Overanalyze #10– Speed Run Game of Thrones S6E5
This week, we return with "Speed Run" by discussing Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5. Spoilers ahead, so come back to this if you haven't watched the episode yet.
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Overanalyze #7: Speed Run – Game of Thrones S6E2
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This week, we kick off our new series, "Speed Run," and discuss Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 1.
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Overanalyze #5: A Little Too Real, Inc.
What do Civilization 5, DayZ, SimCity, and Doomsday Preppers have in common? Realism. This week, we come together to talk about realism in gaming, as well as offer a few business properties.
History on the Download: Podcasting the Past
These days, the podcast, which is produced by the HowStuffWorks edutainment network, consistently garners over 3 million downloads per month and sits comfortably around number 11 on the iTunes charts. At a time when historians are becoming ever more serious about finding ways to engage with the public, what secret formula are hosts Tracy Wilson and Holly Frey using to keep audience coming back each week for a history lesson? The answer is simple: they tell good stories.
An R-rated Oregon Trail would be full of death, disease, and debauchery · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club
As educational video games intended for children go, MECC's The Oregon Trail is already bleak in its depiction of life in 19th century pioneer life in America. After all, this was the software that made a pop culture byword out of "You have died of dysentery." But even The Oregon Trail had to sugarcoat things a little for elementary school students. MECC kept in the buffalo-shooting, river-fording, and bead-trading, but the company left out the whiskey, the wild parties, the cross-dressing, and the children crushed beneath wagon wheels. Fortunately, for the now-grown Oregon Trail fans of the world, Vox presents its own R-rated Oregon Trail for an adult audience hardened by years of violent cable TV shows and internet pornography.
Zachtronics | TIS-100
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets.
Cities: Skylines Versus Real-Life Urban Planning – The Atlantic
Like most city lovers of a certain age, I spent many hours as a kid playing SimCity. For readers who are tragically uninitiated, SimCity is one of the iconic computer games of the 1990s, though newer versions have been released as recently as 2013. Playing as mayor (or, really, dictator, but more on that later), you shepherd the growth of a city from its very first streets to towering skyscrapers—assuming you aren't wiped out by tornados, fires, or aliens.
Fallout 4 Survival Mode Full Overview (extracted from in-game files) : fo4
Is the struggle of this world merely a pleasant game for you? Do you long for a more brutal take on a life lived post apocalypse? If you answered "Yes and yes!", then Survival difficulty is for you!
DayZ Mod
A 225 km2 open world post-soviet state and one of the areas hit by a new and presently unknown infection which has wiped out most of the world's population. You are one of the few who have survived and now you must search this new wasteland in order to fight for your life against what is left of the indigenous population, now infected with the disease.
Shining Rock Software
Welcome to the world of Banished! In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.
Doomsday Preppers – National Geographic Channel
Doomsday Preppers explores the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it. Unique in their beliefs, motivations, and strategies, preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any of life's uncertainties. And this season, forget expensive, elaborate bunkers and builds–we're going back to the basics.
Tom Clancy's The Division™ on Xbox One, PS4 & PC | Ubisoft® (US)
New York is in trouble. A devastating epidemic sweeps through the city and in the wake of the disease basic services fail one by one. Without food and water, the streets are in chaos and new factions rise to profit from the mayhem. Amid the chaos, a classified unit of self-supported sleeper agents known as The Division is activated and tasked with one mission: take back New York.
Rome Reborn
Rome Reborn is an international initiative whose goal is the creation of 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 B.C.) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550).
Overanalyze #2 – Chocolate Covered Broccoli
We return to the topic of gaming in the classroom, discuss Robert's use of Minecraft in recreating Denver, and talk about using alternative mediums for students to approach the past.
Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD) | Open Culture
A good disaster story never fails to fascinate — and, given that it actually happened, the story of Pompeii especially so. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. Baths, houses, tools and other possessions (including plenty of wine bottles), frescoes, graffiti, an ampitheater, an aqueduct, the "Villa of the Mysteries": Pompeii has it all, as far as the stuff of first-century Roman life goes.
Microsoft HoloLens | Official Site
Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully untethered, holographic computer, enabling you to interact with high‑definition holograms in your world.
Oculus Rift | Oculus
Rift is unlike anything you've ever experienced. Whether you're stepping into your favorite game, watching an immersive VR movie, jumping to a destination on the other side of the world, or just spending time with friends in VR, you'll feel like you're really there.
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Overanalyze #4: Geschichtwissenschlopff
This week, we tackle Amazon's Man in the High Castle and discuss alternative history as a way of understanding the past.
Amazon.com: The Man In The High Castle – Season 1
Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), and Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Starring Rufus Sewell (John Adams), Luke Kleintank (Pretty Little Liars), and Alexa Davalos (Mob City).
The Imaginative History of "The Man in the High Castle" | Erstwhile: A History Blog
Tackling the historical plausibility of a work of fiction, let alone one that presents an alternate timeline, presents an interesting challenge for historians. Alternate timelines and "what ifs" are necessarily rooted in counterfactual imaginings and cannot easily be debunked without likewise utilizing such methodology.
Review: 'The Man in the High Castle' Imagines America Ruled by 2 Foreign Powers – The New York Times
In "The Man in the High Castle," the unsettling, if uneven, alternative-history thriller whose 10-episode first season begins Friday on Amazon Prime, fascism has not simply conquered America. It has insinuated itself, with disturbing ease, into America's DNA.
'The Man in the High Castle': Watched It All? Let's Talk About It – The New York Times
What are we even watching? Is it alt-historical realism? (Looks like we can cross that one off the list, but who knows?) A "Fringe"-like mind-bender of parallel universes and possible futures? A mystical tale in which a false reality hangs over our eyes like a veil?
Man in the High Castle Isn't Great, But It Does Great Stuff | WIRED
The Man in the High Castle is a fine show; fine as in sufficient, not as in excellent. The series, which premiered on Amazon on Friday, has all of the signifiers of Quality TV Drama—a slow burn with just enough violence to keep audiences interested, mysterious characters, an extremely dark palette. But something is missing.
Atlantropa: the colossal 1920s plan to dam the Mediterranean and create a supercontinent
Atlantropa was the brainchild of the German architect Herman Sörgel, who tirelessly promoted his project from 1928 until his death in 1952. His experience of World War I, the economic and political turmoil of the 1920s and the rise of Nazism in Germany convinced Sörgel that a new world war could only be avoided if a radical solution was found to European problems of unemployment, overpopulation and, with Saudi oil still a decade away, an impending energy crisis. With little faith in politics, Sörgel turned to technology.
Dams across the Strait of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, and eventually between Sicily and Tunisia, each containing gigantic hydroelectric power plants, would form the basis for the new supercontinent. In its final state the Mediterranean would be converted into two basins, with the western part lowered by 100 meters and the eastern part by 200 meters and a total of 660,200 km2 of new land reclaimed from the sea – an area larger than France.
Reinhard Heydrich – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich(German (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking GermanNazi official during World War II, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He was SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei as well as chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD). He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic. Heydrich served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC; later known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which formalised plans for the Final Solution to the Jewish Question—the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe.
The Story of World War II: Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commanger: Henry Steele Commager, Donald L. Miller: 9780743227186: Amazon.com: Books
Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.
Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative.
Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
The Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler – The Atlantic
The basic moral question—could you kill one infant to save millions of lives?—is essentially a more dramatic version of the trolley problem, a thought experiment whereby a person must choose between a speeding trolley killing five people or diverting its course to kill one.
Jeb Bush On Whether He'd Kill Baby Hitler: 'Hell Yeah, I Would!'
Have you ever wondered whether, if given the opportunity, Jeb Bush would go back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in his crib? Well, wonder no more.
Japanese war crimes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese war crimes occurred in many Asian and Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. These incidents have also been described as an Asian Holocaust[1] and Japanese war atrocities.[2][3][4] Some war crimes were committed by military personnel from the Empire of Japan in the late 19th century, although most took place during the first part of the Shōwa Era, the name given to the reign of Emperor Hirohito, until the surrender of the Empire of Japan, in 1945.
Welthauptstadt Germania – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welthauptstadt Germania ("World Capital Germania") refers to the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin during the Nazi period, part of Adolf Hitler's vision for the future of Germany after the planned victory in World War II. Albert Speer, the "first architect of the Third Reich", produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city in his capacity as overseer of the project, only a small portion of which was realized between the years 1937 and 1943 when construction took place.
Analysis of the aerial shot of Berlin from the final episode. : maninthehighcastle
Analysis of the aerial shot of Berlin from the final episode.
The Fallen of World War II – Data-driven documentary about war & peace
The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. The 15-minute data visualization uses cinematic storytelling techniques to provide viewers with a fresh and dramatic perspective of a pivotal moment in history.
The Domination – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Domination of the Draka is a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling. It comprises a main trilogy of novels as well as one crossover novel set after the original and a book of short stories. This series is also called the Draka series or Draka Saga.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy computer game of the Command & Conquer franchise, produced by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive in 1996. The second game to bear the "C&C" title, Red Alert is the prequel to the original Command & Conquer of 1995, and takes place in the alternate early history of Command & Conquer when Allied Forces battle an aggressive Soviet Union for control over the European mainland.
It was initially available for PC (MS-DOS and Windows 95 versions included in one package), and was subsequently ported to PlayStation. The PlayStation version was also re-released as a download on the PlayStation Network for PSP and PS3. On August 31, 2008, Electronic Arts who acquired Westwood Studios in 1998 officially rendered Command & Conquer: Red Alert freeware.
It Can't Happen Here – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a populist United States Senator who is elected to the presidency after promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and traditional values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes a plutocratic/totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of Adolf Hitler and the SS. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion. Reviewers at the time, and literary critics ever since, have emphasized the connection with Louisiana politician Huey Long, who was preparing to run for president in the 1936 election when he was assassinated in 1935 just prior to the novel's publication.
The Years of Rice and Salt: Kim Stanley Robinson: 9780553580075: Amazon.com: Books
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur–the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if? What if the plague killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that could have been–a history that stretches across centuries, a history that sees dynasties and nations rise and crumble, a history that spans horrible famine and magnificent innovation. These are the years of rice and salt.
What if historians started taking the 'what if' seriously
What is worse, counterfactual speculations spring naturally from deeply conservative assumptions about what makes history tick. Like bestselling popular histories, counterfactuals usually take as their subjects war, biography or an old-school history of technology that emphasises the importance of the inventor.
Counterfactual History: A Course Update | Easily Distracted
So I'm teaching the second iteration of my course on counterfactual history this semester.
Alternate History Wiki
Welcome to the wiki for the AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board. If you're new to alternate history, please see the Alternate History FAQ, the Wikipedia article and the Alternate History section of our wiki.
Harry Turtledove – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American novelist, best known for his works in several genres, including that of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.
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Overanalyze #3: A Mature Hope
We get together this week to talk about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. How does it stack up to our expectations? How does it do with world building? Is there too much reliance on nostalgia? What are the galactic politics in this universe? And yes, we know — we didn't catch our error of mixing up Alderaan and Coruscant until late in the show. We're sorry.
Merlin Mann on Twitter: "Per that Dalrymple Report: graphing how much the TFA talent got paid. Sickening. https://t.co/ZzPnJklrsw"
Per that Dalrymple Report: graphing how much the TFA talent got paid. Sickening.
'Star Wars' fans wonder why female character's missing from toy stores
Fans of the franchise have noticed that the character, played by Daisy Ridley, apparently isn't included in several Star Wars toy sets being sold in stores like Target and Toys "R" Us. Twitter users have started the hashag #WheresRey, demanding to know why one of the film's main female characters is missing.
A SCIENCE-FICTION GAME SET IN AN INFINITE PROCEDURALLY GENERATED GALAXY
Quantum entanglement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently — instead, a quantum state may be given for the system as a whole.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) – IMDb
Three decades after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat arises. The First Order attempts to rule the galaxy and only a ragtag group of heroes can stop them, along with the help of the Resistance.
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' and a Critical Turnaround – The Atlantic
This expectations game poses a particular challenge for people, like me, who write movie reviews. On the one hand, you need to be as clear as you can about how your expectations may have influenced your response to a film. On the other, you need to recognize that the review itself will, at least at the margins, help set viewers' expectations, for good or for ill. Over-praise and you court backlash; under-praise and you may seem like a wet blanket. Never have I seen this dynamic more evident than in the response to Star Wars: The Force Awakens—which isn't surprising, given that it's the most-anticipated film in recent memory.
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens': With Rey, Daisy Ridley Portrays a Feminist Heroine We Can Feel Good About – The Atlantic
What Rey is, however, is Star Wars's first feminist protagonist. No distressing damsel, she's instead a fighter and a survivor and a nurturer and an all-around badass. She may fit the trope-happy cliches of Hollywood lady-ry—the "empowered woman," the Strong Female Lead—but she's also something both simpler and more meaningful: a fully realized character. Rey is a woman who refuses to be defined as one.
Star Wars expanded universe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Star Wars expanded universe (SWEU) encompasses all of the officially licensed, fictional material of the Star Wars saga, outside of the seven feature films, The Clone Wars film and series, and Rebels series produced by Lucasfilm. The expanded universe includes books, comic books, video games, toys and other assorted media.
When Games Try to Save the World — The Development Set — Medium
Games designed to engineer social change are blossoming. In one game, players mediate disputes between colonists whose few remaining flocks of sheep are being eaten by a local predator. Do you listen to the farmers who want to poison the animal, the hunter who doesn't want to upset the ecosystem, or the construction chief who is too busy to build traps and fences? Another has gamers empathize with Native Alaskans over the difficulty of survival in a relentlessly cold, frequently dark world, while trudging through a starkly beautiful landscape. And after a European Commission study found that digital games could help integrate migrants, the elderly, and others on society's fringes, the EU began funding the development of gaming technology for this purpose.
Smash the Force | Jacobin
There was never an Empire; there was never a rebellion; there was only the Force, and it's evil.
Star Wars & History
Welcome to the first book devoted to analyzing the actual historical events that influenced the creation of George Lucas's epic adventure: STAR WARS. Here you will find a treasure trove of essays, observations, facts, and photos that helped inspire the Star Wars universe.
Star Wars in the Classroom | Social Studies Resources
Throughout the Star Wars series one can find countless historical and social science references to our world. Whether it's Anakin battling with his inner demons or Emperor Palpatine's "Hitler-esque" rise to power, you are certain to find new and exciting ways to make learning Social Studies more exciting!
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived: Chip Walter: 9781620405215: Amazon.com: Books
Chip Walter tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature's capricious ways we stand here today, the planet's most dominant species. Drawing on a wide variety of scientific disciplines, he reveals how a rare evolutionary phenomenon led to the uniquely long childhoods that make us so resourceful and emotionally complex. Walter explains how the evolution of our highly social nature has shaped our moral (and immoral) behavior. He also plumbs the roots of our creativity and investigates why we became self-aware in ways that no other animal is. Along the way, Last Ape Standing profiles the mysterious "others" who evolved with us―the Neanderthals of Europe, the "hobbits" of Indonesia, the Denisovans of Siberia, and the recently discovered Red Deer Cave people of China, who died off just as we stood on the brink of civilization eleven thousand years ago.
When Will Robots Take Over the World? – The Atlantic
At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of futurists, technology experts, and artists to predict the future of robotics. So, will machines revolt against humans? Maybe not, but as Duke University professor Missy Cummings explains, they may have already won. "We don't even realize where robots are in our world," she says.
Iran–Contra affair – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped thereby to secure the release of several US hostages, and to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.
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Arts and Technology at UT Dallas
ATEC merges the innovation processes of artists, scientists and engineers, exploring experimental models through new technologies.
Video games can never be art | Roger Ebert's Journal | Roger Ebert
Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of messages I receive urging me to play this game or that and recant the error of my ways. Nevertheless, I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art.
Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.
Minecraft Education
Minecraft is already encouraging millions of players to create, explore, and discover. We want to bring that passion into the classroom.
Digital History students re-creating 1905 Denver in Minecraft | Rocky Mountain Collegian
For his digital history course, Dr. Robert Jordan is having his students re-create Denver in Minecraft. Minecraft is a video game that gained popularity in the last few years due to its open-world system that allows players to build and craft to their heart's content.
Historical Maps, Topography, Into Minecraft: QGIS |
Building your Minecraft Topography
Sanborn Maps – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sanborn Maps is an American publisher of historical and current maps of US cities and towns. The maps were initially created to estimate fire insurance risks. The company's maps are frequently used for historical research, and for preservation and restoration efforts.
Guide – WesterosCraft
Our mission is to recreate the universe imagined by author George RR Martin in his book series A Song of Ice and Fire (ASoIaF) as accurately and precisely as possible within the confines of Minecraft, in an effort to custom create a world which will be the stage for a roleplaying game.
LoDo, Denver – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LoDo, Denver is the lower downtown area of Denver, Colorado, the oldest and original settlement of the city of Denver. It is a mixed-use historic district, known for its nightlife, and serves as an example of success in urban reinvestment and revitalization. The current population is approximately 21,145.
TerraFirmaCraft Wiki – Wikia
TerraFirmaCraft is a mod for Minecraft 1.7.10, currently in Beta Build 0.79.24.816. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress, its main aim is to give Survival mode more depth and realism.
Crafting a Digital Denver: Virtual Spaces and Undergraduate Teaching | Digital Frontiers: A WHA Digital History Blog
During the spring 2015 semester, students in my upper-division course on digital history worked with resources from the Denver Public Library's collection of Sanborn maps and digital photographs, Colorado State Library's newspaper archive, and an ed-tech version of the immensely popular video game Minecraft to create a 100% scale, virtual facsimile of the city of Denver at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Virtual Buffalo Bill's Wild West | Digital Frontiers: A WHA Digital History Blog
My colleague James Connolly and I, working with staff from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, and artists and designers from Ball State's Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA), have crafted a computer-generated world that authentically simulates the Wild West show dramatizing frontier life. Virtual Buffalo Bill's Wild West is a multiplayer virtual world that simulates Buffalo Bill Wild West Show circa 1899.
The Oregon Trail (video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in 1848.
Valiant Hearts – WWI Game Story & Characters | Ubisoft (US)
This is the story of crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart.
All of them will try to survive the horror of the trenches following their faithful canine companion.
In Valiant Hearts: The Great War™, the lives of all these characters are inextricably drawn together over the course of the game. Friendship, love, sacrifice, and tragedy befall each one as they help each other to retain their humanity against the horrors of war.
Reductive, superficial, beautiful – a historian's view of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate | Technology | The Guardian
But does the historical tourism of Syndicate actually give us any viable insight into 19th century London? To find out, the Guardian sat down to play the game with Alana Harris, a social and cultural historian of modern Britain at King's College London and filmed the experience. This is what we discovered.
CryENGINE® 3 | Crytek
CryENGINE® 3 is a highly advanced development solution that surpasses all expectations for the creation of blockbuster games, movies, high-quality simulations, and interactive applications. The third iteration of Crytek's proprietary engine is the only all-in-one game development solution for the PC, Xbox 360™, and PlayStation®3 that is truly groundbreaking in itself.
Unreal Engine 4 is a complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers. From 2D mobile games to console blockbusters and VR, Unreal Engine 4 gives you everything you need to start, ship, grow and stand out from the crowd.
GameMaker: Studio | YoYo Games
GameMaker: Studio caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create cross-platform games in record time and at a fraction of the cost of conventional tools!
Unity – Game engine, tools and multiplatform
Unity is a flexible and powerful development platform for creating multiplatform 3D and 2D games and interactive experiences. It's a complete ecosystem for anyone who aims to build a business on creating high-end content and connecting to their most loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.
Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.
UST Projects-The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Real-time visual simulation technology has the potential to radically alter our understanding of historic urban environments. Unlike fixed computer animations, real-time technology allows interactive exploration of the modeled site, thereby creating unprecedented opportunities for experiential interpretation and innovative pedagogy. The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 is a perfect test case for the educational applications of interactive computer models.
Arrival: Village Kasike on the App Store
Establish a civilization to stand the test of time. Play as 'Naniki', a woman far away from home and now the Kasike (chief) of a new tropical island village. Lead wisely and build a prosperous community in balance with "Atabei" (Mother Earth). But plan carefully lest a hurricane destroy all you have built . . . and your hungry villagers leave in despair. The challenge is yours: rise up and become a great Kasike!
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Never Alone – Homepage
We paired world class game makers with Alaska Native storytellers and elders to create a game which delves deeply into the traditional lore of the Iñupiat people to present an experience like no other.
Reacting to the Past | Reacting to the Past
Reacting to the Past (RTTP) consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas. Class sessions are run entirely by students; instructors advise and guide students and grade their oral and written work.
This War Of Mine provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle. For the very first time you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city. During the day snipers outside stop you from leaving your refuge, so you need to focus on maintaining your hideout. At night you get a chance to scavenge nearby locations for items that will help you stay alive. Make life-and-death decisions driven by your conscience. Try to protect everybody from your shelter or sacrifice some of them to endure the hardships. During war, there are no good or bad decisions; there is only survival. The sooner you realize that, the better.
About | Play The Past
Collaboratively edited and authored, Play the Past is dedicated to thoughtfully exploring and discussing the intersection of cultural heritage (very broadly defined) and games/meaningful play (equally broadly defined). Play the Past contributors come from a wide variety of backgrounds, domains, perspectives, and motivations (for being interested in both games and cultural heritage) – a fact which is evident in the wide variety of topics we tackle in our posts.
CARDBOARD! with Rich Sommer
Rich Sommer loves board games. But we're not talking about the stuff of your grandparents' rec room – things have changed a lot since people started to gather around the bridge table. Whether you're a serious player or a newbie, give a warm welcome to your personal board game evangelist. Every episode Rich will discuss the games he loves, introduce friends to new ones, and take on games that went way wrong.
5by5 | DLC
DLC is your weekly audio tour of the latest in video games and tabletop entertainment. Hosts Jeff Cannata and Christian Spicer are joined every week by the best damn gaming experts on the planet as well as YOUR phone calls! Disagree, Like, or Comment by Direct Live Call-in or in the Designated Lobby Chat! It is the gaming show Decided by Listener Contribution. DLC, the Digital Lifestyle Companion for gamers who Don't Like Cynicism.
Risk (game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Risk is a strategy board game produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). Winning Moves also makes a classic 1959 version. It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957 as La Conquête du Monde ("The Conquest of the World") in France. It was later bought by Parker Brothers and released in 1959 with some modifications to the rules as Risk: The Continental Game, then as Risk: The Game of Global Domination.
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, later known as the Office for Inter-American Affairs, was a United States agency promoting inter-American cooperation during the 1940s, especially in commercial and economic areas. It was started in August 1940 as OCCCRBAR (Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics) with Nelson Rockefeller as its head, appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Walt Disney's World War II propaganda production – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Between 1942 and 1945, during World War II, Walt Disney Productions was involved in the production of propaganda films for the U.S. government. The widespread familiarity of Disney's productions benefited the U.S. government in producing pro-American war propaganda in an effort to increase support for the war.
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