ABSTRACT
Once the groundwork to prepare analyzing is done, writing the analysis is the final step. The analysis is going to be informed by the assumptions that may be associated with the field it is being written for. In order to focus the analysis, the writer needs to come up with a thesis statement, or a question that will later be answered in the form of a thesis statement. The analysis will use different building blocks and configurations, depending on whether the audience is academics, industry practitioners, or other game players. The types of analyses discussed are: journalistic game review, historical analysis, game communities, using games to illustrate a theory, interpretive analysis, and personal accounts of play.
