Jonas R. (er/ihm)Sitting in an online talk by Oksana Ruchynska: Board games in the Northern Black Sea coast in Greco-Roman and medieval times.
It's part of the Cultural Heritage of Games Webinar series, which in turn is part of the GameTable COST Action.
Jonas RichterIf you know someone who might interested by GameTable in one of these countries, feel free to pass this on to them, and invite them to contact Éric Piette - details under: https://gametable.network/
GameTable is still missing members from 4 COST countries: Luxembourg, Latvia, Moldova, and Georgia.
We're also looking for members from Algeria, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Syria, & Tunisia.
GameTable is an interdisciplinary network using game AI to study and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of games.
If the Ludii general game system (https://ludii.games/) was better suited to include card games (they are working on it), then I'd already know what reconstructed rules I'd try to convert to Ludii to test them. Maybe I'll find other IT application ideas for my subjects in time.
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On the other hand the example given e.g. by archaeologist Walter Crist about a potential Roman game from the museum in Heerlen (Limburg), and testing a hypothesis with the help of a game AI, makes a lot of sense.
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A few days ago the COST action "Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage" had its kick-off meeting in Leiden, NL.
https://gametable.network/
While I believe in the potential of this network, I also see the threshold difficulty of getting the IT folks and the ones with backgrounds in cultural history (archaeology etc.) to collaborate. For instance, I'm not used to even consider AI approaches to my usually philological research on games.
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The website for the COST action "Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage" (GameTable) is freshly up and running:
https://gametable.network/
Jonas RichterCOST actions are trying to cover as many member countries as possible. We're especially looking forward for persons from
Montenegro, Armenia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia and Luxembourg.
If you know game scholars or stakeholders from all career stages across academia, industry, and heritage institutions, who might be interested, please pass this info on to them, particularly if they are from the countries listed above!
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Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage:
Have a look at the Memorandum of Understanding of this #GameStudies network at https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22145/ and if you'd like to join, now is a good time!
Sign up/log in to e-cost.eu and apply to join one or more working groups of this network.
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Today the research network Computational Techniques for Tabletop Games Heritage (GameTable) officially starts. It's a COST action (
https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22145/) aiming to create an interdisciplinary network concerned with methodologies and applications on how to use game AI to study, reconstruct, and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of games.
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