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