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EP9 How the Japanese Video Game Industry Found Lost and Rediscovered Its Way
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Join us as we dive into the history of the Japanese videogame industry and learn about how it discovered its voice and influenced the world. • [Next Session] • Let's dive into the history of Godzilla and examine what made Godzilla the King of Monsters! Post your questions and vote for your favorite title from the Godzilla franchise! • Sign Up: http://jfny-popculture-ep10.eventbrit... • [Event Survey] • Please fill a quick survey from the link below: • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... • [For up-coming information for future episodes] • Twitter: / jf_newyork • facebook: / jfny.cgp • Newsletter: https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.c... • • Our special guest speakers are: • Chris Kohler: • Chris Kohler is a professional game developer, author, podcast host, and a former veteran journalist with an extensive background in videogame history. Since the late 1990s, he has been an active writer about videogames, authoring his first book: Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life (2004) after receiving a Fulbright fellowship to Kyoto. Chris has also worked as an editor at prominent gaming/tech journalism websites such as WIRED and Kotaku; his latest book, Final Fantasy V (2017) explores the development journey of a single Japanese role-playing game. He currently resides in California, and is the Editorial Director at game studio Digital Eclipse. • http://www.chriskohler.biz/about/ • Mia Consalvo: • Mia Consalvo is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is also the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames (2007), and Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Global Context (2016). She has also co-authored and co-edited various books about videogames as well. Mia also runs mLab, a space dedicated to developing innovative methods for studying games and their players. She is a member of the Centre for Technoculture, Art Games (TAG), and her works have been regularly presented at both industry and academic conferences such as the Game Developers Conference. • https://about.me/miaconsalvo • Rachael Hutchinson: • Rachael Hutchinson is a Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Nagai Kafū's Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self (2011), and Japanese Culture Through Videogames (2019), which was nominated for the John Whitney Hall Book Prize at the Association of Asian Studies, and has co-edited publications focusing on the representations of Japanese identity. She has published essays in journals such as Japan Forum, Monumenta Nipponica, Japanese Studies, and Games and Culture, contributing various chapters to books on Japanese games, manga, literature and film. She is currently working on an edited volume on the Japanese role-playing game genre, the JRPG. • https://www.dllc.udel.edu/people/facu...
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