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Alternatives

Fantastical Romans

imperator: Rome (2019). Paradox Interactive.

In this video, Corine Gerritsen presents some of her ideas around the theme of “alternatives”, focusing on “fantastical Romans”. Grand Strategy games are particularly attractive to experiment with all kinds of historical alternates. This video pays special attention to Imperator: Rome (2019), the mods made for this game and mods for fantasy games that feature […]

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(Post) Colonialism Environment

Is the Age of Empires II an Age of Exploiting Nature, too?

Age of Empires II: HD Edition (Hidden Path Entertainment, 2013).

Many years later, as I face my laptop now, I remember a distant afternoon in 2002 when my cousin in college took me to discover Age of Empires II. While enjoying the old game two decades later, I noticed some issues from the perspective of environmental humanities. Different from other critical perspectives, such as feminism […]