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…
By Arturo Mariano Iannace Authority is a central concept in Field of Glory: Kingdoms. According to the game manual, Authority “represents the control the ruler has over his realm.” While…
By Robert Houghton (University of Winchester), AGEod, and Slitherine Field of Glory: Kingdoms is a marvelously deep and complex Grand Strategy Game set in the central Middle Ages and developed…
By Stevan Anastasoff (Independent Game Developer) https://youtu.be/W1H3DN-um6M Hello, I’m Stevan Anastasoff, and I’ve been making games of one sort or another professionally for most of the past three decades, but…
By Robert Houghton (University of Winchester) We’re back with the sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! We’ve got a busy three days ahead of us with written and…
Kristina Wittkamp 
Kelcey Gray 
Baykar Demir 
Thom Gobbitt 
James Baillie 
Juan Manuel Rubio Arevalo 
Arturo Mariano Iannace 
Rob Houghton 
Stevan Anastasoff