Simon Dor

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue · Department of Creation and New Media

"Strategy" in videogames can bear a lot of meanings; so does "strategy games." The intuitive approach is to consider strategy games as descendants of wargames and, consequently, to define "strategy" as it is defined in the context of war. Nevertheless, when used in different contexts, such as games, war, politics, game theory, or business, "strateg...

StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998) is a real-time strategy video game, placing the player in command of three extraterrestrial races fighting against each other for strategic control of resources, terrain, and power. Simon Dor examines the game's unanticipated effect by delving into the history of the game and the two core competencies it enc...

Écranosphère, 2023 https://www.ecranosphere.ca/article.php?id=100 Bien souvent, les jeux de stratégie proposent une vision du pouvoir qui a peu de nuances, où le/la joueur/se est toute-puissante dans une relation de domination. Or, l'expression du pouvoir dans certains jeux nous semble relever d'un ethos plus nuancé. Des jeux vidéo singuliers perm...

L’histoire est un thème commun des jeux de stratégie. Si leur représentation ethnocentriste de l’histoire a souvent été critiquée, la présence de joueur·euse·s réel·le·s et contemporain·e·s brise toute tentative de les voir comme une simulation fidèle à une période historique. À travers entre autres les séries Crusader Kings et Europa Universalis,...

Le jeu vidéo a la particularité d’impliquer non pas uniquement des créateurs, mais aussi et surtout des joueurs, regroupés parfois en communautés extrêmement organisées sur Internet. Ces communautés ont souvent une dévotion suffisamment forte vis-à-vis de leurs objets qu’ils en deviennent les témoins privilégiés, des acteurs de premier plan lorsque...

This call seeks chapters to be included in an edited book that would be titled Depictions of Power: Strategy and Management Games. Accepted proposals will be included in a submission for the collection "Approaches to Digital Game Studies" at Bloomsbury. One could say that strategy and management games are the quintessential depictions of power. R...

Extensive literature underlines the importance to critically examine the phenomenon of game classification. In computer games magazines of the 1980 decade, the combination of "action", "arcade," or "real-time" with "strategy" is quite common. Here and there, the expression "real-time strategy" is used. But real-time strategy games as we will come t...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth is one of the most adapted universes in games from various genres. But the prior knowledge of a narrative leads to a whole different experience than when one’s faced with an unknown story. This article will deal with different videogames adaptation, including the real-time strategy game The Lord of the Rings: The Battl...

L’objectif de cette thèse est de réfléchir aux enjeux d’une histoire du jeu de stratégie en temps réel (STR). Il s’agit de mieux comprendre les contextes dans lesquels le genre prend sens pour historiciser son émergence et sa période classique. Cette thèse cherche à documenter, d’une part, la cristallisation du STR en tant qu’objet ayant une forme...

This article aims to describe competitive playing experience in StarCraft: Brood War. Strategy is defined as a process using game plans (strategies) and game states. By using cognitive psychology works, as well as its applications to chess and in film studies, the goal of this article is to summarize cognitive and perceptive processes in the heuris...

An emulator is an application that tries to mimic another system in order to run applications the way they were run on their original system. It is usually used by gamers interested in playing older games on newer systems: older console or arcade games on PC, DOS games in a recent version of Windows, etc. It can also be a way to play contemporary g...

Strategy games have their roots in wargames. One of the first known war simulations was Kriegsspiel, a nineteenth-century board game made by a Prussian lieutenant in order to depict combat situations, as opposed to chess, in which the war theme is merely symbolically represented by the pieces (Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Smith, & Tosca, 2008, p. 46). There...

Pour respecter les droits d’auteur, la version électronique de ce mémoire a été dépouillée de ses documents visuels et audio‐visuels. La version intégrale du mémoire a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal. Cette recherche propose une analyse du jeu de stratégie en temps réel StarCraft (Blizz...