A few updates to the #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd bibliography
at Gamingthepast.net
https://gamingthepast.net/theory-practice/bibliography/
Please remember if you'd like your work to be included, just send me a formatted entry and tell me which section you'd like it to belong to. That little bit of help makes this task MUCH easier

Sixth entry in #McCallGTPRetrospective on #GamingthePastInEd. From Late in 2012, my first published formal article on #HistoricalGameStudies

Navigating the Problem Space: The Medium of Simulation Games in the Teaching of History
https://historicalsimulations.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/mccall-navigating-the-problem-space.pdf

@Ellinar Hi Ellinar! I do #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastInEd on the side of being a devoted high school history teacher. I also do some tabletop game design. Nice to meet you and welcome!

Fifth entry in #McCallGTPRetrospective on #GamingthePastInEd. From March 27th 2012 the educational companion piece on games as historical problem spaces https://www.playthepast.org/?p=2660 .
Problem Spaces, Part 2: The History Class

Fourth entry in #McCallGTPRetrospective on #GamingthePastInEd. From March 21st 2012, and launching my work (though I did not know it at the time) on games as historical problem spaces.
Historical Simulations as Problem Spaces: Some Guidelines for Criticism
https://www.playthepast.org/?p=2594
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Third entry in #McCallGTPRetrospective on #GamingthePastInEd I wrote in 2010 but did not get published until 2014. Simulation Games and the Study of the Past: Classroom Guidelines. https://historicalsimulations.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/mccall-simulationgamesstudy-2014.pdf
I talked about teaching with CivCityRome and Rome: Total War and explored the idea of using a sim game to make calculations about the historical world.

Second entry in #McCallGTPRetrospective on #GamingthePastInEd is a personal favorite. Nov. 24th, 2010 https://www.playthepast.org/?p=302 I set out a foundational point for my work. The intellectual benefit of critiquing of a game can make the historical accuracy of a game irrelevant for educational purposes.

The first entry in the #McCallGTPRetrospective on #GamingthePastInEd https://www.playthepast.org/?p=94 (September 27th 2010. I introduced the idea of a simulation game for history education and the idea of "defensible models", something I still use.

Since I really know of no other way to spark conversations about #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastInEd other than writing and then re-sharing my writing in case it's been missed in the shuffle, I bring you the shamelessly self-promotional #McCallGTPRetrospective, each of the essays, no more than one a day and books published first somewhere other than gamingthepast.net! I know, pretty exciting, right?!?!?

If you're just someone interested in the idea of thinking about the history in games and what might be done with them, I'd like to think this is a good starting point to read for at least some of the field.

https://www.academia.edu/39273348/Playing_with_the_past_history_and_video_games_and_why_it_might_matter_

#HistoricalGameStudies
#GamingthePastInEd

I've been using Seven Cities of Gold commemorative edition (GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/seven_cities_of_gold_ce f or Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/msdos_Seven_Cities_of_Gold_The_1985) as a lead game for my #InteractiveHistory elective for a few years. There's just so much pro-imperial/colonial rhetoric going on (I gather moreso than the original) and it is easy enough to learn (though not necessarily to play well).
#GamingthePastInEd. 1/

For me, it is the day before school meetings, so some fun shop talk is in order during all the prep.
So ... ask me anything abt #GamingthePastInEd and/or #HistoricalGameStudies & I will try to give a thoughtful answer. Board or video; college or secondary school
(grateful for boosts)

PC Game players interested in #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastInEd. Europa Universalis IV is FREE now on the Epic Game store until 8/17/23.
https://launcher.store.epicgames.com/en-US/

Educator friends
Is this the year you're interested in exploring or expanding on #GamingthePastInEd, using games in history classes? If so please reach out and let me help. DM, @gamingthepast on bsky and bird, heck, my email is on gamingthepast.net. Happy to talk shop!

Hi friends,
Just put down a few thoughts about how I've categorized the ways that space is often used (the spatial action-choices if you will) in the historical problem spaces of games.
#HistoricalGameStudies
#GamingthePastInEd

https://gamingthepast.net/2023/08/04/gameworld-space-and-action-choices-in-historical-games-hps-framework/

As always, let me know what you think

If you are out there #HistoricalGameStudies folks and #GamingthePastInEd folks, please consider using those hash tags to help the rest of us find you and your posts on this big old ancient elephant!

I rarely remember this, I confess, but I do have a small YouTube channel where I have posted and listed all my video talks on historical video games from the past 17 years. There's some good stuff on there about
#HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastInEd
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVzdu5SyI6K2deGa2CzH8NwputVHsaWzK

@lunarloony @civfanatics Thanks for the endorsement! Oh yes, the project itself and its goals are magnificent and I am very grateful as an educator! I just balk at suggesting teachers override their system's warnings to install. I have run Blue Maxima and had kids in courses run it without incident. And access to High Tea alone and the Pre-Civilization games is huge for #GamingthePastInEd

History Educators from roughly 10th grade through college: Anyone interested to try out some teacher materials w/ a grand strategy PC game about Early Modern History this year? You can get free copies of the game for your class/students to use as you try out the teacher guide. DM or email me if interested!
(grateful for boosts)

#GamingthePastInEd
#HistoricalGameStudies

If you want to try a low-risk historical game (dm or reply for more info) for ancient world history this coming year, https://store.steampowered.com/app/686900/Bronze_Age__HD_Edition/ is inexpensive and runs on very light system specs.
#GamingthePastInEd #HistoricalGameStudies