Paper Time Machines

Paper Time Machines

Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games

Suckling, Maurice W.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2024

330

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9781032416922

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Acknowledgments. Foreword. A Note on Dates. List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. PART 1 Context. 2 What Is Critical Game Design? 3 What Are Historical Simulations? 4 A Brief History of Board Wargames. 5 A Briefer History of Pol-Mil Wargames or The Greatest Victory Is That Which Requires No Battle. 6 An Even Briefer History of Non-Wargame Historical Board Games or Non-Military Complex. PART 2 Design Process and Tools. 7 Overall Design Process. 8 Devising a Thesis. 9 Common Components and Major Mechanics. 10 Major Card Functions and Metaphors. 11 Board Design. 12 Development and Publication. PART 3 Designing Historical Board Wargames. 13 Historical Board Wargame Design: Reference Books and Conventions Overview. 14 Design Conventions: Units. 15 Design Conventions: Combat Resolution. 16 Design Conventions: Movement, Morale, and More. 17 Design "Unconventions". PART 4 Designing Non-Wargame Historical Board Games. 18 Case Study #1: Operation Barclay. 19 Case Study #2: Crisis: 1914. 20 Case Study #3: Peace 1905. PART 5 Selected Critical Topics. 21 Two Unsolvable Problems in Historical Board Game Design. 22 War Stories: Intersections in Storytelling and Board Wargame Design. 23 The Postcolonial Turn. 24 Paper Beats Silicon. Index.
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Board game;Gaming;Wars;Historical games;Hobby;Game designer