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Account for the Exilian (https://exilian.co.uk) community.

Find more of our stuff at our main website and forum, or on Mastodon at https://indiepocalypse.social/@Exilian.
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Announcing CODING MEDIEVAL WORLDS 6, our next workshop for historians and game developers! It'll be 20th-22nd February next year, and if you're an interested historian or dev we'd like to see you there!

Please share widely to friends, all questions welcome :)

#GameDev #Medieval
Coding Medieval Worlds 6: Manuscripts and Mechanics Call For Participants A workshop for historians & game developers: 20-22 Feb, 2026 A core challenge of making more interesting medieval worlds in game formats is sharing and building the different processes needed to create them. Historians and game developers have different ways of representing, exploring and constructing the material we get from medieval sources. How, then, should we approach this, and how can we share and synthesise our different methods? How do we take the particular affordances of games and engines and how do we develop mechanics and systems to best present historically inspired material in them? Coding Medieval Worlds 6 is a workshop and discussion forum for sharing developers’ and historians’ perspectives and finding solutions to these shared problems! When: Main Sessions 21th-22nd Feb 2026, 1pm — 8pm CET Evening Events 20th, 21st, 22nd Feb 8:30pm-10pm CET Where: Wherever you can connect to a video call! How to participate: Email exilian@exilian.co.uk or james.baillie@oeaw.ac.at by December 31st with your name and a sentence or two on your background and interest. We have a limit of around 40 people, half spaces for developers and half for academics (independent scholars, early career researchers, and hobbyist & indie developers are all welcome). We examine all applications and ensure places are available for scholars & developers from diverse & marginalised backgrounds. Do get in touch with any enquiries at the above email addresses. This workshop is a collaboration between Exilian and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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We've updated the look of our exilian.co.uk homepage for the first time in somewhat over a decade! There's also a new look for exilian.co.uk/articles.php with the same new theme. We hope you like the new look!

Thanks to SOTK for helping get this sorted :)
The exilian.co.uk homepage, in its new look, with a bookmark-like banner on the left, a cross-bar across the top of the page, and a layout of dark boxes with content across the middle of the page. The latest article shown is one of the site's Updates from the Forge newsletters: the colour scheme is different shades of blue, dark grey, cyan and navy.
August 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Happy feast day of Cyril & Methodius, everyone!

We celebrate their day every year as a non-denominational Feb 14 alternative of languages, learning, and books. Want to learn a new alphabet or tell a linguist you appreciate their work? Today's the day!

Find out more:
exilian.co.uk/forum/index....
Saints Cyril and Methodius, in an icon-stylised style. Cyril is on the left in a blue and yellow hooded robe, Methodius on the right wearing red & white and holding a book.
February 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Announcing our winter competition! Until Feb 9th do send us *any* creative response to the theme of ICEBOUND

Guest judges are @clioem.bsky.social and @goldkarattv.bsky.social: the prize is an ebook of Books & Bone donated by cosy SFF author Veo Corva!

Find out more:
exilian.co.uk/forum/index....
An old book print of frozen cliffs by a sea, with huge icicles and a distant sun in the background. A few small human figures can be seen on the right-hand side of the picture, under an ice shelf, making their way along the shoreline.
January 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM