EXTENDED ESSAY

Research Question: "How has development in technology affected the art of video games made by Nintendo?"

The reason I chose to focus on such a research question is because it intrigued me; I enjoy playing video games and want to know how technology has made an impact on their art. I also specified it as Nintendo because it is my favourite video game company and I have more knowledge about them compared to other companies. 

My research area, however, will be focusing on the art and design industry and how it's been affected by technological advances and the reflections of these affections on the video game art industry. 

Keywords: video games, design, art, technology, development, Nintendo

Resources:

The Gaming Evolution: An Essay by Jeremiah McCall (http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/25764)

Mashable: Tech Time Machine, The Evolution of Gaming, presented by Ford SYNC (http://mashable.com/2015/01/08/gaming-tech-ces/)

Resource Site For Video Game Research: UCLA Humanities Department (http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/DH101Fall12Lab4/exhibits/show/video-game-history)

Pew Research Center: The Overal Impact of Technology on the Arts (http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/01/04/section-6-overall-impact-of-technology-on-the-arts/)

Technology and Art: Engineering the Future by Eyal Gever (BBC) (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19576763)

Technology Changes How Art is Created and Perceived by Neal Gabler (LA Times) (http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/06/entertainment/la-ca-wiki-culture-20100606)

The Strong National Museum of Play Archive (http://www.museumofplay.org/research-publications/access-library-and-archival-materials)

The Interrelationship and Convergence of Technology and Art by Eyal Gever

The Impact of Technology on Creativity in Design: An Enforcement? by Nathalie Bonnardel and Franck Zenasni

The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect by Chris Melissinos

Good Nintensions: 30 Years of NES (or Good Nintensions 1985) by Jeremy Parish

High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games by Rusel DeMaria

The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent

Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age by Margot Lovejoy

Additional Research:

The Game Design Forum (http://thegamedesignforum.com/features/GDH_1.html)

For the execution part of the essay I plan to:

1. Analyse all my resources and take out the relevant bits
2. Scan more databases (ex: EBSCO) for more academic articles on my topic (this will be ongoing throughout the entirety of the process)
3. Scan and analyse visual sources from video games made by Nintendo
4. Start on the first draft of the extended essay
5. After gathering more sources and finishing my first draft, go over the draft once more and add more information if necessarry