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Don’t dumb it down, historical accuracy is fun: Discussing the Europa Barbarorum project and its impact on the gaming community: Andrew Lamb (University of Leicester)
The document discusses the Europa Barbarorum mod project for the Total War strategy game series and its focus on historical accuracy. It provides details on features of Europa Barbarorum and Europa Barbarorum II like reconstructed languages, historically accurate units and victory conditions, and culturally specific structures. A survey found that most fans reported an increased interest in history from playing and appreciated its open development. The modding community values making games more immersive and faithful to the past.
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- 1. Don’t Dumb itDown, Historical Accuracy is Fun: Discussing the Europa Barbarorum Project and its Impact on the Gaming Community
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- 5. Europa Barbarorum: • Extensionof the game map from the British Isles to the Hindu Kush • Reconstructed linguistics (Classical Latin, Semitic, Ancient Greek, Celtic, Classical Persian) • Reconstructed names for units and provinces • Historically accurate units • New musical score, including recreations of ancient music from Musica Romana and Prehistoric Music Ireland • 21 Factions with historically advised victory conditions • Culturally specific social reforms Europa Barbarorum II: • Faction specific government and social structures • Spatially and temporally accurate artefacts • New reconstructed languages: Sanskrit, Sabean Arabic • Addition of 7 new Factions • Improved accuracy of campaign map divisions and unit and building descriptions • Geographically accurate vegetation species
- 8. What the fansthink • Fans were invited to take part in a survey relating to their experience of Europa Barbarorum: • Of those asked, 76% attributed an increased interest in history and/or archaeology as a result of playing Europa Barbarorum • 84% believed that Europa Barbarorum, by being open to volunteers, made it more appealling • 51% noted that the greatest appeal of Europa Barbarorum was historical accuracy, whilst 34% described the level of immersion as being the strongest attraction
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- 10. In literature… …and tabletop games
- 13. “As Scott Bennie,a designer I used to work with said […] “read interesting history”. There are stories in history which are crazier and more amazing than any fantasy author could write.” (Hong 2014, 45)
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- 15. Barthes, R. 1986a[1967]. The Discourse of History. In: Barthes, R. (ed). The Rustle of Language. Howard, R. (trans). Blackwell: Oxford Baudrillard,J. 1981a. History: A retro scenario. Glaser, S.F. (ed). Simulacra and simulation. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor pp1-42 Cassidy, S.B. 2011. The Videogame as Narrative. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 28(4): 292-306 Chen, K. 2003. Civilization and its disk contents: Two essays on civilization and Civilization. Radical Society 30(2), 95-107 Costikyan, G. 2007. Games, Storytelling, and Breaking the String. In: Harrigan, P. and Wardrip-Fruin, N. (eds.) Second Person: Role Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA pp5-15 Dovey, J. and Kennedy, H.W. 2007. Game Cultures. Open University Press: Maidenhead Evans, R. 1997. In Defence of History. Granta: London Giles, M.C. 2000. ‘Open-weave, Close-knit’. Archaeologies of Identity in the later prehistoric landscape of East Yorkshire. University of Sheffield unpublished PhD thesis
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