Gameology: Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community

Hi Sledge,

I disagree with your appraisal of videogames that depict colonization. While I understand your concerns, I think that importing post-colonial theory to read the game as a 'text' does very little to explore what players actually do with such games, and how they understand the games as representing something in the 'real world'.

There are a variety of publications on this issue and I recommend the work of William Urrichio and Anna Everett on this issue.

A more extended version of my position can be found here: http://tomsresearch.googlepages.com/virtualunaustralia_apperley.pdf
I welcome your feebdack and or comments.