The Chronicles, Distantly Read

A computational reading of the Crusader Kings III dev diaries and their community responses

This project applies distant-reading methods — word frequencies, TF-IDF, concept networks, and frequent-phrase mining — to the Crusader Kings III developer diaries published by Paradox Interactive and the forum replies they drew from the community. Three reports follow: one on the diaries themselves, and two on the voices that answered them.

• I. The Dev Diaries

  A distant reading of the developer diaries: what Paradox talks about when it talks about medieval rule.

• II. The Community Responds

  An analysis of community responses to the diaries — themes, concerns, and enthusiasms of the player base.

• III. The Reply Corpus

  A distant reading of the full forum reply corpus, with word clouds, concept networks, and phrase analysis.