RSSChat Role Playing And Character Considerations
May 18th, 2010 by admin | Filed under Playstation 2 Games, Playstation 3 Games, Playstation Games.
Roleplaying chat is a very specific type of game, where people use a pure textual interface to engage in acts of collaborative imagination. Characters are assumed by the various participants, and stories are told through interactions that occur between those characters.
Inside of the chat box you have the various people, all assuming virtual characters, who exist in the world in relative position to one another. You dont actually have anything physical to look at, instead you and the other players are forced to use your imaginations, trying to envision what each player is doing, rather than merely glancing at an avatar on a screen to figure out whats going on. While this sounds utterly complicated at first, in general position doesn’t matter nearly as much as action, and after a little practice it almost becomes second nature to create a mental map of where everyone is supposed to be.
During a roleplay chat session each participant is supposed to assume the role of a character. However sometimes people feel the need to step out of that character, and say something about their real life. While this is often frowned upon as “breaking the spell” it may be necessary in order to tell other players that you are going to be away from the keyboard, or to inform them that you aren’t feeling well and need to take it easy.
When stepping out of character, people are generally instructed to encase their words in what are known as ooc marks. Ooc stands for Out Of Character. The marks usually take the form of parenthesis which can then be placed around the words. (Thus this would be considered an out of character statement).
In a good roleplaying chat environment, out of character remarks will be kept to a minimum, or relegated to private messages, where they won’t interrupt the flow of the game. If you want to learn to be a responsible member of such a community, then youll have to understand the difference between in character and out of character considerations, and do your best to acknowledge the role of such factors during the course of the game.
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