The Long Now of Gaming
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From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Jon Peterson, an author researching the history of Wargames and Role-playing games looks at the long shadow that analog wargames and role-playing have cast on the games of today, and explores connections that let us contextualize modern gaming in a rich tradition of intellectual history.
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