The Middle Ages in Modern Games

It's just a couple of days until the sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! Join us from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 June for a vast range of papers. #MAMG25

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@graismanic Hi! Sorry for the delayed reply - the sessions were recorded, but you'll need to go through the @IMC_Leeds site to find them.

@MidAgesModGames Hi! Will there be recordings of the talks or copies of the papers for people to peruse if they can't make it?

It's just a couple of days until the sixth Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! Join us from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 June for a vast range of papers. #MAMG25

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/announcements/…

If you’re attending the event, come and find us in room 1.09 of the Maurice Keyworth Building on 9 and 10 July. Full programme for 2025 on our website: middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=1157

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.

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

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

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’!

That was all for our last Keynote Lecture! But #MAMG25 is not over yet! 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 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

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!

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...'

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

Final paper for this #MAMG25 session on Globalism and Religion is ‘The Eternal Presence of Holy War: The Procedural Rhetoric of Jihad and Crusade in Total War: Medieval 2’, by Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo. Come read and ask your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=881

Next up is Ron Heckler’s ‘„Denn häufig haben sich auf seinem Wink und Befehl viele von ihnen von einer hohen Mauer hinunter gestürzt [...]“: Die Tradierung des mittelalterlichen Mythos der Nizari Ismailis in Narration und Gameplay in Assassin’s Creed’: middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=981

The Globalism and Religion panel is starting now with a paper on ‘Religious Tensions: The Itatehyōzu Shrine in Assassin's Creed Shadows’ by @tsujihirohito, check it out on the website here: middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=877/ #MAMG25

Just 10 minutes to go before we start our second panel for today, Globalism and Religion, at 12pm (UTC+1)! While you wait, check out all the awesome papers on our website from the last two days of #MAMG25 using the programme with links: middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcements/…

Thanks so much to all our presenters in Friday’s first panel for #MAMG25, Jéssica Iolanda Costa Bispo, Simone Fleres, Roderick Dale and Markus Mindrebø! We have a short rest now, we’ll be back for our second session, Globalism and Religion, at 12pm (UTC+1)!

Third and final paper to close our Witcher panel is ‘Dungeons & Distortions: The Pseudo-Norse berserkir in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’ by Roderick Dale and Markus Mindrebø, check it out and ask your questions in the comments: middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=866/

The second paper of our Witcher panel is now live, ‘The Witcher 3: un viaggio nel tempo e nello spazio dell’Europa medievale’, by Simone Fleres, and is in Italian (with an English translation): middleagesinmoderngames.net/?p=861/