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

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
#GamingthePastInEd

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?!?!?