Please remember, this has always been a designer-side framework, NOT an attempt to guess at player experience.
As you probably know, my work is on the #HistoricalGameStudies side and #gamingthepast side for history education. 2/

Anyway, now I'm thinking about how to historicize "Mafia." Obviously, it was designed in a very specific historical context, but the game itself is also devoid of historical specificity. How should I get students thinking about the game's historicity? #gamestudies #historicalgamestudies 4/4

#HistoricalGameStudies folks are the best - we have a great community and folks are so generous to each other! @ludensprof.bsky.social has super ideas on teaching with - and having students build - games, as does @gamingthepast.bsky.social!

Am Freitag habe ich die Gelegenheit aus der Praxis zu berichten und sie mit Theorie zu verbinden.
Beim Jahrestreffen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin spreche ich zum Thema "Praktische Verbindungen von Spieleentwicklung und Geschichtswissenschaft".
#gamestudies #history #historicalgamestudies

Revision #1 is in! Very pleased with my cute new sentences here. I needed to explain a little more, within #HistoricalGameStudies and #GameStudies in general, the real innovation of game I'm studying. #gtp 🗃️

Lunch, then I'll start tackling the other revision (on Haiti & games beyond ACFC).

Year 5 of the #SlaveRevoltonScreen book tour starts today.😁 I'm recording a Film & History 🗃️ podcast this morning. More work on #HistoricalGameStudies is coming out but SROS is still one of the only books on games by a historian, so I still get invites! 🙌 Glad to be encouraging others to work on 🎮!

Because when now-gone Journal of Digital Humanities wanted to pick it up, felt like a real validation I had things to say abt #HistoricalGameStudies not just history games in history ed. And, like so many of you, I definitely get impostor syndrome. So it felt good to develop in this direction. 2/

If you're interested in history 🗃️, esp of WWI...
OR #VideoGames #HistoricalGameStudies ...
OR Star Wars....

you should be following the brilliant and generous @chriskempshall.bsky.social if you aren't already!

Here's a thread of some of his greatest hits.

Games & Culture is one possibility. OR depending on how theoretical you make it, you could push a "traditional" journal to pay attention to this area of the memory of the Vietnam War by publishing its first #HistoricalGameStudies piece... #gtp

Balancing another social media profile. Hoping to catch up with other academics and videogame people. #gamestudies #historicalgamestudies #nostalgia

I forgot the magic words #ancientbluesky #archaeogaming #historicalgamestudies #classicalgamestudies #archaeogaming #gamestudies

Working on the sunday. A difficult birth but also fun. At times. #HistoricalGameStudies

Sagt, hat jemand von Euch Zugriff auf dieses spannende #HistoricalGameStudies Paper? journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... "Polish History up to 1795 in Polish Games and Game Studies"

So I get to start drafting "Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators" with Routledge. Excited and a wee bit daunted (mostly excited because it's not like I haven't written before, but the blank page is always monolithic). 2/
#GamngthePastinEd
#HistoricalGameStudies

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

As I edit and article, wondering if I can get away with changing my preferred term "experimenting deities" for player agents of abstract strategy games to "Fool around and find out!" games?🤔
#gamestudies
#HistoricalGameStudies <- trust me; we're up an coming; there's going to be a feed any day now 😂

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)

Alright #gamestudies folks and #HistoricalGameStudies.
Has anyone written or encountered an English article/chapter/whatever that treats Sid Meier's Pirates? I think my friend, scholar @eugenpfister.bsky.social may be the only one. I'd love to put it in GTP bibliography if there are others.

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

On a slightly personal note, we have not yet adopted a doggy after our beloved Theo and I am also bacheloring for the weekend hence all the #HistoricalGameStudies posts this morning. I mean, that, and because I have a presentation to finish prepping and Apollo forbid I ever stay completely on task.

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.)

Game Studies - The Historical Problem Space Framework: Games as a Historical Medium

Exciting about BlueSky that I'm connecting w/ more #gamestudies folks than ever (my GS "crowd" tends to be the awesome #HistoricalGameStudies folks). Anyway, historical games may not be your interest but I wanted to share this HPS framework, my main acad. thing outside games in history education.

Gaming the Past Designer Talks Listen to Gaming the Past Designer Talks on Spotify. A series of discussions with designers of historical video games by Jeremiah McCall, historian, teacher, and creator of Gaming the Past

Sometimes I forget I did this thing. Six talks with designers about their games and history.

open.spotify.com/show/4UKuTnn...

#gamestudies
#HistoricalGameStudies

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...