'“Not worth mentioning”: Preserving Unremarkable Videogames ' with Dany Guay-Bellanger. October 13. https://carleton.ca/history/event/not-worth-mentioning-preserving-unremarkable-videogames/ #ottawa #videogames #dh #history

“Not worth mentioning”: Preserving Unremarkable Videogames - Department of History

All lectures will take place in the Pellan Room at Library and Archives Canada (395 Wellington Street). Lectures will begin at 7pm. Description: Classic videogames are in peril. Indeed, a 2023 report by The Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network revealed that 87% of games released in the United States before 2010 […]

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Sleepy floof #HeroSilverwood #siberiancat

Exciting new Assistant Professor position for a new archaeologist in our wonderful department! Come join us and be part of something special! www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf... @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social @uvicscholcom.bsky.social #anthropology #archaeology

ANTH 280-210 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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Donkey Kong's arch enemy should be Monkey Kong who is a donkey

Going fishing this #NationalFishingMonth? 🐟 At Lake Tesse, Norway, fishers harvest the brown trout that live there. New research suggests they are descended from fish first introduced to the lake by hunter-fisher-gatherers ~7000 years ago! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Day 3 (final) of #FDG26 starts with the announcement of #FDG27 in Melbourne | Naarm, Australia CfP and call for organizers is live

Tomorrow (August 13), on behalf of our team, I'll be presenting our paper "LAVA: Large-scale Archaeological Videogame Analysis" at #FDG26 in Session 13, room AUD 15, from 11:00 - 12:30. You can download the full paper ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

LAVA: Large-scale Archaeological Videogame Analysis | Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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Thanks to those who stopped by to chat about our poster/paper, "No Prototypical Prototypes: Prototypes as the Stone Tools of Game Development", wherein we nuance the idea of a game prototype using the lithic reduction sequence dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #FDG26 #archaeogaming

Ok but the food available at 7-11s here (Copenhagen) is like legit good. And not just good enough for how cheap it is. I just crushed a chocolate muffin that easily is one of the best I've ever had.

The lovely zine submissions in our GAP workshop library!

My sort paper on Talos Principle and Egypt for the conference is now available online from the FDG proceedings (open access): dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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We’re now in the paper session - we had a great range of papers, first exploring the representation of Egypt in Talos Principle from @jennycromwell.bsky.social - a great deep dive into what this game is made of (part of which is: Serious Sam!)

🏺 Should probably revisit this piece at some point, but for now you can still read my article on video games, side quests, and archaeology for free online here! epoiesen.carleton.ca/2024/05/20/s...

I am having a whale of a time at the Games and Archaeological Play workshop today at FDG - @florencesn.bsky.social gave a great intro and now @timhutchings.bsky.social is saying incredibly cool things about design. There might be recordings later!

Registered and ready to play! First up is the Games and Archaeological Play workshop with @mtrc.bsky.social and @florencesn.bsky.social #FDG26 #archaeogaming

Happy International Cat Day! #HeroSilverwood #siberiancat

Don’t worry, students! That extra money you pay will end up in the pockets of Ol’ Sammy Mraiche, where Don Dani of Berta Nostra has decided it belongs.

En route to Copenhagen #fdg26

Animethon with mum and kid today #animethonyeg #DanDaDan

His foot is behind his head and his beard is caught in his mouth in two places, and he is very offended I laughed out loud and took a picture. I accept that yes, I am very much in the wrong here. #HeroSilverwood #siberiancat

Why would anyone pay $38,000 for a Megalodon shark tooth that they could buy now for less than $1,000? I explore answer that question in my latest publication: **Illusions of Rarity and Value in Competing Megalodon Tooth Markets** Available free and open access. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

🆕 New #openaccess research in the #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social highlights a growing digital curation crisis in #archaeology. Read the blog and associated article! 🔗 https://cup.org/4uRYbGY #digitalhumanities #datapreservation

How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago...

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We are happy to announce the official return of the ArchaeoGaming Conference hosted by the ArchaeoGaming Collective. This is a 100% virtual event that is free to attend. We are currently accepting presentation submissions until August 16. For more details: archaeogameco.weebly.com/coninfo.html

As my Tier 2 Chancellor's Research Chair officially started this month, I figured it made sense to start rebuilding my online presence. I'll be sharing about my ongoing #archaeogaming work with @herrprofdr.bsky.social, in addition to other projects (digital preservation, basket ethnography,...).

Jeff Bezos’s wedding cost $50 million which is $20 million more than the U.S. government has spent on math research this year. We’re gutting science funding to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

Announcing ArchaeOS, a speculative keepsake game made for the @archive.org DiscMaster jam by @mtrc.bsky.social and me! The game asks you to interpret digital artefacts using a deck of cards, and is made exclusively with assets from DiscMaster. 💾 🏺 illomens.itch.io/archaeos

ArchaeOS by ill omens, Florence Smith Nicholls

Mercurius Semper Vincit

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What is happening? How can any of these documents/artifacts be sold at auction? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Auctioning Hudson's Bay artifacts with First Nations significance would be 'morally irresponsible': chief | CBC News

As Hudson's Bay heads to court seeking permission to auction off 1,700 pieces of art and more than 2,700 artifacts, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is requesting a halt to the sale of items that may b...

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So handsome #siberianforestcat #HeroSilverwood

Cruelty is the deliberate point of the current administration. Don’t stoop to their level.

Please don’t let BlueSky become polluted with bullshit #pseudoarchaeology the way Twitter has. We don’t need no Ancient Aliens. We don’t need no Graham Hancock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoa...

Thank you to all that joined us for our first Speaker Series of the year! On that note, our second Speaker Series event is coming March 20! Interested in Stories of the Small? Check out our great lineup of speakers, and find the online registration link below 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta@uofa-ipia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting news - our first Speaker Series Event of 2025 is coming soon! Join @ldagg.bsky.social, @rdwambold.bsky.social, and @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on Feb 27, 3:30 pm MT, to hear about the different ways they examine landscapes in their research 🏺 Hybrid event, reg. required for online attendees 👇