My girlfriend is writing a paper on chiptune and she needs your help! (Page 1 of 4)

done! I was kind of in a rush when I made the survey

I get that the survey needs to be short to avoid making people not want to take it, but it maybe should be a little more comprehensive. Just sayin'.

Agreed that the questions were kinda unexpected
Good luck to your gf

a couple caveats:

we're not looking for incredibly hard/comprehensive data, so the survey was designed to get people to answer it rather than designing it toward encompassing everything.

the reason it's skewed toward younger ages is because that's the population we're interested in! she's trying to explore that weird cultural area of people into chiptune that are too young to have really been influenced by lo-bit sounds. if the reason so many people are into chiptune is because they're nostalgic for the sound aesthetic, then the ages of chiptune enthusiasts should keep getting older and older, but younger people are still getting into it!

the video game questions are in there to kind of evaluate the "gamerness" of the people taking the survey. there's a hypothesis that she (and I) are throwing around that deals with the "kind" of gamer that enjoys chiptune to a point where they would make the music, and we're trying to see whether that hypothesis holds at all. we're thinking that the stereotype of a person who enjoys chiptune would be both a. over 20 (so that they have some basis for what low-bit music entails) and b. has played old games and has nostalgia for them. obviously this hypothesis won't be 100% accurate, and I'm personally hoping that it's actually false because the alternative is MUCH more interesting

the paper she's writing isn't a thesis or a scientific paper exactly, despite my use of the word hypothesis -- she's leaning more toward the anthropological study route in that she's immersed in the culture, rather than taking an outsider's perspective. the problem is that we personally don't know any young chiptune fans here in San Diego, so we decided to put together a survey to make sure that those hypotheses above at least have SOME basis in reality and we're not just making it up

and don't worry -- she's already very aware of the issues surrounding articles on chiptune written by people who aren't really into the culture. there will be no "mario at a rave" mentioned here, I promise.

Faux nostalgia is indeed an odd cultural phenomenon.

Yah, if that survey were done in Tokyo, everyone would be over 25.

This.