Concerns on the Final Game Studies Project

So the final game studies project for ENG 298 is upon me... what to do? I already had an idea of what I'm going to do actually, but after reading the assigned last chapter of "An Introduction to Game Studies" all I thought was a very confused "huh". I was flipping through the chapter over and over again to find where it talked about an art project, but I guess that's not a legitimate project to Frans Mayra so it looks like I'm going solo on this one. Maybe I can take what I read in the chapter and use it though. Could there be an art project based on research in my future? I wouldn't even know where to begin though or how to go about it. Should I even consider basing my piece on research? I could always do my own piece and have no regards to what my final grade would be. I would be happy with that because after all, life isn't just about getting an A. I'm just rambling on, expressing my thoughts, concerns, and questions about the final game studies project so I apologize to anyone who doesn't care. Are there any other people planning on taking the art approach that have come across the same issues? Any ideas?

All in all I thought the reading was very insightful though. If I were to take the research paper approach then I would've found it useful and probably would've paid more attention to what I was actually reading. I especially like the quote where Mayra talks about how you shouldn't abandon your original idea just because there's no existing info or pieces about it because I feel like a lot of people fall into that trap whereas they should be excited and maybe even honored that they get to explore uncharted territory. After all, would Anakin have brought balance to the force if he hadn't explored unfamiliar lands and left Tatooine to become a jedi? If he didn't, that would've have been a pretty short tale and George Lucas would probably be a bum living in his mother's basement building models of the USS Enterprise.

Anyway, I have a lot of thinking and decision making that needs to be done. I'm not going to lie either, I didn't make the minimum word count for blog entries in my class but I've kind of hit a wall here due to my choice for a final project. There's no getting around that so I'm just going to come out with it. At least it was easy on the readers. We'll see what happens. Stay tuned for updates.