Designing around medieval sources: a thought experiment
James Baillie In historical game studies, our usual mode of operation is analytical – looking at what games already do – or occasionally discussing our own personal bugbears in games, literal or…
October 2026
‘Playing the Irish Annals’: Narrative Agency and the Gamic Mode of History.
Vinicius Marino Carvalho Today I wish to talk about my upcoming game, Galar. It is visual novel about the memorialization of the Black Death in Late Medieval Ireland. It is divided into three…
“KAFLI 141”: An Interactive and Immersive Heritage Gamification Experience of the Acoustics of Lögberg, Þingvellir National Park (UNESCO World Heritage Site, Iceland)
Acoustic Heritage I. Framework Þingvellir, or “the plains of the assembly,” sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, one of the few places on Earth where you can walk between the North American and…
Keynote Address: Why we play the Middle Ages? A proposition for engaged thinking
Leandro Wallace I have changed the beginning of this piece several times by now. Events keep unfolding that matter when thinking about what is possible. At home a large and popular mobilization…
Possible Worlds and Possible Pasts: the Middle Ages in Modern Games
Tess Watterson Opening Address by Vinicius Marino Carvalho and Tess Watterson Welcome to the seventh Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! To those who have joined us before – thank you…