Research

This is where you will find resources that we have collected that relate to the essay title Video Games: Investigating Genre, Narrative and Postmodernism

Some will come from me, but the majority will come from you! Whenever you post some research - choose to label it with your name (so that I know you've done some work) and also use the label Video Games: Genre Narrative Postmodernism

Then everyone can share resources - and there's no need to worry if someone is using the same research as you because everyone's project is different!

So to start you off, here is a video about Narrative in video games from the Smithsonian museum in America...

An excellent website is an online journal called Games Studies. Which describes its aims as:

"To explore the rich cultural genre of games; to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories; to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming."

Only you can decide whether it achieves it or not - and you can get there by clicking here.


This document is from another college. It appears to be a course booklet - it may not be exactly what you are looking for but it might get you moving in the right direction...

You should have found that there are a few key names in the study of video games.

Here are just a few, click on each one to go to a page from their website or an essay they have written...

• Brenda Laurel
• Henry Jenkins
• Janet Murray
• Espen Aarseth

In terms of narrative - these four links alone should be more than enough to keep you going!!

However there is one concept that should be explored and may even become central to your argument - that is the fight between...

Narratology Vs Ludology

 More to follow...