My name is Nils Olson. I am a Graduate Student attending the University Calgary in the department of Communications Studies. At present, I am researching online role-playing games. I am attempting to gather as much information from the perspective of players as possible. Only a small amount of research has been completed regarding videogames and most of this has focused on very negative themes such as aggression and violence in players.

As an avid videogame player I am disappointed in the type of research being produced. With this in mind I am focused on contextualizing videogame research in player experiences and understandings. In my present research I am focusing on studying online games using Lineage as a case study. I have compiled surveys consisting of 20 open-ended questions designed to help gather a variety of different player understandings of Lineage.

The survey will take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour to complete depending on how much you want to write. If you are interested in participating please send an email to Nils at nkolson@ucalgary.ca.

Thanks.