Heaven’s Vault
Early this year, Heaven’s Vault, a game that lets you play an archaeologist to uncover the past, will come out….
Archaeogaming
Archaeogaming is the archaeology of games. Usually it is concerned with videogames, but also analogue games are part of the discussion. Archaeogaming researches the depiction of archaeology within games as well as the use of archaeological methods in games.
Discussing Concepts of the Past in Computer and Video Games Pt. 2 – Learning!
Here I continue to describe and elaborate on our discussion about Concepts of the Past in Computer and Video Games,…
Discussing Concepts of the Past in Computer and Video Games Pt. 1 – The importance of authenticity!
This post belongs to the series discussing Jan Wieners‘ and mine course on archaeogaming. Last week, on 9th January, a…
Teaching Concepts of (Pre-)History in Computergames
Together with Jan Wieners (@docfnord on twitter) I teach a course on Video- & Computergames and Archaeology this semester. This…
Archaeogaming Series Pt. 2: What can an archaeologist learn from a computer game?
In this series of posts about Archaeogaming, I want to test in what capacity a AAA-game in a historical setting…