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Shaping the Past
Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games
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Ylva Grufstedt
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Ylva Grufstedt, Aalto University, Finland and Malmö University, Sweden.
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"A high-quality and welcome addition to scholarship on counterfactuals in gaming, and an excellent contribution to the growing body of work on game production studies." – Thomas Apperley, Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, Tampere University, Finnland
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter One: Opening up the Design – Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron IV Overviews
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Chapter Two: Shaping the Past: The Surround and Practice of Making Games about the Past
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Chapter Three: Counterfactuals: Uses, Shapes and Problems in Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron IV
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Chapter Four: Approximately History and Ambivalent Desires
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Conclusions
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Appendix 1: DLC and Content Packs Installed and Used for the Study
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Appendix 2: Interviews with Developers and Beta Testers
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Appendix 3: Game Analysis and Technical Reading
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References
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Index
226
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eBook published on:
July 18, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110692488
Hardcover published on:
July 18, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110692259
Paperback published on:
June 17, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783111520742
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
9
Main content:
232
Coloured Illustrations:
16
eBook ISBN:
9783110692488
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110692259
Paperback ISBN:
9783111520742
Keywords for this book
counterfactual history; game scripting; beta tests; popular history; strategy games
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of history, popular uses of history, and historiography; Game scholars, Game designers, students
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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