Simon Egenfeldt Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, and Susana Pajares Tosca, "Introduction: Games as a Field"

(In Understanding Video Games)

- Many are no longer satisfied with "passive" entertainment (weird place to start...)
- Distinction between pre-digital/digital games
- Survey most influential/important developments and perspectives in game studies
- Interdisciplinary variety
- Game studies still young, messy
- Unanswered questions: What is a game? Why are there games? Why do some people prefer certain games? How to games affect the player?
- "There is much to be done."