Crusader Kings (commercial game) and Gramps

Genealogy
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Ran across an interesting post on Reddit that lead back to Gramps: " should i play this game as an autistic person with a hyperfixation on family trees? i seriously have a weird fascination with family trees…"

This lead to discovering that “this game” was a commercial game called Crusader Kings (versions 1 through 4) that are sort of like Civilization but for building dynastic empires. And some people are using genealogy tools to visualize the data to help their strategic gameplay.

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from https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/o4v5gi/i_created_a_complete_family_tree_of_my_ironman/
And there are Modding tools. One of which includes a (somewhat convoluted) workflow that imports the data into Gramps. Another is a “GEDCOM to CK3 converter”

2020 karanonanjo on r/CursaderKings: Releasing New Family Tree Exporter. Tremendously Fast and Now Supporting 1.3.1 Ironman/Normal Saves
2021 Tomeee on Paradox Forum: CK3 Family Tree Exporter | Paradox Interactive Forums

Blastentwice on GitHub:
Jun 2024 (superseded) CK3-Family-Tree-Exporter-To-Gramps
Oct 2024 for CK3 version 1.12 : CK3-Family-Tree-Exporter-To-Gramps

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from https://github.com/blastentwice/CK3-Family-Tree-Exporter-To-Gramps-old/blob/main/README.md

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Some people have too much free time. :rofl:

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The interesting thing about “gamification” is that is usually leads to innovations in data analysis, visualizations and interface. And performance advances too.

Although I’m not a gamer, I prefer the idea of people competing in games about building a society or strategy than 1st person shooting or mass annihilation. Even when the game does encourage developing their Machiavellian skillset.