hitsuzen Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Hello! For those of you who may or may not remember, around last year I posted to this forum requesting opinions on video game music. Thank you so much for your input! In fact, my research paper will be available here, as I hope to gain constructive criticism before sending it in for peer review at specific game journals and magazines. Currently I'm doing two research projects. One is another research paper on the functions of music in video games. The other is below, with a request. To those who don't know me, I am a undergrad student at Trinity University doing research--this time exploring and analyzing cross-cultural interactions and transnational play in virtual worlds. Our organization is called the Worldplay Research Initiative (WRI) which includes 18 students and professor Dr. Aaron Delwiche, whose contact information is appended at the end. Our goal is to collect opinions from various gamers around the world. To do this, we have implemented a survey--available at our home web page. The Worldplay Survey itself is an example of how globally distributed individuals can cooperate with one another. Within one day of launching, volunteers offered to translate our survey into Chinese, German, Spanish, Vietnamese and Korean. We firmly believe that every voice -- including statistical outliers -- deserves to be heard. Our goal is to identify a wide range of opinions, experiences and recommendations related to the phenomenon of transnational play. In synthesizing and publicly sharing our findings, we hope to provide suggestive data points that can be used by developers, gamers, and researchers who are interested in promoting cross-cultural interaction in virtual worlds. Thank you for your time and consideration. We are committed to being responsible, ethical and respectful scholars. All postings will be anonymous and will be used solely for academic purposes. To learn more about our goals, you can check out WRI's official site, or to take our survey directly, click here. The survey should not take more than 10 minutes of your time. This course is being taught by Professor Aaron Delwiche in the Department of Communication. If you have any concerns about this class, please feel free to contact him via e-mail at adelwich@trinity.edu, or if you have any questions for the class, you may e-mail us at worldplayresearch@gmail.com and someone will respond promptly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 This is very interesting. Thank you for your research. It reminds me of something Jason Scott said at Notacon last year [during his Mario 64 panel], that it's amazing, considering how big of an industry videogames are now, that very little in the way of academic study has gone into the field. You can watch the panel here, it's fascinating: http://www.archive.org/details/20090417-scott-supermario ...oh shit you can see me at 1:50 in the red shirt. hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitsuzen Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 Thank you for your interest and the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 I finished your survey. FOR SCIENCE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitsuzen Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Nice, thank you! I will let you all know what we find from our data.. Please pass the survey on to others if you know anyone who'd be interested in filling out our survey or contacting us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Survey done -- good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitsuzen Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Thank you guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitsuzen Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Thanks so much for the responses so far! For those of you interested, we have a batch of responses of data we'd like to share. You can find it available here. Also, for those who are still unsure of our mission in this project, please see the video that explains it in 120 seconds! Enjoy! Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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