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Pmoging Internet Research Skills

(cross-posted from Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research) This is a game you play while browsing the internet, going about your daily internet related tasks… think webquest with mines, treasure chests, and quests. You play the game by adding an extension to your Firefox browser. This browser lets you ‘sense’ the game world, [...]

Revolution: A Historical Simulation of Colonial America

( Games andSimulation andTheory )

The decisions we make when we try to simulate an historical period – especially in a video game – are only part of the ‘rhetoric’ that playing the game embodies. If we are making the game from scratch, like our game set during the Montreal Plague of 1885, we can control that rhetoric from the [...]

Theory & Practice

We have posted a ‘white paper’, a discussion piece concerning the Theory & Practice of History Simulation, over on the ‘Theory & Practice‘ page. We’d appreciate any discussion or comments you might have!