Ludohistory

I've been on the clown train for #Silksong for ages, and now we finally get to start it! I'm terribly excited to dig in and do some history on that world! twitch.tv/ludohistory

a man in a suit and fedora is smiling Alt: GIF of Indiana Jones smiling and saying "Watch me"

Here be giants!
Red and Blue are joining @ludohistory.bsky.social to check out the Indiana Jones game's new story expansion "Order of the Giants".
(I bet it's height order lmaooooo)

Jump in on twitch OR youtube!
www.twitch.tv/ludohistory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTTl...

Innuendo Studios — Adventure Game Tier List 34: Röki FEATURING ADAM BIERSTEDT/LUDOHISTORY!!! Part 35 of 52

Adam Bierstedt aka @ludohistory.bsky.social tells you the business about Scandinavian folk adventure Röki, complete with correct pronunciations and incidental historical detail!

nebula.tv/videos/innue...

I love everything @giantsquidstudios.com and @awintory.bsky.social have put out over the years, and they drop their new game right on time for my birthday! I'm very excited to go surfing around! Come hang out! twitch.tv/ludohistory

Triceratops skeleton between two T. rex skeletons in a bed of artificial ferns. Photo is taken behind and beneath one of the rexes, so we're looking up through it's lower jaw. Against a blue and purple simulated sky backdrop.

I’m closing in on 2k followers (thanks!) so I think I should clarify what I mean in my profile when I say the fun dinosaur pictures I post are a form of art history (besides wanting to sound elitist or something). 🧵

"AI is garbage at all the work at doing history, so here's how you should start using it in the classroom." cmon, what are we even doing here??

LIVESTREAM EVENT: Playtest of Which Witch? Tabletop Roleplay Game (28/05/2025) | Historical Games Network Announcing a bonus special event as part of the Gender theme for the Historical Game Network: a livestream playtest of a new tabletop roleplaying game! This livestream will feature four researchers wh...

Exciting HGN-Gender Theme News! On May 28th, our guest convenor @tesswatty.bsky.social will be livestreaming a play test of a new table top role playing game - World Weaver: Which Witch? - alongside a fantastic lineup of fellow researchers. Full details here:

www.historicalgames.net/livestream-e...

sorry, i lost my password for a bit 😭glad you found it!!

TTRPG Actual Play Performance & Audiences Research Survey! Goal gathering information about labor in AP production, viewing/listening habits, why some don't watch/listen PI Dr. Emily Friedman

Redeploying 2023 AP Survey for folks to re-take
(or take for 1st time)

We are collecting data about how & why people make & consume (or don’t) #TTRPG Actual Play media. This 10 minute survey is totally anonymous. Aggregated data will be shared with the community! More details: aub.ie/ttrpgsurvey

Digital Humanities Funding Impacts The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library…

ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.

The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question.

bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

Yes yes yes yes yes!!!

Ah damnit now I have to find some. For research.

ludohistory - Twitch Medieval Historian vs The Most Accurate Game

putting that medieval studies degree to use by starting up *Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2*! And hoping it fixes some of the trouble from the first game .... twitch.tv/ludohistory

An Entertainer at the end of the world We all agree – things suck right now, right? The world is getting worse, and what’s the point of being a “content creator” in the face of it all?

There's an awful lot of bad stuff happening right now, and I've been increasingly struggling with what good "entertainment" does. So this is less polished and more poetic than most of what I write, but it's my attempt to write my way through that feeling.
ludohistory.com/2025/02/04/a...

Folklorists are really, *really* important - so many traditions we draw on today are only around due to their work. One of those collections needs help now!!

This week, I want to do a thread each day signal boosting creators of different groups, particularly those groups who are being targeted by government.

Today, I would love to hear from Creators of Color.

If you are a CoC and you have a project to push, PLEASE POST BELOW. Include link, please!

This sheep is divine, I will brook no criticism of it

5) 2025's release schedule scares me. It might be the best year for historical games ever (including some really cool games by Indigenous devs and Palestinian devs). And while there's a lot scary in the world right now, I'm still looking forward to that.

4) The dedication to doing the history (even occult/conspiracy) right meant parts of my community were able to guess plots in multiple games, down to the dialogue, quite a bit in advance. This is a credit, not a criticism! That means they're building historically coherent fictions! I love that!

3) There's a dedication to historical research and replicating archival/museum pieces that I don't remember seeing this much in previous years. Sure, Assassin's Creed and Uncharted have always had museum replicas, but Thaumaturge/Indiana Jones went to the next level.

1) Even though 2024 was a terrible year for layoffs, the number of both AAA and indie historical releases was impressive - there were a lot of games I didn't get to this year.

2) a lot of the best games looked globally, instead of just Euro/Eurocolonial history. That's cool too!

The Best Historical Games of 2024 We have been blessed with yet another great year for historical video games. Both indie and AAA developers have released spectacular games set in the past, proving yet again that audiences are eage…

2024 was a great year for historical game releases, but we love nothing more than arbitrary rankings! Check out the blog post, and read on for some other of my findings ludohistory.com/2025/01/21/t...

I did, glad you enjoyed it!!

Interestingly, even though there are historical captions for (2) (at least one of which is inaccurate to the museum piece it's copying!), only the paintings + 1 statue are credited by name, and only the weapons/armor museums are thanked in the credits!

I suspect other historical games than AC make that spectrum clearer; the new Indiana Jones game has 1) paintings and artifacts as set dressing, 2) historical artifact collectibles, 3) historical sites to explore, and 4) historical vehicles/weapons to play with.

Hanging and tiering all the historical games of 2024 and handing out some extremely serious awards! twitch.tv/ludohistory

Huh. You love to see it (though I have some questions about what "acquire" means in this context)

I'd be interested (and I bet there's more than a couple people in my communities who would be too!)

"then so is Campbell" as a certified Campbell hater, I wish!