Author of the chapter “Los juegos de mesa de la guerra civil española como historia pública: una aproximación desde la ciencia de datos” (Board games about the Spanish Civil War as public history: an approach using data science). The available evidence provides no further biographical details.
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When Playing Also Means Interpreting History
In a simulation, players can make decisions, but only among the possibilities provided. Jan Gonzalo Iglesia’s chapter on historical-simulation board games addresses the relationship between a game’s context of creation and its view of the past; Xavier Rubio-Campillo’s chapter considers Spanish Civil War board games as public history and from the perspective of data science. The supplied titles and metadata do not allow us to summarize their findings, but they do show that historical games are a subject of academic study.
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