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Item Historical Simulations and the Mechanics of Conquest: How Game Mechanics Tell Stories About the Past(2020-01-20) Arvizu, Andrew; Ritschel, Daniel; History; Historical StudiesOver the past decade, historical simulations have become one of the most popular genres of video games. With audiences in the millions, these historically themed games represent mass-market works of popular history. This paper studies the kinds of historical narratives that tend to predominate within the genre through an analysis of game mechanics. Using the philosophy of experiential game design, this paper contextualizes four games within the broader historiography. An emphasis is given to comparing Tory and Whig histories and also the limitations of the medium in conveying historical narratives.Item Historiographic and literary: the fusion of two eighteenth-century modes in Scott's Waverly(University of Hartford, 1974) Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-; Towson University. Department of English[From article]: A first work is often traditional, and the study of it in the contexts of its traditions often yields fresh insights into the later canon that are as much technical as historical. Just as Shakespeare’s early histories, Defoe’s first novels, and Tennyson’s first poems were shaped by the influences of an earlier age, so too was Scott’s Waverley, Or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. Begun in 1805, though not published until 1814, the novel, both in idea and technique, is a product fashioned largely by eighteenth-century modes. These were personalized by, as Grierson suggests, “a combination in Scott’s mind of a solid interest in … history on the one hand and of romantic fiction on the other, which made him finally the creator of the historical novel.”1 Thus, an examination of Waverley in terms of historiography and fiction as conceived by the eighteenth century brings a focus for its study different from that usually allowed.