Technology trees: Freedom and determinism in historical strategy games

Game Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-

  Ghys, Tuur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Comparative research; Determinism; History of technology; Strategy; Tech tree; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867597576     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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