Luo Chenchen is a master’s student in world history at East China Normal University, studying French history, public history and historical theory. He is deeply passionate about historical strategy games. He is committed to seriously examining the significance of counterfactual history for historical theory. [1] I saw the Emperor–this world-spirit–ridingContinue Reading
Joel is a MA student in the Communication and Culture program at York University in Toronto, where he plans to research the empathetic potentials of digital roleplaying. If he’s not playing and dissecting a strategy sim or RPG, then the chances are he’s off driving someone crazy by gushing aboutContinue Reading
Last week I proposed that the design of historical simulation games around problem spaces provides guidelines for how one can meaningfully critique them as historical interpretations. This week moves to the flip side of the coin: how the concepts and functioning of problem spaces illustrated so well in historical simulationContinue Reading
What simulation games do best as interpretations is present the past in terms of problem spaces. This is a concept I have co-opted from games and learning theorists (most notably Henry Jenkins and Kurt Squire) for use in thinking about how we teach and learn about the past and useContinue Reading