Before the Heat of the Game

Invited Foreword (Japanese only)

Abstract

Invited foreword by game designer Kondō Kōshi (Adventure Planning Service), the father of the abbreviation TRPG (as table-talk RPG) in the Japanese discourse. He discusses how to define (role-playing) games in the first place, how players, games, and producers interact, and how new things arise through this interaction and ways of appropriation – of making games your own. (Japanese only)