Title Digital games as history : how videogames represent the past and offer access to historical practice / Adam Chapman

Published New York : Routledge, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge advances in game studies ; 7 Routledge advances in game studies ; 7. Contents Introduction -- Interacting with digital games as history -- Simulation styles and epistemologies -- Time and space -- Narrative in games: categorising for analysis -- Historical narrative in digital games -- Affording heritage experiences, reenactment and narrative historying -- Digital games as historical reenactment -- Digital games as (counterfactual) narrative historying -- Conclusions 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 "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"--Publisher's website Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject History -- Computer simulation History -- Philosophy. History -- Methodology. History -- Study and teaching -- Simulation methods Historical reenactments. Video games -- Study and teaching Video games -- Social aspects Video games -- Psychological aspects HISTORY -- General. History. Historical reenactments History -- Methodology History -- Philosophy History -- Study and teaching -- Simulation methods Video games -- Psychological aspects Video games -- Social aspects Geschichtsdarstellung Videospiel History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2016000859 ISBN 9781317553861 1317553861 9781317553854 1317553853 1315732068 9781315732060

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