Role-playing
Posted on August 26, 2002 @ 15:17 in Research
From a somewhat interactionistic point of view a working definition of role-playing could be: to treat other characters as if they were real and discrete individuals within the confines of a particular (game) environment, suspending disbelief while recognizing that there are players behind the characters you are interacting with and that these players might animate more than one character (simultaneously).
Cf. Stone, 1995: 120:
In Habitat, avatars frequently know that their avatar friends have multiple personae, but they still manage to treat each persona as if it were a discrete individual. One Oracle said, "Other characters, even while recognizing that A-san equals B-san, will go ahead and treat him [sic] like a different person. I suppose that it is in these areas that in systems like Habitat we can identify role-playing."
A working definition from a particular perspective... I'm open to suggestions.
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