This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommen…
Have you ever read a manga comic in English or watched a dubbed or subtitled movie on Netflix? Or maybe you’ve even tried subtitling one of your favourite anime or K-drama programs yourself? Perhaps you’ve helped a friend or family member who speaks another language to fill out a form, decipher an email, or communicate with someone else? Or used a tool such as Goog…
Adoption entails the permanent transfer of legal rights and responsibili-ties for a child from birth parents to adoptive parents. Inevitably, such a procedure can be controversial, for adoption has a profound and perma-nent impact on the lives of all the parties involved—the child, the birth parents and the adoptive parents, as well as grandparents, siblings and other relations on …