Just added an early version of my chapter “Games People Dig: Are They Archaeological Experiences, Systems or Arguments?” in the Communicating the Past Book.
Every chapter is full open access. For book see https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bch/
researchgate.net/publication/33 CC-BY 4.0.
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).
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