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The article has some very interesting background on Meier's thinking about and research of history that affected the game design, and experts' analyses of the g
by hackuser 10y ago
The article has some very interesting background on Meier's thinking about and research of history that affected the game design, and experts' analyses of the game
Regarding the author's own analysis, he writes,
> Meier has no formal training as a historian
But what expertise does the author have? All the article says is,
> Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars, a forthcoming collection of short fiction from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is the presenter of the BBC radio series “Museum of Lost Objects.”
- partycoder 10y agoBut I think he had the right problem solving approach, and that led him to make the right questions and get the information he needed. That was the key.
- boomboomsubban 10y agoFrom his website > He studied at Yale, where he graduated magna cum laude and phi beta kappa with BAs in History and Literature, and at Columbia, where he was a FLAS fellow in Persian and South Asian studies.