Playing with Ethics: Experiencing New Ways of Being in RPGs

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Author(s): David Simkins (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 16
Source title: Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Karen Schrier (Columbia University, USA)and David Gibson (University of Vermont, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-845-6.ch005

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Gaming / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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Role playing games (RPGs) are compelling spaces for ethical play. Participants can take on roles very different from their own and experience the world through a variety of social contexts. This form of play can be encouraged by good game design principles including the balanced use of consequence, mirroring, social context, and freedom. This chapter examines the structure of ethics in role playing games and uses case studies of expert role players and analysis of game design to explore the effective use of the four design principles in popular games.

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