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Medievalism

Virtual Byzantium: How Historical Games Represent Byzantine Society

Crusader Kings 3: Roads to Power (DLC). Paradox Interactive, 2024.

The gaming medium can stimulate original perspectives on the past by incorporating underrepresented cultures or minorities into its game systems. However, when reflecting on the concept of accuracy,1 it has been emphasized that games “should also be inclusive without lying to the audience,” and Diana Cristina Răzman specified that the way the gaming industry addresses […]

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Development Medievalism

Between Imagined Worlds: Reinterpreting Medievalisms in an RPG

The Exile Princes, Pangolin Games (2024). A banner-format section of one of the game's generated tile maps.

As both a game developer and a medieval historian, each of my interests informs the other. In this post, I’m going to talk you through some ways I approach putting medieval elements in games and think about why they’re there. The process I use is based on thinking about medieval ideas as a sort of […]