Paper Status: Rejected!
My paper submission to the Foundations of Digital Games was rejected. This isn’t surprising considering I am not hip with the media or game studies times, although I’m currently taking an independent study which should help correct this. In retrospect I shouldn’t have submitted it, but I have fortunately learned that I have a lot of interesting reading ahead of me. At least one of the reviewers thought I had some interesting ideas/assertions, which suggests to me that I could have gotten a paper accepted if I had the scholastic background to back it up. It tempts me to go to grad school, but I’m not sure that I need theory that much.
On the other front my reading so far in game studies/play theory is really good and I’ve finally found a dude I agree with: Torben Grodal. His approach to games and narrative really mirrors my thinking on the subject so far, but we’ll see how that develops as my course of study continues.