Temos o prazer de informar que o I CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE ARQUEOLOGIA DIGITAL está com inscrições abertas! Trabalhos sobre arqueologia e métodos digitais de pesquisadores em todos os estágios de suas carreiras são bem-vindos. Inscrições aqui: sinsc.furg.br/detalheseven...

We're happy to announce that submissions for the I BRAZILIAN CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY are now open! We welcome papers from scholars based anywhere in the world, at every level of their careers. Details on the link below: sinsc.furg.br/detalheseven...

Now playing: "Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War" I've seen my share of Cú Chulainns & Morrígans, but this is the first Díthorba I've come across in a game! @alexvandewalle.bsky.social and @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social: please, do a 2nd MythGames conference so I have an excuse to write abt it!

Sabe qual a diferença entre usar AI pra promover a luta da esquerda e usar AI pra combater os avanços da extrema direita? Nenhuma. Em ambos os casos você ta contribuindo pra precarização do mercado de trabalho, roubo de arte e ajudando empresa arrombada a gerar capital Não seja pangaré

Easy D. It includes the tip of Calabria (where my family's from & where the flavors I most associate with "home" come from), Levant and most of Japan (my second favourite cuisines after Italian)

Ingold's rules of narrative: - the universe must have a moral arc - plants always grow towards the light - mean people aren't interesting but nasty ones are - good people aren't interesting but kind ones are - every liar must be living a lie - every maze must have a minotaur

I made an artist meme.

Doce Fim's page is live! This is a game I've poured my heart and soul into. It's been my reason to live for 10 years. Featuring queer romantic and platonic love routes, a neurodivergent protag, and nearly 30 hours of gameplay. Pls wishlist!💝 s.team/a/3808270 #VNDev #jogosbr #indiedev #gamedev

We have a cover for Ancient Egypt in Video Games! Out either late 2025 or early 2026 - will post a link with contents once it’s up on the DeGruyter website. I’m very excited that this is soon out in the world!

Very true & it carries two dangerous implications: 1 - These projects get mobilized as a excuse *not* to care about systemic issues (mostly at a political, but sometimes also at the researcher/adopter level) 2- (Video)games *create* almost as many issues as they purport to solve.

Now playing 'Hellclock' from @hellclockgame.bsky.social , a fantasy take on the Canudos War. Flavor texts taken from primary/secondary sources, inc. Euclides da Cunha's "Rebellion in the Backlands" Props to Col. Moreira César, who is positively terrifying as the Beheader. #historygames

Absolutamente sensacional. E que bittersweet ouvi-lo falar se seu projeto vindouro (que presumo que teria sido Dreaming Machine) sabendo que não viria a terminá-lo. Parabéns à Sandra por trazer esse conteúdo à tona!

Le nouveau numéro des Annales est sorti sur @universitypress.cambridge.org Au programme, un numéro double consacré aux #animaux (pour la première fois dans l'histoire presque centenaire des #Annales). Bonne lecture et à bientôt pour une présentation détaillée ! ▶️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is a very thoughtful and beautifully written post & it made my day to have read it. That said, "They are just mountains and oceans; fixtures of the world you inhabit and traverse" Is *the* big problem #envhis begs us to avoid. 1/

Amigos do #archaeogaming, #historygames e #gamestudies: fiquem de olho! (Obs: estou focando em games porque esta é a minha sardinha; o congresso é aberto a métodos digitais na arqueologia como um todo)

Super interesting article about how questions of historical scope can be translated into game design & worldbuilding.

Great news for #historygames! I'm a fan of this game series, and knowing Chris is involved is just the icing on the cake!

Just finished this beautiful game. As the dad of an elderly cat, my heart wasn't prepared for the ending. Good thing weekend starts tomorrow. I'll need at least a day under my blanket to recover.

Eu detesto ser estraga-prazeres - sobretudo em redes sociais, que costumam eliminar qualquer nuance. Então, para ser o menos confrontativo possível, direi apenas: a questão é muito mais complicada. E precisamos ter estas complexidades em mente para que ecogames de fato funcionem 🧵

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

This is a really fascinating game with an unusual take on how we experience or play history - I recommend giving it a go!

After some technical hiccups (including a broken laptop), I'm happy to annouce the first prototype of my new game, 'Galar', is available for download! 🧵1/5 #historygames #gamingthepast #gamestudies #gamedev #archaeogaming

Chegou o game Cidadão de SP Simulator: Volume 2 O simulador de manchetes se aprofunda! Além de equilibrar os interesses de camadas da sociedade mais abastadas, você agora precisa navegar dois temas — a jornada 6x1 e as mudanças climáticas — sem perder seu emprego. ohdeerduo.itch.io/cidado-de-sp-2

Agora com card bonito!

After some technical hiccups (including a broken laptop), I'm happy to annouce the first prototype of my new game, 'Galar', is available for download! 🧵1/5 #historygames #gamingthepast #gamestudies #gamedev #archaeogaming

Having used both of Jeremiah's games on different occasions, I can vouch they make for great classroom activities. Also great for showing students that games don't need to be showy or expensive to be historically compelling.

Literary/translation studies. Specifically, I'd translate contempory Brazilian novels into Irish and vice-versa. Once academia inevitably spits me out, assuming I manage to become proficient enough in modern Gaeilge, I might as well try to make that dream into reality.

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace. It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate. They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

Someday people are going to look at 21st century marketing about the benefits of AI the way we now look at 1950s marketing about the benefits of cigarettes or early 1900s marketing about the benefits of radium exposure.

If you missed our Gender panel event on Tuesday, you can now watch the recording of this fantastic discussion here via our Youtube Channel! Featuring @verysrsgames.com @katexe.bsky.social @tesswatty.bsky.social & @ide4fix.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...

There are definitely unique aspects about videogames, but whenever I see questions about why aren’t they considered “mainstream” I think about how often my PhD research looking at board games in the 19th and early 20thC was described as “niche”, despite being a study of popular culture.

I mirror this view, with one caveat: it will -not- necessarily find an audience and it won't necessarily be a success, but if you made it because you want them to exist, at least you have the reward of having pulled these never-made things screaming out of the sea of ideas into reality.

Amigos! Aviso de publicación, ha salido el Séptimo Cuaderno de Game Studies: dspace.palermo.edu/ojs/index.ph... (English version of this thread will follow)

This happened to my grandparents. They refused to speak their own language at home, because in 1950s São Paulo it was considered 'proper' for immigrant families to assimilate at all costs. My mom had to relearn Italian later in life (and I never truly did).

I've recently been featured in NHK's Anime Manga Explosion, talking about Saint Seiya in Latin America. Only a tiny bit of interview made it into the cut, but it was a joy to talk to the team. I also helped a bit with the visual footage - pointing them to BR sources. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

I grew up on these streets

Practicas da Historia has an important CfP out on the political instrumentalisation of History which has a lot of scope for work on medievalism and/or games. As always, they accept papers in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French. Abstract deadline 17 Sep. praticasdahistoria.pt/radical-hist...

🌙 magical girl watcher ✨

The Irish Great Famine; “Gorta Mór” (Great hunger); “Drochshaol” (the bad times) is a defining disaster in Irish history. It’s the before and after of our understanding of our country. Generally accepted estimate is 1 million died, and millions fled, and the Irish population fell for generations 1/

New on the HGN blog: Gender panel guest speaker @katexe.bsky.social explores the widespread lack of engagement with “women’s histories” in historical video games, & discusses some examples that do represent women’s stories more meaningfully: www.historicalgames.net/womens-histo...

I could print this post & hang it on my wall. Savage and brilliant. I will *so* bring this up on future classes & viva exams. Probably paraphrasing, switching American references for Brazilian ones for added impact.

Que notícia excelente! Colegas cariocas, ou que estarão no Rio nos próximos meses: não deixem de prestigiar esse trabalho.

Nossos pesquisadores Alex Martire e Amanda Pina participaram do Gaia Cast, compartilhando suas experiências em ciberarqueologia e archaeogaming. Confiram: #archaeogaming #arqueologia #archaeology #gtp

sobre o q ta rolando o itchio (e após o que rolou no steam): internacionalizar o pix é uma questão fundamental pra salvar a arte

What a lovely bunch @midagesmodgames.bsky.social

There is a star and a star and a dangerous gravity

What Bob has written here (something that was clearly and understandably difficult) is hugely important. After years of the field of Historical Games Studies be either belittled or sneered at, there is a growing issue of other scholars now choosing to ignore it entirely so they can invent it.

Duas lições para os brasileiros dos #gamestudies: 1- Não confiem em livros recentes que se vendem como inauguradores de um campo. Temos já 20+ anos de produção, inclusive por vários brasileiros. 2- Não tente se passar por pioneiro ignorando colegas. Isto não acaba bem - para eles ou para você.

In what may be the oldest depiction of a gun an Irish manuscript - an ink drawing of a musket on a @nlireland.bsky.social charter from 1543 from the earl of Ormond to a Martin Potercelo granting property in Kilkenny. Potercelo is described as a 'gonn-' or gonner (gunner) in the grant.

This looks amazing!