Playing History 2 – Slave Trade is an educational game developed and published by Serious Games Interactive, and released on September 13, 2013, for Windows and Mac OS X on the Steam platform. The game is intended to be an “edutainment” experience, teaching players about the Atlantic slave trade. Wikipedia
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Deterding, Sebastian. “The mechanic is not the (whole) message: Procedural rhetoric meets framing in Train & Playing History 2.” In Proceedings of 1st International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDG. 2016.
Harrell, D. Fox, Sercan Şengün, and Danielle Olson. “Africa and the avatar dream: Mapping the impacts of videogame representations of Africa.” The Digital Black Atlantic. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (2019).