Jeremiah McCall (he/him)
PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net
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- Path of Honors 1.21 had the wrong multiplayer rules. Here's the fixed 1.25 gamingthepast.net/wp-content/u...
- This may be, in fact, my favorite stupid AI generated false-intimacy-with-my-book scam email I've gotten, and I've gotten so many emails about making my books a star this past few months. Seriously WTH did this start? Give it a read.
- Hi friends, can I ask a favor? I really need blind playtesting and feedback of Path of Honors Roll-N-Write. More than my usual put it out there & hope someone plays. Solo player should be robust but it really needs not-me people to play (multiplayer even more so). Anyone up to it? So grateful! 1/
- Hey the episode where I get to gush about Designing Historical Games, the book is up on @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social podcast!!! Always such a pleasure, Liz! Thanks so much for letting me share this labor of love! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEcg... if you want to see our faces.
- It's that time of year again. We've finished my Rhetoric and Revolution in 10th grade modern world. Wrapped up the French Rev Monday and now we play Liberte for two days before they write a pretty intense essay comparing and contrasting the two as models of Revolution. #gamingthepast
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- Occurred to me on this podcast everything I use is 2005+ when I'd started doing talks on videogames & leaned into my school having laptops. Roll through through Ages 2008, Grizzled 2015 7 Wonders Architects 2021. Brass Lancashire 2007. Diplomacy such a time sink. Didn't know Liberte til much later
- Hey the episode where I get to gush about Designing Historical Games, the book is up on @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social podcast!!! Always such a pleasure, Liz! Thanks so much for letting me share this labor of love! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEcg... if you want to see our faces.
- MANUSCRIPT AND ALL THE LITTLE DETAILS SENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you everyone who has encouraged and helped me along the way!!!!
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- This is my new quotable of the moment, I drafted in a LinkedIn comment: "It's almost impossible to make an ancient history game, for example, that does not stumble into bad people doing bad things."
- Reposted by Jeremiah McCall (he/him)In the 90th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, we journey all the way back to 1984 to discuss the first published textbook on video game development, Atari legend Chris Crawford's pointed, prescient, and idiosyncratic THE ART OF COMPUTER GAME DESIGN: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/31/9...
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- SUBMISSION DRAFT DONE!!!! Now time for Spellcheck and all the lists and formats and ORCIDs and all that stuff. We're going to make it everyone! Designing Historical Games for Class: A Practical Guide for Educators! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO (okay I have to settle down; there's hours of nit-picky stuff to do)
- @curiousdynamics.bsky.social has released his demo on Steam! I'm so excited to check this out, Dr. Curious 🙂/ Folks, our designer + fellow buddy in historical game interests is a great person & so deserving of having you try this (plus there is nothing like it)! As soon as the book is in I'm on it!
- Reposted by Jeremiah McCall (he/him)Where else could you listen to over 188 hours of ancient Roman history (and counting!)? We’ve been podcasting for many years and we’re thrilled to be still enjoying ancient Rome together and sharing it with you ☺️ #AncientRome #History #Podcast 🏺🎙️
- High school history teacher here. Abso freaking lutely
- Reposted by Jeremiah McCall (he/him)Some academic habits are maladaptive in wider society. But “cite your sources every time” — and information literacy habits more generally — deserves to be educational priority number one right now
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Jeremiah McCall (he/him)This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
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- Just a reminder as we all get snowed in and want to think about historical games, this recording of a talk I gave (remotely) in Ukraine dropped a few weeks ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oE...
- Reposted by Jeremiah McCall (he/him)In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
- Just a reminder. 6-7 PM EST 1/27 and Virtual + Open to all. Even if I weren't on the panel I'd say it's a great topic with clearly great people.
- Would love to see some of my BSky friends there digitally!
- Let's GO!!!!!!! Entered all edits of major edit 2(i.e. last) on Ch. 2-9. Some short appendices edits to enter, make all my silly diagrams properly & get pic approvals, then write intro Ch 1 & Preface (I'm really excited to give myself a preface). So ... ON TRACK FOR 2/2/26 (In Europe that's 2/2/26🙂)
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- Reposted by Jeremiah McCall (he/him)If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
- Hey @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social (@volko.bsky.social ?) or anyone from @gmtgames.bsky.social (or published by): I'd really like to use an image of gameboard in Twilight Struggle in Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators. Anyone have an appropriate email address?
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- Hi all; had considerable success with A2.0 of Rhetoric and Revolution a game abt French National Assembly 1790-91 Politicking to draft Consitution of 1791. Posted print-and-play components on site. Would love feedback & will help you get started however I can. 🗃️ #gamingthepast
- Hey can someone do me a favor and try printing out the record sheet in my Path of Honors prototype? It seems to print fine resolutionally for me, but maybe not for others? I'd be grateful if some gracious soul checked it. gamingthepast.net/wp-content/u...
- I gave this talk (remotely)in Ukraine last summer. It's a talk based on my 2024 Thersites article. If you are interested in analyzing historical games using HPS framework, it's a good talk for theory & practice. AC Odyssey & Hegemony are my examples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oE...
- Thanks for this Erich! And remember friends, the PNP of this is at GTP and definitely classroom usable. I would love more playtesting feedback though
