Vinicius Marino Carvalho

A one-eared grey cat resting on my lap, on top of a green blanket decorated with shamrocks.

Close-up of a grey, one-eared cat looking at the camera. His eyes are blue.

A grey, one-eared cat sleeping next to my arm.

A grey, one-eared cat on a leash, resting by the shade during a walk on the beach.

Yesterday, disease took my best friend Puisín Glas away.

To those who work with me, I apologize if I'm a bit slow to respond. There was scarcely a moment in my routine which I didn't share with him. I feel like I don't even know how to work anymore.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh d'anam, a chara.

The cover of "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" by Alexander Vandewalle, to be published in the IMAGINES series by Bloomsbury Academic in May 2026. The cover depicts the cover art of Immortals Fenyx Rising, showing the game's protagonist Fenyx in battle with a towering Cyclops.

May 2026 👀

My monograph "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" will be out next year in @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's IMAGINES series!

Many thanks to @ubisoft.com for the #ImmortalsFenyxRising art ⚡

More information (soon!) on www.bloomsbury.com/uk/character...

Congratulations, Alex!! Very eager to have a go at it.

A trama do mundo - Caravana Grupo Editorial

E para quem não pôde estar lá, meu livro pode ser adquirido aqui:

Vinicius falando no microfone durante um bate-papo na livraria Bibla ao lado de Alessandra Effori.

Vinicius na livraria Bibla, autografando um exemplar do romance A Trama do Mundo em uma escrivaninha. Uma taça de vinho branco está ao lado do livro.

Vinicius sorrindo, segurando um exemplar do romance A Trama do Mundo

Vitrine da livraria Bibla no dia do lançamento. Todos os espaços da vitrine estão ocupados por exemplares do romance A Trama do Mundo

Cansado demais para postar semana passada, mas é oficial:

Meu romance, "A Trama do Mundo", teve enfim seu evento de lançamento!

Muito obrigado a todos que comparecerem e à Alessandra Effori, pela excelente rodada de Q&A!

Friends, l'm getting closer to manuscript _Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators_
Doing last big add-content read-through edit on paper.
Anyone want to help inspire w/ a comment or (even better) question abt book & what it's all about? (reskeets?)
#gamingthepast

Submissões de comunicações: I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital. 8-12 de dezembro (YouTube). Até 5 de Novemro de 2025. Comunicação oral relacionando arqueologia com um ou mais temas do congresso: modelagem 3D, Digitalização, SIG, IA, Ensino e Educação Patrimonial, Archaeogaming, Realidade Virtual/Aumentada, Jogos Analógicos, Dibulgação online, Legislação e acervos digitais

Temos o prazer de informar que o I CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE ARQUEOLOGIA DIGITAL está com inscrições abertas!

Trabalhos sobre arqueologia e métodos digitais de pesquisadores em todos os estágios de suas carreiras são bem-vindos.

Inscrições aqui: sinsc.furg.br/detalheseven...

Submission of presentations: I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital. December 8-12 (YouTube). Submission deadline: November 5, 2025. Presentation relatng archaeology to one or more themes of the congress: 3D modeling, Digitization, GIS, AI, teaching and heritage education, archaeogaming, virtual/augmented reality, analog games, online dissemination, legislation and digital collections.

We're happy to announce that submissions for the I BRAZILIAN CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY are now open!

We welcome papers from scholars based anywhere in the world, at every level of their careers.

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A screenshot from the videogame Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It shows a map of the region known as "Manster District", with names inspired by actual Irish provinces: Alster (Ulster), Leonster (Leinster), Connaught, and Meath.

FE: Genealogy of the Holy War also features the worst fantasy map of Ireland in the history of cartography.

I don't know what cracks me up the most: the way the fan translation mangled the katakana for the Irish provinces or the fact that Meath isn't remotely in the middle.

For the neophytes in Irish history: Díthorba is a character from a tale some historians believe is exemplary of how kingship 'rotated' between generational claimants in Early Ireland:

Screenshot of the video game Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. It shows a dialogue between antagonists Daccar and Díthorba. Daccar says "Dithorba! Is the army ready to deploy yet?" To which she answers "Yes, sir. Bishop Cuvuli's wind mage unit has infiltrated the forests near Sailane. They await your command, sir".

Now playing: "Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War"

I've seen my share of Cú Chulainns & Morrígans, but this is the first Díthorba I've come across in a game!

@alexvandewalle.bsky.social and @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social: please, do a 2nd MythGames conference so I have an excuse to write abt it!

Very happy to co-edit/contribute to a festschrift in your honor(and yes, you very much deserve one!)

That said, being a sufferer from impostor syndrome myself, I think these feelings never truly go away, no matter how much we succeed in life 😅

My experience as a college student was that the ablative got weirder and weirder the more uses of it we learned. So I guess I get the yandere (minus the homicidal part).

I'm curious to know why you think it's a tsundere though?

And which in your opinion would be the kuudere?

Sabe qual a diferença entre usar AI pra promover a luta da esquerda e usar AI pra combater os avanços da extrema direita?

Nenhuma. Em ambos os casos você ta contribuindo pra precarização do mercado de trabalho, roubo de arte e ajudando empresa arrombada a gerar capital

Não seja pangaré

Easy D.

It includes the tip of Calabria (where my family's from & where the flavors I most associate with "home" come from), Levant and most of Japan (my second favourite cuisines after Italian)

Any chance you can share a private copy? 🙏

Ingold's rules of narrative:

- the universe must have a moral arc
- plants always grow towards the light
- mean people aren't interesting but nasty ones are
- good people aren't interesting but kind ones are
- every liar must be living a lie
- every maze must have a minotaur

James Newman might be good for classroom use.

@lainenooney.bsky.social has a lot of important research on this topic. Their journal @romchip.bsky.social is also a great source.

If you're willing to read across languages, @riquesampaio.com.br has an interesting book from a Global South perspective

Congrats, Florence!

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I think Eugen knows more abt this than me, given the popularity of the topic in German academia and my shameful lack of proficiency in the language 🤦‍♂️

FWIW, the last I read on the topic was A. Schwartz' "History in Videogames and the Craze for the Authentic"

Well, if you limit it to passage and links, then I see your point. It seems really hard to craft a historical simulation without variables and conditional statements.

2- I'm unsure why choice-based text games can't be simulations. Yes, the VN/Interactive fiction route might be the most intuitive. But what's preventing someone (or, in your context, a student) from developing a peasant economy or medieval court simulator in Twine?

This is a very roundabout way of saying we historians hardly ever *just* describe; we also *explain it* at the same time.

I was even called out for it once, when a referee told me I should rename my 'results' section 'discussion', because I couldn't stop giving my opinion every two sentences 😅

Moreover, historical narratives can be construed as models - in the sense that they are not simply descriptions of a list of "facts", but descriptions of ideas about how that particular system works. Not really that different from a diagram or blueprint, conceptually speaking.

1 - I can see why you'd oppose 'simulation' & 'representation'. 'Model', however, seems like a bad idea. Some definitions (e.g. McCarty's IIRC) tipify models as 'a representation of something for purposes of study'. Meaning they *can* be representative & descriptive (in addition to other properties)

Well, these terms elicit strong feelings in a lot of people, so I think some flak will be sadly unavoidable 😅

I'm not familiar with Cameron's position, and I'd like to hear it before saying too much.

That said, drawing from what you've written alone:

Congratulations, Christian!

A vertical line definitely not straight drawing by hand. At the bottom at it it is written No Rules

I made an artist meme.

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We have a cover for Ancient Egypt in Video Games! Out either late 2025 or early 2026 - will post a link with contents once it’s up on the DeGruyter website.
I’m very excited that this is soon out in the world!