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Notes from experiments on RPG optimization - Maximizing enjoyment, benefit, immersion, flow, safety, etc.
by Hawke Robinson — published May 25, 2017 — last modified Jun 27, 2020 03:50 PM — filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Here is a summary of many observations I have made over the decades through various experiments in trying to optimize the RPG experience. This is from a huge pile of hundreds of documents I have written, spanning over 15+ years of research (and nearly 40 years of RPG experience). It will likely take me a year or more to finish integrating all that information into this document. All of the placeholder topics I currently have documents to fill in the blanks, but I time is the challenge in doing so. Bit by bit I am uploading all that content to here.
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Old Research Repository
by Hawke Robinson — published Aug 16, 2017 — last modified Mar 21, 2019 02:48 PM
This is RPG Research's older research repository. We are currently moving more than 3,000 content items (1 multi-page essay equals 1 content item) from this old site to our new repository at www.rpgresearch.com/research . The new repository is better organized and formatted, but it takes months for our volunteers to move all this content from the old site to the new site, so we are keeping the old repository available until the move is complete. All new research is being added to the new repository, no new research is being added to this old repository as of 2018.
Post LARP Depression
by Hawke Robinson — published Jun 21, 2017 — last modified Jun 21, 2020 06:29 AM — filed under: ,
Live-action role-playing (larp) occupies a unique place among analog games, for it demands as much from players’ bodies as it does from their minds. It comes then as no surprise that many players find themselves in the situation of feeling confused, exhausted, and emotionally raw after a larp event.1 In fact, larpers frequently exhaust themselves in advance through the leisure labor of planning their costumes, character actions, possible outcomes, and interactions...
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psychology
by Hawke Robinson — published Jun 13, 2018
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Psychology
by Hawke Robinson — published Jan 11, 2016 — last modified Jan 11, 2016 07:42 PM
Research documents related to role-playing and role-playing games. This collection only lists the documents tagged with "Discipline: Psychology"
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Psychology Today Articles on Role-playing Games
by Hawke Robinson — published Jan 01, 2012 — last modified Oct 04, 2017 05:23 AM — filed under: , , , ,
Some notes for future reading, research, and commentary.
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Recommended Experience, Skills, and Training
by Hawke Robinson — published Nov 11, 2016
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Research on RPGs Primer & Don't Split the Party
by Hawke Robinson — published Jun 13, 2018 — last modified Jun 14, 2018 12:41 AM — filed under: ,
In response to someone at the Ph.D. level, who recently released a podcast and shockingly made the completely erroneous claims that there is not _any_ existing legtimate, peer-reviewed, research on tabletop RPG, RPGer traits, any correlative data on RPGers, any publications in respected journals, any studies from psychologists or psychiatrists, or any research on the effects of RPGs, I have whipped up this page in order to help. Working together and sharing will help float all boats. Pulling apart and isolating will continue to founder the ship.
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Road Map draft
by Hawke Robinson — published Dec 16, 2011 — last modified Aug 14, 2015 11:45 PM — filed under: , ,
I have had many conversations with folks about where this project is at, and where it is planned to go, and I have blogged a bit about the overall vision of the future, but now I need to write down the approximate road map of the next few stages that has been discussed with others but not written down until now...
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Role playing gaming can potentially provide greater catharsis
by Hawke Robinson — published Jul 10, 2011 — last modified Aug 17, 2015 02:35 AM — filed under: ,
Assuming the Aristotelian belief in catharsis is true (there is some debate about the validity of catharsis in the psychology research world)...
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