Hello, everyone, and welcome to a special episode of the History of Japan podcast.

We're going to do something a little different from what I normally do.

Today, I have a guest who's here to speak to you a little bit and talk about a project that I've been lucky enough to be working on for the past,

slightly over a year or so now that I can finally share with you all.

So please, would you like to introduce yourself?

Yes, hello, everybody. I'm Albert Sand.

I'm the content design coordinator at Paradox Tinto.

And I'm currently working on a biadalian, which is Europa Universalist 4, which is the object of our joint project.

Absolutely.

So I've been working with Paradox for the past year or so for a series of lectures for specifically Europe universe Salas for, which I'm really excited about.

Avar already knows this, but if you don't, if you haven't heard me say this in the podcast before, I love video games. I love history. I love video games about history. And I actually got started

playing history games with both Creative Assembly, the Total War series, and especially

paradox. Hearts of Iron 2 back in the day when I was in high school,

Europa Union of Rusalis 3, I think, was also a big one for me.

And then Crusader Kings.

I love that whole series.

And I'm absolutely terrible at them, but I have a great time with them.

So when I found out about this project, I was really excited to do it.

And Altharo and I are going to have a little conversation today just about what we've

been working on, about games and history. And that's actually my first question.

So Alvaro, what got you interested in video games, history, games about history, and

Paradox? What brought you to this this place well i've been playing

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