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Hadn't got round to announcing this yet - new paper out! In 'Calculated Actions: How Game Code Makes Arguments About The Past' I discuss the ways that the programmatic parts of games encode ideas about human history and how it works, with a wide array of examples.

Hope the ideas/concepts are useful to people, thoughts welcome as always if you have a chance to read it :)

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.14361/dcs-2025-0111/html

#GameDev #History #Histodons #HistoricalGameStudies #Gaming

Eugen Pfister Feb 11, 2024

Working on the sunday. A difficult birth but also fun. #HistoricalGameStudies

James Sweeting Dec 7, 2023

My PhD thesis 'Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium' is now publicly available. In other words, it is a free book examining what is happening to contemporary cultural media form (primarily, but not exclusively, through the lens of videogames).
#videogames #gamestudies #historicalgamestudies #nostalgia
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/21777

Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium

Eugen Pfister Dec 5, 2023

Here is another request for help: I am currently researching the function of history in computer games. I am looking into the question of why we find historical settings attractive at all and am currently looking for general texts on the question of why we are interested in history at all. #History #HistoricalGameStudies

James Sweeting Nov 9, 2023

Since replaying Battlefield V, the final "war story" has been on mind due to how it depicts the final days of the European campaign of WW2. I have an upcoming session and wanted to explore something a little bit different with my students. Hopefully this case study provides an interesting insight into ethical gameplay (and a little bit on #HistoricalGameStudies even if I don't mention it in this text).
#videogames #gamestudies #battlefield #ethics
https://medium.com/@RelativeNostalgia/battlefield-vs-final-chapter-a-battle-with-ethics-and-morals-6a17e728288a

Eugen Pfister Oct 17, 2023

Carl Heinze. Mittelalter. Computer. Spiele. Zur Darstellung und Modellierung von Geschichte im populären Computerspiel. 2012. #EulisGameStudiesBibliothek 64/#GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies @thevglibrary

Eugen Pfister Oct 16, 2023

Laury-Nuris André. Game of Rome. L‘Antiquité vidéoludique. 2018. #EulisGameStudiesBibliothek 63/#GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies @thevglibrary

Eugen Pfister Oct 12, 2023

A first task for @chludens is to take inventory of the digital games produced in Switzerland. Beat Suter has taken on the developer/publisher #Linel and, in a first part, compiled a list of the games distributed by Linel that is as complete as possible. #GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies https://chludens.hypotheses.org/983

LINEL – a Swiss Game Publisher 1: A complete list of LINEL’s games

by Beat Suter LINEL – Swiss Game Publisher:Part 1 – A comprehensive list of LINEL’S gamesPart 2 – Collaborations and unreleased gamesPart 3 – Working for LINEL – is in progress The following text originally appeared here. (Revised edition from March 2024) LINEL was a software developer and publisher based in Switzerland. The label was … Continue reading LINEL – a Swiss Game Publisher 1: A complete list of LINEL’s games

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Eugen Pfister Sep 29, 2023

Jane Draycott & Kate Cook (Ed.) Women in Classical Video Games. 2022. #EulisGameStudiesBibliothek 62/#GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies @thevglibrary