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My most recent paper on historical agency & games is available in open access!
It deals with environmental studies, posthumanism, fantasy, the 'ontological turn' in the philosophy of history & my upcoming video-game, Galar.
Quick thread on the contents ๐งต1/6
#gamestudies #gtp
Thanks so much for having me on, @lexie-henning.bsky.social! Really enjoyed talking games, Classics, and academia on the Ancient Office Hours podcast ๐๐ฎ
Thanks, Jeremiah! Looking forward to discussing it!
Stoked to have this article see the light of day next year! Covering a large variety of examples (from AC to Elden Ring, WoW, Pokemon, & many more), @egarcmol.bsky.social and I conceptualize the interplay between inscriptions and games as a tripartite encounter: epigraphy in, of, and as games.
En esta ocasiรณn, Samuel Carreรฑo nos presenta el trabajo sobre recepciรณn clรกsica en creaciรณn de mundos secundarios en videojuegos que ha realizado en su estancia con @alexvandewalle.bsky.social , quien ha presentado su investigaciรณn sobre caracterizaciรณn en videojuegos ambientados en el mundo antiguo
White chalk on a blackboard: "Beware the Ides of March..."
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Ah thanks Stefano, that's very kind! & Yes, will definitely do that! Looking forward to reading it ๐
Congratulations! ๐
Was reading @alexvandewalle.bsky.social article (finally doing some reading now that the book is done, Alex!) on dev influences for Hades, Apotheon, and this and thought it looked neat and deserved a repost. @polygontreehouse.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/2000210/...
You can pet the dog in God of War Sons of Sparta @canyoupetthedog.com
Not on my bingo list โคต๏ธ
A ground-breaking mix of brutal history and cyberpunk! Tiberpunk: Streets of Rome is a new competitive strategy game with a unique Roman Cyberpunk setting. TIBERPUNK โ STREETS OF โขROME ยซ A UNIQUE ROMAN CYBERPUNK SETTING LIVE NOW ON KIGKSTARTER
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โPlease enjoy the museumโ:
Relooted is OUT NOW!
Please share!
Taught the intro class of our classical reception course today! We covered the field's history, reception mechanisms, & critical ancient world studies. They seemed to be most engaged when discussing God of War, Roman Empire TikTok, accuracy, and the aesthetics of AI reels. Excited for the semester!
Sisyphean gaming reception continues with Imagine Sisyphus Happy, an idle clicker where Sisyphus livestreams his trial. A mixture of the rise-and-grind mindset and cynical, cyclical online content creation, Sisyphus has found a resurgence digitally. Oh yeah and Thucydides is in the livestream.
One of my favorite artists, ILLENIUM, just dropped a new album called 'ODYSSEY'. Nothing distinctly Homeric about it, but it does give the listening experience a certain fantastical flair ๐
Next week Tuesday is coming as fast as Nomali can snap her fingers! Just under a week to go until Relooted launches!
#indiegame
A new collection added to Exhibit:Play ๐
Deciphering Languages
Featuring games from @inkle.co, @rundisc.bsky.social, @kevindu.itch.io, @playismen.bsky.social @lizardrydev.bsky.social and more.
11 games in total and always on the lookout for more.
This Saturday, I'll be presenting at this year's Hitpoints & History conference! My talk is focused on standardized temporalities in games, and how challenges to such ideas of time can lead to new experiences, or active critiques, of mythology.
More information at www.hitpointscon.com!
This Call for Papers may be of interest to a lot of you:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The more I play Dawn of Ragnarรถk, the more I think that this is the spiritual successor to Immortals Fenyx Rising. IFR's sequel might have been cancelled, but if you want to explore (or fly in!) a mythic open world, solve puzzles, find scattered myths, and avert a cosmic threat, DoR is right there.
Yes, there are definitely some interesting choices in their retelling!
Had never played AC Valhalla's Dawn of Ragnarรถk DLC before now, but I like the "Mythical Memories" spread across Svartalfheim. They're a nice way to establish the game's Norse mythography without relegating the stories to a Codex menu, but by actively embedding them in exploration and gameplay.
Interesting video essay by @thehiddenoneyt.bsky.social, offering a survey of current discussions & polemic/toxic fan practices in the Assassin's Creed community, calling for more actual conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C1A...
Title section of a journal article: The Legend of Ea-Nasir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme. By Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/view/30204 https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30204
Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nฤแนฃir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. ๐บ
Cover of a book with a woman in purple standing in front of a TV camera, looking up. It is a shot from the show HBO Rome. The cover says: Audio-Visual Roman Women: Gender, History and Sceen Media. Facing it is the first page of a chapter: "Chapter 16: An Expedition Into Agency: The Portrayal of Roman Women in Expeditions: Rome"
Publication Day! Very pleased to see 'Audio-visual Roman Women: Gender, History and Screen Media' come out today, complete with my chapter on the agency of the female protagonist in Expeditions Rome.
Open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
I had a great time discussing how Greek myth has become a standard, primary reference point for mythological projects - thanks so much for having me, Lexie, and thanks to everyone who was in the room!
Haha, nice catch!
Isn't gonna stay up for that much longer! (i-is that not acceptable anymore on Jan 7? ๐)
Snow day means cozy work-from-home day!
