[Cody Mejeur]

This looks like such a fantastic conference, James! I’ve been meaning to make it to ELO for a long time. I know there’s a contingent of game studies folks that attend regularly, are there specific parts of the conference that are geared toward game studies (events, tracks, etc.)?

[Cody Mejeur]

Yay, so happy you’re here, Liz! Liz has done fantastic work lately with walking sims and learning–if memory serves, it was Firewatch among others?

[Cody Mejeur]

Hi Damian,

I think most folks have forgotten about this group, and I’m at least partly to blame for that–after making it last fall, I got distracted by a number of other projects and didn’t keep up with this as much. I’m still very interested in developing it, particularly as a place to gather discussions, cfps, and resources for game studies folks working in the humanities and across fields. I just started a Zotero group to start gathering sources/bibliographies on different topics, it’s linked in the Docs!

Thanks for the recommendation on Game Studies Study Buddies! I will definitely check it out, and add it to the resources and links here too. How have things been going for you with finding topics for your studies?

[Cody Mejeur]

Hi Cristian! I’m really interested in your project, and particularly how you see it fitting into/relating to other game studies projects that look at form and structures in games. The ludology camp of game studies in particular has long focused on game structures, forms, and ontologies (almost to the exclusion of anything else), and the two examples that are coming to mind are Espen Aarseth and the folks at IT Copenhagen that have been working on game taxonomies and classification systems, and Markku Eskelinen’s Cybertext Poetics. I’m attaching an article I had in my Zotero here (if it will let me!).

If you’d like to discuss the project further, please make a new thread so we can keep the discussion going!

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[Cody Mejeur]

Hi Damian, it’s great to have you here! There are a few places for discussion I’m aware of, but they aren’t all particularly active–I think it’s unfortunate reality of folks being grad students and faculty with extremely busy schedules. But there’s the Game Studies Open Forum on Facebook, the GamesNetwork listserv (I believe run out of Finland, but used internationally), and DiGRA has a discord. I’ll add some of these resources to a new doc shortly!

[Cody Mejeur]

Oh! And if anyone wants to be an admin and help grow the group, lmk! More the merrier.

[Cody Mejeur]

Hi Cristian, no worries at all! Still getting the group going as I’m able, and need to make a better habit of checking it myself! That makes total sense, and while there has definitely been work on this area since 2005, I think the sense I’ve gotten from Espen and others work on this is that building typologies and a systematized way to study and categorize games is still very much in-progress, so plenty of room for your proposed project. As you get back to it, let us know here how it’s going, and we can keep discussing it!

 

[Cody Mejeur]

So exciting to meet everyone! Péter, it’s awesome to see another cognitive humanities/literary studies person doing games work too! Please keep sharing the group in your networks. Hopefully we can build an active community here to support one another, and I’ll keep adding resources as I’m able–please do the same!

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