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I am once again joined by friends for more @blakemanorgame.bsky.social - there's been so much good folklore and magical history to explore, it's a real delight to have more expert-y experts on! twitch.tv/ludohistory

STARTING NOW - we are playing more @blakemanorgame.bsky.social while chatting Irish folklore and occult history with @emmettaylor.bsky.social ! twitch.tv/ludohistory

I had a lovely time trying out @blakemanorgame.bsky.social with my friend @emmettaylor.bsky.social a couple weeks ago. So much, so, that we decided the party needed to continue with even more friends! So, three of us will be digging into the history and folklore of the game this Sat on Twitch & yt!

I've been on the clown train for #Silksong for ages, and now we finally get to start it! I'm terribly excited to dig in and do some history on that world! twitch.tv/ludohistory

Here be giants! Red and Blue are joining @ludohistory.bsky.social to check out the Indiana Jones game's new story expansion "Order of the Giants". (I bet it's height order lmaooooo) Jump in on twitch OR youtube! www.twitch.tv/ludohistory www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTTl...

Adam Bierstedt aka @ludohistory.bsky.social tells you the business about Scandinavian folk adventure Röki, complete with correct pronunciations and incidental historical detail! nebula.tv/videos/innue...

I love everything @giantsquidstudios.com and @awintory.bsky.social have put out over the years, and they drop their new game right on time for my birthday! I'm very excited to go surfing around! Come hang out! twitch.tv/ludohistory

I’m closing in on 2k followers (thanks!) so I think I should clarify what I mean in my profile when I say the fun dinosaur pictures I post are a form of art history (besides wanting to sound elitist or something). 🧵

"AI is garbage at all the work at doing history, so here's how you should start using it in the classroom." cmon, what are we even doing here??

Exciting HGN-Gender Theme News! On May 28th, our guest convenor @tesswatty.bsky.social will be livestreaming a play test of a new table top role playing game - World Weaver: Which Witch? - alongside a fantastic lineup of fellow researchers. Full details here: www.historicalgames.net/livestream-e...

Redeploying 2023 AP Survey for folks to re-take (or take for 1st time) We are collecting data about how & why people make & consume (or don’t) #TTRPG Actual Play media. This 10 minute survey is totally anonymous. Aggregated data will be shared with the community! More details: aub.ie/ttrpgsurvey

ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

putting that medieval studies degree to use by starting up *Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2*! And hoping it fixes some of the trouble from the first game .... twitch.tv/ludohistory

There's an awful lot of bad stuff happening right now, and I've been increasingly struggling with what good "entertainment" does. So this is less polished and more poetic than most of what I write, but it's my attempt to write my way through that feeling. ludohistory.com/2025/02/04/a...

Folklorists are really, *really* important - so many traditions we draw on today are only around due to their work. One of those collections needs help now!!

This week, I want to do a thread each day signal boosting creators of different groups, particularly those groups who are being targeted by government. Today, I would love to hear from Creators of Color. If you are a CoC and you have a project to push, PLEASE POST BELOW. Include link, please!

This sheep is divine, I will brook no criticism of it

2024 was a great year for historical game releases, but we love nothing more than arbitrary rankings! Check out the blog post, and read on for some other of my findings ludohistory.com/2025/01/21/t...

Hanging and tiering all the historical games of 2024 and handing out some extremely serious awards! twitch.tv/ludohistory

Huh. You love to see it (though I have some questions about what "acquire" means in this context)

Apologies for stream ending in catastrophic tech issues today. Working theory is that my modem picked the middle of stream to keel over and die, but I won't know for sure until Monday......

Starting now!!!

I'm very excited to start Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in just 2 hours! And by "start" I mean tour Marshall College's museum. Oh and @overlysarcastic.bsky.social will be there too! Come join at twitch.tv/ludohistory

OKAMI TWO REAL THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I'm so excited to start #IndianaJones this weekend. I mean, my first museum job was at the home of the "original" Indy, how could I not be? I just have to make it to Friday without spoilers.....

Indiana Jones out here like the Warhammer player who keeps buying new units without painting their backlog...

Holy crap there's a lot of digitized museum pieces in the new #indianajones game.... Indy needs to finish cataloging his current pieces before he starts digging up new ones!

This is another great project on what I've taken to calling "Vikingmania" - I love that there's so many projects in that umbrella starting up!

This is only just crossing my feed and GO FILL IT OUT NOW

I recently picked up a recording of the 1967 Boston Pops summer lineup. It's really good, but... they gave their rendition of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" the "shave and a haircut" stinger. Who does that???

@charlesgames.bsky.social has been responsible for several of my favorite historical games, and some of the ones most thoughtful about how we experience the past. so when they released a new game, I was thrilled - we're checking out *Velvet 89* today! twitch.tv/ludohistory

One of my dear friends has a new article out, you should all read it!

Ancient Egyptian blue faience bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Middle Kingdom, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... #Archaeology

Hi many, many new followers! I'm Adam, a museum curator who also does #historicalgames. This account is mostly for my channel Ludohistory, which does livestreams, blogs, and other history-media education. If you see this, say hi with your favorite historical art! I'll start, from my job #proofofcat

MERL hitting us with the classics, now I know this site is good

Huh... Every bathroom in this house is wild but that last one...... Wow.

As both a museum curator and a historical games scholar(-ish), this is such a relevant thread and I'm so sad the project didn't get funding - it would have been incredible.

that's a lotta books

Snug. ☺️ From April’s Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. archive.org/details/apri...

@inklestudios.bsky.social has once again made a game that is targeting me and me specifically. This time, it's a partnership with Google Arts and Culture! Read my review of *The Forever Labyrinth* here: ludohistory.com/2024/02/02/i...

I've been inactive here (oops, social media is hard) but it's been great to see more people following! It's great to have a little corner of media and history here!

I've spent the whole day working on a presentation about the Czechoslovak Legion for tomorrow's launch of Last Train Home. It's such a cool story, but oh boy my brain is not built for crunchy military history...

The first blogpost on our new website talks about museums and virtual exhibits! I look at "digitized" exhibits (like Matterport) and "born-digital" websites, arguing that the biggest challenges are related to readability and image resolution! read more at ludohistory.com/2023/11/23/s...

WE HAVE A WEBSITE! I'm super happy to launch a site to help expand our goals of looking at history in media and let everyone keep up to date! And, you get extra medieval marginalia to boot! And we have a blog! check it out at ludohistory.com

Only one day to #ACMirage, and I just... I gotta ask - where's the rest of the city?? It's almost totally inconsequential as far as the history behind the game goes, but there's a lot of city east of the Tigris that I wanted to explore!

Some good friends are behind this conference and trust me, it's well worth your time!

I've spent most of my free time the last month reading up on the 'Abbasids and the crises of the late 3rd c. AH, and it's almost time to put that knowledge to work! 1 week left until we take on the new Assassin's Creed game #ACMirage - hope to see you there!

Finished Blasphemous II tonight on stream, and got hit by Surprise Gnosticism (TM). I wasn't really expecting that, given its other historical influences, but it does cement that I probably need to make something about Gnosticism's impact in modern media.....