Representing Conflicts in Games

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; The Inevitable Relation Between Games and Conflict: An Introduction; Part I: Game Systems, Transformation, and Learning; 1. Red in Bits and Bytes: Evolutionary Conflicts in Biological God Games; 2. On Bikers at War: Transformations of Non-Fictional and Fictional Conflicts from Hamlet to Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem; 3. From Zero-Sum Business Games to Coopetitive Simulation; 4. The Limits of âSeriousâ Play: Frame Disputes Around Educational Games; Part II: Representing War and Armed Conflicts; 5. On Wargames and War: Modelling Carl von Clausewitzâs Theory of War; 6. Wargames as Reenactment: An Ecological Framework for the Development of Military Games for Education; 7. The Grasping Eye: Wargames and the Ideal-Typical Field Commanderâs Inner Vision; Part III: Critical Perspectives on Conflicts in Games; 8. War Never Changes? Creating an American Victimology in Fallout 4; 9. Are the Bullets Going Over our Head? Designed Ambivalence in the Representation of Armed Conflict in Games; 10. Where are the White Perpetrators in all the Colonial Board Games? A Case Study on Afrikan T¤hti; Part IV: Alternative Ways of Representing Conflicts in Games; 11. Narrative and Mechanical Integration: Playing with Interpersonal Conflicts in Life is Strange; 12. The Most Intimate Conflict of all: Marriage as Conflict in Digital Games; 13. All Smoke, No Fire: The Post-Mortem of Conflicts in the âWalking Simulatorâ Genre; Index