Signifying the West: Colonialist Design in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs

Signifying the West: Colonialist Design in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs

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"Forward," the highlighted Tomahawk COND and Rider units respond as they move across the mapped territory of a hill to a treasure guarded by two bears they must now kill.The WarChiefs, an expansion of the Age of Empires III Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for the PC, uses both Western and Native representations in game mechanics, sound, image, text, and narrative.This paper compares Indigenous and Western perspectives of interactivity, narrative, and space and time in a close reading of single-player campaign Fire and Shadow.In doing so, this paper asks: How does The WarChiefs, and thus the Quality Warranty For Extra 90 Days RTS genre, signify colonialist design aesthetic?.