Gameology: Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community

Amanda, this is a very neat project, and I'd like to see your writeup sometime if you wouldn't mind posting it. I'm reminded of the Game Ontology Project in that your project attempts to define structural game elements and the relationships between those elements (e.g., Big Fairy is defined by the "action" of healing).

What I find especially valuable about this in terms of game studies is that it juxtaposes these ontological descriptions with a couple other "levels" of commentary, namely, commentary about the computational nature of the game and its mediation through various platforms (with the comment on "Trees full of bees," for instance) and critique at the aesthetic and narrative level. With all of this going on, I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult for the visual layout of the map to become cluttered, but the zoom feature helps with that (potential) problem.