Playtest

Well I was going to start writing about phenomenology and the experience of videogame play this week, but then I read Thomas Malaby’s article “Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games” from Games and Culture 2.2, and got an idea on how to frame the opening of my introduction chapter, so I’ve been working on that instead. Its not going too badly, I don’t think I’ve quite articulated the point I wanted to make to set up the rest of the introduction, but I think its getting there. Malaby makes a good point about play being a mode of experience rather than a particular activity, and I’m trying to extend that point towards embodiment.

I think I might have a bit of a busy weekend, a friend of my house-mate is coming down from Newcastle to stay for the weekend, and I think he’ll be working over the weekend so I might be called to play tour guide a little bit. Not that that’s terrible, we all used to work together and be friends, but she’s mad on clothes, so I might end up spending some time as a ‘retail assistant’. I could do with a new coat myself though since I gave mine to my brother when he went to Montreal about 18 months ago.