derbius Posted May 26, 2021 The announcement of Victoria 3 and the way this grand strategic "sandbox" game seems to focus on the colonial period from the colonizer's POV caused me to go off on a bit of a rant. I hope I am wrong about the way it's going to go but regardless I would like to hear from the 3MA team and if they can have the PDX folks talk about how history can/should be taught/used in strategy titles: https://blog.org/2021/05/values-in-video-games-victoria-3/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zaldar Posted February 7 Curious are you familiar with Austin Walker? He always had issues with the human history as a straight arrow to larger and greater things that games like Civilization seemed to propagate. I like to think of human society that way but of course reality is there are dips and valleys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
derbius Posted February 8 No I have never run across him. To my surprise it turns out there are quite a few people studying the relationship between history and gaming - Bret Devereaux has started to turn up increasingly at 3MA to fill that role but I would like to hear some other voices too... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
clyde Posted February 10 This is a bit of a stretch from what y'all are talking about, but your conversation reminded me of this video: Though it does reference the militaristic origins of strategy game design, it is mostly about the cross-over of strategy game enthusiasts and simulation design used for military and government decisions. I found it entertaining and interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
