By Shu Wan (University of Buffalo) In light of the persistence and prevalence of the exploitative perception of human-nature relations in RTS games, there is an urgent need to address…
By Emilienne Parchliniak (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) If Western games usually consist of an amalgamation of Christian stereotypical material perceived as medieval, many non-European games have appropriated the Middle Ages, drawing…
By Enrique Torres-Hergueta (University of Extremadura) Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy IX (2000) means a nostalgic tribute to earlier entries in the franchise and also a richly layered narrative artifact, as it…
By Benjamin Dorrington Redder (Ritsumeikan University) Fictionalisations of history within Japanese historical video games constitute a distinctive style of representing the Medieval past in contrast to the more commonly researched…
By Kristina Wittkamp (Universität Passau) Watch the presentation of the paper here: https://youtu.be/i1D6pzZ-3BA Computer games as an important part of our media-related participative environment enable audiences, players and prosumers (hybrid…
By Jessie Contour and Kelcey Gray (University of Texas at Austin) Illuminated manuscripts are celebrations of letterforms. So, too, is Dropcaps, a strategic word game with a medieval spirit. The…
By Baykar Demir (Istanbul Bilgi University) Introduction This paper explores how modern medievalist video games integrate art historical motifs to create immersive representations of the Middle Ages. By analyzing Kingdom…
Figure 1. Falcon in flight (CC Tony Hisgett, 2011) Early medieval law codes offer an excellent resource for inspiring and informing the settings of Tabletop Roleplay Games (TTRPGs). For several…
By James Baillie For this look at Field of Glory: Kingdoms, I’m going to take a brief look at how the game handles religion. For my examples, I’m going to…
By Juan Manuel Rubio Arevalo Field of Glory: Kingdoms presents a notably nuanced approach to interreligious relations in the Middle Ages—one that stands out among strategy titles. While medieval religiosity…
Shu Wan 
Emilienne Parchliniak 
Enrique Torres-Hergueta 
Benjamin Dorrington Redder 
Kristina Wittkamp 
Kelcey Gray 
Baykar Demir 
Thom Gobbitt 
James Baillie 
Juan Manuel Rubio Arevalo