Board Games, Gamification, and the Cultural Transmission of History: Constructing Narratives of the Past in Orthogonal

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

How do we tell stories about the past? Historical-themed board games provide one such avenue for transmitting history. With the rise of independent publishers and crowdsourced publishing, recent opportunities to broaden the narrative and creative scope of these types of games have expanded exponentially. Since the act of gaming facilitates interactions across social boundaries, board games provide a unique method for shared heritage storytelling and knowledge transmission. This presentation therefore seeks to understand the different ways modern board games interpret history, typify or deviate from historical narratives, and ultimately gamify history in order to create shared knowledge about the past.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36415.0