Further Reading
The Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art, by Daniel Mackay This book is about role-playing as a performance art. Of particular interest to game designers is the discussion of the performance aesthetics and collaborative narrative creation of role-playing games, including relationship of players in the game to social and cultural structures. Recommended:
Introduction: The Role-Playing Game: Defined, Described, and Systematized From Part One: A New Category of Popular Entertainments and a New Kind of Sandbox: Playing in Imaginary Entertainment Environments From Part Four:The Theater of Events: Narrative as Aesthetic Object www.cloudmakers.org
Cloudmakers.org was founded as a discussion group for the web game centered around the film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. The site houses an archive of the game,including an approximate reproduction of the game from July 23, 2001, the day before the game was officially "solved," as well as essays and editorials written by players, links to media coverage, and a moderated discussion board. It is an excellent document of the play of a game from the perspective of a community of its players.