TheNumLocker

TheNumLocker OP t1_j12boct wrote

Reply to comment by boysan98 in History content for kids by TheNumLocker

Yes Civ of course! Civ4 was one of my favorite games growing up. Strategy games are uniquely situated to capture the underlying structural processes and relations. Iā€™d say Paradox games are best at this (confirmed by historian Bred Devereauxā€).

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TheNumLocker OP t1_j1133ob wrote

Thank you for the thoughtful answer!

I am not all that worried about factual nitpicks, more about the narratives present in ā€œmainstreamā€ stories/games for kids. In a film about knights, Iā€™ll likely oscillate between ā€œswoosh swoosh, take that villain!ā€ and a lecture on feudalism being a brute and exploitative system romanticized by Victorians and that movie right here. But itā€™s true there is more nuanced kid content out there (suggested here), so I think itā€™s possible to give then a more balanced overview.

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