From the monthly archives: August 2006

The beast is born

By On 29/08/2006 ·

No Russian men’s choirs appeared and the sound of trumpets seemed distant indeed, but my dissertation epos made its bumpy way from the smoking remnants of my brain, into a 10mb PDF, out of a (now altogether disoriented) Canon printer and to the kind people of “Facilities Management” [...]

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Players’ Realm anthology gets covered

By On 11/08/2006 ·


McFarland – Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books

Superheroes dancing in front of a supernova seem to adorn the cover of our forthcoming games anthology, I just saw. But then, why not?

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Dissertation abstract beta

By On 04/08/2006 ·

Here’s my current thinking on what it is I’m doing…

Working title
Plans and Purposes: How Videogame Goals Shape Player Behaviour

Abstract
Games shape player behaviour by presenting goals which players attempt to fulfil. This is the most common “folk” theory of the relationship between game design and [...]

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Methodological commandments

By On 03/08/2006 ·

Finishing up my dissertation I am naturally curious about methodological requirements in game studies. A general meme seems to be that the field is multi-disciplinary and no clear guidelines can be given and yet, I’ve stumbled upon a few. The following, arguably, are claims about how game studies should be conducted. Make of it what [...]

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There is evil here that does not sleep

By On 01/08/2006 ·

Oh, I am writing it. All my mind is bent on it…

(245 pages as of this day)

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