Angus 'Doc Random' Mol

Our session #archaeogaming (@archaeobasti.bsky.social, @docrandom.bsky.social, @archaeobruja.bsky.social and myself) for #CAA2025 has just started! Come find us in Room 3B of the Conference building!

Major congratulations on this epic achievement to everyone who helped sail the Herald home. I'm really looking forward to playing through the entire adventure!

Herald: Complete Edition is OUT NOW as part of #LudoNarraCon! Our high-seas narrative adventure represents almost a decade of work from our team, and we are thrilled to finally share it. We truly hope you find meaning in the story we've crafted.

#indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame

Our house philosopher/anthropologist Raymond Corbey has been an inspiration to generations of Leiden MA and PhD students through his focus on epistemology.

It was great fun to edit a festschrift with wide-ranging contributions on archaeology 🏺, anthropology and philosophy with @shumon.bsky.social

That's an awesome board! If you're having fun playing with that bit of the past it is absolutely the same thing!

We'll certainly be working on a public version as well, but also happy to get in touch right now.

Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun 19th March, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am - Aiming for historical accuracy in games is a trap: history's answer to 'what really happened', is at...

Tomorrow morning myself and @docrandom.bsky.social are talking at #GDC2025 on Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun! If you are there and interested in history and games come by!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/avoi...

Steam sale notification, saying "On sale from your wishlist: Europa"

This is the first time that a Steam sale has hit me where it hurts.

Senet: Households on Steam Prove you're blessed by the gods in this Online Multiplayer Ancient Egyptian Board Game.

As game Senet: Households is nearing 5000 downloads (what?!?!) we want to highlight the amazing dev team that work with us! In this thread you can check out their incredible work and follow them where you can!
You can download the game for free here store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...

Our new game is out on Steam, right now!
Senet: Households has been waiting for millennia to be played especially by you and after all that time it's still completely free.

The game is the result of a wonderful collaboration with a superb student team from the Utrecht School of the Arts.

We are very excited to announce The Interactive Pasts Conference 4!
Join us October 8-10 2025 at Leiden University for 3 days full of games and the past!
The #TIPC4 theme is The Fellowship of Past and Play & the Call for Papers is now open: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
CfP: deadline March 15

Professor Angus Mol fala atrás de um púlpito. Seu slide diz "Arqueologia mostra que outro caminho foi e é possível"

Professor Angus Mol discursa atrás de um púlpito. Seu slide mostra um coração partido, representando patrimônio e atos lúdicos malquistos, restaurados em um coração pleno pela iniciativa "Past, Love and Play"

@docrandom.bsky.social da @valuefnd.bsky.social comenta sobre como estamos presos jogando o passado - e como a arqueologia pode nos libertar.

@valuefnd.bsky.social's @docrandom.bsky.social tells us how we became stuck in past-play - and how archaeology can set us free #gtp #archaeogaming

This Wednesday, November 20, at 18:00 CET, we are headed for the umbral embrace of early 20th-century Warsaw! Join us in a history-meets-myth stream to see if The Thaumaturge can deliver! Always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast!
#archaeogaming

CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference

@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!

For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Next week, our coordinator, Alex da Silva Martire, @docrandom.bsky.social , Maria Isabel D'Agostino Fleming and Carolina Machado Guedes will talk about digital archaeology during MAE-USP's 7th International Archaeology Week #gtp #archaeogaming

Made a start on an archaeogaming starter pack - I'm sure I've missed people so please let me know if you'd like to join! I only included people who I think have explicitly referred to their work as being in the archaeogaming sphere at this stage.

go.bsky.app/VFEGikJ

Tonight, we're headed back into the past of Civilization by playing Civ4 and of #GameStudies #Civ scholarship from 2003: - Sybille Lammes's "Pleasure and Colonial Mastery in Civ3" - Kacper Pobłocki's "Becoming-state: the bio-cultural imperialism of Civ"
Live on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...