August | 2025 | Gaming the Past
1 post published by Jeremiah McCall during August 2025| Gaming the Past
1 post published by Jeremiah McCall during August 2025| Gaming the Past
For those of you following my posts on my Dawn of Cities prototype on LinkedIn or Blue Sky I plan to write this up along with a design document, but I wanted to sketch out the basic gameplay for th…| Gaming the Past
I was going to hold off on these until the book comes out next year, but there has been enough recent interest on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3lfkff3yow22a) that I decided to put my most recent rubrics up. Please share widely and credit me when you do so I can help more people get into powerful experiential and […]| Gaming the Past
In a flurry of posting productivity on Gaming the Past, I added a new project this morning. The prototype (still in need of work but playable) for Rhetoric and Revolution. This is a card game about…| Gaming the Past
JM’s Starting Note: This discussion began when I asked on the Historical Game Studies Facebook page for feedback on my most recent article expanding on and articulating the historical problem space…| Gaming the Past
I’m very pleased to share Paradox’s Educator’s Guide for Europa Universalis IV (that I wrote) is now available for all. EUIV is a challenging game & I spent considerable time breaking down exactly how I’d use it in history classes in hopes the many interested educators out there will give it a try. It’s a […]| Gaming the Past
Just posted the most recent prototype (A1.8) for Cursus Honorum, a Roman Republic political competition game in the form of a Roll-N-Write. Needs a few player markers (4 per person is fine) and dice but other than that, print out the player sheets and go to it! I have playtested it with student groups of […]| Gaming the Past
Just a quick reminder/introduction. The Historical Problem Space framework is a set of terms and concepts I’ve been developing over the past decade+ to help all intersections of educators and academics analyze historical video games in away that is holistic and recognizes that historical games are both functional as working computer programs (and, to a […]| Gaming the Past
Gaming the Past, Second Edition, is out with Routledge! I am so very grateful and excited to have had the chance to revise significantly and add to the first edition work that came out over a decade ago. If you’re interested in reading more about my bibliographical road to Gaming the Past First Edition and […]| Gaming the Past
Gaming the Past, Second Edition, is out today with Routledge! I am so very grateful and excited to have had the chance to revise significantly and add to the first edition work that came out over a decade ago. I thought perhaps it is a good time to reflect a little on my time and […]| Gaming the Past
I wrote this section on MCB games for the genre chapter Gaming the Past, Second Edition, but had to cut it for reasons of space. Just posting it here in case it’s of interest A somewhat more unique mobile genre is the Clash of Clans clear mobile genre (we’ll call “mobile civ games” for short) […]| Gaming the Past
This is the first in what will be a series of dialogues with game studies scholar Eugen Pfister. Like all GTP dialogues, we focus on discussing ideas as they seem to us rather than finely proofed e…| Gaming the Past
