Full paper · 2023

The Challenge of Evaluating Player Experience in Tabletop Role-Playing Games

Liapis, A., & Denisova, A.

ConferenceProceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG'23), 2023

Six player experience dimensions for tabletop role-playing games: cognitive challenge, immersion, agency, attachment, group dynamics and refereeing. — Open full-size image

In short

Evaluating player experience could help game masters, players and designers of tabletop role-playing games, but no formal method exists. We compared player experience measures from digital games with what happens around the table.

Key findings

We propose six player experience dimensions for tabletop RPGs: cognitive challenge, immersion, agency, attachment, group dynamics and refereeing.
Many existing digital-game questionnaires only partly transfer to tabletop play.
We outline the steps towards a validated questionnaire for tabletop RPGs.

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Liapis, A., & Denisova, A. (2023, April). The Challenge of Evaluating Player Experience in Tabletop Role-Playing Games. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG'23).

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