Category Archives: Gaming

Population Intensification, Agricultural Intensification, Ecological Degradation, the Game

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Elijah Meeks

Looking back over some old notes of mine, I was reminded that I made this game in Flash three years ago: You control a small early historical site surrounded by virgin woodland. The forest provides lumber, but if you burn … Continue reading →

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Reason with the Grue

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Christian Swinehart has quietly produced a beautiful and digitally rich exploration of choose your own adventure (cyoa) books that should serve as a model for the production of digital scholarly media.  He begins with a small corpus, only twelve books–a … Continue reading →

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The MMORPG Spring?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Massively multiplayer games have seen all manner of recapitulation of real-world emergent phenomena within their simulated realms (sometimes fostered and sometimes entirely unintended).  But now, Rock, Paper Shotgun is reporting an on-line riot in the science fiction shooter MMORPG Eve … Continue reading →

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Digital Echoes at AAS

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Despite my earlier negativity, there was some digital at the AAS conference in Honolulu after all.  Interspersed with the classic close reading of historical texts filed away in various archives, I saw a few hints at how digital objects and, … Continue reading →

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