Stardust Speedway 052 - First Draft (Personal Reflections)

Well; the last meeting for my Dissertation is coming up very quickly; I thought I would reflect about the project at the moment and what I thought of my First Draft now I have had time to read through it.

The first thing which automatically comes to mind is how my project has evolved since the beggining of the entire thing. When I went back to looking at the first post on the blog; I wanted to look exclusively at both Sonic The Hedgehog within the Social System of Capitalism after I examined the basic gameplay elements of Sonic for a few weeks. But after the first wave of research; it came to me that there should be an secondary viewpoint to compare and contrast Capitalism and this would end up being communism; and the same thing again a few weeks ago with the inclusion of Individualism.

New topics brought new games to the project; in the form of two of my favourite games (No More Heroes and We Love Katamari/Katamari Damacy); it might have been biased to write about two of my favourite games, but as I knew a lot about the products playing them both to destruction; it was a good choice. I did the same with my Research Paper about Resident Evil within the Survival Horror Genre; and I had chance to play some great games once again (CODE: Veronica being one of the better examples).

All these changes lead to the final Essay layout and that in turn gave the First Draft. Now after having chance to read through it; I already have a list of changes which I want to do ranging from Spelling Mistake and Grammar to re-writing a small section of the paper all together; but I am proud of my work and for a First Attempt at this; I think I did well.

I am looking forward to seeing what my tutor thinks of it; but also scarred at the same time because I think there might be something obvious in there which I have missed; but we shall see.

Stardust Speedway 051 - First Draft is HERE (Work in Progress)

Well it has been a long time coming; but I have finally got it finished. My first draft of my Dissertation; Owning The Stardust Speedway.

Now upon reading the comments on my Blog; by an individual who I do not want to name on this post as I do not want to stoop down to his level; but I would like the feedback on my first draft to see what people think.

The paper can be found at:-

http://www.mediafire.com/file/dnyzwdjodfw/Stardust Speedway - Draft (FINAL PDF)_v1.0.pdf

Now it is a current work in progress; so it is not perfect but I would like to hear from people and see what they think and I would like to thank Jack Porter for the feedback and I hope I can hear from his soon; I am sorry for the late replys as I have been ill and not been able to get to my computer.

Stardust Speedway 050 - 5,800 words and counting

Well; this week has been a good start to the new year and the dissertation is going very well. I am currently on Chapter Three of my Dissertation which is talking about Individualism within Video Games and the game I have chose for this section to focus on is No More Heroes for the Wii.

Now the essay plan did not go as well as I hoped; I originally wanted to aim for the 6,000 word end of the word count as I wanted to have space to change and add any additional text if I wanted to, but it has ended up going over that very easily. Also within each section; I have only had enough words to cover one game which is slightly dissapointing, but it will focus on these titles within more depth.

The final three games I have chose to focus on within this project are of course Sonic The Hedgehog; We Love Katamari and No More Heroes; all titles also have a small ammount of research to go with them.

It should be finished by tonight which gives me a day to prepare my bibliography and final readthrough; so I will report back tomorrow with an update of how its going.