We had a delay in our lesson as originally it was meant to begin last week but due to illness Nigel was unable to attend. Though with this session he went in full force to catch us up and keep us on schedule. We mainly went over what the course is going to be focused on and that would be writing a thesis proposal and all the research and preparation there in. We were told to begin thinking on a topic for our thesis. I already have an initial idea that I would need to do some preliminary research on to further define but I’d like to look into Nostalgia.
Specifically I’d like to look into how Nostalgia is being used or generated when it comes to games development. I’ve noticed a trend of modern indie games and even some larger studios creating games meant to specifically emulate the restrictions and styles of older styles of games. Things like the Bloodborne Demake, a PS1 reimagining of Bloodborne, Dead Space Demake, the genre of ‘boomer shooters’ and low-poly games made to resemble the styles of older generations of games like PS1 and PS2. I may get modern film media involved like things like Stranger Things or the recent marvel films like Thor Love and Thunder and Guardians of the Galaxy which use older music genres and imagery in their films to harken back to the 70s-80s.
Specifically I used the word ‘generating nostalgia’ as a lot of the audience of Stranger Things and Guardians of the Galaxy are too young to have any lived experiences in these time periods but still feel a draw to them in a nostalgic sense, or at least I believe they do, so I’d like to do some research to see how its been written and further define my own question.
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