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)
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- 1. Don’t Dumb it Down, Historical Accuracy is Fun: Discussing the Europa Barbarorum Project and its Impact on the Gaming Community
- 5. Europa Barbarorum: • Extension of 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 fans think • 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
- 9. Community and the Past
- 10. In literature… …and table top 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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