The Ming Dynasty, Europa Universalis IV, and Grand Strategy Gaming with Álvaro Sanz of Paradox Interactive

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Over the past year, I've had the great pleasure of working with a talented group of game developers at Paradox Tinto, one of the studios where they design and develop history-based grand strategy games. These Grand Strategy Games are enjoyed all over the world. One member of the team at Paradox Tinto who I had the pleasure to work with, was Barcelona-based Álvaro Sanz. Together we worked on a selection of history-based lectures that accompany the Europa Universalis IV Mandate of Heaven DLC (DLC: Downloadable Content). The time period covered in the game coincides with the Ming and early Qing Dynasties. This series of lectures accompanied the time period of the Mandate of Heaven DLC. And as of June 20th, everything's now available to all players of Europa Universalis IV. This experience of collaborating with the team at Paradox to develop all this new content was also a great learning experience for me. Grand Strategy Games are passionately embraced by enthusiasts the world over. During this past year I have discovered how these computer-based games are a fantastic and unique way to learn about history. Paradox Interactive: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/ Europa Universalis IV: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/our-games/all-games?Brand=Europa%20Universalis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:29.0	to play these games. If you're very well-readin' world history, might that put you at a distinct
3:34.9	advantage over someone playing these games who never cracked open a history book?
3:40.2	Not at all, because our main objective is making fun games. So our players can have
3:50.1	historical knowledge, they can have history as a hobby, let's say someone that hears this
3:56.9	podcast, or maybe not, and they are looking for new experiences in gaming, so they approach
4:04.2	to our games and find something which is new to them. What is the ultimate goal in these grand
4:09.4	strategy games? Is it to conquer the world, is it all expansion, warfare, interplomacy?
4:15.9	So we have Motto in our company, which is we make the games, do make the story.
4:25.2	So what we want our players is to enjoy the experience, and there are very different approaches
4:35.0	about how to play our games. So for instance, in Europe and Universalist 4, you are running a
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