Jeremiah McCall

Hi friends
Got email from interested & excited in-my-work academic and educator (saw Beyond Solitaire Podcast). Love these!
I may or may'nt be many things, but my claim to be authentic is demonstrably true. I'll happily go to great length to share my work & help you. (resource🧵)
#gamingthepast

To that end.
Of course, check out https://gamingthepast.net/. I assume at 16 years old it is the longest lasting website on historical games in the classroom and beyond. It's been a repository of my work, formal and musing, for 16 years so a lot's there, all free, a fair amount of, I've heard, useful.

But breaking it down by your interests.
Historical Problem Space Framework for historical game analysis whether a historical game studies scholar or a history educator. I've got a whole up to date section with 14 years of HPS. https://gamingthepast.net/theory-practice/the-historical-problem-space-framework-for-game-analysis/

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Gaming the Past

historical games in the classroom and beyond

Gaming the Past
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Show threadJeremiah McCallFeb 8

A massive historical games studies bibliography in and out of the classroom. Olympus help me! I typed this all in by hand and still maintain it that way and don't see a likely future where I will sacrifice time to Zotero it. It is pretty up to date to about a year and a half ago. https://gamingthepast.net/theory-practice/bibliography/

Don't forget with GTP biblio
I do not gatekeep. If you have written/videoed/podcasted relevant work just send me
1) A Bibl entry for it that is formatted to match the housestyle I have
2) Existing or new category(ies) it belongs to.
And I'll put it in. I just don't have time to do #1 and #2

Work on Choice-Based Text and Parser Text in history.
First and most important, my student (mostly 9th & 10th gr. ancient & modern world history) exemplar Twine works stretching back almost 10 years. These get better&better as my teaching & guiding improves
https://gamingthepast.net/simulation-design/twine-interactive-fiction-tool/choice-based-interactive-histories-online/ccds-student-designed-histories/

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Bibliography on History and Games, and History and Games in Education

Topics Historical Games in Formal and Informal History Education  Historical Games and History / Historical Games as History  Designer Studies, Factors that Influence Design, and Producti…

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Show threadJeremiah McCallFeb 8

My worked example of a choice-based text as academic history of a different sort. The Path of Honors Project (not to be confused with my freely available Roll and Write boardgame prototype with the same name). There are also some blog posts and an article there too https://gamingthepast.net/simulation-design/twine-interactive-fiction-tool/choice-based-interactive-histories-online/path-of-honors-project/

And don't forget the historical boardgame prototypes I have designed for my classes. They are print and play so that you can use them in your classes. All I ask is that you give me whatever feedback you can -- I really, really want playtest feedback so I can improve them. https://gamingthepast.net/tabletop/jeremiahs-prototypes/

And how could we forget the rubrics for student designed researched historical boardgames and choice-based Twine texts?
https://gamingthepast.net/tabletop/rubric-for-historical-boardgame-projects/

https://gamingthepast.net/simulation-design/twine-interactive-fiction-tool/twine-rubric-for-interactive-history-projects/

And also, the six podcasts I hosted and recorded, interviewing historical game designers, Gaming the Past Designer Talks
https://gamingthepast.net/theory-practice/gaming-the-past-designer-talks-podcast/

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Path of Honors Project

Path of Honors is an experimental interactive history that I am designing in bits and pieces. The plan is to model an aristocratic Roman as he played the game of politics and sought to win election…

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Show threadJeremiah McCallFeb 8
Still more, not least of all rantings from 16 years of sporadic blog-posting.
So give my site a try. & if you have it in you, please send me a note w/ your critique, or how something made you think, or an idea you'd like help with. That's exactly why I do what I do. I'm a teacher.
Go get 'em!
https://gamingthepast.net/
Gaming the Past

historical games in the classroom and beyond

Gaming the Past