A sneaky summer stream? Why not? Doc Random and the Professor at Play have pirated our channel to play Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced! Join us soon at twitch.tv/streamingthe...

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Geekhood and nerdery united into a wonderful, history-infused hodgepodge of enthusiasm and puns, generally. Streaming the Past hosts a variety of history-infused games and experts as passionate about ...

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New piece out in @theconversation.com with @apolitopoulos.bsky.social and @docrandom.bsky.social on those early Native American dice everyone’s talking about: theconversation.com/archaeologis...

Archaeologists have discovered 12,000-year-old dice – here’s what they reveal about the history of play

You can compare throwing one of these ancient dice to a coin toss – although this discovery also underscores that dice are much older than coins.

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Tomorrow @apolitopoulos.bsky.social and @docrandom.bsky.social are back behind the streaming wheel with Europa Universalis V! Aris' brain will break, Angus will crunch, and history will be (re)played! Join us around 15:00 CET always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast

We (me and @docrandom.bsky.social) are back from Spiel 2025 and added A LOT of new games to the Ludic Lab of the @lucdh.bsky.social! Video soon to follow with all the games that are now available for research (and playing!) at our lab! #archaeogaming

We are SO back! Game developer panel for #TIPC4 with Leyla, @wisproy.bsky.social, and @colewehrle.bsky.social to talk about the development of historical video games! Tune in over at www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast

First up our own @docrandom.bsky.social, Csilla Ariese, and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social talk about their Past❤️Play project!

We're live with @amplitudestudios.bsky.social #EndlessLegend2 on twitch.tv/streamingthepast! We'll be playing and talking about how a good fantasy is sometimes (always!) better than historical accuracy

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Past, Play, Pizza and Plucky, Perky, Professional, Phenomenal People, all coming together in Leiden from October 8-10. It's nearly TIPC time again! Don't delay and register today!

VALUE Foundation@valuefnd.bsky.social · last yr.

As #TIPC4 is rapidly approaching (8-10 October register now for FREE: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...) we have all sorts of SUPER COOL stuff for this year's celebratory edition! A Game Dev panel, a Playful Archaeology Panel, workshops, pizzas, and of course amazing talks! Check the thread!

Our session #archaeogaming (@archaeobasti.bsky.social, @docrandom.bsky.social, @archaeobruja.bsky.social and myself) for #CAA2025 has just started! Come find us in Room 3B of the Conference building!

Herald: Complete Edition is OUT NOW as part of #LudoNarraCon! Our high-seas narrative adventure represents almost a decade of work from our team, and we are thrilled to finally share it. We truly hope you find meaning in the story we've crafted. #indiedev #indiegame #visualnovel #adventuregame

Our house philosopher/anthropologist Raymond Corbey has been an inspiration to generations of Leiden MA and PhD students through his focus on epistemology. It was great fun to edit a festschrift with wide-ranging contributions on archaeology 🏺, anthropology and philosophy with @shumon.bsky.social

Sidestone Press@sidestone.bsky.social · 2y ago

OUT NOW! Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy Edited by Shumon T. Hussain and Gerrit L. Dusseldorp 📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at sidestone.com #humanorigins #archaeology #antropology #evolution

Tomorrow morning myself and @docrandom.bsky.social are talking at #GDC2025 on Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun! If you are there and interested in history and games come by! schedule.gdconf.com/session/avoi...

Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun

19th March, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am - Aiming for historical accuracy in games is a trap: history's answer to 'what really happened', is at...

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This is the first time that a Steam sale has hit me where it hurts.

As game Senet: Households is nearing 5000 downloads (what?!?!) we want to highlight the amazing dev team that work with us! In this thread you can check out their incredible work and follow them where you can! You can download the game for free here store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...

Senet: Households on Steam

Prove you're blessed by the gods in this Online Multiplayer Ancient Egyptian Board Game.

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Our new game is out on Steam, right now! Senet: Households has been waiting for millennia to be played especially by you and after all that time it's still completely free. The game is the result of a wonderful collaboration with a superb student team from the Utrecht School of the Arts.

VALUE Foundation@valuefnd.bsky.social · 2y ago

We have some exciting news: The very first game published by VALUE! Senet: Households is a free to play digital adaptation of the Ancient Egyptian Strategy Board game Senet. Prove you're blessed by the gods by beating the Pharaoh! Download for free here: store.steampowered.com/app/3457490/...

We are very excited to announce The Interactive Pasts Conference 4! Join us October 8-10 2025 at Leiden University for 3 days full of games and the past! The #TIPC4 theme is The Fellowship of Past and Play & the Call for Papers is now open: interactivepasts.com/the-interact... CfP: deadline March 15

@docrandom.bsky.social da @valuefnd.bsky.social comenta sobre como estamos presos jogando o passado - e como a arqueologia pode nos libertar. @valuefnd.bsky.social's @docrandom.bsky.social tells us how we became stuck in past-play - and how archaeology can set us free #gtp #archaeogaming

This Wednesday, November 20, at 18:00 CET, we are headed for the umbral embrace of early 20th-century Warsaw! Join us in a history-meets-myth stream to see if The Thaumaturge can deliver! Always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast! #archaeogaming

CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference @maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2! For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Next week, our coordinator, Alex da Silva Martire, @docrandom.bsky.social , Maria Isabel D'Agostino Fleming and Carolina Machado Guedes will talk about digital archaeology during MAE-USP's 7th International Archaeology Week #gtp #archaeogaming

Made a start on an archaeogaming starter pack - I'm sure I've missed people so please let me know if you'd like to join! I only included people who I think have explicitly referred to their work as being in the archaeogaming sphere at this stage. go.bsky.app/VFEGikJ

Tonight, we're headed back into the past of Civilization by playing Civ4 and of #GameStudies #Civ scholarship from 2003: - Sybille Lammes's "Pleasure and Colonial Mastery in Civ3" - Kacper Pobłocki's "Becoming-state: the bio-cultural imperialism of Civ" Live on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...