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Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice

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Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice - Chapman, Adam
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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 ...

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Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice 2018, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138597822

Paperback

Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice 2016, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781138841628

Hardcover