RT Article
T1 The HGR Framework: A Semiotic Approach to the Representation of History in Digital Games
JF Gamevironments
VO 5
SP 156
OP 204
A1 Casso, Vincenzo Idone
A1 Thibault, Mattia 1986-
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1576325229
AB Many game designers exploit elements, events, characters and narrations retrieved from human history in order to build consistent and intriguing settings for their digital games. The use of historical elements often involves the creation of a complexplayground created by a huge quantity of historical tropes. Historical digital games do not limit themselves to represent the past, but they attempt to reproduce the different levels of relationships and correlations between events, causes and consequences. In this article we describe and propose the HGR framework, an analytic tool for scholars and designers alike, capable of taking into account all the layers and processes necessary to transform history in the setting of a game. Inparticular, the framework focuses on the three processes needed for creating an historical discourse (Lozano 1987) and on the three translations that the past undergo to become a game: perspectival, digital and ludic. The HGR framework isfinally tested on a double case study: the representations of Roman Republic and Empire in Total War: Rome II (2013) and Sid Meier's Civilization V (2010).
K1 History-Game Relation Framework
K1 Digital
K1 history and digital games
K1 ludic
K1 Modelling
K1 perspectival
K1 representing
K1 Setting