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About the Author Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart is a Lecturer in Games Studies an. .

ISBN-13: 978-0719082924. Tanya Krzywinska is a Professor in Screen Studies at Brunel University.

This is the author’s version of the book chapter published in: Tanya Krzywinska, Esther MacCallum-Stewart & Justin Parsler (ed., Ringbearers: The Lord of the Rings Online as Intertextual Narrative. Manchester University Press, 2011. From the Demonic Tradition to Art-Evil in Digital Games: Monstrous Pleasures in Lord of the Rings Online.

Others focus on the design of the game: for example the handling of narrative and its temporal dimensions, the articulation of core themes into ludic form, or the representational and aural strategies used. Moral rhetorics solicit discussion from various perspectives, as does the treatment of horror and the 'other'. Particular game mechanics are analysed in detail such as the game's crafting economy, or, more generally, the development of improbable conventions that players have learned to accept as the grammar of games.

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Ringbearers: The Lord of the Rings Online as Intertextual Narrative more. More Info: Co-authored with Tanya Kryzwinska and Justin Parlser, I also have a chapter in this collection about role-play in LOTR:O and the performance of 'quiet roleplay'. by Esther MacCallum-Stewart. Ringbearers collects together essays by established and leading figures within Game Studies, each focused on different aspects of the Massively Multiplayer Online game The Lord of the Rings Online more.

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Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Justin Parsler. Ring Bearers: Lord of the Rings Online as Intertextual Narrative. Tanya Krzywinska, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Justin Parsler. Ringbearers collects together essays by established and leading figures within Game Studies, each focused on different aspects of the Massively Multiplayer Online game The Lord of the Rings Online.

Justin Parsler is a senior lecturer in game design and has earned a living designing and running games since he was sixteen . Ringbearers: The lord of the rings online as intertextual narrative. Manchester University Press. ISBN 13: 9780719082924.

Justin Parsler is a senior lecturer in game design and has earned a living designing and running games since he was sixteen, with a three year break from that two (nearly three) decade spree to take a Humanities Degree at Greenwich University. Parsler, J. (2010) 'The non-player agent in computer role-playing games'. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 2 (2). pp. 135 - 143. ISSN: 1757-191X.

Krzywinska, Tanya, MacCallum-Stewart, Esther and Parsler, Justin, eds. (2011) Ring Bearers: The Lord of the Rings Online as Intertextual Narrative. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 978-0719082924. Krzywinska, Tanya and Atkins, Barry, eds. (2007) Videogame, Player, Text. ISBN 978-0-7190-7400-4. Krzywinska, Tanya and King, Geoff (2005) Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: Video Games in the 21st Century.