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Call for Contributions – Technology

Our next theme is focused in and around ‘technology’ and historical games. We define historical games broadly, and we encourage contributions that consider technology in all its guises. We’re interested in a wide-range of technology-inspired contributions, whether these are reflections on technology represented in games, narrative techniques, game progression, aesthetic choices, user-generated content tools or […]

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Player Practices Technology

History is written by the modders

Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Development Studios, 2016.

The landscape and implications of sandboxes, modding and user-generated content in historical games The evolution of game modding As video games grew in popularity, their developing player communities quickly took advantage of their mutable nature, particularly on PC platforms. Especially early on, games were often installed with non-obfuscated code and assets which could be easily […]