Verbal Communication of Story Facilitators in Multi-player Role-Playing Games

Authors:
Anders Tychsen;Thea Brolund;Michael Hitchens
Affiliations:
Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, Denmark 2300;University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Australia NSW 2007;Department of Computer Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Venue:
ICIDS '08 Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Interactive Storytelling
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Multi-player role-playing games form one of the key examples of interactive, emergent and collaborative storytelling systems available. These games and the collaborative stories that they create, are commonly facilitated by a specialized participant, the game master. In the current study, the verbal communication of game masters in a series of role-playing game sessions is categorized and analyzed depending on form and content, using protocol analysis, establishing a model for the verbal communication of game masters.