This September, in collaboration with the Imperial War Museums Institute and the Royal Society of Edinburgh‘s Curious Festival 2025, the Historical Games Network will be hosting a discussion panel event exploring history, fantasy, digital games and media. Curious is a festival of ideas – open to all and driven by connection, conversation, and discovery. It’s a chance to […]
The HGN team recently spoke with Rytis Jadzevicius of Fluxo Games, based in Vilnius, Lithuania, about the studio’s forthcoming historical game, Book Smugglers. Set in 19th Century Lithuania, the game asks players to “Join the courageous underground network of Book Smugglers in a grim, decision-driven point-and-click adventure that blends resource management with high-stakes storytelling. Risk […]
Earlier this year, we at the HGN were very fortunate to work alongside several other partners, including historian Dr Chris Kempshall, the University of Glasgow Games and Gaming Lab, and sponsored by World of Tanks to co-host the Imperial War Museum’s War Games Jam. The War Games Jam asked participating teams to create an innovative […]
We are delighted to announce that HGN will be hosting a workshop at DiGRA 2023 in Seville, Spain on 19 June 2023. Overview In 2016, the Playing with History workshop at the DiGRA/FDG conference saw game scholars and developers present 16 papers on broad themes encompassing historical games. Since then, Historical Game Studies (HGS) has […]
Classical video games are not immune to the ailment most video games suffer from: at best erasing and at worst denigrating and/or abusing women. This becomes increasingly problematic when history is concerned not just because it legitimizes the representations included in the games through association with historical events and – it is present in a historical […]
The next theme for #HGN will be (Post) Colonialism and we’re now looking for proposals! If you would like to contribute to the discussions on the site, please read on! If you have an idea but aren’t too sure whether it fits with the theme please e-mail us. As we move through our current them – […]
If you’re wondering what’s coming up on #HGN, or you would like to contribute to the discussions on the site, read on! As you might already have seen, our first theme – Historical Truth – is now underway, with a first post from our Event Chair, Adam Chapman. You will be able to find content […]
In 2014, while working as a postdoctoral fellow at the LiNCS research centre at the University of Gothenburg, I was given the opportunity to design a course as part of the centre’s fantastic DSES (Doctoral School in Educational Sciences) program. These courses invited PhD students from universities all over the world to come to Sweden […]
What is the Historical Games Network? The Historical Games Network (HGN) brings together academics, game makers and other cultural workers to explore the relationship between history and games, of all kinds and broadly defined. We aim to engage a diversity of perspectives, to support – and offer a platform to – new voices in the […]