{"id":2212,"date":"2012-02-05T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2012-02-05T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T15:21:26","slug":"a-new-paper-on-the-dreamcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/02\/a-new-paper-on-the-dreamcast\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Paper on the Dreamcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to see the article Mia Consalvo and I wrote published in <i>Loading&#8230;,<\/i><br \/>\nthe journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA). There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sfu.ca\/loading\/index.php\/loading\/issue\/view\/9\/showToc\">an intriguing lineup of articles in <i>Loading&#8230;<\/i> Vol 6, No 9;<\/a> ours is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Montfort, Nick and Mia Consalvo. &#8220;The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde.&#8221; <i>Loading&#8230;<\/i> 6: 9, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sfu.ca\/loading\/index.php\/loading\/article\/view\/104\/116\">http:\/\/journals.sfu.ca\/loading\/index.php\/loading\/article\/view\/104\/116<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We look at the connections between the Dreamcast platform, five games in particular (<i>Jet Grind Radio, Space Channel 5, Rez, Seaman,<\/i> and <i>SGGG<\/i>) and avant-garde movements and work in art, literature, and other areas in the 20th century. By seriously considering and applying the idea of the avant-garde and looking into these fives games closely (in terms of gameplay, in interpretive ways, and with regard to players&#8217; online discourses about them), we show some ways in which videogames, within gaming, have done the work of the historical avant-garde; the business situations and factors in platform technology that relate to this innovation; and what opportunities for radical exploration in console gaming remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to see the article Mia Consalvo and I wrote published in Loading&#8230;, the journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA). There&#8217;s an intriguing lineup of articles in Loading&#8230; Vol 6, No 9; ours is: Montfort, Nick and Mia Consalvo. &#8220;The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde.&#8221; Loading&#8230; 6: 9, 2012. http:\/\/journals.sfu.ca\/loading\/index.php\/loading\/article\/view\/104\/116 We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/02\/a-new-paper-on-the-dreamcast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Paper on the Dreamcast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,17,100,11,10,39,9],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-console","tag-digital","tag-dreamcast","tag-games","tag-platforms","tag-playing","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}