How to Present the History of Digital Games

Suominen, Jaakko

doi:10.1177/1555412016653341

Cited by 15 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 26 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In our analysis of these materials, we have sought to classify design patterns and trace connections between games that employ similar styles of voice interaction. According to Suominen’s (2016) categorization of game histories, our approach is primarily genealogical, as we map out the lineages and subcategories that have emerged among voice interaction games, and to some extent pathological, as we seek to explain these developments by reference to their conceptual antecedents and material preconditions. In a loose sense, we are engaged in media archaeology (Apperley & Parikka, 2015; Parikka & Suominen, 2006); although within the constraints of this article, we can account only briefly for the broader media-cultural contexts in which voice interaction games have developed.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The use of voice interaction in digital games has a long and varied history of experimentation but has never achieved sustained, widespread success. In this article, we review the history of voice interaction in digital games from a media archaeology perspective. Through detailed examination of publicly available information, we have identified and classified all games that feature some form of voice interaction and have received a public release. Our analysis shows that the use of voice interaction in digital games has followed a tidal pattern: rising and falling in seven distinct phases in response to new platforms and enabling technologies. We note characteristic differences in the way Japanese and Western game developers have used voice interaction to create different types of relationships between players and in-game characters. Finally, we discuss the implications for game design and scholarship in light of the increasing ubiquity of voice interaction systems.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

2017

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The late 2000s were also a moment of widespread optimism, with media and communication scholars dishing up “celebratory” accounts of game culture (Dyer-Witheford & De Peuter, 2009, p. xxv). This view is echoed by game historian Suominen (2017), who points to the many historical monographs he considers “enthusiast” if not “pathological,” which wax nostalgically about game history’s great men and machines.…”

Section: Labor: From Modding To Everyday Game-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Apps of Empire: Global Capitalism and the App Economy

Nieborg

2020

Games and Culture

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article interrogates Dyer-Witheford and De Peuter’s Games of Empire. Since its publication in 2009, the game industry evolved significantly, adding billions of players, dollars, and devices. One of the driving forces of this transformation has been the global diffusion of mobile media. This raises the question: Do mobile platforms and the app stores operated by Apple and Google allow for a radical departure from global hypercapitalism? This question will be explored by taking on three themes: shifts in labor, the political economy of platformization, and the capital-intensive mode of app production and circulation. Doing so addresses two gaps in Games of Empire’ s approach: a dearth of empirical economic analysis and the acknowledgment of work in critical platform studies and mainstream economics. It is concluded that rather than providing a staging ground for dissent or collective action, apps of empire signal the foreclosure of an exodus from global hypercapitalism.

show abstract

“…Pelien lisäksi (Reunanen & Pärssinen 2014;Kultima & Peltokangas 2017) tutkimus-ja populaarikirjallisuus on käsitellyt yksittäisten laitteistojen merkitystä suomalaiselle peliteollisuudelle ja sitä ympäröivälle kulttuurille (Kuorikoski 2017) sekä kartoittanut suomalaisen peliteollisuuden menestystarinoita (Niipola 2015). Tutkimukset ovat myös käsitelleet erilaisia lähestymistapoja pelien historiankirjoitukseen (Suominen 2017).…”

Section: Aiempi Tutkimusunclassified

Epäonnistunut yritys suomalaisen digitaalisen peliteollisuuden käynnistämiseksi: Amersoft 1984–1986

Pasanen¹,

Suominen²

2019

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Epäonnistunut yritys suomalaisen digitaalisen peliteollisuuden käynnistämiseksi: Amersoft 1984–1986Amer-yhtymä teki lyhytkestoisen ekskursion pelialan julkaisutoimintaan vuosina 1984–1986. Sen perustama tytäryhtiö Amersoft oli ensimmäinen suomalainen yritys, joka pyrki laajamittaisesti julkaisemaan kotimaisia tietokonepelejä. Liiketoiminta osoittautui kuitenkin nopeasti kannattamattomaksi. Artikkelimme tarkoitus on syventää suomalaista pelihistorian tutkimusta käsittelemällä sittemmin valtavaksi kasvaneen digipeliteollisuuden hapuilevia kotimaisia varhaisvaiheita.Kirjallisen tutkimusaineiston lisäksi lähteemme koostuvat Amersoftin entisten työntekijöiden haastatteluista. Kartoitamme ja analysoimme osatekijöitä, jotka johtivat epäonnistuneeseen yritykseen suomalaisen peliteollisuuden käynnistämiseksi 1980-luvun puolivälissä. Liiketoiminnan kannattamattomuus johtui pääasiallisesti kotimaisten pelimarkkinoiden pienuudesta, johdonmukaisen yritysstrategian puutteesta, laajalle levinneestä ohjelmistopiratismista, ulkomaisten pelien maahantuonnista, aineettoman pääoman puutteesta sekä julkaistujen pelien puutteellisesta laadusta. A failed attempt to launch Finnish digital game industry: Amersoft 1984–1986The Finnish conglomerate Amer Group made a short-term excursion into computer game publication business in 1984–1986 by founding Amersoft. The subsidiary was the first Finnish company that aimed to produce and publish domestic computer games. However, the business proved to be unprofitable quite quickly. The objective of this article is to delve into the precarious initial steps of Finnish game industry.In addition to the literary research material, our sources consist of interviews of former Amersoft employees. We will examine, explicate, and analyse factors that led to the failed launch of Finnish game industry in the mid-1980s. These multifaceted constituents comprised primarily of the small size of domestic game markets, lack of coherent corporate strategy, importation of foreign games, all-encompassing software piracy, absence of intellectual capital, and low quality of game design.

show abstract

How to Present the History of Digital Games

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

Apps of Empire: Global Capitalism and the App Economy

Epäonnistunut yritys suomalaisen digitaalisen peliteollisuuden käynnistämiseksi: Amersoft 1984–1986

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About