Doni
@doni.bsky.social
Games and History, History and Games, History Games, Games History, Games for Change, Games with Purpose, (ex) Games Industry, Game Design, Game Production, Game Quality.
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come hang out with us tomorrow! we'll be discussing digital drip and (inevitably) talking shit about dress to impress 🕺
Tune in this Thursday to talk all about style, garments, and fashion as we ask the question; What's the game with the sickest fashion? We'll go live at 15:00, as always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
come hang out with us tomorrow! we'll be discussing digital drip and (inevitably) talking shit about dress to impress 🕺
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hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
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I'm keynoting the Animex Symposium next week! My talk is titled "The promises and pitfalls of posthuman and postanthropocene games". It currently consists of a series of bleak, existential questions. And some pics. What more could you ask for?! #GameCultures #NetZero
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
Animex Symposium on Game Cultures and Net Zero
We're seeking submissions for proposals for 20-minute conference presentations from across the fields of animation, VFX and games.
www.tees.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm keynoting the Animex Symposium next week! My talk is titled "The promises and pitfalls of posthuman and postanthropocene games". It currently consists of a series of bleak, existential questions. And some pics. What more could you ask for?! #GameCultures #NetZero
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
www.tees.ac.uk/minisites/an...
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At some point I’ll do a thread that overviews the chapters in more detail, so watch this space. But for now, it is going to be an affordable(?!) academic textbook, and please ask your library to buy one!!
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
At some point I’ll do a thread that overviews the chapters in more detail, so watch this space. But for now, it is going to be an affordable(?!) academic textbook, and please ask your library to buy one!!
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@tesswatty.bsky.social @murthynikhil.bsky.social @poppywilde.bsky.social @alexvandewalle.bsky.social @edvollans.bsky.social @times-new-roman.bsky.social @copperkeerthi.bsky.social & more not on BlueSky.
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I am so grateful to my co-editors (& my @historygamesnet.bsky.social co-conspirators & friends) @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social for being in this with me. And our contributors are such a stellar lineup, too: @hollynielsen.bsky.social @robehoughton.bsky.social @writegameread.bsky.social +
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I am so grateful to my co-editors (& my @historygamesnet.bsky.social co-conspirators & friends) @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social for being in this with me. And our contributors are such a stellar lineup, too: @hollynielsen.bsky.social @robehoughton.bsky.social @writegameread.bsky.social +
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The book, really, is designed to be a starting point: a textbook that introduces students (and anyone else who’s keen, too) to a range of frameworks and lenses for studying history and games. It draws on academic researchers and game makers to explore key areas in theory and practice.
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The book, really, is designed to be a starting point: a textbook that introduces students (and anyone else who’s keen, too) to a range of frameworks and lenses for studying history and games. It draws on academic researchers and game makers to explore key areas in theory and practice.
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A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network
Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...
www.historicalgames.net
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...
#gamestudies #gamingthepast
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As part of our reboot of the @videogamecultures.bsky.social conference series, we have our first book coming out, of papers from the 2023 conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. It should appear in the wild on 6 November. Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...
Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures @ Sidestone Press
This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary col...
www.sidestone.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As part of our reboot of the @videogamecultures.bsky.social conference series, we have our first book coming out, of papers from the 2023 conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. It should appear in the wild on 6 November. Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...
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I’m over here trying to enjoy PSLF and this comes across my screen. Sigh. IGN claims his classes are “a world first.” FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, EVERYONE!!!! NEVER BEEN DONE BY ANYONE EVER!!!!
Meanwhile, I and many others have been doing this for a decade or more.
Meanwhile, I and many others have been doing this for a decade or more.
University of Tennessee students will have the chance to study up on the Grand Theft Auto franchise in 2026. The class will be led by history professor Tore Olsson, the same educator that taught a Red Dead Redemption class in 2021. bit.ly/47StbPi
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’m over here trying to enjoy PSLF and this comes across my screen. Sigh. IGN claims his classes are “a world first.” FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, EVERYONE!!!! NEVER BEEN DONE BY ANYONE EVER!!!!
Meanwhile, I and many others have been doing this for a decade or more.
Meanwhile, I and many others have been doing this for a decade or more.
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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
#historygames #gamingthepast #gamestudies #gamedev #archaeogaming
Galar (Chapter 1) by Vinicius Marino
An ecological VN about the plague in Ireland
v-marino.itch.io
August 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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
#historygames #gamingthepast #gamestudies #gamedev #archaeogaming
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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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...
Historical Games Network Discussion Panel: Gender (29th July 2025)
YouTube video by Historical Games Network
www.youtube.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtP3...
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Maybe, I just clicked on the "Release Demo" button for The Abbess Garden and maybe you can play it now 😱
store.steampowered.com/app/3873090/...
(it's a cozy and historical gardening game ;) )
#indiedev #cozygame #gamedev
store.steampowered.com/app/3873090/...
(it's a cozy and historical gardening game ;) )
#indiedev #cozygame #gamedev
July 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Maybe, I just clicked on the "Release Demo" button for The Abbess Garden and maybe you can play it now 😱
store.steampowered.com/app/3873090/...
(it's a cozy and historical gardening game ;) )
#indiedev #cozygame #gamedev
store.steampowered.com/app/3873090/...
(it's a cozy and historical gardening game ;) )
#indiedev #cozygame #gamedev
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Wrong tag! It was in fact the wonderful @ide4fix.bsky.social who was part of the discussion.
Fantastic discussion of gender and historical games with @leandrowallace.bsky.social , @verysrsgames.com and @tesswatty.bsky.social this afternoon, thanks very much to @historygamesnet.bsky.social for hosting us and everyone who came and participated!
July 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wrong tag! It was in fact the wonderful @ide4fix.bsky.social who was part of the discussion.
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Fantastic discussion of gender and historical games with @leandrowallace.bsky.social , @verysrsgames.com and @tesswatty.bsky.social this afternoon, thanks very much to @historygamesnet.bsky.social for hosting us and everyone who came and participated!
July 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fantastic discussion of gender and historical games with @leandrowallace.bsky.social , @verysrsgames.com and @tesswatty.bsky.social this afternoon, thanks very much to @historygamesnet.bsky.social for hosting us and everyone who came and participated!
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Apropos the recent RDR2-adjacent *discourse*, @readdead.com’s work is a phenomenally in depth consideration of RDR2’s literary, cultural & historical contexts. You should check it out, incl. this hugely valuable demographic assessment of all significant characters (1/2)
readdead.com/2025/07/02/r...
readdead.com/2025/07/02/r...
RDR2 Demographic Data
An overview of race, gender, and disability in RDR2.
readdead.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Apropos the recent RDR2-adjacent *discourse*, @readdead.com’s work is a phenomenally in depth consideration of RDR2’s literary, cultural & historical contexts. You should check it out, incl. this hugely valuable demographic assessment of all significant characters (1/2)
readdead.com/2025/07/02/r...
readdead.com/2025/07/02/r...
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New blog post! Our final panelist for this afternoon's Gender theme, Leandro Wallace reflects on how we think about and engage with gendered play spaces in and around video games, and what we can do to create welcoming and diverse ones:
www.historicalgames.net/what-we-play/
www.historicalgames.net/what-we-play/
What we play: Chatting about History, Gender, and Videogames | Historical Games Network
Videogames offer us the possibility to create spaces to enjoy and engage with in ways that approach the past visually and interactively. We can play with history, and we can play to do history. But pl...
www.historicalgames.net
July 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New blog post! Our final panelist for this afternoon's Gender theme, Leandro Wallace reflects on how we think about and engage with gendered play spaces in and around video games, and what we can do to create welcoming and diverse ones:
www.historicalgames.net/what-we-play/
www.historicalgames.net/what-we-play/
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Last call for our exciting online panel discussion with experts on history, games and gender! 16:00 UK time >>today<<.
One week to go until our Gender discussion panel! Find out more & sign up here 👇
www.historicalgames.net/gender/
www.historicalgames.net/gender/
Gender | Historical Games Network
Event details Date 29 July 2025 Time 16:00-17:30 UK time Location Virtual (Teams) | Speakers Kate Cook, Andreas Kjeldsen and Leandro Wallace [Chair: Tess Watterson] Register for the event via TicketTa...
www.historicalgames.net
July 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Last call for our exciting online panel discussion with experts on history, games and gender! 16:00 UK time >>today<<.
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Featuring
@inkle.co 's Expelled!,
@shaunaitcheson.bsky.social 's The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, and @jesawyer.bsky.social 's Pentiment. All briefly, but hopefully will spark some discussion in our HGN panel on Gender, coming Tuesday! More and register here: www.historicalgames.net/gender/
@inkle.co 's Expelled!,
@shaunaitcheson.bsky.social 's The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, and @jesawyer.bsky.social 's Pentiment. All briefly, but hopefully will spark some discussion in our HGN panel on Gender, coming Tuesday! More and register here: www.historicalgames.net/gender/
Gender | Historical Games Network
Event details Date 29 July 2025 Time 16:00-17:30 UK time Location Virtual (Teams) | Speakers Kate Cook, Andreas Kjeldsen and Leandro Wallace [Chair: Tess Watterson] Register for the event via TicketTa...
www.historicalgames.net
July 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Featuring
@inkle.co 's Expelled!,
@shaunaitcheson.bsky.social 's The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, and @jesawyer.bsky.social 's Pentiment. All briefly, but hopefully will spark some discussion in our HGN panel on Gender, coming Tuesday! More and register here: www.historicalgames.net/gender/
@inkle.co 's Expelled!,
@shaunaitcheson.bsky.social 's The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, and @jesawyer.bsky.social 's Pentiment. All briefly, but hopefully will spark some discussion in our HGN panel on Gender, coming Tuesday! More and register here: www.historicalgames.net/gender/
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If I do say so myself, a brilliant lineup of speakers to chat about video games, fantasy, history and conflict in Edinburgh this September! Online and in person (and free!!) 👇🎮 @historygamesnet.bsky.social
@chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
@chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
Very much looking forwards to taking part in this panel with @enwright.bsky.social, Fruzsina Pittner, & Mimi Markham at @royalsoced.bsky.social's Curious Festival in September!
rse.org.uk/event/unreal...
rse.org.uk/event/unreal...
Unreal pasts, playful presents: history and fantasy in games and media
Can video games help us understand history, or do they distort it? This hybrid event explores how games and media can mix real and imagined pasts to shape how we see history today.
rse.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
If I do say so myself, a brilliant lineup of speakers to chat about video games, fantasy, history and conflict in Edinburgh this September! Online and in person (and free!!) 👇🎮 @historygamesnet.bsky.social
@chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
@chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org
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I've created a basic prototype based on memory benches and their embodied human stories.
Benches are symbols of remembrance, but often they can be desecrated or fall into disrepair.
I'm hoping to create a contemplative experience to highlight discussions of humanity, preservation, and dignity.
Benches are symbols of remembrance, but often they can be desecrated or fall into disrepair.
I'm hoping to create a contemplative experience to highlight discussions of humanity, preservation, and dignity.
July 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I've created a basic prototype based on memory benches and their embodied human stories.
Benches are symbols of remembrance, but often they can be desecrated or fall into disrepair.
I'm hoping to create a contemplative experience to highlight discussions of humanity, preservation, and dignity.
Benches are symbols of remembrance, but often they can be desecrated or fall into disrepair.
I'm hoping to create a contemplative experience to highlight discussions of humanity, preservation, and dignity.
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I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!
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...
www.historicalgames.net/womens-histo...
Women’s Histories in Historical Games | Historical Games Network
There are staggering problems with historical games’ representation of women. Based on an analysis of games with identifiable protagonists from the HistoriaGames database, less than 7% of historical g...
www.historicalgames.net
July 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!
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One week to go until our Gender discussion panel! Find out more & sign up here 👇
www.historicalgames.net/gender/
www.historicalgames.net/gender/
Gender | Historical Games Network
Event details Date 29 July 2025 Time 16:00-17:30 UK time Location Virtual (Teams) | Speakers Kate Cook, Andreas Kjeldsen and Leandro Wallace [Chair: Tess Watterson] Register for the event via TicketTa...
www.historicalgames.net
July 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
One week to go until our Gender discussion panel! Find out more & sign up here 👇
www.historicalgames.net/gender/
www.historicalgames.net/gender/
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I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...
www.historyrespawned.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.