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Hi! I'm currently doing a research project for my Business Administration degree here at university, and I've chosen to study cultural divergence among independent game developers; what this means is, I want to know how game developers - preferably one-person teams, as if often the case here with RPG Maker - are informed by their national culture, and if there's a correlation between them and others from the same culture, or if they correlate more with those of other cultures instead. Or indeed, as the term 'cultural divergence' suggests, if a distinct culture divorced from nationality has formed.
Honestly, the reason I had this idea was from using this forum and learning of the diversity in cultures and viewpoints - I'm genuinely interested to find out more about, say, perspectives on commercial game development from nations outside the Anglo-American sphere.
So what I'm doing is, I'm running a short survey - should only take 5-15 minutes at the most - in which you'll be asked for your stances on what you prefer to see in games you play, what you believe should be considered important when developing commercial games, and if these two things conflict - and then how you perceive your national culture (that is, the national culture of the country you reside in) would answer the same questions, plus how you perceive the basic makeup of the average game player in your country. I will also ask more generally how you'd class yourself on a number of linear scales and how that compares to your national culture.
I will be asking what country you reside in, along with your age and gender, but all responses will be kept strictly anonymous - nor will I use any information from outside the survey itself for my project, since forum posts could be traced through search engines. You can withdraw your answers from the project by sending me a private message if you wish, but note that in order to do this I will have to ask what your answers were so I don't remove the wrong set - for this reason, I recommend considering this before submitting.
While I encourage answers from commercial game devs (or aspiring commercial game devs) who operate outside the Anglo-American world, I accept answers from anyone - the more perspectives I have, the better!
Link to the survey is at the bottom of this post. Thanks for showing some interest, and I look forward to hearing what perspectives you have to offer!
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Honestly, the reason I had this idea was from using this forum and learning of the diversity in cultures and viewpoints - I'm genuinely interested to find out more about, say, perspectives on commercial game development from nations outside the Anglo-American sphere.
So what I'm doing is, I'm running a short survey - should only take 5-15 minutes at the most - in which you'll be asked for your stances on what you prefer to see in games you play, what you believe should be considered important when developing commercial games, and if these two things conflict - and then how you perceive your national culture (that is, the national culture of the country you reside in) would answer the same questions, plus how you perceive the basic makeup of the average game player in your country. I will also ask more generally how you'd class yourself on a number of linear scales and how that compares to your national culture.
I will be asking what country you reside in, along with your age and gender, but all responses will be kept strictly anonymous - nor will I use any information from outside the survey itself for my project, since forum posts could be traced through search engines. You can withdraw your answers from the project by sending me a private message if you wish, but note that in order to do this I will have to ask what your answers were so I don't remove the wrong set - for this reason, I recommend considering this before submitting.
While I encourage answers from commercial game devs (or aspiring commercial game devs) who operate outside the Anglo-American world, I accept answers from anyone - the more perspectives I have, the better!
Link to the survey is at the bottom of this post. Thanks for showing some interest, and I look forward to hearing what perspectives you have to offer!
Cultural Divergence in Indie Game Development
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