That guy who wrote a college paper on video games

>that guy who wrote a college paper on video games

What was yours about and what kind of grade did you get on it?

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I wrote a senior high school paper on BioShock and the application of Objectivism in society

Was about brapcbroing and I got Meme+

Test: cuck

I wrote a history report on the development of mother 3
got a B+

I didn't
it was in high school
and it was about sandman comics
I don't even know why

thankfully i was too self aware to do shit like that

That's as far as you could possibly take it because Bioshock is very high school level philosophy.

gamergate
B+

I wrote a report about flexible circuitry and OLEDs and used a Wii for the second half of the PowerPoint presentation.
I got an A for that portion of the assignment

I had to take a philosophy class a while ago. The professor didn't give a flying fuck about anything, half the time he would just talk about his weekend. As a final project he asked us to write an essay about literally anything, I just had a couple hours to write it so I just started to write about Castlevania. Got an A on that class. I heard that the dude got in jail because he was in a relationship with a student.

I wrote about cyberlaw and got an A, does it count?

I wrote about DMC4 and got SSS

I did and wrote a qualitative study on player immersion in video games, causes and effects, and how it effected players enjoyment of game in general.

as my paper for a BA of game-development. In the end I'm glad I didn't go further into game development.

My university's humanities department actually offered a course on video games in my last semester there but I didn't take it because I'm not that much of a faggot. I think it was just about storytelling in games because I knew a guy in it who wrote about omnipotent narration in the Stanley Parable or something.

Did one on Eve Online for one of my final presentations I had to make to pass school. It wasn't good, but good enough to pass.

I'm too dumb for college

I failed my A levels because I'm a fucking spacker, why would I be in uni?

I wrote 12 pages on John Carmack and got a 99%.

I appreciate your opinion, thank you.

Not a college paper, but a lecture for a conference once, that I presented on three occasions.

It was titled I think something like "The Act and Play: Relationship between Videogames classical Media" for a conference about encouraging cross-department cooperation between classic media studies, organized by the department of Theater. It was about Pic related and how it handles narrativity compared to more classic media.
No grade, but I got a reasonable good reception, considering that my audience was largely a bunch of 50+ years old classic East-European literal and theater scholars.
Damn those were good times.
I also used several games as illustrations for my lectures. I had my students play Factorio to teach them about principles of emergence and cybernetics, for an example.
I regretted doing it. Few of them got hooked up and it did not improve their study morale or results.

I wrote a highschool paper on how emulation was never going to be stopped, I predicted that the DS was going to be emulated very easily. I got an F if I'm not mistaken.

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I'd seriously like to read that. I'd definitely like to see how you quantify and define factors in this study. Not being ironic.
But it does seem more like a subject for experimental psychology or cognitive sciences... Is it published somewhere?

a really autistic kid did a long presentation in high school about "the history of video games". it was the most boring thing and he took about half an hour. i think the teacher gave him a sympathy A

>thinking Bioshock is an example of practical application of Objectivism in society

My BA three years ago was about debunking the myth of causation between violence and videogames.

My final paper for my first year of college's English 1 class was about why video games should be considered art.

I got a 93 (in a class where the professor graded harshly and had a policy of never giving 100s because "no paper is perfect") and the professor told me it was one of the best argument papers she had ever had in her class and asked if she could use it as an example argument paper for future classes.

No, not published. It was years ago, and written in Swedish.

I based my study off another previous study, which helped define a lot of concepts, so you might be interested checking them out, if you can find a copy:

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.118.3278

Video games as a language-learning tool, applying actional methodology and intercomprehension to self-learning. Got an A or some shit.

That is interesting, thanks. It's not exactly my field of expertise, but I was always wondering about more grounded investigation into concepts of immersion based around empirical or quantifiable models. Seems to me that it really might be interesting from a neuro-cognitive level too. Also, I need a scientific, quantifiable proof that Icepick Lodge are objectively the most immersive games ever made by human kind.

Wrote my college capstone piece on Bakhtinian Theory of Novelization with Bioshock as the framework.

Got a 100 and a thank you note for not writing about feminism like the rest of the class.

A friend of mine wrote a paper on gamer gate. Got 98% if I recall.
Another did a slide show for the rate of catching Pokémon for math.

I think the worst I ever did was write a report about video games and the correlation of aggression. It was a very normie tier paper overall.

back in high school though I did plagiarize the opening lines from MGS3 in a history paper though.

Underrated post

I did an English paper on the relationship between violent aggression and playing violent video games. Couldn't find any research with strong correlations between the two but their was some research that had a small positive correlation.

I wrote about how a lot of modern video games were designed with a skinner box based model to keep players hooked through repetition and reward in my social psychology class. I used Pokemon GO and WoW as prime examples.
got an A on it. Would have been an A+ but the teacher was strict and took off points for organization because I said "uhh" during two parts in my presentation

I did worse.
I wrote a game fanfiction for a writing assignment in highschool. It was for Morrowind.
The teacher was really eager to send it to national Young Author Talent competition because he loved it, and was really mad when I declined.
I never had the heart to tell him that the "really vivid world I've build" was not exactly from my own imagination.

Ps4 v Xbone
Gave me a C+ when I turned it in a week late
Also made us do peer reviews
One of the two people who reviewed mine praised me for bashing Xbone and the other person said my criticism of the Wii U was unecessary when I had made a small remark on how it was dead

that sounds awesome. Is there a copy of it online?

In high school we were assigned to write about a story that fits the "hero's journey" archetype. I wrote mine about OoT. I got an A and the teacher said I had the best paper in the class, which really surprised me. He didn't even play Nintendo games.

You set them up to fail by giving them vidya

I know the professor didn't read papers as he would grade all 300 of his students papers within two days as he would submit them in at turn it in to see if anyone plagiarized.

Wrote my paper on cyber security and used Watch Dogs as an example.

I did a presentation about the probabilities behind Xcom in one of my math classes when Xcom 2 came out and I was playing it endlessly.
I got an A. The only person who really knew what I was talking about though was this middle aged black guy who also happened to be playing it at the time.

Shit dude, I wrote my capstone thesis and did a presentation on the benefits of edutainment in teaching History. Beat the hell out writing about "aqueducts" or "or why the m14 cost the US vietnam" that my other classmates wrote about.

Well OoT is the perfect example no matter to whom if you provide the context. It was the same for me too.

literally nothing wrong with it. Did it with gamergate in social psychology, it was on topics in the past 6 months...I didn't even give two fucks about it, but wanted to know why all the stupid shitposting was about that fall

No. Never translated it, never reworked it into an article, never published it or anything. It was a weird thing that my friend roped me into, honestly - I talked to him about Pathologic in a pub one day and a did not know that his Theater Theory teacher is sitting at a table next to us and listening to us until he walked straight to me and told me I should give a speech about it at the conference they were preparing.

So I did it, was then asked by to repeat it on two other random (much smaller) occasions, and after that, I never returned to it. It's not even related to my own studies, honestly.
And it was almost ten years ago.

Possibly. But one of them did actually asked me if I would want to follow up on it on it under his guidance, so I guess there might have been a little more to it than that, and like four of these old guys asked me how could they go about looking into games like that themselves.

Share user ill give it a read

I wrote a report on Guilty Gear XRD

I got an A on it

Ah, the normiest of the topics you could have picked.

Cultured posting is not allowed pls go

Wrote a paper on development of assets used in video games.
Dedicated a heafty section to prerendered assets so I could talk about Resident Evil for pages.
Got an A and my computer technician diploma.

and you failed

I used the DotA API to get ward data, and considered all ward positions (within a positional ±) as network of nodes with weighting based on frequency. I used this to do a network analysis of the vision over the dota map, and tried to derive optimal simultaneous wards (and counterwards) from it. Plenty of path analysis and things like that.

To be honest it was more a demonstration of an understanding of concepts than anything of particular value. Think I got 85% or so.

I still have it but I'm really embarrassed by it now. If I were to do it again today, I would approach the subject much differently because my opinions have changed since I wrote it several years ago. Also, one of my biggest problems with it is how generic I was; I gave no examples of games I consider art. The professor, obviously, was more than fine with the paper but I look at it now and I cringe.

Here it is, with the identifying features like my name removed:

pastebin.com/mUnu0qsd

Despite my problems with it, feel free to let me know what you think if you read it. Just keep in mind that this is several years old now and it's not how I would do it if I were to do it again today.

I wrote about ESports. Specifically Dota 2. No one seemed to care until I mentioned how much money was being won. Then they seemed at least mildly interested.

A one pager counts as a paper somewhere?

But yeah, it's rather typical of a first year undergrad report. Single argument, deductive, opinion based.

Mine was about Megaman X. I got a 96 or something around there

videogames were taken
I had to choose mangas
Got the maximum score and the professor asked me a copy of it to make the kids of the other classes interested in studying through stuff they liked
I've never sent him a copy because it was actually photoshopped to make the characters in the scans I've used say the things I needed

there was in preschool some shit where we had to draw something with a circle and one with square
autistic 5 year old me drawed neversoft logo with the circle,fucking tony hawk autism

>look at other societies that emphasized the " individual "
>Murrica
>it's a chaotic, low IQ shithole

Ehhhh

I wrote mine on animation and got away with citing Sleepycast more than once because my professor didn't know any better. Got an A

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I've written a few tbqh, the best was probably studying market share and creative direction of sony and nintendo starting at the 5th generation of consoles


the most interesting for sure was about gmod sex and sfm porn as a means of exploring queer identity

I turned in a blank page about DmC and got the same grade

I'm writing a paper on how vibeo gaems affect brain development.

tfw wrote a review for Fallout New Vegas in high school
teacher liked it

>look at other societies that emphasized the "community"
>they all fucking collapsed after decades of genocide and starvation except for North Korea

Ehhhhhh

You know, just because I oppose one extreme does not mean I favor the other extreme. Did that thought ever occur to you?

how moores law affects electronic entertainment. got a C cause my professor use to work at AMD

>it's a chaotic, low IQ shithole
Look, I make fun of America as much as the next guy, but their problem is not in low IQ. They have average of 98, the same as Australia, France, Denmark, or Czech Republic, and one point bellow Sweden, Poland and Germany.

Sadly, IQ alone does not mean that much. America is a shithole (and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better) but it has nothing to do with IQ.

Talked about Deus Ex in an ethics class.

I'll take a 90.

I didn't mean literal intelligence quotient. I meant a more ephemeral sort of madness that is not confined solely to idiots. It's like a cultural rot. I live here, and I still don't know what exactly caused this, but it's pretty horrifying to witness up close.

>I'm writing a paper on how vibeo gaems affect brain development.
So... are you just reporting on that Molecular Psychiatry article about games and neuroplasticity, or are you actually doing some deeper research?
And if you do work with more sources - or even research you have done - care to share a bit about it. I'm rather interested.

I took game design classes as free electives and actually did write a paper on a game. It was about how Yoshi's Island looks like a kids game but is ball-breakingly hard. Don't even remember what the main topic was.
Got an A

Essay on Fallout, and choice. Karma, etc.
Got a good grade. Referenced 1,2, 3 and NV.

My school had a final senior project and i did mine on esports too, though i had a more generalized approach. Actually got an A even though it was a school for tryhards

This. I'd be interested to see actual physical side effects in brain development, in the same vein as children who learn music at a young age develop a distinctive wrinkle in their brain that is absent in other people. Do video games do something similar?

>I didn't mean literal intelligence quotient.
Well, don't say IQ then. Say "intelligence" or "education" or "level of discussion". You can call US "radicalized" or "anti-intellectual" or "ideology obsessed" and I think nobody would take an issue with that. But IQ is IQ - it's a technical term.

It's like calling Russians "alcohol dehydrogenase-deficient" because they are all mean drunks.

I had room in my schedule my junior year of college so I took a fun extra course on game design and narrative. Wrote my final paper on why "cinematic" game design from the current generation is trash compared to the design of even simplistic games from years earlier (used Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Mega Man 2-5). Ended up with a 93 but my professor disagreed with me on the quality of The Last of Us.

I'm at the stage of collecting sources, so there is no actual text just yet, but if you're interested, you can leave your email and I will send it to you as soon as I finish with it.

Robots in Literature (English 102)
Wrote on Deus Ex and Transhumanism.
I want to rip my dick off and throw it in the river by UNR

Literally wrote a paper about DaS and got an A get fucked.

>president who is literally only good at dividing people of different cultural backgrounds and aggravating people who oppose him, making them focus on issues that are petty or don't exist at all.

Feel like that has something to do with it. I am also not proud of my country as of late and its gonna go downhill further from here.

I got really invested in a games development course at college. The first year was supposed to be half theory and then learning programs like 3DS Max and UDK, and then the second year would be entirely the later. It didnt turn out that way and was pretty much just written work about random shit,
like media. Overall it was a terrible decisions and I am living with the consequences today

I wrote up an incredibly long piece on platinum games and clover studios around the time MGSR was being hyped, I wrote about how they started in capcom, then became clover studios and then platinum, and how the team changed over the years and the various projects.

I got the highest grade possible,
they called it like distinction plus or some shit,
it was probably the hardest ive ever worked on something

I fucking hate platinum games they have released nothing but shit recently

Alright, alright, you have a point. Figurative language in sociopolitical discussions is just a way to create misunderstandings.

I will strive to be more literal.

I wrote one on TF2 and got a 97.

I wrote my dissertation on the potential use of kantian ethical systems in artifical intelligence if that counts

Persona 3's aspect on self-destructive humanity.

Got a 20.

About pathfinding on square and hexagonal maps in strategy games
then I wrote crude 3D bomberman clone with multiplayer (client-server) to pass 2 classes at once - Networking (UDP, TCP, transport protocols - mostly server side) and Computer Graphics (OpenGL - client side)
I also wrote simple Scorched Earth clone in Matlab

I studied CS so people writing games or using games as an examples of some algorithms (AI, pathfinding, pattern rec, etc.) wasn't that uncommon

I did a HS paper on Grant Morrison's Batman. Got A-.

You're right it's terribad.

Got a B and 2 Ds, with Ds in general RE and General Studies, what about you my man?

There's an objectively shitty extreme and you're bashing the other extreme that's worked.
You get an R for retarded.

I wrote a presentation on atmospheric story telling and used Majora's Mask as the focal study point.

My professor loved MM and helped me out during the presentation. It was pretty cool.

How retarded do you have to be to write about video games?

it's only like 5 paragraphs. you can't critique something that doesn't even have enough content/space to actually say anything of substance.

at least you can form a sentence, but what kind of shitty community college considers a 1-pager a "paper"? my thesis was something like 80 pages and it was rare where we could submit something less than 5 or so pages.

In HS, I tried to debunk Ebert's claim that games weren't art and got an A.

Where I to rewrite it, I would change a couple of things (mainly my examples), but I was mostly happy with it.

I wrote a paper on the ethics of pre-purchase methods and kikestarter as a college freshman. This was a few months after the whole Colonial Marines shitshow, so there was plenty to work with. Made a 100.