Scene from Kugelhagel ACW Demospiel video on the Tabletop Basement TV channel. The caption, auto-translated from German into English in a state-of-the-art fashion, is "...lose and the desire to Forced oral sex, then..." There is no oral sex, forced or otherwise, in the tabletop miniatures game Kugelhagel. I think. I don't speak German, but I certainly didn't see anything in the English rule book.

Ahem. State-of-the-art Google translation from German to English here. Absolutely state of the art. Top people did this. Top people.

This is a video about a tabletop miniatures game, Kugelhagel.

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Hi! Some know I use phrase/standard "Does this historical game have defensible models about the past?" With (newer) Agential Problem Space one can ask "Does this agential game have defensible models about the world?". I use that instead of "is the game (historically) accurate?". 🧵1/
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I have to start getting shorter in my answers so you won't think I've forgotten @cyrusriahi.bsky.social. Video games I did:

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Now let's talk useful board games. For BGs the criteria are similar to VG. Challenge, connection to topics. 🧵 1/
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Got some good feedback on unclear rule spots involving the optional rules for using scoring tokens for Path of Honors the Roll and Write. Here is the update gamingthepast.net/wp-content/u...

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Cover of Kugelhagel: Rules for historical wargaming between 1750 and 1900 by Martin Feller. This is the recent English edition. The image is picture of British Napoleonic miniatures.

Illustration from the interior of the Kugelhagel rulebook. French artillery miniatures.

I have to say, the rules for Kugelhagel may be a bit of a mess (but hardly the worst I've seen), but the rulebook is beautiful.

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Heya Historical Game Studies folks #gamingthepast. I know this is repetitive & shamelessly self-promoting, bt I keep seeing signs people are reading abt historical problem spaces up to 2020 article, when 2024 article is a major update + case study of how mechanics shape game history. Just sayin ...

Jeremiah McCall giving a talk about designing academic games at the UK Esports Lounge in Lexington KY

Talk at UK in Lexington went well. Made some new friends; found more people who'd never heard of the Historical /Agential Problem Space Framework & were excited by what it could do! Yay
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Presentation: gamingthepast.net/theory-pract...

HPS diagrams:
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GTP Dialogue with Vinicius Marino Carvalho Part II Historical Problem Spaces and Beyond This is the second part in a planned series of dialogues with historian, educator, and historical game designer, Vinicius Marino Carvalho, about the Historical Problem Space Framework as set of con…

It is with GREAT PLEASURE that I have pressed publish on part II of @vinicius-marino.bsky.social and my Gaming the Past dialogue -- On Historical Problem Spaces & Beyond! Highly recommend this for thinking more theoretically abt historical games & their potential
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We Didn’t Lose, the War Ended: Temporal Fictions in Raid on Taihoku | Historical Games Network We usually expect the fiction in historical games to appear in obvious places: invented characters, simplified battles, alternative endings where “history” might have gone another way. Raid on Taihoku...

New on the HGN blog, the next post in our Fictions theme. Sara Morini explores how Raid on Taihoku reworks time to create narrative fiction and rewrite history. Enjoy! www.historicalgames.net/raid-on-taih...

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@tkinias.historians.social.ap.brid.gy Hope you're still out there! So I had and have not actually forgotten about your query a long time ago about problems of CIVILIZATION GAMES AS HISTORY. And I started writing a blog post because it was such a big question 1/ �
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Hi friends
Got email from interested & excited in-my-work academic and educator (saw Beyond Solitaire Podcast). Love these!
I may or may'nt be many things, but my claim to be authentic is demonstrably true. I'll happily go to great length to share my work & help you 1/ (resource🧵)
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Liberté Manipulate your influence in 3 factions to win elections in the French Revolution.

It's that time of year again. We've finished my Rhetoric and Revolution in 10th grade modern world. Wrapped up the French Rev Monday and now we play Liberte for two days before they write a pretty intense essay comparing and contrasting the two as models of Revolution.
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Looks interesting! The focus on environmental costs as an inherent part of (virtual) statecraft sounds particularly timely.

Plus, if the thesis is half as funny & articulated as this thread, it should be a joy to read!

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Just ran across this, if anyone is interested:

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@armchairdragoons.bsky.social are you following #gamingthepast?

Jeremiah’s History Game Prototypes I’m going to start collecting my prototype files here for interested people to see. Some are useful in class already, others not yet, etc. Please, please, please give me constructive feedback…

Hi all; had considerable success with A2.0 of Rhetoric and Revolution a game abt French National Assembly 1790-91 Politicking to draft Consitution of 1791. Posted print-and-play components on site. Would love feedback & will help you get started however I can.

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MAMG25 Proceedings

The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out!

All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.

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Can anyone help Thomas here (and in doing so, do me a solid too😆)?

Cover of Writing Game Histories, edited by Esther Wright, Iain Donald, and Nick Webber. The top half features a minimalist black background with the title in script and sans-serif fonts. The bottom half is filled with a colorful, hexagonal map-style layout resembling a strategy game interface, populated with icons, numbers, and zones. A green vertical label on the right side reads "Writing History" connecting the book’s theme to academic and game studies.

1753. WRITING GAME HISTORIES
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👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/writing...

"An accessible guide to Historical Game Studies, exploring how games represent, shape, and create history across digital and analogue forms"

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