History and Games This Week

Welcome to the week in history and games, a short collection of links to stories and news that we hope you find interesting.

Last week we told you about the Historical Games Network, a new project focused on bringing academics and gamers together to discuss connections between history and games. They have produced their first post in their "Historical Truth" theme, from Adam Chapman. Adam discusses postmodernism and history as storytelling, as well as teasing future work from the project.

Speaking of history and storytelling, Ludonarracon has been going on all weekend and ends today. The event is being streamed through Steam, which is also hosting a sale that features a lot of historically influenced or alt-history games. Worth a look!

Among those games is the excellent Disco Elysium, perhaps the prime contender for a game we have not covered but should. PC Gamer sat down with the game's narrator, Lenval Brown to talk about his involvement in the project. Voice director Cash DeCuir sat in on the conversation as well; it is an interesting look at this aspect of game development.

Friend of History Respawned and fellow educator Jeremiah McCall will be giving a talk "Agents and Obstacles: Video Games as Historical Problem Spaces" hosted by the University of Helsinki Game Research Collective on 19 May. You can register here.

Finally, we are celebrating here at History Respawned this week, as our Youtube channel just passed 10,000 subscribers! It has been a lot of work and a lot of fun. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us and continues to support us.