HRIVG: Bibliography & Ludography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A partial list, to be completed as I go.


Bogost, Ian. “The Rhetoric of Video Games.” In The Ecology of Games, ed. Katie Salen. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.


Chapman, Adam. Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice. New York: Routledge, 2016.


Copplestone, Tara Jane. “But That’s Not Accurate: The Differing Perceptions of Accuracy in Cultural-Heritage Videogames between Creators, Consumers, and Critics.” Rethinking History 21:3 (2016).


Juul, Jesper. Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.


Lorber, Martin and Felix Zimmermann, eds. History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2020.


McCall, Jeremiah. “The Historical Problem Space Framework: Games as a Historical Medium.” Game Studies 20:3 (2020).


Metzger, Scott Alan and Richard J. Paxton. “Gaming History: A Framework for What Video Games Teach about the Past.” Theory & Research in Social Education 44:4 (2016).


Mukherjee, Souvik. “Age of Empires: Postcolonialism.” In How to Play Video Games, ed. Matthew Thomas Payne and Nina B. Huntemann. New York: NYU Press, 2019.


Munslow, Alun. Narrative and History. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 2019.


White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1973.

LUDOGRAPHY

Also incomplete!


A Legionary's Life (Alessandro Roberti, 2019)

Age of Empires (Ensemble Studios / Microsoft, 1997)

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (Forgotten Empires / Tantalus Media / Xbox Game Studios, 2018)

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (Ensemble Studios / Microsoft, 1999)

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Forgotten Empires / Xbox Game Studios, 2019)

Anno 1800 (Blue Byte / Ubisoft, 2019)

ARTé: Mecenas (Triseum, 2017)

Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft, 2008)

Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft, 2009)

Assassin's Creed: Unity (Ubisoft, 2014)

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (Ubisoft, 2015)

Assassin's Creed: Origins (Ubisoft, 2017)

Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Ubisoft, 2018)

Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (Ubisoft, 2020)

Attentat 1942 (Charles Games, 2017)

Banished (Shining Rock Software, 2014)

Battlefield 1 (DICE/ Electronic Arts, 2016)

Caesar III (Impressions Studios / Sierra Entertainment, 1998)

Cossacks: European Wars (GSC Game World, 2000)

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe (GSC Game World, 2005)

Crusader Kings II (Paradox Development Studio, 2012)

Crusader Kings III (Paradox, 2020)

Dawn of Man (Madruga Works, 2018)

Empire: Total War (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2009)

Europa Universalis (Paradox / Strategy First, 2000)

Europa Universalis II (Paradox / Strategy First, 2001)

Europa Universalis IV (Paradox, 2013)

Foundation (Polymorph Games, 2019)

Hearts of Iron II (Paradox, 2005)

Hearts of Iron IV (Paradox, 2016)

Humankind (Amplitude Studios / Sega, 2021)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Warhorse Studios, 2018)

Medieval: Total War (Creative Assembly / Activision, 2002)

Medieval II: Total War (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2006)

Napoleon: Total War (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2010)

NovaMundi: Spear of Chaquén (Slashware, 2021)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games, 2018)

Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope, 2018)

Rise of Nations (Big Huge Games / Microsoft, 2003)

Rome: Total War (Creative Assembly / Activision 2004)

Shogun: Total War (Creative Assembly / EA , 2000)

Sid Meier's Civilization (MicroProse, 1991)

Sid Meier's Civilization II (MicroProse, 1996)

Sid Meier's Civilization III (Firaxis Games / Infogrames, 2001)

Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Firaxis Games / 2K Games, 2005)

Sid Meier's Civilization V (Firaxis Games / 2K Games, 2010)

Sid Meier's Civilization VI (Firaxis Games / 2K Games, 2016)

Sid Meier's Colonization (MicroProse, 1994)

Sword of the Samurai (MicroProse, 1989)

Total War: Attilla (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2015)

Total War: Rome 2 (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2015)

Total War Saga: Troy (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2020)

Total War: Shogun 2 (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2011)

Total War: Three Kingdoms (Creative Assembly / Sega, 2019)

We. The Revolution (Polyslash / Klabater, 2019)