The Middle Ages in Modern Games
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We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social.
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
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The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out!
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
MAMG25 Proceedings
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January 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out!
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.
#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
The Conference Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Asynchronous Conference on The Middle Ages in Modern Games are now out!
You can find these proceedings and the previous four volumes on our Previous Editions page: middleagesinmoderngames.net/previous-edi...
You can find these proceedings and the previous four volumes on our Previous Editions page: middleagesinmoderngames.net/previous-edi...
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
The Conference Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Asynchronous Conference on The Middle Ages in Modern Games are now out!
You can find these proceedings and the previous four volumes on our Previous Editions page: middleagesinmoderngames.net/previous-edi...
You can find these proceedings and the previous four volumes on our Previous Editions page: middleagesinmoderngames.net/previous-edi...
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Temos o prazer de anunciar nossa sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital, organizado pelo @archarise.bsky.social
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Temos o prazer de anunciar nossa sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital, organizado pelo @archarise.bsky.social
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
Reposted by The Middle Ages in Modern Games
We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social.
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social.
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
Temos o prazer de anunciar nossa sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital, organizado pelo @archarise.bsky.social
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Temos o prazer de anunciar nossa sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital, organizado pelo @archarise.bsky.social
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição!
#historygames #medievalsky
We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social.
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social.
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you!
#medievalsky
Our friend and contributor Stephen Yeager is one of the series editors for Media Before 1800 with Concordia Press - and they're looking for new book pitches. It may be of interest to some of our contributors:
www.concordia.ca/press/series...
www.concordia.ca/press/series...
Series | Concordia University Press - Concordia University
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September 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Our friend and contributor Stephen Yeager is one of the series editors for Media Before 1800 with Concordia Press - and they're looking for new book pitches. It may be of interest to some of our contributors:
www.concordia.ca/press/series...
www.concordia.ca/press/series...
There's still a couple of weeks left to get your abstracts in for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social strand next year! We how to see a lot of you there. Deadline 17 September.
The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
September 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
There's still a couple of weeks left to get your abstracts in for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social strand next year! We how to see a lot of you there. Deadline 17 September.
If you've been following us this year, you'll know all about DropCaps from Kelcey Gray and Jessie Contour. The game is out now on Google Play and the App Store and is well worth a look! www.dropcapsgame.com
Dropcaps Game
www.dropcapsgame.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If you've been following us this year, you'll know all about DropCaps from Kelcey Gray and Jessie Contour. The game is out now on Google Play and the App Store and is well worth a look! www.dropcapsgame.com
The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
August 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...
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In the last few weeks of writing this paper I've been inspired by the Middle Ages in Modern Games network (@midagesmodgames.bsky.social), who I met at @themamoconf.bsky.social. My paper is really the Ancient World in Medieval Games, but some methodologies are strikingly similar!
July 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In the last few weeks of writing this paper I've been inspired by the Middle Ages in Modern Games network (@midagesmodgames.bsky.social), who I met at @themamoconf.bsky.social. My paper is really the Ancient World in Medieval Games, but some methodologies are strikingly similar!
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Preparing my presentation for Thursday's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social session at #IMC2025. I'll be reflecting on the ocularcentric perspectives at the centre of Ubisoft's work on heritage as a way of legitimising historical representation in the AC games, by focusing on the Notre Dame fire of 2019.
July 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Preparing my presentation for Thursday's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social session at #IMC2025. I'll be reflecting on the ocularcentric perspectives at the centre of Ubisoft's work on heritage as a way of legitimising historical representation in the AC games, by focusing on the Notre Dame fire of 2019.
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Now this will be interesting
We’re delighted to be returning to the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds next week. We’ve got 20 papers in person and online spread over two days of the event, alongside a roundtable on medievalist games outside the Anglophone world.
July 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Now this will be interesting
We’re delighted to be returning to the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds next week. We’ve got 20 papers in person and online spread over two days of the event, alongside a roundtable on medievalist games outside the Anglophone world.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We’re delighted to be returning to the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds next week. We’ve got 20 papers in person and online spread over two days of the event, alongside a roundtable on medievalist games outside the Anglophone world.
That’s really all for this year! Thank you for joining #MAMG25, whether as speakers, participants, or both! The conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean you cannot go forward with reading all the awesome papers that have been delivered this year, and with asking more questions to their authors!
June 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
That’s really all for this year! Thank you for joining #MAMG25, whether as speakers, participants, or both! The conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean you cannot go forward with reading all the awesome papers that have been delivered this year, and with asking more questions to their authors!
Time for conclusions for #MAMG25! Please join us for the concluding remarks on this year ‘The Middle Ages in Modern Games’ conference, with Robert Houghton delivering them, by the title ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’. Read it here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=1065
middleagesinmoderngames.net
June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Time for conclusions for #MAMG25! Please join us for the concluding remarks on this year ‘The Middle Ages in Modern Games’ conference, with Robert Houghton delivering them, by the title ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’. Read it here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=1065
10 minutes to go before going forward with the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton on what the latest #MAMG25 has delivered to us! Join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’!
June 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
10 minutes to go before going forward with the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton on what the latest #MAMG25 has delivered to us! Join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’!
That was all for our last Keynote Lecture! But #MAMG25 is not over yet! We will take a break now, but please join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton, looking at what this year’s immersion in medievalist games has given us, and what it could give us in the future!
June 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That was all for our last Keynote Lecture! But #MAMG25 is not over yet! We will take a break now, but please join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton, looking at what this year’s immersion in medievalist games has given us, and what it could give us in the future!
The time for our second (and last) Keynote Lecture has come! William Chen speaks at #MAMG25 about ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Come read and ask your questions: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=900
middleagesinmoderngames.net
June 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The time for our second (and last) Keynote Lecture has come! William Chen speaks at #MAMG25 about ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Come read and ask your questions: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=900
Time for #MAMG25 last Keynote Lecture: William Chen will talk to us about the power of modding and the possibilities it offers with his paper ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Join us in 10 minutes!
June 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Time for #MAMG25 last Keynote Lecture: William Chen will talk to us about the power of modding and the possibilities it offers with his paper ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Join us in 10 minutes!
We have a slightly longer break now, then please join us again at 2pm (UTC+1) for our second keynote for #MAMG25, delivered by William Chen: ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government...'
June 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We have a slightly longer break now, then please join us again at 2pm (UTC+1) for our second keynote for #MAMG25, delivered by William Chen: ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government...'
That’s a wrap for the Globalism and Religion panel! Thank you so much to our presenters: Hirohito Tsuji, Ron Heckler, and Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo, and to everyone joining in with questions and comments! #MAMG25
June 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
That’s a wrap for the Globalism and Religion panel! Thank you so much to our presenters: Hirohito Tsuji, Ron Heckler, and Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo, and to everyone joining in with questions and comments! #MAMG25
Final paper for this #MAMG25 session on Globalism and Religion is ‘The Eternal Presence of Holy War: The Procedural Rhetoric of Jihad and Crusade in Total War: Medieval 2’, by Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo. Come read and ask your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=881
June 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Final paper for this #MAMG25 session on Globalism and Religion is ‘The Eternal Presence of Holy War: The Procedural Rhetoric of Jihad and Crusade in Total War: Medieval 2’, by Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo. Come read and ask your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=881
Next up is Ron Heckler’s ‘„Denn häufig haben sich auf seinem Wink und Befehl viele von ihnen von einer hohen Mauer hinunter gestürzt [...]“: Die Tradierung des mittelalterlichen Mythos der Nizari Ismailis in Narration und Gameplay in Assassin’s Creed’: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=981
June 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Next up is Ron Heckler’s ‘„Denn häufig haben sich auf seinem Wink und Befehl viele von ihnen von einer hohen Mauer hinunter gestürzt [...]“: Die Tradierung des mittelalterlichen Mythos der Nizari Ismailis in Narration und Gameplay in Assassin’s Creed’: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=981