Role-playing lets us live a fantasy—to be who we aren’t. Through our imaginations and gameplay, we create our characters. Interactions with other players and other characters help to shape our characters’ personalities, until we know how they feel, how they speak, and how they move.
Role-players who are interested in describing their own experiences in different game formats are invited to participate in a research study conducted by Heather Osborne, a graduate student in the School of English at the University of Liverpool. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between people’s gender and sexuality and the creation of their RPG characters’ gender and sexuality. The study focuses on narrative RPGs (threaded tagging) and MMORPGs (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games).
If you are:
o over 18
o fluent in written English
o a role-player with at least three months of consistent participation in either a narrative RPG or an MMORPG
then you are invited to take the survey.
For more information:
Link to Participant Information Sheet and Survey
Principle Investigator: Mr. Andy Sawyer – asawyer@liv.ac.uk
Student Investigator: Ms Heather Osborne – hkosborn@liv.ac.uk