Publication: Desafíos en el diseño de una metodología para el estudio de la Historia de la Producción de Videojuegos en España
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2019
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Raúl Eguizabal Maza (UCM)
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El estudio de la historia del videojuego en España cuenta con diversos problemas a la hora de enfrentarnos a él. La ausencia de datos tanto de empresas productoras ya desaparecidas como en activo, así como la falta de registros centralizados a través de los organismos que representan y aglutinan al sector (AEVI y DEV) obligan a que este estudio deba apoyarse a menudo en fuentes de transmisión oral, con lo que ello implica en cuanto a inexactitudes y carencia de información veraz y contrastada. Tras más de una década de trabajo sobre esta materia realizando entrevistas y recopilando datos, consideramos haber identificado los retos principales a los que se enfrenta el sector y ser capaces de proponer una serie de medidas que sería pertinente poner en marcha para allanar el camino a la realización de estudios e investigaciones más rigurosas y de mayor calado sobre la historia del entretenimiento interactivo.
The study of Video Game Production in Spain has numerous problems when it comes to dealing with it. The absence of data from both producing companies already missing and active, as well as the lack of centralized records through the organizations that represent and agglutinate the sector (AEVI and DEV, mainly) oblige that the methodologies should rely almost exclusively on sources of oral transmission, with what this implies regarding inaccuracies and lack of truthful and proven information. After more than a decade of work on this subject, conducting interviews and collecting data, we consider having identified the main challenges the researcher faces in this area. In this article we propose a series of recommendations that can be applied to carry out more rigorous and more thorough research and reports on developing local industries, such as Spanish interactive entertainment.
The study of Video Game Production in Spain has numerous problems when it comes to dealing with it. The absence of data from both producing companies already missing and active, as well as the lack of centralized records through the organizations that represent and agglutinate the sector (AEVI and DEV, mainly) oblige that the methodologies should rely almost exclusively on sources of oral transmission, with what this implies regarding inaccuracies and lack of truthful and proven information. After more than a decade of work on this subject, conducting interviews and collecting data, we consider having identified the main challenges the researcher faces in this area. In this article we propose a series of recommendations that can be applied to carry out more rigorous and more thorough research and reports on developing local industries, such as Spanish interactive entertainment.