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Tabletop Summit: Script Murders: The Form and Design of the Most Popular Tabletop Genre in China

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Script murder, or jubensha (), has become one of the mainstream tabletop game genres in China. In 2021, 44% of Chinese netizens have experienced online script murder games, and over one-third of users choose it as their offline entertainment. From the original murder mystery games imported from the Western world, script murders have evolved into a richer game collectionlike scripts of joy, scripts of emotion, scripts of horror, and more. In this talk, Ming Liu and Xinhui Yang will introduce script murder games in three aspects: the origin and evolution, the design pattern, and what developers can gain from script murders.

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