Happy flying dildo anniversary to those who celebrate it.
Hitpoints & History begins in 20 minutes! Tickets are still available at hitpointsandhistory2026.eventbrite.com
See you soon!
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Julie Levy (she/they) is an archaeogamer, independent scholar, and activist. She is the Managing Director at the Save Ancient Studies Alliance, an organization devoted to bringing ancient studies into the mainstream.
Today Hitpoints & History is shining a light on our conference’s panel: Using TTRPGs to Activate Mythology! Presented by Dr. Michael Anthony DeAnda, Kai Hakamori, Ziyi Wu, Alexej Hrajnoha, Bradley Estacio.
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Dr. Alexander Vandewalle is a postdoctoral researcher who specializes in the reception of antiquity, history, and mythology in video games. For his PhD thesis (2024), he investigated the characterization of Greek mythological figures in games.
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Colin Snyder is a game designer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder and director of Little Red, an independent game studio and publisher of nonfiction games.
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Meghan Sullivan is the founder of History N’ Games, an educational video & audio podcast that helps video game fans discover & explore the real history hidden inside their favorite games. Meghan has been in the games industry for 2 decades, & loves Mario Kart and Mass Effect.
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Joel Gordon is a socio-cultural historian whose research focuses on the development of eschatological thought in the ancient world. Related to this is his reception studies work which explores how the gods/heroes of antiquity are portrayed in modern mass media.
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Meet the presenters! Dr. Roselyn A. Campbell is a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist Her most recent research project explores how players learn about gender in the ancient world through the Assassin’s Creed video games.
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Dr. Kate Minniti is an archaeologist and has been a gamer for more than two decades. Since 2013 she has been exploring how video games can represent and mis-represent both archaeology as a field and antiquity itself.
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Ahmed Alameen is an award winning game developer/writer. He creates stories inspired by Mesopotamia and the MENA region, and his debut game - My Father Lied- was nominated at many events, and won best Arab Game developed at The Grand Game Awards 2025.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
✨Meet the presenters!✨ Sav Sood, presenting Video Games, Memory and how we think of the Ancient World, is a first year PhD student in Classics at the University of Glasgow, studying the ways in which the ancient world is mediated through video games.
TOP is thrilled to announce 2026’s Hitpoints & History, a virtual conference all about archaeogaming!
Join us Jan 31st to hear from scholars & industry insiders about the connection between developer intent, player agency & historical authenticity.
Tickets and info can be found at hitpointscon.com
Nation’s Catholic Friends Fielding Sudden Barrage of Texts About The Pope
the past 3 weeks have felt increasingly like that terror scene where goodsir desperately tells silna “people are good!! this is not how englishmen behave!!” and then 15 minutes later the englishmen in question display even worse behavior
Waitangi Day in Aotearoa New Zealand, the day in which we commemorate & celebrate the signing of Ti Tiriti between The Crown & Māori in 1840.
Ngai Tahu celebrations in Tāhuna Queenstown today. Non exhaustive photo essay
#WaitangiDay #Nikon #Photography
Toitū Te Tiriti
Shed a tear for the old Auckland tram network. Just imagine.
Today's Connections... ridiculous.
I missed the "badly attended with snobs" part the first time I saw this!
Streaming in 2010: You can watch an entire catalog of amazing movies and TV shows for a reasonable monthly fee
Streaming in 2025: our library is Batman movies and 28 seasons of a Tim Allen sitcom, it costs $159/month. We just destroyed the last piece of evidence that Mister Rogers ever existed
It’s the 151st anniversary of the crew of the Surat partying way too hard on New Year’s Eve and seeing in the new year by crashing the ship into Aotearoa New Zealand, whereupon the drunk captain tried to shoot a passenger - my great-great-great-great-great grandfather. Happy New Year everyone.
definitely!
I worked on BBC Horrible Histories, and wrote some of the Stupid Deaths sketches
Without doubt, my faves were Ancient Greek intellectuals: e.g, Empedocles who jumped in an active volcano trying to become a god…
Or Philitas of Kos who starved due to obsessively needing to correct grammar errors👇
This might be the most blatant attack on academic freedom and genuine free speech protections this country has seen in years. I've come to specialise in this godforsaken area, and yet I don't have any good words to express how dangerous this is because I'm so floored. www.1news.co.nz/2024/12/19/g...
"Siloing science journalism is dangerous because it leaves the public vulnerable to misinformation. ... It allows powerful actors to manipulate public understanding by filling the void left by a lack of evidence-based reporting." www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/scie... by @siricarpenter.bsky.social
