Gameology: Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community

I always seem to overestimate my ability to complete things in a timely fashion. For example, I thought I'd have my final pre-defense draft done on Friday, but here I am still working on it. I read somewhere recently (probably Lifehacker) that one way around such dilemmas of overestimation is not to re-train yourself to give more realistic ETAs on completing projects, but rather to learn your overestimation ratio and factor that in. So, if you know you tend to overestimate by 60%, go into assessing a new project by predicting how long you think it'll take, then adding 60% to it.

(My wife thinks I'm on about a 100% ratio -- so if I say it will take 1 hour, it takes 2.)

Anyway, I'm very glad to see the issue out, and I'm honored to be listed among the contributors -- at the top of the Table of Contents, no less!

The article is a bit of an experiment for me, stepping out into Film and Media Studies more broadly than I have before. It's also my first (public) attempt to deal with psychoanalysis in any degree, so I hope I got it right. I look forward to comments/suggestions/corrections.

Congratulations to the Refractory Games Issue Editors!