Studying Pixels combines game studies and a joyful engagement with video game culture. Every Sunday, game studies scholar Stefan Heinrich Simond and Japanese scholar Dan Hughes cover anything from reviews of contemporary games to news stories and from academic deep-dives to controversial discussions—all wrapped up in a sincere appreciation of everything geeky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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episode 82: Close Playing (with Theresa Tanenbaum)
How do we go about analyzing video games? Well, close playing is one of the most prominent methods to do so. Together with Prof. Dr. Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, we discuss what close playing means and how to pragmatically go about it.
ShownotesWell read: Applying close reading techniques to gameplay experiences (Jim Bizzocchi and Theresa Tanenbaum)
Hermeneutic Inquiry for Digital Games Research (Theresa Tanenbaum)
https://transformativeplay.ics.uci.edu/
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