@arkeologian
Soy una cierva albina en @arqueocerva.bsky.social. Con un mando en una mano 🎮 y un pico en la otra ⛏️. Historiador, arqueólogo clásico y sobretodo archaeogamer. En estos momentos sobreviviendo en Italia como PhD en arqueología y videojuegos #archaeogaming
The EAA votes are out
The great majority of our archaeological community has voted in favour of the petitions raised by #concernedEAA. We asked for a democratic process, we asked for accountability, and for the need to acknowledge the horrific genocidal policy of Israel against Gaza.
Hola gente! Me paso por aquí para comentar que mi tesis doctoral ya está disponible online! Es un trabajo sobre videojuegos de estrategia y sus características ideológicas.
Se puede descargar aquí, y te cuento por qué deberías hacerlo!
ruidera.uclm.es/items/846dda...
Tengo la fortuna de participar con un capítulo sobre la imagen interactiva jugable y compartir plantel con tanta gente guapa e interesante. Es el libro que me hubiera gustado leer cuando empecé.
#GameStudies #libro #book #ImagenInteractivaJugable #InteractivePlayableImage
They look like the classical archetypal paramilitary organization that tries to take away powerful artifacts from the hero-archaeologist
So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:
From my own niche: institutions of higher education should stop chasing trends, work internally to assert a set of values, and then build curriculum around those values.
Interested in game-writing?
In early 2026 we'll be publishing a kaleidoscope: short articles by 100+ game writers - experts, freelancers, and juniors - about the craft.
~1/3 of them are in: multiple bangers, from some very famous names and games.
Sign up to be notified when it's ready here:
I'm really into classical receptions
A good meditation on why just "recreating" an historic structure architecturally without the everyday lived context ends up with a sterile result.
Also why thoughtful environmental storytelling is so powerful
It's the last day of the month and my first blog post in a while... so, how do you paint November?
A blog about Pentiment, creativity and game development.
florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/11/30/h...
Pentiment is an AMAZING videogame, and unique in its own way. It instantly became one of my all-time favorites!
A bunch of classical receptions in one photo, from a folk pub in Edinburgh.
Para quienes no pudisteis acercaros a esta interesantísima jornada sobre recepción de la Antigüedad en las extremas derechas, aquí os dejo el link a los videos:
ehutb.ehu.eus/series/691f0...
@anihoproject.bsky.social
Calling all #archaeogaming folks! Immortals Fenyx Rising is now free on Ubisoft Connect for the launcher's fifth anniversary. The game is set on the Golden Isle, a land ruled by the Greek gods, and you play as Fenyx, a young mortal shield-bearer in the Spartan army. Just claimed it!
Anno 117: Pax Romana just launched today and some players are already complaining about inaccurate "woke propaganda" because a woman is declared empress and a centurion is "not white enough". I'm speechless.
¡Pues ya tengo autorregalo de cumpleaños en cuanto vuelva a casa!
Llevaba mucho tiempo con ganas de explicar, con más calma, cómo se ha reconstruido el pasado de forma gráfica a lo largo de la historia y cómo lo reconstruimos hoy en día. Ha llegado el momento. 📕🔽 @akaleditor.bsky.social @elbarroquista.bsky.social
¡Qué pintaza! Solo por curiosidad, ¿se hace mención a los videojuegos como representación mediática del pasado?
You are a Post-Padawan now!
Friends! On November 11th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Kevin Marín-Rubio. The talk is titled Play Utopia - Videogames for Critical Imagination in a Barcelona Youth Club. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/kevin-...
a poster with a blue background and an isometric pattern of green hexes with a blue and red decoration. the text reads CALLING ALL HISTORICAL GAMERS: Playful Time Machines is an NWO-funded research project investigating what historical video gameplay means to players. We are looking for survey respondents aged 18 and up who play grand strategy, action/ adventure, and shooter games about the past! Fill in our survey at edu.nl/7w3yn!
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
Book cover showing classical column with title and author's name above it
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
It's been lovely to meet you! Keep up the good work 💪🏼
And last, but certainly not least, Ian Regueiro-Salcedo and Xavier Rubio-Campillo talking about alternative pasts in videogames!
As #TIPC4 is rapidly approaching (8-10 October register now for FREE: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...) we have all sorts of SUPER COOL stuff for this year's celebratory edition! A Game Dev panel, a Playful Archaeology Panel, workshops, pizzas, and of course amazing talks! Check the thread!
I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...
Scholars, musicians, historians all stand in front of a night sky overlooking Baghdad. Underneath a phone rest. In the center text reads: "Discovery Tour app. A Ubisoft Original. Medieval Baghdad."
Step into the heart of Medieval Baghdad—right from your phone.
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Launching today for free: the Discovery Tour App – Medieval Baghdad
#AssassinsCreed
Playing a video game (The Forgotten City) that portrays an ancient board game (Senet) which also has its own video game version (Senet: Households by @valuefnd.bsky.social)