Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)

Part One. Digital games as history -- Introduction -- Interacting with digital games as history -- Part Two. Digital games as historical representations -- Simulation styles and epistemologies -- Time and space -- Narrative in games : categorising for analysis -- Historical narrative in digital games -- Part Three. Digital games as systems for historying -- Affording heritage experiences, reenactment and narrative historying -- Digital games as historical reenactment -- Digital games as (counterfactual) narrative historying -- Part Four. Digital games as a historical form -- Conclusions

• | Author: Adam Chapman
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 16, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 290 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138841625
• | ISBN-13: 9781138841628