Exploring the archaeology in (and of) video games.
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Archaeogaming is featured on today’s Motherboard, the science and technology portion of the Vice newsgroup online. Click here (or on the image above) to read the piece, written by Kathleen […]
Archaeogaming is featured on today’s Motherboard, the science and technology portion of the Vice newsgroup online. Click here (or on the image above) to read the piece, written by Kathleen Caulderwood.
UPDATE (8/14/15): Kotaku picked up the story and ran with it. Read more here.
The commentary on Kotaku and reddit is incredibly fascinating: what do people think archaeology is, and what can archaeology achieve? Is archaeogaming “real” archaeology? I’ll archive the comments for posting here, and will blog about how the Internet sees archaeologists, and what happens when something weird such as archaeogaming attains critical mass.
-Andrew Reinhard, Archaeogaming
Archaeogaming is a collective of gamers who are interested in applying archaeological methods while exploring game-worlds. We are interested in the evolution of gaming worlds and in the use of archaeology while in-game. Archaeogaming was founded by Andrew Reinhard on June 9, 2013.
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