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Re-Mediating character identity in roleplaying games

Chiara Locatelli, Doctoral Researcher in Transcultural Studies, University of Bergamo

The “character sheet” is often a roleplayer’s first point of access to the magic circle of the game world, allowing them to assume a different identity and participate in play. Different roleplaying traditions have developed different strategies to facilitate the creation and embodiment of a character: lists of traits to pick, extra-diegetic profiles, intra-diegetic documents, ritualized processes. This talk explores the potential of different approaches to character creation from a literary perspective through textual analysis of case studies from the Italian chamber larp anthologies Crescendo Giocoso (2017) and Crescendo Giocoso Ritornello (2021), taking on questions of shared authoriality, identity construction and the poetics of memory.

Chiara Locatelli is a PhD Candidate in Transcultural Studies in Humanities at University of Bergamo and a visiting researcher at Tampere’s Game Research Lab. Her interests lie at the intersection between roleplaying, fantasy literature and memory studies. She also creates larps with the Italian Chamber Orchestra collective and translates games for indie rpg design and localization lab(yrinth) NessunDove.

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Syy x Johto are organizing a gaming night in Oasis during TREY's wellbeing week.

The event is free of charge and open for everyone! Welcome!