Exploring the archaeology in (and of) video games.
There are three major braids to archaeogaming: external, applied, and reflexive (hat-tip to Tara Copplestone for this elegant demarcation of the discipline). As she defines them: 1) external archaeogaming examines […]
The excavation of the “Atari Burial Ground” happened back in April 2014, and the team of archaeologists continues to write about it. Team member Bill Caraher blogged “Objects, Media, and […]
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 […]
Here is the third of three games that I wrote for the 2017 Heritage Jam, which falls on Open Access week. If you’re an artist and want to collaborate in […]
This is the second of three games that I’m giving away for the 2017 Heritage Jam and Open Access Week. I hope you enjoy playing, and if you’re an artist […]
In 2017 the Heritage Jam falls during the same time as Open Access Week, so I am making the three new games I designed available as CC0 (public domain), releasing […]
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, […]
What’s in a name? When I created the Archaeogaming blog and Twitter in 2013, I had a hard-and-fast definition for “archaeogaming”: the archaeology in (and of) video games. Over the […]
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 […]
There is a new Archaeogaming channel on YouTube, which launched on May 25, 2017. It currently features a 14-minute introductory video, “This is Archaeogaming,” which I made for The Interactive […]
0915 Hello, everyone! Yours truly has a press pass to the very first TriBeCa Games Festival! I will be live-blogging the sessions this morning, so refresh the page if you […]
The Talos Principle combines photorealistic settings of Rome/Ostia/Pompeii (and ancient Egypt and elsewhere) with diabolical puzzles and a plot chock full of ancient and modern philosophy, a debate of fate […]
AR (typically) stands for “augmented reality.” AR games blend the “real” and “virtual” worlds together. For example, Pókemon Go is a popular AR game that takes you into the “real” […]
I spent the past few days collecting all of the published archaeogaming scholarship I could find: articles, chapters, books that have to do with archaeology/history and digital/video games, with a […]
To continue the open (world) peer review of my archaeogaming PhD thesis at the University of York, I want to share my working bibliography. This is all the stuff I’ve […]
I had the chance to attend the “Game Studies at 20” panel discussion at New York University’s Game Center on February 16, 2017, featuring Janet Murray, Mary Flanagan, and Ian Bogost […]
