Millions of people own the games, which allow players to take control of a historical nation or individual and guide the course of history. The games made by Paradox Interactive, the Swedish studio that produces Europa Universalis, are among the most popular strategy titles in the world.
But the fact that video-game developers, rather than professional historians, were responsible for shaping so many young people’s understanding of history deserved greater examination, he thought. Bret Devereaux, a history professor at the University of North Carolina, saw Mulder’s tweet as an opportunity to explain a new phenomenon.ĭevereaux plays Europa Universalis and likes it. Students kept enrolling in his course on modern Europe because of the game, which he had only recently learned existed.
Last year, Nicholas Mulder, a history professor at Cornell University, asked his Twitter followers to help him understand a certain kind of student in his classes: players of the video game Europa Universalis.
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