The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping all-time high 60% off on Steam until August 18! 💀⛏️🩸 It's the perfect time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...
Dr Kate Cook
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Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Do we have any idea where the Metro Bank T1 finals will be held this year? T2 I see is at Bristol, but what about T1?
Hey! I can give a few keys of The Abbess Garden (store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...) if you want to play and don't have the money :) Either by pm for mutuals or contact@mdstudiogames.com 🌸 The game is not expensive, but I know times are tough, and hopefully some time in a garden could help 🌿
The Abbess Garden on Steam
Cozy third-person gardening in 1643 France. As Agnès, restore a forbidden abbey garden, grow and identify real plants through the seasons, uncover a spy plot, help the community, and find queer romanc...
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My July #WCCWiki project (only just finished) was a page for Mary Clara Dawes, the first woman in the UK to get an MA, and a classicist with particular enthusiasm for teaching ancient languages as 'living' language! Before her time! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cl...
Mary Clara Dawes - Wikipedia
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There are 24 reddit tabs open in my browser. Must be a games-writing-day!
Aug 3 deadline #CFP AIMS Virtual Conference 2026 - Nov 6-10 (Americas/UK/EU); Nov 7-11 (Australasia) - "any topic related to the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in modern media" antiquityinmediastudies.wordpress.com/annual-meeti...
Annual Conference
Annual Conference 2026 Call for Proposals: AIMS Virtual Conference 2026 Friday, Nov. 6 – Tuesday, Nov. 10 (Americas/UK/EU) Saturday, Nov. 7 – Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Australasia) Antiquity …
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There have been some very nice things about moving down South for the last two years. But I do miss normal temperatures. It's cooler this weekend than it has been, and it's still too hot for my planned walk. 20-23 is proper summer, not this endless baking!
Hi all! Just a reminder the CFP deadline for MAMG's annual asynchronous conference is approaching (3 Aug)! Our theme this year is 'Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The link below has the full CFP #MAMG #medieval #gamestudies @midagesmodgames.bsky.social tinyurl.com/MAMG2026
‘Star Wars: Star Pilots’ releases in exactly 2 months in the UK (a slightly longer wait for this of you in the US)! The fact that we’re suddenly that close absolutely blows my mind. If you’re interested in or excited by the book then there’s still time to pre-order: geni.us/StarWarsStar...
Star Wars Star Pilots by Chris Kempshall: 9798217305841 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Wedge Antilles – hero, warrior, star pilot. The only rebel to face two Death Stars and live to tell the tale. Wedge confronted death countless times, in battles large and small, where split-second...
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Chris Kempshall@chriskempshall.bsky.social · last mo.'Make it worth it.' As revealed by @starwarsexplained.com the front cover for 'Star Wars: Star Pilots' from @dkbooks.bsky.social is here. If you're excited about the book the time to pre-order is here: geni.us/StarWarsStar... The countdown to 1st Oct (UK) and 6th Oct (US) begins today.
If I were Maia Bouchier the only thing I would spend the next few months working on is running without running my partner out. Just that. Until it's sorted.
It's August! This month I have to write two chapters, do article revisions, finish a book section, write two grant apps, and get ready for non-ac job hunting. It's quite tempting to bother with none of the former given the latter (why do all the work if I'm crashing out of academia soon anyway).
I am a bit sad about bsky being much smaller than Old Twitter because of reach. I basically want to say “hey if you know anyone in the Bay Area with a line on funding that isn’t tied up in LLMs (or even just really interesting people!) who I should chat to in the next uhhh few weeks let me know”
Coming in October from @inkstonebooks.bsky.social a special issue of 'Star Wars: Star Pilots'! This book will be signed, with a designed foredge and case foiling! Presale began today for customers who ordered either Legacy or Edge of the Abyss. Access will be rolled out following this schedule:
I've written and read the word paratexts so many times today that I cannot tell when it's full of typos. Just always looks like a non-word.
"This Game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content" Okay, but what is the Rats situation? More or fewer rats per square metre of rat attack than in the last game? That's what I need to know.
It is always an interesting grammatical challenge working out what tenses to use for games that are not yet out, but will be by the time the chapter being written is published.
Hello! For a potential piece on Eurogamer, I would love to know what cool little things people in and around games are working on. Not full games, but fun, interesting, weird projects or side projects. Things you're noodling around with, things you just think are neat. Replies/reposts very welcome!
Games Design Intern – V&A Dundee V&A Dundee and Abertay University Announce One-Year Game Design Internship Applications are open for a dedicated V&A Dundee…...
Games Design Intern – V&A Dundee
V&A Dundee and Abertay University Announce One-Year Game Design Internship Applications are open for a dedicated V&A Dundee Game Design Intern, offering a recent Abertay University graduate a paid, one-year placement embedded within the museum's Learning department. The role - salaried at £26,299.55 - is designed to bridge academic game design expertise with public cultural programming, museum learning, and interactive exhibition design.
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Tonight's posting is reminding me how much fun I always thought it would be to run a long module on a hero or two of Greek myth and their reception. Tracing how and more importantly why presentations differ and whether there are limits to what you can do with them.
This week writing my chapter on places where player responses to and developer framings of 'mythological games' blur the history/myth lines. It's proving much trickier to write as a proper argument than it was as a provocative conference paper.
Does anyone happen to have access to the Whitaker's Almanac for 1914, specifically p945? Google Books no longer shows it, and it's not among those I have library access to - but might be accessible for US users of HathiTrust?
Delighted to say that I’m going to be speaking on a panel along with some other excellent academics and developers at AdventureX (a conference I love) The panel is titled “Fact versus Fiction: Creating historical games for a modern audience” - should be a good one!
AdventureX@adventurex.bsky.social · 2w agoThis year’s schedule and lineup of incredible talks and panels are live! Visit adventurexpo.org for details. Join us at #AdvX26 in London on 7-8 November to hear from @sallybeaumont.bsky.social, @theexaminedgame.bsky.social, and more amazing gaming pros. Keynotes coming soon! Follow for updates
Question for *The Abbess Garden* players! 🌿 We are working on the encyclopedia update 📖 What question do you have about the game that you would like us to answer? Like "Was it possible for a young peasant in Port-Royal to know how to read in the 17th century?" #indiegame #cozygame
Classicists write a review of the Odyssey without the word 'enargeia' challenge.
I am enjoying living in Canterbury very much - it's a great city, with loads going on and lots of lovely spaces to spend time in. It is not, however, big enough to have "quarters", and the desperate attempt to rebrand streets of the city as e.g. "creative quarter" are deeply annoying.
7 months in, and my aim of landing 1 write-up on a prominent gaming site isn't going great 😅 As AI content gets ever worse, our mission to spotlight 𝘏𝘜𝘔𝘈𝘕-authored Video Game Books feels worth sharing. Over 15,000 books catalogued so far 📚 Know a journalist who might be interested? Please share ❤️🙏
The Video Game Library | All Books on Videogames
The Video Game Library is a site that celebrates books about videogames. From artbooks and children's books to novelizations and biographies. Indie writers to best-selling authors. Atari to Xbox. Come...
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As well as the utopian novel being terrible, it's a remarkably odd plan to build a democratic utopia by just murdering a bunch of leading figures until you happen upon the right one who was especially bad and damaging society. (Metaphor Refantazio afternoon here).