A talk I gave to some year nine students on campus to experience university life through the University of Melbourne Access program. dangolding.com

2. PhD candidate
Lecturer and tutor
Daniel Golding
Writer
Came through Access program

5. Bachelor of Arts

6. Bachelor of Arts
Honours

7. Bachelor of Arts
Honours
PhD

8. The exotic
The cash
The ugly

9. Why study videogames?

16. What do we know about gamers?

17. Context

18. Context
Source: Digital Australia Report 2012 (Bond University)

19. Who plays games?
93% of households
63% of which have a console
32 is the average age of an
Australian gamer
Context
and they have been playing for
more than
12 years
47% female 53% male
Source: Digital Australia Report 2012 (Bond University)

20. Who plays games? How much are they
worth?
93% of households
$1.7 billion
63% of which have a console
in Australia in 2010
32 is the average age of an
Australian gamer US$75 billion
Context globally
and they have been playing for
more than
12 years
more than the music and film industries
combined
Avatar took $2.7 billion at the box office
but
World of Warcraft has made +$1 billion
47% female 53% male every year since 2004
Source: Digital Australia Report 2012 (Bond University)

21. What do we know about games?

36. Can we even define
what a videogame
is?

38. Narratives

43. Narrative
start finish

44. Narrative
start finish
Story ≠ plot

45. Narrative
start finish
Story ≠ plot
intro climax
exposition
denouement

46. Narrative
start finish
Story ≠ plot
climax intro
exposition
denouement

48. the magic circle

53. Why study videogames?