Analytical Paper Assignment

This paper should be an analysis of your personal experience with a game which incorporates discussion of game systems and mechanics, usability, feedback, narrative, fun, suspension of space/time, and other aspects from the readings. Analyze your experience of the game? Why is it compelling/important/interesting for you to play this game? What are the moral/social/societal implications? What is being played' in the game? Paper must include at least 3 academic citations to readings and other sources to support your analysis. Do not spend more than one or two paragraphs describing the game. The paper is not a report about the game or a review of it. It is an analysis of your individual experience of playing it. Here are two examples of good work:Cosgrove and Hernandez..

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Details: The most common error students make is filling the paper with descriptions of the game. Assume the reader knows the game and focus on critically discussing how elements of the game created a specific experience for you.

  • Have a clear thesis statement in the first paragraph. I.e.: "Playing the Last of Us II made me feel like a monster and caused me to question how I make ethical decisions in the real world."
  • Support your thesis with references to your play experience, the readings, and other authors.
  • Cite your sources using APA style
  • Make sure that you are analyzing how the game designers crafted a game that created the possibility for the experience you had.