Games People Dig: Are They Archaeological Experiences, Systems or Arguments?

Erik Malcolm Champion

doi:10.5334/bch.b

Games People Dig: Are They Archaeological Experiences, Systems or Arguments?

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One of the many but important dilemmas we may encounter in designing or critiquing games for archaeology (Champion 2015) is determining the why: why we should develop, buy, play, and teach specific games for the above disciplines. For archaeology, I propose there is a further important trifurcation: games aiming to convey an experience of archaeology (Hiriart 2018); games aiming to show how systems, methods, findings, and unknowns interact either to produce that experience; or games revealing what is unknown or debated (how knowledge is established or how knowledge is contested).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Communicating the Past in the Digital Age
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology (12-13th October 2018)
Editors	Sebastian Hageneuer
Place of Publication	UK
Publisher	Ubiquity Press
Pages	13-25
ISBN (Electronic)	9781911529859, 9781911529866
ISBN (Print)	9781911529842
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/bch.b
Publication status	Published - 6 Feb 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology 2018 - University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Duration: 12 Oct 2018 → 13 Oct 2018

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Conference	International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology 2018
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Cologne
Period	12/10/18 → 13/10/18

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Champion, EM 2020, Games People Dig: Are They Archaeological Experiences, Systems or Arguments? in S Hageneuer (ed.), Communicating the Past in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology (12-13th October 2018). Ubiquity Press, UK, pp. 13-25, International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology 2018, Cologne, Germany, 12/10/18. https://doi.org/10.5334/bch.b

Games People Dig: Are They Archaeological Experiences, Systems or Arguments? / Champion, Erik Malcolm.
Communicating the Past in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology (12-13th October 2018). ed. / Sebastian Hageneuer. UK: Ubiquity Press, 2020. p. 13-25.

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