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@robehoughton.bsky.socialReposted by @midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIf you missed any of the papers in this weeks @midagesmodgames.bsky.social Asynchronous Conference, you can still find them (and engage with them) over on the website: middleagesinmoderngames.net/category/mam...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialAnd it's time for the closing remarks! Thanks to everyone who gave papers for #MAMG26! The conference chatter is still ongoing so please do go in and keep asking questions of our presenters.
Thank you all so much and see you next year!
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialAnd for our very last paper of #MAMG26 (though do stick around for the closing remarks!) we have @robehoughton.bsky.social on "The Problem with Paladins" - what effect do these pseudo-crusaders have on our gaming?
![Various Paladins: Keldorn Firecam (Baldur’s Gate II) [Baldur’s Gate Fandom.com], Pallegina mes Rèi (Pillars of Eternity) [Pillars of Eternity Fandom.com], and Casavir (Neverwinter Nights 2) [NWN2 Fandom.com]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:c7h7srmhehcqmrqfoqn2mn7f/bafkreiejjhawycflftyl5uzcv34jvjay4nwc4hhnzgkht2vgfcngime6li@jpeg)
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIn our penultimate paper of #MAMG26, Marcus Jensen looks at the alchemical connection between the characters of Radagon and Marika in Elden Ring and asks how this reflects the gender division (or lack of it) between them: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/agend...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialOur final session of #MAMG26 is on "Alchemy and deviance"! It starts with Peter Färberböck discussing the role of blood between the medieval world and modern gaming: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/the-s...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIn our final paper on presentisms and nostalgia, Yahuai Lu explores Fallout: New Vegas' competing ideas of a New Rome, and the use of contested anachronism to work through contemporary political anxieties: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/when-...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIn our second presentisms and nostalgia paper, Yaraslau Kot examines medievalism as propaganda and counter-propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian War, looking at the clash of Russian state narratives of Slavic heritage and their Ukrainian deconstructions: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/virtu...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialOur penultimate #MAMG26 panel has three papers on Nostalgia and presentism. We start with Kristina Wittkamp, discussing the binary of feminine hearth and masculine warrior identity in game reflections of medieval Rus: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/betwe...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialOur second and last #MAMG26 gender panel paper has Hanjun Shi turning to Uncharted Waters IV where Huamei Maria Li's character provides a complication of narratives around colonisation and maritime control: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/i-do-...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialWe kick off our third and final day of #MAMG26 with our session on gender - in the first of our two papers Kurtis Pope looks at how Diablo IV's Lilith complicates medievalist ideas of the monstrous feminine: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/queen...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialThe final day of #MAMG26 is starting over on middleagesinmoderngames.net in just a few minutes! Please head over and join in the discussions - panels on gender, nostalgia, and ideas of deviance in game medievalisms all to come today!
@arkeologian.bsky.socialReposted by @midagesmodgames.bsky.socialThat's me!
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialThat's our last paper for today, but the floor is still absolutely open for comments and questions to all our speakers, so do head over to middleagesinmoderngames.net and ask any questions you might have to our scholars and experts!
We'll be back tomorrow with the last day of #MAMG26 papers!
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIn our last paper of #MAMG26 day two, Ian Regueiro-Salcedo discusses agency, memory and micro-history in Pentiment, and how the game presents the player with choices around constructing historiographies: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/when-...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialLast session of day two, and we're on lore and ingame histories, with Ricardo Santana arguing that trade and merchant caravans are a key part of building the sense of Tamriel as a medievalist world: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/some-...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialFor our next #MAMG26 paper, we move to the tabletop as Hannah Victoria explores how medievalism can be used as a stand-in for hegemonic institutionalism in a modern D&D context: middleagesinmoderngames.net/uncategorize...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIn our next Morality and Ideology #MAMG26 paper, Quangang Lee looks at Wind Fantasy III and IV and argues that they take a distinct reappropriation of medievalist tropes to build unconventional narratives around faith: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/reima...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialWe now move to a session on Morality and Ideology, starting with Johansen Quijano on Final Fantasy XVI - he looks at whether its nature is more early modern than medieval, and why that might matter: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/betwe...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIn our last Analogue approaches paper, Jakub Ivanecky looks at the medievalism and horror intersection in Magic: The Gathering's Innistrad and its evocations of gothic medievalism and the Cathars: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/the-d...
@midagesmodgames.bsky.socialIn our second paper on Analogue perspectives, Thom Gobbitt (@booksoflaw.bsky.social) explores his concept of "Lawplay", looking at the use of speculative and TTRPG style setups to explore the possibility space of early medieval law codes: middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg26/from-...
