#mamg24 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mamg24, aggregated by home.social.
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The Fifth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference was held on 4-7 June. Discussion is still live, and if you missed any of our papers, you can find all of them on our website. #MAMG24 #MedievalTwitter https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcements/programme-2024/
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Earlier today we had some wonderful papers in #MAMG24 in the session on 'Inclusivity, Exclusion and Dehumanisation'. Here's a short summary with some links for you to enjoy! Remember you can continue to engage with presenters after today, posting comments and questions 🎮
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Hello everyone! We know you are excited about the next session of our #MAMG24 event! Not much longer to wait, we are back at 12pm with 3 presentations on 'Rebellion, Networks and Law'
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And that's all for today's #MAMG24! We have one more great day of material to come, so do stay tuned, and do head over to join in the discussions on any of our papers - all are very welcome :)
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Oops! A changeover issue means we're rather late bringing you the papers from our Art History and Historiography #MAMG24 session, but there's some great stuff there and you can absolutely still head over and ask questions of the authors :)
Recap thread for this last panel of the day incoming!
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Now time for our second paper for this session: Andreas Kjeldsen from Stark Raving Sane Games ( @VerySRSGames ) exploring ‘Legal Disputes as a Game Mechanism in The Knight & the Maiden’ https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=349 #MAMG24
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Our next paper is live on the website now for the ‘Culture, Chronology and Fantasy’ panel, head to the link below to for Yujia (Flavia) Jin's paper, ‘Palimpsestic Fantoms in Assassin’s Creed: Revelation (2010) — A Reading on cooperation and conflict through encounters between Early Modernity and Medievalism’: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=282 #MAMG24
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We are about to begin another day of the Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference #MAMG24, we have a some fantastic papers lined up for you today, starting in just 10 minutes with our first panel at 9:00 (UTC+1): ‘Culture, Chronology and Fantasy’. You can find all of the papers from yesterday and the programme for today and tomorrow at our website: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/
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And that's all for today! Check in tomorrow for more lovely #MAMG24 papers, and thank you so much for reading through the things we've been posting today :)
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Our second paper of the session turns to strategy gaming, with Arthur Antonio Soares de Oliveira looking at Crusader Kings III's "Iberian Struggle" mechanic in 'The Iberian struggle as a structuralist representation of the Reconquista in Crusader Kings III', considering the role of agency and social structure it suggests in the game.
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And now for our final #MAMG24 session of the day, on Violence and Warfare in medievalist games!
Our first paper is Warriors of the Virtual Past: Unravelling Historical Conflicts in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla by Enrique Torres-Hergueta, looking at the role of othering and conflict in the game: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg24/warfare-and-violence/warriors-of-the-virtual-past-unravelling-historical-conflicts-in-assassins-creed-valhalla/
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In our third paper this session we have John Giebfried talking about using a "Reacting to the Past" game system in classrooms, giving players different roles around the Crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204 and using this to explore the different ideas and approaches around the topic with students.
Read on to find out more!
https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg24/roleplay-and-empathy/a-collaborative-crime-against-humanity-creating-the-siege-and-sack-of-constantinople-in-the-remaking-of-the-medieval-world-1204/ -
Our second full session of today is on Empathy and Roleplay!
In our first paper, 'Binary Dynamics in A Plague Tale: Innocence', Jéssica Bispo explores how the character of Hugo plays against or inverts characteristic binaries that are used in our modern views of medieval worlds.
You can hop over to our site not just to read the full piece but also to ask questions of Jéssica and other panelists in this session: do take a look!
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Thanks for checking out the above papers! This was our session on Field of Glory: Kingdoms, we'll be back in two hours with a session on Empathy and Roleplay featuring discussions of modelling medieval mentalities and social networks, handling medieval atrocities in teaching games, and more besides. See you then!
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Our next #MAMG24 conference session focuses on a game by our collaboration partner Slitherine Games, as we have some posts and info about the combinationof #GameDev and #History that went into their new game Field of Glory: Kingdoms!
Our first paper is an intro to the game and its approach to representing medieval history written by the developers. Do head over, have a read, and ask any questions you might have in the comments!
https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg24/field-of-glory-kingdoms/more-than-a-wargame-introducing-field-of-glory-kingdoms/ -
Our first keynote of #MAMG24 is on Medieval Borders in the Context of Video Games, by Juan Francisco Jiménez Alcázar of the Universidad de Murcia.
This talk covers some of the realities and ludic necessities behind how medieval borders are presented in gaming contexts, and why we end up coming back to the over-simplified lines on maps that we're often familiar with.
Check out the keynote video talk and text transcript here:
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First full day of our fifth online MAMG Conference is kicking off! Here's a reminder of what we have in store: