This looks really good for some #GamingthePastinEd!!!

A screen from Citizen of Rome showing the agricultural lands that can be purchased and the amount of revenue those lands generate. Around the picture are questions and comments about how the agricultural system is presented/functions

I've included an example screen I'm preparing for teaching in class, so students can see some of the questions one might raise about the agricultural model in the game. A combination of description, critique and questioning.
#GamingthePastinEd historical game studies 2/

The latest article/chapter (though I hope with some extra supports for history educators not seen before) on #GamingthePastinEd is off to my awesome editors. 1/

Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age Roll and Civilize your way to victory with an ancient Mediterranean empire.

It was exciting to get to see some 5th graders #GamingthePastinEd, something I pretty much never get to see. One of the really helpful things about RTTA: Bronze Age is that while highly simplified (like many games), it has "defensible models" of ancient states so her debrief will be really good. 2/

A text page from my Interactive History exam. A drawing on top left shows "stuff from the past" being thrown into a processor and outputting "gamic histories"

Final essay. Students played Valiant Hearts & the Grizzled several times. I'll have played intro to Battlefield 1 twice as ss. take notes & ask questions. Not sure I'll have time to fit Stategic Command: WWI (a vg wargame).

Thoughts always welcome!

Historial Game Studies
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A Game that Will Live in Infamy “ I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” – Admiral Yamamoto In my spare...

On this 82nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor I’m reminded of “A Game that Will Live in Infamy” I ran years ago as I engaged my son’s interest in World War II history; an opportunity for learning through play and thoughtful reflection.

#Wargames #WWII #GamingthePastInEd

Podcast | Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and… Subscribe for free. Robert Houghton, "Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

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Historical Game Studies
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It's History and games ask-me-anything time, weekend edition. Historical games & how they portray history History games in history education Whether historical games are history ... or some other question you think silly but I'd really love to try answering #HistoricalGameStudies #GamingthePastinEd

Historical game studies ask me anything, 5-days-off edition.
Historical games & how they portray history
History games in history education
Whether historical games are history
... or some other question you think silly but I'd really love to try answering
#HistoricalGameStudies
#GamingthePastinEd

Hmm. I may have to rethink my approach to talking about historical games studies and #GamingthePastinEd and just start hubristically posting comments no one asked for. But before this pseudo-apocalypse, does anyone have any ask-me-anything questions abt historical games inside or outside of ed.?

A text printout of citations for The Cavalry of the Roman Republic and Teaching history with digital historical games. 1 more citation for the former.

Competition for 2nd place (I'm truly humbly grateful Gaming the Past beats both) between main contribution I've made to Roman history and what a "popular" review article for #GamingthePastinEd. Soon, friends, Roman military history won't even be 2nd place on the list. That shift took decades.

It's close enough to the weekend, insofar as I'm in the midst of parent teacher conferences and looking forward to a half day today. So let's fill digital space w some conversation about #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd (come on, #gamestudies friends; don't you wonder about history?) 1/

Hi #gamestudies and #historicalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd folk. Let's mix things up with a weekday ask-me-anything about games and history in an out of education. Seriously, if you've ever had a huge or nit-picky question, I'll do my best to answer it thoughtfully. (re-skeets appreciated)

German-writing scholars, wherever you are doing it, are such a huge part of #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd
If only I had retained reading skills from my grad reading course (such an American!), but so many of you, my German-writing colleagues and friends are very kind to me anyway

Any history educators using board & video games I can connect with out there? Found my #gamestudies friends, & I keep finding my colleagues from X but I'd love to be able to reach new history educator colleagues with postings on #GamingthePastinEd. (grateful for boosts; do we call them boosts here?)

Historical Problem Space diagram for analyzing historical games, from Jeremiah McCall, Gaming the Past

Educator tip for students to take satisfactory notes on a game. If a history game, use #HistoricalProblemSpace. Also instruct students to make notes detailed enough that a person who hasn't seen the game can visualize and understand what they are describing.

#GamingthePastinEd #gamestudies

Gaming the Past historical video games in the classroom and beyond

And my new #gamestudies friends, if you find yourself even more curious abt #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd, I'd be delighted if you checked out gamingthepast.net (there's a book too, but the site is where I've collected almost 20 years of work on games in and outside of history ed.)

Bibliography Topics Historical Games in Formal and Informal History Education  Historical Games and History / Historical Games as History  Designer Studies, Factors that Influence Design, and Production Studies ...

For #gamestudies folks interested in #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd As always; if you'd like your work included, please format each entry to match (roughly) the format of current entries and tell me what section to put it in.
gamingthepast.net/theory-pract...