- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Recently a column in Edge brought up an interesting point for me. Academic studies into video games. Now from what I have read or heard there is a little interest in the analysis of video games. I am not talking about the ones that discuss the ISSUES about videogames, such as violence, effects on children, moral decline in society, I am talking about ones that analyse why they are such a popular form of entertainment. Also, I am not talking about a course where you study videogames, there are lots of those around. My idea would be a forum where the latest studies into videogames (it could be in general, it could focus on a single title) are posted and then discussed by the members. This would interest me, and I wondered if anyone else thought this would be a good idea. A forum dedicated to the study of videogames, and their effect on society, as well as media debates, and application of theory to videogames, such as Propp, Todorov, Bathes, Levi-Strauss narrative theory, editing in videogames, Case Studies on certain games, etc. Obviously it would have to be gamers that wrote these things- One woman (a non-gamer) who was studying games referred to The X Files Game as a first person game.
Tell me what you think of my idea.