Postcolonial Compilation

Here is all my postcolonial work and writing, compiled into a single source.

Firstly, you can get Syphilisation at either of the following links. Syphilisation is my postcolonial 4X game in which you play a student doing a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj. This is the implementation of my postcolonial theories.

• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712530/Nikhil_Murthys_Syphilisation/
• Itch: https://whynotgames.itch.io/nikhil-murthys-syphilisation

Playthroughs:

• 2024/08/02 - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZAuHrQoew0xhBL9_4nLLDEJPICAXGeyA&si=WHNiA_bb-_Qx3GXJ
• 2024/07/02 - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZAuHrQoew0wS5P-rqjIzWUMA8b4vDwTA&si=mRTbAXuvEi85yBX8

Here is the talk I gave at ADDON that distills all of my work on postcolonial game design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkx5FOCx5kI

On the rewards of postcolonial design:

• The big questions of Syphilisation
• The big question of ideological games
• Feature overview of Syphilisation
• Solving ICS through postcolonialism
• The surprisingly rewarding experience of building an ideological game
• The pleasure of translation in 4X games

General Postcolonial Design Principles

• The general question of postcolonialism
• Can you make an anti-imperial empire game
• Introduction to an Oleomingus Exhibit
• Postcolonial Monster Hunter
• Postcolonial Stardew Valley
• Postcolonial Breath of the Wild
• Postcolonial Pokemon

Civilization Analysis:

• How games fail Gandhi
• Searching for postcolonialism in Civilization
• The Recreation Commons of SMAC
• The 4X as RPG
• The villages of Civilization
• Cycles of war in Civilization
• 4Xing Civ
• The leaders of Civ
• Techs of Civ
• Units of Civ
• Cities of Civ

Failures:

• Postcolonial failures of Syph
• Postcolonialism missing from Syph