Play History Games

History Games Critical Play Sessions (Table Top History Based Games)

Join Professors Lawler and Smith, and your fellow students as we play and investigate the meaning and questions that history based card and table-top games explore. We meet every other week, to play history based games, have a good time, establish a sense of community, and every once in a while discuss the games that we’re playing. Each meeting we bring a variety of games from lighter fun historical fare like Salem, where witches rule the table and the townsfolk fearfully try to kill them, to games like Gugong or Western Legends that are bit more complicated but no less fun.

If you are at all interested in joining a group of your peers to explore the nature and employment of history in the medium of games, email either of Professor Lawler or Smith (sean.smith@csulb.edu or jeffrey.lawler@csulb.edu) or join us in LA3 106 at 6:30 p.m. January 30, February 13 and 27, March 13 and 27, April 10 and 24 and finally May 8.

CSULB Center for the History of Video Games and Critical Play

The Center is a collaborative, interdisciplinary space where a researchers, students and a community of gamers at CSULB can engage in an interdisciplinary approach to the critical study and teaching of video games and culture. The Center's mission is to foster game pedagogy and research throughout the university, and develop productive interactions between disciplines, students, scholars, gamers, and the general public.