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The Middle Ages in Modern Games

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Annual Asynchronous Conference, other events and publications. Sponsored by CMRR Winchester, Intellect Books, and Slitherine Games. middleagesinmoderngames.net

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 9h ago

A bit late...we know...but thanks to everyone who presented at and attended our strand at @imc-leeds.bsky.social last month. So many papers, so much to reflect on. Thank you everyone, we hope to see you next year 😊 Here's a photo of the organising team looking proud.

Organising team sitting at the front of a seminar room, behind them a screen with another member joining online.

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 2d ago

Due to popular demand, and to make it easy for our colleagues just getting back after conference season, we decided to extend the deadline for this year's #MAMG conference. If you feel like participating, but haven't submitte yet, worry not! Make sure to send us an abstract by August 8th.

the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester presents The Seventh Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference on 5 to 6 October 2026. The central themes of this year’s event are ‘Possible worlds / Possible pasts’.
In a time of growing political and environmental anxieties, the Middle Ages are often sought as a source of inspiration for alternative futures. Ecologically-minded games like Of Life and Land look to the medieval past to explore alternative, non-exploitative engagements with nature. Medievalist RPGs have long served as possibility spaces for players to interrogate and experiment with notions of sexuality, gender, and identity more broadly. Games like Scriptorium and Traveller’s Rest imagine medieval pasts divorced from the logics of violence often associated with the period. Medievalist fantasy games like Metaphor: ReFantazio openly engage with utopian thinking and our capacities to imagine possible worlds.
This conference considers the Middle Ages and Medievalism in Modern Games. We invite analytical ‘papers’ (comprising 400-500 words of text or 5-minute videos) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones.
We are able to accept papers in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 8 August.

Medieval Art Research @medartres.bsky.social · 2w ago

Call for Papers: The Middle Ages in Modern Games @ Leeds IMC 2027 (Deadline: 13 September 2026) The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester is pleased to sponsor The Middle Ages in Modern Games strand at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 5 to 8 July…

Call for Papers: The Middle Ages in Modern Games @ Leeds IMC 2027 (Deadline: 13 September 2026)

The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester is pleased to sponsor The Middle Ages in Modern Games strand at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 5 to 8 July 2027. This strand examines the use of social groups, hierarchies, and other themes related to the congress theme of “Communities” in the design, representation, reception, and discussion of the Middle Ages in modern games.

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're heading back to @imc-leeds.bsky.social in July next year for a strand on 'Communities' or any other aspect of the medieval and medievalism in modern games - organised by @blairapgar.bsky.social with @tesswatty.bsky.social. Get your abstracts to us by 13 September!

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games invites submissions for its strand at Leeds IMC (5–8 July 2027), sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester.

This year's strand explores the congress theme of Communities, examining how medievalist games imagine, construct, and negotiate social groups. Papers may consider communities as systems of governance, identity, cooperation, conflict, trade, religion, reputation, or belonging, as well as the ways players form communities around games. We are particularly interested in how games shape understandings of medieval communities through mechanics, narratives, and audiovisual representation.

We welcome papers and sessions (3–4 papers) addressing any aspect of the medieval period or medievalism in digital or tabletop games, across any region and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’—including fantasy.
We particularly welcome submissions engaging with Communities broadly defined.

Abstracts due 13 Sept. All inquiries to midagesmodgames@gmail.com. For more info, visit: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net

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Topics might include (but are not restricted to):

Teaching Medieval Communities through Games
Membership and inclusion within communities; “the Other”
Religious groups within medievalist games
Migration and mobile communities
Race, ethnicity, and cultural identity-based communities
Gender, sexuality, and queer communities
Chosen families and alternative kinship structures
Colonialism, indigeneity, and community representation
Assimilation, hybridity, and multicultural communities
Community lines along social class and/or castes
Enclaves, splinter cells, and secession
Communities of violence and disruptive communities
Cooperation and obligation within medievalist games
Relationship and favorability mechanics in medievalist games
Guild systems in massive multiplayer online games (MMOs)
Language and visual signifiers of communities
Player communities of medievalist games
Positive and negative community exchanges

Abstracts due 13 Sept. All inquiries to midagesmodgames@gmail.com. For more info, visit: https://middleagesinmoderngames.net

Blair Apgar @blairapgar.bsky.social · 2w ago

CFP now open! The Middle Ages in Modern Games returns to Leeds IMC 2027. We're inviting papers on medievalism in digital and tabletop games, especially those engaging the congress theme of Communities. Abstracts due 13 Sept. Visit middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement... for more information.

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last mo.

We're heading back to @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week for two days of papers on the Middle Ages in Computer Games! Come and find us Maurice Keyworth 1.06 (Mon) and Clarendon Building 1.01 (Tue). Full programme here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/leeds-imc-20...

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The CfP for the upcoming #MAMG26 is now live! The event will take place on 5-7 Oct, assynchronously and online. Come join us from anywhere in the world to discuss medievalisms in games and alternative approaches to the ludic past.

In a time of growing political and environmental anxieties, the Middle Ages are often sought as a source of inspiration for alternative futures. Ecologically-minded games like Of Life and Land look to the medieval past to explore alternative, non-exploitative engagements with nature. Medievalist RPGs have long served as possibility spaces for players to interrogate and experiment with notions of sexuality, gender, and identity more broadly. Games like Scriptorium and Traveller’s Rest imagine medieval pasts divorced from the logics of violence often associated with the period. Medievalist fantasy games like Metaphor: ReFantazio openly engage with utopian thinking and our capacities to imagine possible worlds.

We invite analytical ‘papers’ (comprising 400-500 words of text or 5-minute videos) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones.

We encourage submissions from medievalists, games scholars and developers at any point in their career— especially those from Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers and members of any groups under-represented within the academy and industry. We welcome pieces addressing any region globally, and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’ and ‘medievalism’.

We are able to accept papers in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 3 August.

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This Call for Papers may be of interest to a lot of you: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

WHC videogames special issue proposal.docx

CFP World History Connected Guest Forum: Title: Videogaming through World History Type: Call for Papers Submission Date: July 1, 2026 Contact for Inquiries: Tracey Rizzo, trizzo@unca.edu or Cynthia ...

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Vinicius Marino Carvalho @vinicius-marino.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out! All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism. #historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies

MAMG25 Proceedings

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Conference Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Asynchronous Conference on The Middle Ages in Modern Games are now out! You can find these proceedings and the previous four volumes on our Previous Editions page: middleagesinmoderngames.net/previous-edi...

The title page of The Middle Ages in Modern Games: Conference Proceedings Volume 6 - 2025. Edited by Vinicius Marino Carvalho and Tess Watterson. The cover image is a map of East Asia from the mod 'Raja's of Asia' for Crusader Kings 3.

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Temos o prazer de anunciar nossa sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital, organizado pelo @archarise.bsky.social Se você trabalha com jogos medievalistas ou #archaoegaming sob qualquer ótima, esperamos sua inscrição! #historygames #medievalsky

O Middle Ages in Modern Games, a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) e o Laboratório de Pesquisa Arqueologia Interativa e Simulações Eletrônicas (ARISE) tem o prazer de convidar a todos para uma sessão temática no I Congresso Brasileiro de Arqueologia Digital.

O archaeogaming e o estudo de jogos medievais se beneficiaram de um crescimento expressivo na última década. De um lado, praticantes de arqueologia e história medieval têm incorporado metodologias para integrar jogos como formas de análise e divulgação de suas pesquisas. Por outro, especialistas em game studies têm reconhecido a importância da arqueologia para o estudo da dimensão material dos jogos e da vivência de pessoas em espaços virtuais.

Convidamos estudantes, pesquisadores e profissionais da Arqueologia medieval e afins a integrarem uma sessão temática direcionada às novas fronteiras de pesquisa nesta área. O evento ocorrerá nos dias 8 a 12 de dezembro de 2025, em formato online via YouTube, no período norturno (18h às 21h, horário de Brasília)
Tópicos incluem (mas não estão restritos a):
Archaeogaming e Idade Média
Representações de arqueólogos em jogos medievalistas
Arqueologia de espaços virtuais
Modelagem 3D e criação de assets para jogos
Cultura material da Idade Média em jogos digitais
A Idade Média em jogos analógicos
Medievalismo e roleplay
Uso de jogos para o ensino de história ou educação patrimonial
Simulações analíticas
Realidade virtual/aumentada e o passado medieval
Materialidade de jogos medievalistas
Usos políticos e ideológicos da cultura material em jogos medievalistas
Olhares decoloniais/anti-eurocêntrico sobre a arqueologia digital e jogos medievais
Para mais informações ou eventuais dúvidas, favor escrever ao Dr. Vinicius Marino Carvalho no email midagesmodgames@gmail.com
Favor enviar título e resumo da apresentação por meio do link: https://sinsc.furg.br/fichainscricao/7823
Esperamos ansiosamente sua participação!

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We're pleased to announce we're putting together a thematic strand at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology, organized by @archarise.bsky.social. If you work with medievalist #historygames and/or #archaeogaming in any capacity, we'd love to hear from you! #medievalsky

The Middle Ages in Modern Games conference, the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), and the research society ARISE (Interactive Archaeology and Electronic Simulations) are pleased to announce a thematic strand at the I Brazilian Conference on Digital Archaeology.

Archaeogaming and medievalist game studies have enjoyed noteworthy popularity since the past decade. On the one hand, practitioners of medieval history and archaeology have started to devise methodologies to integrate games as research outputs and vehicles for outreach. On the other hand, game studies experts have acknowledged the importance of archaeology to deal with the material dimension of games and the human experiences within virtual spaces.

We invite students, researchers and professionals working with medieval archaeology and related fields to submit proposals for oral communications exploring these themes. The event will be held online and broadcasted via YouTube between 8-12 December, from 6 to 9pm (UTC -3).
Topics include (but are not restricted to)
Archaeogaming and the Middle Ages
Depictions of archaeologists in medievalist games
The archaeology of virtual environments
3D modeling and asset creation for games.
Medieval material culture in modern games
The Middle Ages in analog games
Medievalism and roleplay
Games as tools for history teaching and heritage education
Virtual/augmented reality and the medieval past
The materiality of medievalist games
Political and ideological uses of material culture in medievalist games
Decolonial/Anti-eurocentric approaches to digital archaeology and medievalist games
For more information or questions, please contact Dr. Vinicius Marino Carvalho at
midagesmodgames@gmail.com
Submissions are open until the 5th of November via the following link: https://sinsc.furg.br/fichainscricao/7823
We hope to see you there!

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our friend and contributor Stephen Yeager is one of the series editors for Media Before 1800 with Concordia Press - and they're looking for new book pitches. It may be of interest to some of our contributors: www.concordia.ca/press/series...

Series | Concordia University Press - Concordia University

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There's still a couple of weeks left to get your abstracts in for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social strand next year! We how to see a lot of you there. Deadline 17 September.

The Middle Ages in Modern Games@midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

The Call for Papers for our strand on the Middle Ages in Modern Games for next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social is now open with the conference theme of 'Temporalities'. Please circulate to any interested parties. Deadline 17 September. Text here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you've been following us this year, you'll know all about DropCaps from Kelcey Gray and Jessie Contour. The game is out now on Google Play and the App Store and is well worth a look! www.dropcapsgame.com

Dropcaps Game

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · last yr.

In the last few weeks of writing this paper I've been inspired by the Middle Ages in Modern Games network (@midagesmodgames.bsky.social), who I met at @themamoconf.bsky.social. My paper is really the Ancient World in Medieval Games, but some methodologies are strikingly similar!

Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · last yr.

Preparing my presentation for Thursday's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social session at #IMC2025. I'll be reflecting on the ocularcentric perspectives at the centre of Ubisoft's work on heritage as a way of legitimising historical representation in the AC games, by focusing on the Notre Dame fire of 2019.

Power point slide that has a screenshot of the virtual model of Notre Dame from Assassin's Creed Unity. The slide reads 'Assassin's Creed and Notre Dame: sparking debates on ocularcentric learning and heritage preservation. Professor Mariana López. School of Arts and Creative Technologies. University of York

Adam Rosser, Radioist 📻 🎮@adamrosserradio.bsky.social · last yr.

Now this will be interesting

The Middle Ages in Modern Games@midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re delighted to be returning to the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds next week. We’ve got 20 papers in person and online spread over two days of the event, alongside a roundtable on medievalist games outside the Anglophone world.

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

That’s really all for this year! Thank you for joining #MAMG25, whether as speakers, participants, or both! The conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean you cannot go forward with reading all the awesome papers that have been delivered this year, and with asking more questions to their authors!

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

Time for conclusions for #MAMG25! Please join us for the concluding remarks on this year ‘The Middle Ages in Modern Games’ conference, with Robert Houghton delivering them, by the title ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’. Read it here: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=1065

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

10 minutes to go before going forward with the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton on what the latest #MAMG25 has delivered to us! Join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for ‘International Opportunities, International Challenges’!

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

That was all for our last Keynote Lecture! But #MAMG25 is not over yet! We will take a break now, but please join us at 4pm (UTC+1) for the concluding remarks by Robert Houghton, looking at what this year’s immersion in medievalist games has given us, and what it could give us in the future!

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

The time for our second (and last) Keynote Lecture has come! William Chen speaks at #MAMG25 about ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Come read and ask your questions: middleagesinmoderngames.net?p=900

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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

Time for #MAMG25 last Keynote Lecture: William Chen will talk to us about the power of modding and the possibilities it offers with his paper ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government in an Imperialist Game’. Join us in 10 minutes!

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

We have a slightly longer break now, then please join us again at 2pm (UTC+1) for our second keynote for #MAMG25, delivered by William Chen: ‘Making Rajas of Asia: Modding Cultural Representation and Stateless Government...'

The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · last yr.

That’s a wrap for the Globalism and Religion panel! Thank you so much to our presenters: Hirohito Tsuji, Ron Heckler, and Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo, and to everyone joining in with questions and comments! #MAMG25