Angus 'Doc Random' Mol
@docrandom.bsky.social
Research and other fun things at the intersection of past and play | Co-founder of the VALUE Foundation | Director at Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities | Seeking the bubble reputation.
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Tomorrow @apolitopoulos.bsky.social and @docrandom.bsky.social are back behind the streaming wheel with Europa Universalis V! Aris' brain will break, Angus will crunch, and history will be (re)played! Join us around 15:00 CET always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tomorrow @apolitopoulos.bsky.social and @docrandom.bsky.social are back behind the streaming wheel with Europa Universalis V! Aris' brain will break, Angus will crunch, and history will be (re)played! Join us around 15:00 CET always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast
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We (me and @docrandom.bsky.social) are back from Spiel 2025 and added A LOT of new games to the Ludic Lab of the @lucdh.bsky.social! Video soon to follow with all the games that are now available for research (and playing!) at our lab! #archaeogaming
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We (me and @docrandom.bsky.social) are back from Spiel 2025 and added A LOT of new games to the Ludic Lab of the @lucdh.bsky.social! Video soon to follow with all the games that are now available for research (and playing!) at our lab! #archaeogaming
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We are SO back! Game developer panel for #TIPC4 with Leyla, @wisproy.bsky.social, and @colewehrle.bsky.social to talk about the development of historical video games! Tune in over at www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast
October 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We are SO back! Game developer panel for #TIPC4 with Leyla, @wisproy.bsky.social, and @colewehrle.bsky.social to talk about the development of historical video games! Tune in over at www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast
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First up our own @docrandom.bsky.social, Csilla Ariese, and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social talk about their Past❤️Play project!
October 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
First up our own @docrandom.bsky.social, Csilla Ariese, and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social talk about their Past❤️Play project!
We're live with @amplitudestudios.bsky.social #EndlessLegend2 on twitch.tv/streamingthepast!
We'll be playing and talking about how a good fantasy is sometimes (always!) better than historical accuracy
We'll be playing and talking about how a good fantasy is sometimes (always!) better than historical accuracy
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September 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We're live with @amplitudestudios.bsky.social #EndlessLegend2 on twitch.tv/streamingthepast!
We'll be playing and talking about how a good fantasy is sometimes (always!) better than historical accuracy
We'll be playing and talking about how a good fantasy is sometimes (always!) better than historical accuracy
Past, Play, Pizza and Plucky, Perky, Professional, Phenomenal People, all coming together in Leiden from October 8-10. It's nearly TIPC time again!
Don't delay and register today!
Don't delay and register today!
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!
September 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Past, Play, Pizza and Plucky, Perky, Professional, Phenomenal People, all coming together in Leiden from October 8-10. It's nearly TIPC time again!
Don't delay and register today!
Don't delay and register today!
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Our session #archaeogaming (@archaeobasti.bsky.social, @docrandom.bsky.social, @archaeobruja.bsky.social and myself) for #CAA2025 has just started! Come find us in Room 3B of the Conference building!
May 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Our session #archaeogaming (@archaeobasti.bsky.social, @docrandom.bsky.social, @archaeobruja.bsky.social and myself) for #CAA2025 has just started! Come find us in Room 3B of the Conference building!
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Herald: Complete Edition is OUT NOW as part of #LudoNarraCon! Our high-seas narrative adventure represents almost a decade of work from our team, and we are thrilled to finally share it. We truly hope you find meaning in the story we've crafted.
#indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame
#indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame
May 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Herald: Complete Edition is OUT NOW as part of #LudoNarraCon! Our high-seas narrative adventure represents almost a decade of work from our team, and we are thrilled to finally share it. We truly hope you find meaning in the story we've crafted.
#indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame
#indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame
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Our house philosopher/anthropologist Raymond Corbey has been an inspiration to generations of Leiden MA and PhD students through his focus on epistemology.
It was great fun to edit a festschrift with wide-ranging contributions on archaeology 🏺, anthropology and philosophy with @shumon.bsky.social
It was great fun to edit a festschrift with wide-ranging contributions on archaeology 🏺, anthropology and philosophy with @shumon.bsky.social
OUT NOW!
Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy
Edited by Shumon T. Hussain and Gerrit L. Dusseldorp
📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at sidestone.com
#humanorigins #archaeology #antropology #evolution
Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy
Edited by Shumon T. Hussain and Gerrit L. Dusseldorp
📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at sidestone.com
#humanorigins #archaeology #antropology #evolution
March 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Our house philosopher/anthropologist Raymond Corbey has been an inspiration to generations of Leiden MA and PhD students through his focus on epistemology.
It was great fun to edit a festschrift with wide-ranging contributions on archaeology 🏺, anthropology and philosophy with @shumon.bsky.social
It was great fun to edit a festschrift with wide-ranging contributions on archaeology 🏺, anthropology and philosophy with @shumon.bsky.social
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Tomorrow morning myself and @docrandom.bsky.social are talking at #GDC2025 on Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun! If you are there and interested in history and games come by!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/avoi...
schedule.gdconf.com/session/avoi...
Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun
19th March, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am - Aiming for historical accuracy in games is a trap: history's answer to 'what really happened', is at...
schedule.gdconf.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tomorrow morning myself and @docrandom.bsky.social are talking at #GDC2025 on Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun! If you are there and interested in history and games come by!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/avoi...
schedule.gdconf.com/session/avoi...
This is the first time that a Steam sale has hit me where it hurts.
March 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This is the first time that a Steam sale has hit me where it hurts.
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As game Senet: Households is nearing 5000 downloads (what?!?!) we want to highlight the amazing dev team that work with us! In this thread you can check out their incredible work and follow them where you can!
You can download the game for free here store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...
You can download the game for free here store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...
Senet: Households on Steam
Prove you're blessed by the gods in this Online Multiplayer Ancient Egyptian Board Game.
store.steampowered.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
As game Senet: Households is nearing 5000 downloads (what?!?!) we want to highlight the amazing dev team that work with us! In this thread you can check out their incredible work and follow them where you can!
You can download the game for free here store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...
You can download the game for free here store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...
Our new game is out on Steam, right now!
Senet: Households has been waiting for millennia to be played especially by you and after all that time it's still completely free.
The game is the result of a wonderful collaboration with a superb student team from the Utrecht School of the Arts.
Senet: Households has been waiting for millennia to be played especially by you and after all that time it's still completely free.
The game is the result of a wonderful collaboration with a superb student team from the Utrecht School of the Arts.
We have some exciting news: The very first game published by VALUE! Senet: Households is a free to play digital adaptation of the Ancient Egyptian Strategy Board game Senet. Prove you're blessed by the gods by beating the Pharaoh! Download for free here: store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...
January 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Our new game is out on Steam, right now!
Senet: Households has been waiting for millennia to be played especially by you and after all that time it's still completely free.
The game is the result of a wonderful collaboration with a superb student team from the Utrecht School of the Arts.
Senet: Households has been waiting for millennia to be played especially by you and after all that time it's still completely free.
The game is the result of a wonderful collaboration with a superb student team from the Utrecht School of the Arts.
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We are very excited to announce The Interactive Pasts Conference 4!
Join us October 8-10 2025 at Leiden University for 3 days full of games and the past!
The #TIPC4 theme is The Fellowship of Past and Play & the Call for Papers is now open: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
CfP: deadline March 15
Join us October 8-10 2025 at Leiden University for 3 days full of games and the past!
The #TIPC4 theme is The Fellowship of Past and Play & the Call for Papers is now open: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
CfP: deadline March 15
December 16, 2024 at 4:56 PM
We are very excited to announce The Interactive Pasts Conference 4!
Join us October 8-10 2025 at Leiden University for 3 days full of games and the past!
The #TIPC4 theme is The Fellowship of Past and Play & the Call for Papers is now open: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
CfP: deadline March 15
Join us October 8-10 2025 at Leiden University for 3 days full of games and the past!
The #TIPC4 theme is The Fellowship of Past and Play & the Call for Papers is now open: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
CfP: deadline March 15
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@docrandom.bsky.social da @valuefnd.bsky.social comenta sobre como estamos presos jogando o passado - e como a arqueologia pode nos libertar.
@valuefnd.bsky.social's @docrandom.bsky.social tells us how we became stuck in past-play - and how archaeology can set us free #gtp #archaeogaming
@valuefnd.bsky.social's @docrandom.bsky.social tells us how we became stuck in past-play - and how archaeology can set us free #gtp #archaeogaming
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 PM
@docrandom.bsky.social da @valuefnd.bsky.social comenta sobre como estamos presos jogando o passado - e como a arqueologia pode nos libertar.
@valuefnd.bsky.social's @docrandom.bsky.social tells us how we became stuck in past-play - and how archaeology can set us free #gtp #archaeogaming
@valuefnd.bsky.social's @docrandom.bsky.social tells us how we became stuck in past-play - and how archaeology can set us free #gtp #archaeogaming
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This Wednesday, November 20, at 18:00 CET, we are headed for the umbral embrace of early 20th-century Warsaw! Join us in a history-meets-myth stream to see if The Thaumaturge can deliver! Always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast!
#archaeogaming
#archaeogaming
November 18, 2024 at 1:12 PM
This Wednesday, November 20, at 18:00 CET, we are headed for the umbral embrace of early 20th-century Warsaw! Join us in a history-meets-myth stream to see if The Thaumaturge can deliver! Always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast!
#archaeogaming
#archaeogaming
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CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM
CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Next week, our coordinator, Alex da Silva Martire, @docrandom.bsky.social , Maria Isabel D'Agostino Fleming and Carolina Machado Guedes will talk about digital archaeology during MAE-USP's 7th International Archaeology Week #gtp #archaeogaming
November 14, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Next week, our coordinator, Alex da Silva Martire, @docrandom.bsky.social , Maria Isabel D'Agostino Fleming and Carolina Machado Guedes will talk about digital archaeology during MAE-USP's 7th International Archaeology Week #gtp #archaeogaming
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Made a start on an archaeogaming starter pack - I'm sure I've missed people so please let me know if you'd like to join! I only included people who I think have explicitly referred to their work as being in the archaeogaming sphere at this stage.
go.bsky.app/VFEGikJ
go.bsky.app/VFEGikJ
November 10, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Made a start on an archaeogaming starter pack - I'm sure I've missed people so please let me know if you'd like to join! I only included people who I think have explicitly referred to their work as being in the archaeogaming sphere at this stage.
go.bsky.app/VFEGikJ
go.bsky.app/VFEGikJ
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Tonight, we're headed back into the past of Civilization by playing Civ4 and of #GameStudies #Civ scholarship from 2003: - Sybille Lammes's "Pleasure and Colonial Mastery in Civ3" - Kacper Pobłocki's "Becoming-state: the bio-cultural imperialism of Civ"
Live on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
Live on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
November 28, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Tonight, we're headed back into the past of Civilization by playing Civ4 and of #GameStudies #Civ scholarship from 2003: - Sybille Lammes's "Pleasure and Colonial Mastery in Civ3" - Kacper Pobłocki's "Becoming-state: the bio-cultural imperialism of Civ"
Live on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
Live on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...