Thursday, March 6, 2014

Possible Venues for Writing/Video on Videogame Awe

So I'm still not totally sure what form my final paper is really going to take, but I do know it'll be about videogames, so that's enough to go on!

Here's some places I could go to with my final paper:

Ontological Geek. I was recommended to submit to this site by the guy I worked with to get published on First Person Scholar. It's a site for "people who like to think about the games they play" started by a "bored philosophy student" that has grown considerably. I could definitely produce something to fit this niche.

Medium Difficulty. Also a recommendation from the FPS guy, this site is "interested in critical examinations of games and related cultural phenomena." Also right up my alley.

The Escapist. This is a site I've found and often come to for the content I read that inspires the kind of stuff I write. They are open to submissions, so they're a definite candidate. And they have the benefit of being quite popular as well.

Destructoid: Bloggers Wanted. This is another site I found while poking around on other videogame sites. They have a monthly "bloggers wanted" assignment around a certain theme. This month's is on "the past, present, and future of videogames" which I could definitely work any of my ideas into.

Journal of Games Criticism. I found this by Googling "video game criticism submissions." It's a brand new "non-profit, peer-reviewed, open-access journal" surrounding videogames. They have links to First Person Scholar in their submission guidelines, so they seem like a good candidate for my kind of writing.

Unwinnable. Unwinnable is a site I found in this article about where to find videogame criticism. (I also discovered in this article that Critical Distance, a game criticism aggregator that featured my stuff last year, is apparently a super big deal, so that makes me feel good.) They accept pitches the first week of every month, and they focus on higher criticism rather than just simple reviews, so my stuff should fit in.

There's a lot of talk about videogames going around in the world right now.

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