Final Games Project

In my final games project I want to address the stereotypes that the non-gaming community has concerning gamers. In order to do this I want to do a survey in which I ask an undetermined amount of people in various age groups what their view of gamers are. I’m sure most gamers know of at least one negative stereotype against them. So I want to see what other people's thoughts or images are when they hear “videogames” or “gamers”. Some questions I wish to address are: if they consider themselves gamers, how videogames have, if at all, affected their lives, what they believe a typical gamer looks like (e.g. sitting in their parents’ basement playing D&D”), so on and so forth. I then want to take these information put them into figures and critical analyze them. I will be comparing my results to typical stereotypes and seeing which if any are true, and if so how they reflect on the gaming community.