Markku Eskelinen

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: Towards Computer Game Studies
  Writing Type: Essay
  Author(s):
  • Markku Eskelinen
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2001: n-space
  Abstract Summary:

  Part 1: Narratology and Ludology
  It is relatively stress-free to write about computer games as nothing too much has been said yet, and almost anything goes. The situation is pretty much the same in what comes to writing about games and gaming in general. The sad fact with alarming cumulative consequences is that they are under-theorized; there are Huizinga, Caillois and Ehrmann of course, and libraries full of board game studies, in addition to game theory and bits and pieces of philosophy-most notably those of Wittgenstein’s – but they won’t get us very far with computer games. So if there already is or soon will be a legitimate field for computer game studies, this field is also very open to intrusions and colonization from the already organized scholarly tribes. Resisting and beating them is the goal of our first survival game in this paper, as what these emerging studies need is independence, or at least relative independence.

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