TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grufstedt,Ylva
TI  - Shaping the Past: Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games 
T2  - Video Games and the Humanities ,
SN  - 9783110692259
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - München, Wien : 
PB  - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 
KW  - Betatest
KW  - Populärgeschichte
KW  - Skripte für Spiele
KW  - Strategiespiele
KW  - kontrafaktische Geschichte
KW  - HISTORY / Study & Teaching
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - beta tests
KW  - counterfactual history
KW  - game scripting
KW  - popular history
KW  - strategy games
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter One: Opening up the Design – Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron IV Overviews --; Chapter Two: Shaping the Past: The Surround and Practice of Making Games about the Past --; Chapter Three: Counterfactuals: Uses, Shapes and Problems in Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron IV --; Chapter Four: Approximately History and Ambivalent Desires --; Conclusions --; Appendix 1: DLC and Content Packs Installed and Used for the Study --; Appendix 2: Interviews with Developers and Beta Testers --; Appendix 3: Game Analysis and Technical Reading --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Ylva Grufstedt investigates the role of counterfactuals in uses of history through game designers and through digital strategy games. It discusses the content, form and perspectives that define different types of counterfactuals in the context of game-making – an effort to outline and detail the values and frameworks that shape the past in this popular media
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110692488
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110692488
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110692488/original
ER  -