Well, I've decided to start a journal of sorts - or well, attempt one. If you're here reading my journal, regardless of how you got here, I'll be quite surprised; something actually came of this. Regardless, I thought I'd collect my thoughts and ideas in the area of games studies because I've been inspired. It's been 19 years since the release of the first volume of the GameStudies journal , and after reading it in a seminar with my university tutor, I was slightly inspired to put my own thoughts down. So here I am, a 21 year old Games Art and Design University student in Norfolk who's had a quick idea to write down his thoughts, hoping that one day said thoughts might contribute to the massive industry that is games. Maybe they will, but it's likely that it'll be left alone much like many of my other unfinished projects. I start a lot, experiment, but I've never had the motivation to finish. I'll get out of that habit one day. What w...