Serious Player

Here comes the first lines…

It seems to be more and more trivial nowadays to write a blog about games, after all it begins to be a pretty common topic to talk about, don’t you think ? No ? Well, personally I don’t. Actually, my purposes are not to open another blog about video games review. Instead of that i would like to study relationship between games, art and education, and also think about games in our “modern society” in a more general way…

Having been a player for the last 20 years doesn’t made me an expert in this field, or a “veteran” to quote Leigh Alexander, the actual director of Gamasutra, about one of her recent blog entry, but it provides me my own personal background and a purely practical knowledge. As an academic, I also want to use some methodological approaches to analyse and observe topics I’m interesting in. These topics would be about serious game, independant production (sometimes mainstream prod.), digital art, experimental game, game design and a lot of other issues around games studies.

I didn’t want to limit my object of studies too much at the beginning of this new blog . Days after days, I will shape the borderline of  my studies by my own, but at this time I just need to write online and confront my thoughts with other people, so don’t be shy and put comments on my incoming entries if you find it interesting or if you disagree with my opinion or analyse. I enjoy a lot to discuss about issue I study , especially about games !

My name is Simon Bachelier, I’m a postgraduate student living in France. I have been studying Art History for more than 6 years at University Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). Since almost two years, I’m trying to focus on game studies in order to involve my “gamer” background in a more reflective and academic approach…

Thank you for reading and welcome aboard !