Nick Webber

Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work!

Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.

I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums

such an honor and a joy to be included in this volume, talking (inter)disciplinarity in historical game studies and the importance of putting "current" methods in context. ain't no party like a @times-new-roman.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social cowriting party ‼️

Really enjoyed working on mine + @doktornick.bsky.social co-authored chapter "Autoethnography as Historical Method: A Plague Tale and Authentic Experiences of the Past" for this collection, we presented the work at DiGRA25 + loved discussing the themes + methodology. The ToC for the book looks ace!

Writing Game Histories This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…

A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.

on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Yes, that was a strange noise.

No, we’re not going to check.

“A similar hammer blow has just struck @fullfact.org, the exceptionally valuable UK factchecker whose word is a gold standard for honesty. Google has pulled its £1m funding. Along with the ending of sizeable donations from Meta, the charity tells me this amounts to a loss of a third of its funding.”

Hell with other people Video games are often the first and most common way that many people now encounter the classical world. Hades, a critical hit following its release in

Delighted to have a short piece in this week's TLS on Hades 2, gender, and modern myth making.

www.the-tls.com/arts/hades-i...

Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...

We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other.
www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con...

#gamestudies #gamingthepast

Creative Assembly is looking for Principal Narrative Designer. Creative Assembly is one of Europe's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK, Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria. We craft deep and detailed games that matter...

Creative Assembly is looking for a Principal Narrative Designer.

No affiliation. Just sharing the link...

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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Sadly can’t fix the more general problem that conferences are expensive and many people don’t have access to funds.

My understanding was that university accommodation will be available at Maynooth for the event, so you probably can’t book anything yet. I imagine the sense of fullness is simply that everything in town has been reserved by the organisers - but this is me guessing rather than certainty.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Haven't seen this shared a lot - but yes, 26 out of 30 of the scholars on the NEH Council just got axed - and surprise, what do you know about the 4 left? ⬇️

I just received a response from the organizing team in Maynooth that this was indeed an oversight and that the CFP will be amended to include non-digital games. Yay!

transhumanisticpanspermia on Tumblr: "the dopest thing about horses is that they're basically grass engines like, grass goes in, fast comes out most things that produce fast (like cheetahs, and cars) use much more heavily processed grass, like horses, and oil and yet here horses are, producing The Fast with only The Grass" pairinstability: "Are you ok"

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

$20,000 of royalty free commercial use video game music.

Available now for only $10 on: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack

Is it worth it? Don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead.

#gamedev 🎮 #ttrpg #vtuber

Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures @ Sidestone Press This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary col...

As part of our reboot of the @videogamecultures.bsky.social conference series, we have our first book coming out, of papers from the 2023 conference in Klagenfurt, Austria. It should appear in the wild on 6 November. Details here: www.sidestone.com/books/explor...

Recording: Unreal Pasts, Playful Presents (RSE Curious Festival 2025) | Historical Games Network On 10th September 2025, in collaboration with the Imperial War Museums Institute, the HGN hosted a panel discussion event at the Royal Society of Edinburgh‘s Curious Festival 2025, in Edinburgh, UK. ‘...

Last week we hosted a discussion panel at the @royalsoced.bsky.social Curious Festival. Our brilliant speakers (incl. @chriskempshall.bsky.social @drtimpeacock.bsky.social) explored history & fantasy in games & media. Find the recording here if you missed it!
www.historicalgames.net/recording-un...

OASIS Lunchtime Talk: Remnants of Play YouTube video by oasis_tuni

@doktornick.bsky.social popped by to give us a talk at OASIS.

www.youtube.com/live/gdl-hgm...

I’m over here trying to enjoy PSLF and this comes across my screen. Sigh. IGN claims his classes are “a world first.” FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, EVERYONE!!!! NEVER BEEN DONE BY ANYONE EVER!!!!

Meanwhile, I and many others have been doing this for a decade or more.

This is is flying around without much context so to be clear about exactly what happened. They voted to de-couple the "V" (varicella, aka chicken pox) from the MMRV so they are two different vaccines, not to say that kids shouldn't get the shots generally.

www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

My friend and colleague @lerelle.bsky.social needs research participants for their PhD project. The research focuses on intersectionally minoritised queer people's experiences using dating apps. So could you please take a look at this and share it if you can? (1/3)

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OPPORTUNITY - Lore Master - CD Project - Warsaw, Poland/Remote

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