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“Good Play Isn’t the Same as Good Storytelling”: Interview with Alex Roberts

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https://doi.org/10.5070/V7.64503
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Abstract

Alex Roberts is a Diana Jones award-winning indie game designer. Roberts’s games include Star Crossed (2019), but it is For the Queen (2019, 2024) that has sparked a lineage of “Descended from the Queen” (DftQ) games informed by a System Reference Document (SRD). This interview discusses focuses on the changing nature of the collective player through repetition and player education by other players.


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