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

A new essay up on the Historical Games Network

Industrial Memory Culture in Fantasy Games: Remnants of the Ruhr in the Gothic and ELEX Series

https://www.historicalgames.net/remnants-of-ruhr/
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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

Véronique Dasen et Marco Vespa (éd.). Play and Games in Classical Antiquity. 2021 #EulisGameStudiesBibliothek 60/ #GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies @thevglibrary

@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!

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_

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A new entry on medieval games in #HistoricalGameStudies is on the horizon https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/playing-the-middle-ages-9781350242883/

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/

#HistoricalGameStudies PSA.
If you're analyzing historical games as history & are either
a) Thinking mostly about historical strategy games
or
b) Thinking mostly about 3D realist games
or
c) Comparing them.
You just have to read @Woodlandstaar Digital Games 2016 Ch. 3.
Must.

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!

From #HistoricalGameStudies scholar @eugen_pfister

https://gespielt.hypotheses.org/5904?fbclid=IwAR1njG790XcQgT85JtDv7A6rb0Ww6A-deNehQa6ZXsNG-kmNp7Zb1nrvIgY

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

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

A vacation Monday, friends! That means it's high time to: ASK ME ANYTHING about #GamingthePastInEd or #HistoricalGameStudies! Come on: wouldn't you like to talk about history & games & history education, or any part or intersection of those 3?!?! Never know; could be fun; maybe even interesting!?!?!?

A vacation Sunday friends! That means it's high time to: ASK ME ANYTHING about #GamingthePastInEd or #HistoricalGameStudies! Come on: wouldn't you like to talk about history & games & history education, or any part or intersection of those 3?!?! Never know; could be fun; maybe even interesting!?!?!?

Shameless self promotion. As I read these terrific contributions to the educational side of history and video games, I keep going back to a brief essay from 2010 that still, I think, holds up as pedagogical underpinning of how to use games in history ed. https://www.playthepast.org/?p=302

#GamingthePastInEd
#HistoricalGameStudies