agent based modeling, anyone?

if anybody is in ottawa on Friday, we have Maxime Durand from Ubisoft in to talk about performing history in assassin’s creed https://carleton.ca/history/2015/2015-shannon-lectures-performing-history-re-staging-the-past/

folks, I have an undergrad interested in procedurally generated games & historical consciousness. He’s keeping his notes & a bit of a narrative at https://github.com/ryanpickering/honours-research-project/tree/master/updates He’s thinking of the ‘video game as fonds’ at the moment; if this kind of thing interests you, I’m sure he’d be delighted to chat.

what’s the big deal about fallout? (i’ve spent about an hour total playing games since 1990)

Trevor Owens has some interesting posts on Fallout on the Play the Past (history scholarship and gaming) site: http://www.playthepast.org/?p=459 and http://www.playthepast.org/?p=679 Besides the things Trevor points out about its handling of history and texts, it’s not really particularly a DHy game (I just happen to randomly be into it; the previous game was set in D.C. where I was living at the time, which might have helped—lots of environments looked like the real ones, especially all the Metro stations).

Speaking of Play the Past - if folks are interested in writing about the playful intersection of games (writ larger) with human history/heritage (writ large) we’d be interested in getting some fresh writing on the site. You can ping me for details.

http://alexrecker.com/our-new-sid-meiers-civilization-inspired-budget/