Stardust Speedway 044 - Anne Allison Details

I have been using an essay by Anne Allison over the last few months in my research which discusses Pokemon within a Capitalist Viewpoint; but the only problem that I have had was that there was no details of the author on the paper and I could not find anything about her until today.

My tutor Tamara said that I should type her name into Google Scholar and it turned out that she has wrote a few essays about Pokemon and Japanese Culture in General and this webpage details her work and what she is doing in more detail.

The URL for the page is:

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/CA/faculty/anne.allison

So I am going to list these details down on my research bar so that I can give credit to the essay and use it further in my research.

Stardust Speedway 043 - Reading List (Game On - The History and Culture of Video Games by Various Authors)

Recently I have been looking more at the culture of videogames and I have found a few good books on the subject which I found on Ebay for not much money. The first book is called Game On: The History and Culture of Video Games and is more a collection of individual book/journal entrys about various aspects of video games and has been a good read so far.

Some journal entrys which have been highlighted for this project was one about Pokemon wrote by Masuyama (First name not given) but I am note sure if it will become a valid contribution yet so will put it on here for now anywhey.

Stardust Speedway 042 - DIGRA and IDGA Research Sites

Well; I have been looking on the internet over the last few days as well as being sent a few links which I will be researching over the next few days.

The links are DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) and IGDA (International Games Development Association).

The one problem that I have had during my research was that there was not enough official journals/websites in which I could back up my research/writing with so I hope this will be the first step into finding some good infomation for my dissertation.

Stardust Speedway 041 - More games for the pile (Red Faction)

Well; I have been looking for a second video game title which I can add to my research which can examine possible Communist themes within Video Games which will be used as a flipside argument to the Capitalist based games I have been researching such as Sonic the Hedgehog and the Pokemon franchise.

So the next title within my research series is going to be Red Faction on the Play Station 2. I have been looking at these titles for a long time and I think I have found enough examples for it to be a valid contribution to my research.

I have also found some documentation on red Fraction and will be adding this to the research table on the side of the blog later today; the only problem I have now is to find a copy for the Playstation 2 which will work. Fingers Crossed.

Stardust Speedway 040 - Quick Heads Up for Tomorrow

I just wanted to give a quick heads up about what changes I am going to do for my research this afternoon when I get back from Uni. As my second meeting is tomorrow and I want to show Tamara the changes I have done within my Research So far. I am going to be trimming the fat so to speak and get rid of anything that I will not need for my dissertation within the foreseeable future.

Also I am going to write my new plan of study which has changed a bit from the original so I will post that on here for people to read also.

I hope people will like the changes I will do this afternoon and see where this project goes next.

Stardust Speedway 039 - Advanced Research Lecture and New Research Items

Well; it has been a long time since I have wrote a proper update on the blog, so I wanted to tell people how the research is going at the moment.

Well today, I went to the Advanced Research Skills session in the Adelphi Library and was very informative. They showed me how to access not only Athens which I was already using but other services and also the fact that as the Manchester Univeristys are part of NWEL I could go into any number of different university Librarys and look at their material as well which can be a real advantage to us doing this research.

I have also been reading a lot of The Gamer's Quarter at the moment and I have found a lot of useful supplements within them, which I will be updating to the blog over the next few days, so hope you can read my opinions of them.

So there will be more posts within the next few days to update my research and I will be altering the layout of the blog a bit more as well to make it easier to read so I hope you will enjoy that too.

Stardust Speedway 038 - I Choose You, Pokemon Blue

I have been thinking about this for a long time and when researching other Dissertations within the Library; I have found out something.

There are no Dissertation projects within the Uni Library that feature a singe game series as their subject; if the author wanted to cover one subject they would look at several examples from their research and look at the examples from them; so from now on I am not going to look exclusively at Sonic the Hedgehog titles, but it would be the main call for video game based research as I have the most research for this series.

But for the latest entry; I have decided to go back to my gaming roots and replay one of my favourite game ever; Pokemon Blue. This is a classic example of Video Game capitalism and should be a good example to use within the project.