BIBLIOGRAPHY
A partial list, to be completed as I go.
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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).
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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)