{"title":"Game Never Over: Replaying History in Interactive Digital Simulation","authors":"Jeffrey Leichman","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0014","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article looks at a novel digital format for historical-literary research: executable rules for a computer-based interactive social simulation. This kind of historical writing imposes a different set of evaluative criteria on its intended outcomes, which share similar ambitions with the classical humanities essay but whose mode of consumption is closer to that of video games. In this context, play emerges as a humanities method rather than an object of study. Inasmuch as user performance determines the progression of the narrative, iterability becomes a crucial feature of 'reading' interactive simulations whose full expressivity can only be captured through replay.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0014","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article looks at a novel digital format for historical-literary research: executable rules for a computer-based interactive social simulation. This kind of historical writing imposes a different set of evaluative criteria on its intended outcomes, which share similar ambitions with the classical humanities essay but whose mode of consumption is closer to that of video games. In this context, play emerges as a humanities method rather than an object of study. Inasmuch as user performance determines the progression of the narrative, iterability becomes a crucial feature of 'reading' interactive simulations whose full expressivity can only be captured through replay.
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For more than forty years, L"Esprit Créateur has published studies on French and Francophone literature, film, criticism, and culture. The journal features articles representing a variety of methodologies and critical approaches. Exploring all periods of French literature and thought, L"Esprit Créateur focuses on topics that define French and Francophone Studies today.
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