Mit der @hekabeohnename.bsky.social hab ich ein Paper zur „Dialektik einer historischen Authentizität in digitalen Spielen“ geschrieben. #Spielwissenschaft #HistoricalGameStudies
October 21, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Mit der @hekabeohnename.bsky.social hab ich ein Paper zur „Dialektik einer historischen Authentizität in digitalen Spielen“ geschrieben. #Spielwissenschaft #HistoricalGameStudies
Delighted to see that @drhelenroche.bsky.social first article in the field of #HistoricalGameStudies is out now, having read an earlier version (and re-read this one) I do recommend it!! 🎲
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Secret Hitler and the ghosts of Weimar: a ludic case study in ‘Hitlersploitation’?
Juxtaposing recent advances in Historical Game Studies with historical research on the commercialisation of the Third Reich in contemporary culture, this article treats the board game Secret Hitler...
www.tandfonline.com
September 19, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Delighted to see that @drhelenroche.bsky.social first article in the field of #HistoricalGameStudies is out now, having read an earlier version (and re-read this one) I do recommend it!! 🎲
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hey #wargaming friends, people dipping toes into #HistoricalGameStudies, educators wanting to try out #GamingthePast random folk, whoever. Love it when people reach out with a cold DM/Message/Email and ask a question or for guidance in forays. I get to help and it doesn't involve writing a book!
August 30, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Hey #wargaming friends, people dipping toes into #HistoricalGameStudies, educators wanting to try out #GamingthePast random folk, whoever. Love it when people reach out with a cold DM/Message/Email and ask a question or for guidance in forays. I get to help and it doesn't involve writing a book!
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
Beim Jahrestreffen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin spreche ich zum Thema "Praktische Verbindungen von Spieleentwicklung und Geschichtswissenschaft".
#gamestudies #history #historicalgamestudies
June 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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
Beim Jahrestreffen der Historischen Kommission zu Berlin spreche ich zum Thema "Praktische Verbindungen von Spieleentwicklung und Geschichtswissenschaft".
#gamestudies #history #historicalgamestudies
"Why History in Digital Games matters!"
Read on our blog the essay by Eugen Pfister about "Historical Authenticity as a Language for Ideological Myths"
gespielt.hypotheses.org/5904
#GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies #History #Historiography
Read on our blog the essay by Eugen Pfister about "Historical Authenticity as a Language for Ideological Myths"
gespielt.hypotheses.org/5904
#GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies #History #Historiography
September 8, 2023 at 8:09 AM
"Why History in Digital Games matters!"
Read on our blog the essay by Eugen Pfister about "Historical Authenticity as a Language for Ideological Myths"
gespielt.hypotheses.org/5904
#GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies #History #Historiography
Read on our blog the essay by Eugen Pfister about "Historical Authenticity as a Language for Ideological Myths"
gespielt.hypotheses.org/5904
#GameStudies #HistoricalGameStudies #History #Historiography
Working on the sunday. A difficult birth but also fun. At times. #HistoricalGameStudies
February 11, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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"
February 9, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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"
I forgot the magic words #ancientbluesky #archaeogaming #historicalgamestudies #classicalgamestudies #archaeogaming #gamestudies
Official publication day for my long awaited Hades chapter in this edited volume on classical reception (edited by Anastasia Bakogianni and Luis Unceta Gómez) is July 22, but the volume is out and available now! Lots of other great articles in the volume too: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
July 20, 2024 at 2:50 AM
I forgot the magic words #ancientbluesky #archaeogaming #historicalgamestudies #classicalgamestudies #archaeogaming #gamestudies
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
October 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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!
Also be willing to use widely available and cheap mobile games or mobile ports (e.g. 80 Days from bsky.app/profile/inkl...) and - though it's rarer these days - keep an eye out for in-browser games, like the first Curious Expedition from @maschimensch.bsky.social : play.curious-expedition.com.
The Curious Expedition
The Curious Expedition
play.curious-expedition.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
#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!
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).
Lunch, then I'll start tackling the other revision (on Haiti & games beyond ACFC).
I think I'm about ready to send this revision in. Look at the gorgeous sentence I came up with once I moved Kishonna Gray out of my footnotes & into text. And my conclusion is a lot more fleshed out than when half of it sat in my head as implicit (thanks to the eds for pushing me to lengthen it)!
January 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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).
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 🎮!
January 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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 🎮!
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.
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.
Having seen other academics do this, I thought it might be good to just do a mega thread of my various bits of writing/work etc with links so people can track stuff down 🗃️
I'll present it in the following order:
1) First World War history
2) Historical Computer Games
3) Public History
4) Star Wars
I'll present it in the following order:
1) First World War history
2) Historical Computer Games
3) Public History
4) Star Wars
November 22, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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.
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
November 19, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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
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/
As you probably know, my work is on the #HistoricalGameStudies side and #gamingthepast side for history education. 2/
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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/
As you probably know, my work is on the #HistoricalGameStudies side and #gamingthepast side for history education. 2/
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/
January 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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/
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
#GamngthePastinEd
#HistoricalGameStudies
January 7, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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
#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
November 25, 2023 at 12:40 PM
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
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
November 22, 2023 at 1:31 PM
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
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 😂
#gamestudies
#HistoricalGameStudies <- trust me; we're up an coming; there's going to be a feed any day now 😂
November 11, 2023 at 1:02 PM
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 😂
#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/
November 10, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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)
October 31, 2023 at 11:31 AM
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.
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.
That can‘t be true! 😳
October 23, 2023 at 1:14 PM
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.
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
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
@akgwds.bsky.social for video games and Boardgame_historian for board games (no Bluesky at the moment, but here is the Instagram channel: instagram.com/boardgame_hi...). They are both from Germany, but have also content in English.
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October 22, 2023 at 1:21 PM
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
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.
October 22, 2023 at 1:12 PM
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.