Role-playing Games Formats on The Social Network VKontakte Platform

The research is about text role-playing games, which are based on the platform of the Russian social network "Vkontakte". The work explores how formats differ and on what principles their functioning is based. The aim of the study was to make a classification of role-playing games on the claimed platform using methods such as narrative analysis and content analysis, methods of observation and participation and analysis of statistics. The first part of the work is a theoretical review of game concepts, it also examines role-playing games as a phenomenon and forms the main ideas. The second part — practical — is based directly on the analysis of role-playing games. The result of the study is a comprehensive review of text role-playing games, forming of the current classification and the discovery of new problems of role-playing movement for the following studies.