ARTG 80H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jim Dunnigan, Strategos, Topic Maps
3 Feb 2017
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Intro video: tabletop games the doubleclicks (feat. Tabletop (manual) games: wargames (boardgames and miniatures, d&d. Wargames and rpgs on comps: plato/mud, computer games of the 1980s. Eurogames (german games) helped bring tabletop games to the forefront. Allowed for longer games since you could save your state and come back to it. Kriegsspiel cabinet, berlin, c. 1812 (first wargame) turned war into a numbers game. Totten, strategos (1879) set trail that led to d&d. Japanese, germans, etc. (none of these were commercial games) Very popular in britain, then moves to us. Gary gygax, jeff perren chainmail (1971) one of co-inventors of d&d, a prototype of. Engrams seeing how frequently words (game design, game development, game designer, game developer) shows up in media, peaks after 1970/1990, falls in 1978/1999), percentage after absolute value. Second engram (wargame, game-design, rpg), wargame substantially more popular than others. Because of jim dunnigan simulations publications inc. Game design (spi, 1971) - publication on game design.
