Portrayal of religious-mythological elements in farming-based role-playing video games: Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons, Stardew Valley, Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, Coral Island Guest post by Laurentius Alvin Laurentis Alvin is a Master’s student at Bonn University in Germany (Rheinische Friedrich-Wi...
The social and cultural context in which those video games were born is fundamental to understand the diffusion and popularity that video games had throughout the '80s and especially in the '90s. The objective of this study is to identify the communication and information strategies of video ...
If Discovery Tours had been used when you were in school, would that have increased your interest in history or archaeology? If you found the relationship between archaeology and video games interesting, check out the great sources below or my talk at theArchaeology Roadshowfor more analysis on ...
In the modern age, motion pictures, television shows, print media, and video games have all served to bring archaeology to the masses. Unwittingly, these forms of media often misrepresent the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of the field in favor of adventure and glamour. King Solomon...
I don't know why I thought arranging musical notes in alphabetical order was a good idea. Also, judging by the the formula for calculating the frequency of each note, I thought there were 13 semitones in an octave. The Dictionary of Video Games ...
Andrew Reinhard. 2018. Archaeogaming: an introduction to archaeology in and of video gamesdoi:10.15184/aqy.2019.25Juan HiriartCambridge University Press
doi:10.1080/14655187.2015.1112693Meyers Emery, KathrynReinhard, AndrewPublic ArchaeologyMEYERS EMERY, Kathryn; REINHARD, Andrew. Trading Shovels for Controllers: A Brief Exploration of the Portrayal of Archaeology in Video Games. Public Archaeology, 2015....
"On Gender" takes Sierra's lead designer, Roberta Williams, as both its subject and object: her games, her design practices, and, above all, how she has been formatted to fit within video game history. As the first female computer game designer in the United States, historians struggle to...
Archaeology is a slippery topic when it comes to its public presentation in various media, especially in fictional representations in books, film, TV, and video games. Archaeologists have historically been at odds with some of these productions, and various articles have analyzed these representations...
Museum studies That belongs in a museum| Archaeology and audiences UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Joanna Casey ShofnerErika HeimbrookArchaeology is a field that inspires interest and curiosity among people outside of the profession. Movies, television, newspapers, video games - numerous popular culture ...