ordinary violent history,” which is a statement that …

This paper synthesizes the different ways that players and theorists discuss immersion in
role-playing games, establishing six major categories: immersion into activity, game …

Avatars are growing in popularity and presented in many computer-mediated
communication environments like social media, virtual 3D worlds, and augmented reality …

This work frames larp as a multimodal medium: based on live-action role-playing but also
open for inclusions of other media and technologies. It is approached as a narrative …