Shaping the Past: Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games

Shaping the Past: Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games
ISBN-10
3110692481
ISBN-13
9783110692488
Category
History
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
2022-07-18
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Author
Ylva Grufstedt

Description

Ylva Grufstedt investigates the role of counterfactuals in uses of history through game designers and through digital strategy games. It discusses the content, form and perspectives that define different types of counterfactuals in the context of game-making – an effort to outline and detail the values and frameworks that shape the past in this popular media.

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