History through Gaming:
Summary of parts:
1.Abridged
2. Comprehensive:
3. Future:
4. Modern:
5. Ancient
There are three types of historical games:
o The Introductory Games
-spore
-democracy
-simscompanies
-nation states
-harvest moon
o The Fallen Games
-assassin creed
-gta
-halo/horizon
o The Revolutionary Games.
-journey
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For further exploration:
1.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/my-history-through-video-games-lecture
2.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/education-game-mechanics
3.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/art-satan-s-war-through-video-games
4.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/downfall-of-society-through-video-games
5.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/why-as-an-educator-games-are-my-favorite-kind-of-medium
6.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/history-through-gaming-pre-1900
7.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/future-education-history-through-gaming-1960s
8.https://lovetobago.wixsite.com/discoveringtobago/post/future-education-history-through-gaming-2020s-2030s
9. Fallen Games
10. https://www.bitchute.com/video/CEno0SnJkm9R/
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3. The Art
• Fun, passionate, long lasting memory (palace)
• Inaccurate, short term gratification
• New technology; flaws
• A male perspective
• Long term, interactive character building
• References other media
• Many cultural themes
• Age constraints
8. Bayek and Aya
•Born 80 BCE
•Represents Ancient
Egypt/Africa (1.5 mil BC)
•Last Medjay of Egypt
•Founder of Assassins
•Son murdered
•Allies: Cleopatra, Julius
Caesar, Ptolemy XIII
9.
10. Kassandra
• Born 450 BCE
• Represents Ancient Greece
• Spartan mercenary during
Peloponnesian war
• Granddaughter of a king and
related to Aya
• Allies: Pythagoras, Socrates,
Euripedes, Sophocles,
Hippocrates, Pericles
11.
12. Kratos
• A deity
• Born in Sparta (400 BCE)
• Lived throughout Roman Empire to
Viking Age (900 AD)
• Sold his soul to the God of War, Ares
• Killed his wife and daughter
• Exacts revenge on Gods
• Escapes to Ancient Norway
• Marries Faye and fathers Atreus
• Allies: Zeus, Loki
13.
14. Jin Sakai
• Samurai
• Born in Tsushima, Japan (1200 AD)
• Lived during Mongolian invasion
• Defends his village and family
• Allies: Mongols, The Khans
15.
16. Ezio Auditore
• Renaissance Italy (1450)
• Brotherhood of Assassins
• Fights Templar Order who
executed his family members
• Defends his village and family
• Allies: Christopher Columbus,
Leonardo Da Vinci
19. Evie and Jacob Frye
• Enlightment Britain (1850)
• Born into Assassin Frye family
• Children of Ethan and Cecily
executed his family members
• Liberate Britain from Templar
Order
• Medicine, Transport, Politics,
Media
• Emancipation and Independence
• Allies: Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin,
Karl Marx, Pinkertons, Churchills, Maharaja
Duleep Singh, Jack the Ripper
22. Arthur Morgan
• Wild West America(1890)
• Guided Age/Frontier/Civil War
• Outlaw
• Born 1863 to Beatrice and Lyle Morgan
• Introduced to crime at a young age
• Lost his son Isaac
• Allies: Nikola Tesla, Pinkertons, Butch
Cassidy, Carnegie, Haitian rebels,
Cuban fighters
23.
24. John Marston
• Post Wild West America(1911
• Outlaw/state witness
• Born 1873 to a Scottish immigrant and a
prostitute
• Raised in an orphanage which he ran away
with future wife Abigail to join gang
• Son Jack, daughter died in 1908
Allies: Rockefeller, Butch
Cassidy, FBI
28. Thomas Angelo
• Born in Sicily 1900; migrated to US in 1904
• Former capo regime of Salieri mafia family
• Worked as a taxi driver during Prohibition
and Great Depression
• Became a state witness
• Assassinated by Vito Scaletta and Joe Babaro
• Allies: FBI
29.
30. Cole Phelps
• Born 1920 in San Francisco
• Attended Standford University
• Fought in WW2 Japan
• Becomes an LAPD officer in the 40s
• Former war partners involved in drug
trafficking with the California mafia
• Loses his life
• Allies: Mickey Cohen, Marilyn Monroe , Dr
George Hodel
33. Vito Scaletta
• Born 1925 in Sicily; migrated to US
• Street kid; best friend Joe Babaro
• Fought in WW2 Italy
• Made man in the mafia
• Arrested for robbery, meets Leo Galante
• Assassinates mob bosses
• Flees to Louisiana
• Allies: Mafia Commission
34.
35. Lincoln J Clay
• Born 1945
• Fought in Vietnam Cold War; special ops
• St Michelle’s Orphanage
• Fell into Black crime under Sammy
Robinson
• Seeks revenge for their murder
• Assassinates mob bosses
• Leader of black mob
• Allies: Mafia commission, military, CIA
Black Mob, Morello crime family
39. Tommy Vercetti
• Born 1951 in New York
• Befriended local thug Sonny Forrelli and
joined his mob gang
• Tommy’s rise made Sonny jealous and an
ambush was set up in Harwood.
• Tommy outfought all his attackers but did
15 years in prison.
• Sonny pulled strings for Tommy’s release
and sent him down to Florida to work in
the drug business
• Tommy attempts to trick Forelli out of his
money however a betrayal in Tommy’s
gang reveals his plans
• Allies: Mafia, Drug lords
40.
41. Carl Johnson
• Born 1968 in Los Angeles, California
• Leader of Grove Street Families gang along with
brother Sweet
• CJ has a sister Kendl and a brother Brian who
was killed. His mom was murdered and his dad
is never mentioned.
• In 1987, CJ worked in NY doing random c
criminal jobs.
• Returning to LA,CJ encounters three corrupt
C.R.A.S.H police officers who frame him with
a recent murder.
• CJ is betrayed by two close friends
• His home is deep in the crackk cocaine crisis
• He takes random jobs till he is able to get revenge
on the people who hate him.
• Allies: Mafia, Drug lords, African American gangs.
46. Niko Bellic
• Born 1978 in Serbia, Yugoslavia
• Fought in Yugoslav wars (1990s)
• Worked for organised crime syndicates
as a hit man in NY.
• Main goal was to find and kill one of
two men, who betrayed and nearly
killed him during the wars.
• Allies: Italian Mafia, Drug lords,
African American gangs, Russian Mob,
The Irish
56. Michael De Santa
• Born 1965 in American Midwest
• Trevor became his best friend
while running product
• Met Amanda in a strip club
• Robbed banks as a youth
• Betrayed his best friends
• Escaped to LA
• Two kids: Jimmy and Tracy
• Rash actions led to him re-entering
crime.
60. Aiden Pearce
• Born in 1974 Ireland;
migrated to US
• Joined a gang
• Highly skilled, deadly
computer hacker.
• Become a surveillance
vigilante to protect the
people he loves
61.
62. Ellie
• Born Spring 2019 in US
• Spread of Cordyceps brain
infection
• Grew up in oppressive
Quarantine Zone in
Massachusetts
• Immune to infection
66. Connor
• RK800 Android - Cyber life
• Designed to assist human
law enforcement investigate
deviant androids
• Works with Agent Hank
Anderson
• Upon discovering his nature,
he becomes a tipping point
in the android-human
conflict.
70. Jack Mitchell
• Born 2027 US
• Serves in US Marines
before best friend Will
Irons dies.
• Will’s father Jonathan
offers him a job at Atlas
Corporation.
• Upon Irons actions, he
leaves for Sentinel Task
force.
71.
72. V
• Valerie
• Born 2049
• Mercenary in NC/ Los Angeles
• As a corpo, she was raised in a
corpo family in Charter Hill.
• Works in Arasaka intelligence
• Does random jobs for fixers
• Stole a microchip that contains
the engram of past singer/rebel
Johnny Silverhand
• This is slowly killing her
73.
74. Courier
• Was hired by the New
California Republic to
deliver a package in 2281.
• The package detonated
leaking radiation.
• Part of a group that
delivered packages to New
Vegas, he was ambushed
and the package stolen.
75.
76. Masterchief
• John 117
• Born 2511 on the colony
world of Eridanus II
• Strong candidate for
Spartan 11 program
• Commander of UNSC
Naval Special Warfare
command
• Decorated war veteran
77.
78. Aloy
• Born 3021
• Part of Nora tribe
• Genetic clone of 21st
century engineer Dr
Elisabet Sobeck.
• Post Faro Plague earth
(GAIA-Project Zero Dawn)
• Created to destroy HADES,
a rogue AI
79.
80. • The Spirit
• Human Evolution
• Bayek
• Kassandra
• Kratos
• Jin Sakai
• Ezio Auditore
• Evie and Jacob Frye
• Arthur Morgan
• John Marston
• Thomas Angelo
• Cole Phelps
• Vito Scaletta
• Lincoln Clay
• Tommy Vercetti
• Carl Johnson
• Niko Bellic
• Kazuma Kiryu
• Michael De Santa
• Aiden Pearce
• Ellie
• Connor
• Jack Mitchell
• V
• Master Chief
• Courier
• Aloy