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A Broad Overview of the Intersection Between History and Commercial Board Games

The Grizzled (2015). Photo: Maurice Suckling

There are broadly three main ways in which commercial board games intersect with history: Games as history quizzes test a player’s knowledge of history, for the purposes of education and/or entertainment. Commercial examples of this kind of game are Chronology (1996) and Timeline (2012). In both instances players place cards in the correct sequence in […]

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It’s the economy, stupid! How production predisposes our playing of history

Game Dev Story. 2022. Kairosoft Co.,Ltd.

Let’s start with some big questions. Why do historical games look the way they do? Why are player’s possible actions constrained in certain ways? What goes into the decision-making process behind the culture we regularly use to engage with the past? How do game companies determine questions of which periods, which perspectives, and what actions […]