Rapid Archaeology in Death Stranding
December 8, 2019, will mark the one-month anniversary of the release of Death Stranding (Kojima Productions), and to commemorate it I wanted to write about the game’s “rapid archaeology” (my […]
Human Archaeology in Persistent Digital Spaces
Presented at TAG Syracuse Session 006, May 4, 2019. Below is the text-as-presented. Click HERE for the MP3 audio, which I pre-recorded (should you want to listen). My sincere thanks go […]
The Archaeology of Heaven’s Vault
Let’s get this out of the way first: Heaven’s Vault (inkle Studios, 16 April 2019, on Steam and PS4) is the best archaeological game I’ve ever played. It is also the best […]
Archaeology and Heaven’s Vault: An Interview with inkle’s Jon Ingold
Heaven’s Vault is a new, archaeological digital game (available Spring 2019 from inkle Studios) that breaks many boundaries in how archaeology and archaeologists have been portrayed. In the game, players: …uncover […]
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and Real Archaeology
Introduction Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey continues the franchise’s deep dive into Antiquity, featuring over 60 hours (so far, for me) of deep play in the Greek world of the 5th century […]
Mapping, Colonialism, and No Man’s Sky
Thanks to a thought-provoking email from my friend and colleague Florence Smith Nicholls, I wanted to explore the ideas of mapping and colonialism in No Man’s Sky, something I had […]
New Archaeology in No Man’s Sky: NEXT
I wonder if Hello Games was listening to the #archaeogaming hashtag on Twitter over the past year when they decided to include archaeology in No Man’s Sky: NEXT (v1.5). Granted the […]
Archaeology, Agency, and Ethics in No Man’s Sky
Over the next ten minutes or so, I will address how my mere presence in a digital space makes things happen in that space, how I have created an […]
Public Comments Open: Legacy Hub Archaeological Project
Following Martin Carver’s lead as outlined in his book Archaeological Investigation, I have created a project plan for the Legacy Hub Archaeological Project and am sharing it publicly for comment until […]
The Lost City of D: Archaeology in the Legacy Hub of No Man’s Sky
Climate change forced an entire civilization to evacuate to the stars. It’s the inspiration for the action in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 film Interstellar, but it also just happened here on […]
Human Geography, Synthetic Heritage
I recently met with Prof. Joshua Kirshner who teaches at the University of York and studies human geography. The purpose of my meeting was to see if there was anything […]
EAA: Epic Archaeogaming Achievement
The 2017 European Association for Archaeologists was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and the final morning hosted a session (#275) of 15 papers on archaeogaming, organized by L. Meghan Dennis, […]
Epic Fail: Archaeology Games for iPhone/iPad
Introduction If archaeologists want to contribute directly to making archaeology-themed games or games with archaeologists as the main characters, then I would recommend developing new titles for the massive mobile […]
No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey Code of Ethics
No Man’s Sky Archaeological Survey Code of Ethics NOTE (15 August 2016): Version 0.3 of the Code is now available to read here. Version 0.2 with contributions from Catherine Flick […]
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