So wait, people can actually sit at home and play video games, and then let other people watch them?
Would people want me to do literary analyses of games I'm playing, WHILE I'm playing them?
@Mainebot People watch board games, pencil&paper RPGs, crafting, and all sorts of other things. Yours seems like an unexplored niche. (Also see https://geekandsundry.com/.)
@Mainebot The household watcher of these shows says she thinks she can totally see people watching the literary analysis.
@Mainebot As it happens, I heard (second hand) that some of the Geek&Sundry people have worked less at their purported day jobs because G&S work has turned out unexpectedly lucrative.
Also there is a vast population dedicated to deconstructing game backgrounds and plots already, so a set of people who want to talk about games already exists. Haven't heard of anybody taking the literary angle though.
@cwood I am a little surprised to be honest. Every game is a fiction with a constructed text, and avails itself to a literary interpretation. they demand it! I think people should be critical and ask questions of the media they're consuming.
@Mainebot People are already arguing about game plots online. The space in the conversation for the literary and critical questions is right there to be filled with a (monetized!) sort of broadcast. Try it and see?
@cwood I'll def consider it over the holidays. I'm off work until Jan 2nd, in ten minutes :)
@cwood I'll have to really consider it, then.
I've been looking for something more engaging than marketing, and a theorist-of-the-week tied to a game would be fun to prep for.
Or I could just fall back on Marx, but Mannnn Marx is easy.