Quarry - Playground - Brand

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Preface and Acknowledgments 7
4. Introduction 9
5. History as told by the Game
6. Quarry - Playground - Brand 25
7. Why History in Digital Games matters 47
8. Social Practices of History in Digital Possibility Spaces 73
9. Tracing the Past with Digital Games 93
10. Authenticity in and of History
11. History in Video Games and the Craze for the Authentic 117
12. Crusading Icons 137
13. The Auteur and the 80s Mixtape 157
14. Queer Authenticity in the History of Games 179
15. The Politics of Authenticity
16. "If it's a fantasy world, why bother trying to make it realistic?" Constructing and Debating the Middle Ages of THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT 201
17. How to Get Away with Colonialism 221
18. Toying with History 237
19. You Do Have Responsibility! 259
20. Contributors 277