PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com https://gamingthepast.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mvfzvn2iwk2eDelighted by the interest people outside my network showed for this over the weekend, thought I'd remind all of you who are. Potentially interesting for anyone designing games abt goal-oriented people (Player agents) in a world full of other agents, resources, obstacles, etc., making decisions. https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Historical-Games-for-Classrooms-A-Practical-Guide-for-Educators/McCall/p/book/978103259595513 Sep 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvfzvn2iwk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mv6hdl2fe227Latest CCDS Design Lab Diary on our new program: teaching students to research and design agential problem space games about modern issues. This entry reports on last week's class and includes the durable skills involved in getting students to learn complex board games. https://gamingthepast.net/2026/09/10/the-value-of-complex-gameplay-and-a-reinforcement-of-the-agential-problem-space-gameccds-design-lab-diary-3/10 Sep 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6hdl2fe227https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mv6hdl2fe227Latest CCDS Design Lab Diary on our new program: teaching students to research and design agential problem space games about modern issues. This entry reports on last week's class and includes the durable skills involved in getting students to learn complex board games. https://gamingthepast.net/2026/09/10/the-value-of-complex-gameplay-and-a-reinforcement-of-the-agential-problem-space-gameccds-design-lab-diary-3/10 Sep 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6hdl2fe227https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3muttum62rk23My boardgame sections are still underdeveloped (just have had no time), but this morning with coffee I added all the games I have used successfully in class to https://gamingthepast.net/tabletop/world-history-tabletop-sims/06 Sep 2026 11:03 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3muttum62rk23https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mupwbfx2ss23I've had a few people follow me this week from other starter packs, so maybe it's time to circulate this one again. As always, I don't gate keep. As long as you, study or write about or design--and post here sometimes of course--about games about history, I'm happy to add you. go.bsky.app/DCc9miK [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupwbfx2ss23https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3muk52t6lys2tFirst day of Design Lab: quick review of Agential-Problem Spaces (I call them Agent-Based so as not to confuse my 9th grade ducklings) and then a round of learning and playing Roll through the Ages, then a quick Problem Space debrief. Went very, very, well! Design Lab diary entry in a few days!02 Sep 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk52t6lys2thttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mudkq5apg22qIt's poor form to write your own Wikipedia entry, isn't it? ... ... Asking for a friend30 Aug 2026 23:37 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudkq5apg22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mudkq5apg22qIt's poor form to write your own Wikipedia entry, isn't it? ... ... Asking for a friend30 Aug 2026 23:37 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudkq5apg22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mucdgaxois2hHey #wargaming friends, people dipping toes into #HistoricalGameStudies, educators wanting to try out #GamingthePast random folk, whoever. Love it when people reach out with a cold DM/Message/Email and ask a question or for guidance in forays. I get to help and it doesn't involve writing a book!30 Aug 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucdgaxois2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mucc42syp22tYay? Ugh? Just sprucing up my LinkedIn resume. The Cavalry of the Roman Republic was published a quarter-century ago and I received my PhD a quarter-century + 1 year ago. Seriously WTF? https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremiah-mccall-79302527/30 Aug 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucc42syp22thttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3muc7kxiaoc2rVery excited to do this!30 Aug 2026 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3muc7kxiaoc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mu2ql5cz6c2x#gamingthepast [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2ql5cz6c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mtwhx74bvc22CCDS 9th Grade Design Lab Diary #2 LinkedIn with pics of me and students playing King of Tokyo (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498081579680866304/) More detailed report (https://gamingthepast.net/2026/08/25/introducing-ccds-design-lab-and-agent-based-problem-spaces-to-the-ninth-graders-dl-diary-2/)25 Aug 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwhx74bvc22https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mtwhx74bvc22CCDS 9th Grade Design Lab Diary #2 LinkedIn with pics of me and students playing King of Tokyo (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498081579680866304/) More detailed report (https://gamingthepast.net/2026/08/25/introducing-ccds-design-lab-and-agent-based-problem-spaces-to-the-ninth-graders-dl-diary-2/)25 Aug 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwhx74bvc22https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mtoogt2gd22aHey friends, starting a weekly journal entry on new Cincinnati Country Day School 9th Grade Design Lab on LinkedIn and started with a first post today. Ppted for LinkedIn bc much longer character limit & connections to SW Ohio educators who may be especially interested. Love to see you there though! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremiah-mccall-79302527_dl-post-1-very-excited-to-introduce-the-activity-7496961696746504192-2J3O?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAWFOB8BxhvcX9vA8bn-FujhXvCoz7g60nY22 Aug 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoogt2gd22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mtqn3jryss2mTheoretically my Gamingthepast.net posts get published here, but I don't see it so ... I decided to go with a more detailed diary post (thank LinkedIn, where I will post shorter ones) for the Cincinnati Country Day School Design Lab on my site. https://gamingthepast.net/2026/08/23/welcome-to-design-lab-dl-diary-1/23 Aug 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqn3jryss2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mtoogt2gd22aHey friends, starting a weekly journal entry on new Cincinnati Country Day School 9th Grade Design Lab on LinkedIn and started with a first post today. Ppted for LinkedIn bc much longer character limit & connections to SW Ohio educators who may be especially interested. Love to see you there though! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremiah-mccall-79302527_dl-post-1-very-excited-to-introduce-the-activity-7496961696746504192-2J3O?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAWFOB8BxhvcX9vA8bn-FujhXvCoz7g60nY22 Aug 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoogt2gd22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mtj4evdxf22qThey arrived!20 Aug 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtj4evdxf22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mt6ysy2wjc2l🗃️ #AncientBluesky educators, just a psa that my Designing Historical Games -- for classroom educators making historical boardgames and choice-based texts for classes AND guiding students to make them-- is out just in time for Semester 1. https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Historical-Games-for-Classrooms-A-Practical-Guide-for-Educat/McCall/p/book/978103259595516 Aug 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt6ysy2wjc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mt6ysy2wjc2l🗃️ #AncientBluesky educators, just a psa that my Designing Historical Games -- for classroom educators making historical boardgames and choice-based texts for classes AND guiding students to make them-- is out just in time for Semester 1. https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Historical-Games-for-Classrooms-A-Practical-Guide-for-Educat/McCall/p/book/978103259595516 Aug 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt6ysy2wjc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mt4uo7nejc27Hey friends, how about a Designing Historical Games for the Classroom edition of ask-me-anything ? So that would be designing boardgames, interactive choice-based history texts, rpgs, (videogames of course but that is not core to this book)and/or helping students design them in for classes. https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Historical-Games-for-Classrooms-A-Practical-Guide-for-Educat/McCall/p/book/978103259595515 Aug 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4uo7nejc27https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3mt4uo7nejc27Hey friends, how about a Designing Historical Games for the Classroom edition of ask-me-anything ? So that would be designing boardgames, interactive choice-based history texts, rpgs, (videogames of course but that is not core to this book)and/or helping students design them in for classes. https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Historical-Games-for-Classrooms-A-Practical-Guide-for-Educat/McCall/p/book/978103259595515 Aug 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4uo7nejc27https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3msstmebwrs2oAnyone read any of my book yet and have something kind to say for all that work (let's save the unkind for after maelstrom of school start -- or maybe just nothing unkind?) ??????? Haven't even gotten my copy yet. https://www.routledge.com/Designing-Historical-Games-for-Classrooms-A-Practical-Guide-for-Educat/McCall/p/book/978103259595511 Aug 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3msstmebwrs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3msnhwg2hrk2aNo one interested in education, in humanities, in what constitutes knowledge, in true collective learning in societies and critical (as in critical thinking critical) of LLM AI in those systems and its impact should skip this article by Ishani Ray and @olivia.science Really. It's that important! 1/ https://zenodo.org/records/2122297809 Aug 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:6uvikjdpslrjorbrxflmow53/app.bsky.feed.post/3msnhwg2hrk2a