Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. How can a video game journalist best create a review that truthfully analyzes the quality of a games gameplay?
2. A video game journalist can best create a review that truthfully analyzes the quality of a games gameplay by using game criticism styles during its creation.
3. - Game criticism focuses on both technical and philosophical importance of games
    - Gameplay is not only an important technical portion of the game, but it can also have great influence on philosophical importance.
    - A game with gameplay of low quality will be noted as unremarkable technically speaking, and will also very likely have more difficulty maintaining philosophical importance.
4."Game Criticism and Analysis." Game Design Concepts. N.p., 31 Aug. 2009. Web. 20 Sept. 2012. <http://gamedesignconcepts.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/level-19-game-criticism-and-analysis/>.
5. I plan to look for books and college level papers on game criticism, as that is generally the area that "game critics" tend to publish their ideas.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. How can a video game journalist best create a review that truthfully analyzes the quality of a games gameplay?
2. What are the different ways a games journalist can create a review?
3. How should a review analyze a game?
4. What constitutes 'good' gameplay?
5. How is a typical review structured?
6. How do you think game reviews have changed as games themselves change?
7. Who usually reads game reviews, why?
8. What role does gameplay play in a game?
9. How important is gameplay to a game's success, why is that so?
10. How do game genres affect reviews?
11. What factors can affect the quality of a games gameplay?
12. What kind of background knowledge should a game journalist have to write reviews, why?
13. How should a 'truthful' review inform its audience?
14. How should a review engage the reader?
15. What does a game journalist need to do to have enough information to create a review?
16. What are some strategies a game journalist can use to analyze a game?
17. How can bias towards certain games affect a review?
18. Are there any strategies that can be used to reduce bias, if not, why not?
19. What sort of mindset should a game journalist have when starting to review a game, why is that important?
20. How much should a game journalist play a game to create a truthful and representative review?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. How can a video game journalist best create a review that truthfully analyzes the quality of a games gameplay?

2. A video game journalist can best create a review that truthfully analyzes the quality of a games gameplay, by using the new games journalism style to evaluate the game during the review.

3.

• Gameplay contributes largely to the emotional reaction people have to games
• If a games gameplay is of great quality, the emotional reaction reflected in the review will also be good.
• Games which have low quality gameplay will have a negative reflection in the review.

4. Source ID#21: Gillen, Kieron. "The New Games Journalism." Kieron Gillen's Workblog. Wordpress, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. <http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/assorted-essays/the-new-games-journalism/>.

5.I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by using this style to write an actual review of a game in addition to searching for more research related to it.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1. I plan to play through a game with the ideas of new games journalism in mind. So that I may create a review which follows that same analytic style.

2. Games often take many hours to complete, in addition, the need for a reviewer to get the best possible feel for the game often dictates additional hours. The combination of these things can cause the process of producing a full review of some games to reach into the spectrum of hundreds of hours.

3. This relates to my working EQ (How can a video game journalist create a review that truthfully analyzes the quality of a games gameplay?) because it will give me additional real world experience as to how different reviews analyze the role of gameplay within games.