Digital games as history : how video games represent the past and offer access to historical practice / by Adam Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Adam, 1984- author.

Series:

Routledge advances in game studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Computer simulation.

History.

History--Philosophy.

History--Methodology.

History--Study and teaching--Simulation methods.

Historical reenactments.

Video games--Study and teaching.

Video games.

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games--Psychological aspects.

History--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Video games.

Physical Description:

xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding historical video games: simulation and epistemology, time, space, narrative, and affordance. Through these methods of analysis he explores what these games uniquely offer as a new form of history and how they produce representations of the past. By taking an inter-disciplinary and accessible approach, the book provides a specific and firm first foundation upon which to build further examination of the potential of video games as a historical form"--From publisher's website.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138841628

1138841625

OCLC:

935193036