Tag: Asia

• Where games are set, and where they are made

  

  A world map of 6,691 video games tied to real places: where each is set and where its studio is based. New York leads, Japan to the United States is the busiest route, and the Moon beats Mars.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Americas, art, Arts and culture, Asia, games, Present day, Wikidata, Wikipedia, World, world maps

• What the world calls each other

  

  I mapped 54,037 country names in 262 languages. Most countries are called something like their own name almost everywhere, but Germany has six families of names, and Chinese ‘virtue country’ and ‘beautiful country’ are mostly sound.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Asia, language and dialect, Languages, place names, Present day, Wikidata, World, world maps

• Bit-zkrieg: Iron Front ’44, a free WW2 tactics game from Shanghai to Berlin

  

  My new browser game is a turn-based tactics game of the Second World War: 66 historical battles with the real generals, tanks, ships and aircraft, a soundtrack of period recordings, and a zombie mode. Free to play now, with a trailer.

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  Asia, Browser games, Europe, games, history, Military history, Second World War, Tactics games, war

• China is erasing its border with Hong Kong

  When Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997, Chinese leaders agreed that Hong Kong would be able to keep its economic and political systems, including some of the civil freedoms denied to China’s citizens on the mainland, for the next 50 years. Although Hong Kong still has nearly 30 years of semi-autonomy left,…

  Tristan Hotham

  Politics

  Asia, borders, Empire and colonialism, Present day, world maps