https://gamerant.com/games-fans-roman-history-recommendations/

https://www.pscgames.co.uk/total-war-rome

Video games have become increasingly historically accurate. It is not surprising that they are being used as a learning tool, especially for a generation more accustomed to these games. The game “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” has a historical plot set in ancient Greece (431-422 BC) during the Peloponnesian War.

“Associate professor Andrew Denning says that the increasing sophistication of history-based video games and the growing number of professional historians who themselves  grew up on such games are making inroads on long-held skepticism about using such methods in the learning process.”

https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/15/ancient-greek-history-video-games-part-college-curricula/

I’m not a gamer, but it is good to see one of the currently more popular games is based on Greek mythology:

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“Hades features far more than the most famous and recognizable names from Greek mythology like Zeus and Athena–the game is stacked with deep references across ancient mythology, building its plot on real relationships between characters like the Fury sisters Megaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone.”

https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/01/hades-game-greek-mythology/

I'm part of the team currently working on The Forgotten City, a game that transports you back in time 2000 years to first century Rome.

We made this Roman villa with the help of historical consultants, but would welcome and appreciate some feedback on it's authenticity from you all 🙂

1. She is pale skinned, caucasoid, has built a body sexy by modern standards, fit, has breasts that are mildly bigger than the average size, and she is tall.

2. Her long straight hair is completely dyed with slightly dark green.

3. Her finger nails are painted with slightly dark green.

4. She wears a sleeveless backless top which covers most of her upper body down to the waist except the back and the arms. The whole top is colored moderate green. The top has no shoulder straps cause the straps are like that of a bra which means they are around the back. Also, the top has another strap that goes around the back of her waist in order to support the lower part of the top. The chest part of the top is shaped like that of a bra which means that it is shaped like that of a woman's breasts. This is also because the chest part of the top is also the one holding her breasts. The breasts shaped chest part of the top is colored slightly dark green and is made of leather. The breasts shaped chest part of the top exposes the upper parts of her breasts a bit (but not the nipples) cause the upper breasts shaped chest part of the top is essentially just a leather bra.

5. She wears a slightly dark green long skirt with two full slits on both sides which exposes both of her thighs. The slits almost reach her waist which kind of expose her buttocks. Since it is a long skirt with two full slits on both sides, that means that the long front garment part and the long back garment part of the long skirt are separated from each other and are not connected. The long front garment part of the long skirt has a cloth covered mildly heavy object hanging from below it and the back front garment part of the long skirt also has its own cloth covered mildly heavy object hanging from below it so that both the front part and the back part of the long skirt wouldn't swing wildly when a strong wind blows. This is because if the front part and the back part of the long skirt swings wildly by a strong wind, it will expose the young woman's panties which will cause great embarrassment for her. The long skirt is completely disconnected from the top of the foreign young woman which sometimes exposes the foreign young woman's belly button a bit.

6. She wears boots and fingerless gloves which are both colored moderate green.

7. Her socks are the same length as her boots and her boots' length is pretty much just ⅓ of her lower legs from the feet which means that ⅔ of the skin of her lower legs from the knees and the whole skin of her whole thighs are exposed. Her socks are moderate green.

8. She wears panties that are slightly dark green. Also, despite the breasts shaped chest part of her top being essentially a leather bra, she has another bra behind the breasts shaped chest part of her top and is her real bra that is colored slightly dark green.

9. She is not xenophobic and is actually friendly. She has no fear when it comes to interacting with foreign cultures.

10. She learned to speak fluent ancient Latin and ancient Greek despite them not being her native languages.

11. She carries two knives, two brass knuckles, a broadsword, and a polearm blade because she is an expert in some kind of foreign martial arts so she can at least defend herself in dangerous situations. As a volunteer female gladiator, she has brutally defeated and brutally killed many volunteer warlike northern barbarian male warriors such as Thracians, Illyrians, Celts, and Germans and many Hellenic male warriors such as Greek hoplites and Roman Legionnaires in the Roman Colosseum. She has also successfully defeated and brutally killed entire gangs and armies of bandits and pirates that tried to victimize her in the streets of Rome and in the seas and this became a rumour that spread quickly throughout all parts of the ancient pagan Roman Empire.

12. She is great at singing and dancing. She is an expert in non-Hellenic foreign sexy wild graceful energetic forms of dancing.

Moderate green is different from slightly dark green cause moderate green is normal green while slightly dark green is slightly darker.

She also has her own theme song and the theme song is this in the link below. Listen to it. It is on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/FXWBbEBkjp0

This is the original lyrics for the song:

[Verse 1]

Tojikaketa doa no mukou te wo sashi nobasu naita koe

Tonari no oto ni furi muite kieta

Kotaemo shiranai ikari bakari de kaki midasareta sekai aga akaku mieteiku

Yume ga kurikaeshiteiku youni mezameta

[Pre-Chorus]

Hanareta hitoriga tsunaida Komochi wa itami wo oshieta

[Chorus]

I only have one more hand left that I can play

There ain’t no time so let’s do it now, I say

I’m on a wave, yeah!

A sea of flames!

My soul is still the same

But it has many names!

Oh…

[Verse 2]

Why don’t you show me how much you love

To rain down fire from high above?

It keeps on flowing on and on

Through your heart

I can see through the steam

It’s getting hot in the dust

The bullets whiz through the air

Is it curtains for us?

You gonna trust

They’re gonna tear your world apart

Piece by piece

[Pre-Chorus]

A thundercloud

Thundercloud

Hammer is beating loud

Soon it be coming down

[Chorus]

I only have one more hand left that I can play

There ain’t no time so let’s do it now, I say

I’m on a wave, yeah!

A sea of flames!

My soul is still the same

But it has many names!

Oh…

[Chorus]

I only have one more hand left that I can play

There ain’t no time so let’s do it now, I say

I’m on a wave, yeah!

A sea of flames!

My soul is still the same

But it has many names!

Oh…

She has translated this song into two languages and the languages are ancient Greek and ancient Latin.

She has a wireless molar mic that can be put inside the mouth so it will not be seen. She also has a music player and two very loud loudspeakers. In order to supply the music player, the two loudspeakers, and the wireless molar mic with electrical power, she has a solar power recharger and an electrical generator that can produce electricity. She got all of these from a time traveler.

She uses the music player in order to play her theme songs in Greek and Latin. She uses the loudspeakers in many streets of the ancient Roman Empire even in front of the many diverse pagans of the ancient Roman Empire. There are times where she uses the instrumental version of the songs so that she can use the wireless molar mic to sing the Greek lyrics and the Latin lyrics and not let the music player do all the singing which is kind of like singing in Karaoke but the background music is pretty much the same as in the original music and not modified and degraded like in Karaoke. She mostly dances sexily and sings loud and sexily in ancient Greek and ancient Latin in many streets of the ancient Roman Empire in front of the various diverse pagan crowds. She does not want to entertain them but she just loves singing and dancing and she does not care what others think of her. Her dances are non-Hellenic foreign sexy alluring wild graceful energetic forms of dancing. It's as if she is alluring people with her dance but she actually does not mean to allure people cause the truth is that her dance forms are just sexy and she is actually not trying to allure anybody.

Keep in mind that she fought as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum while she is wearing her extremely foreign fashion that I wrote above.

So how will the ancient Roman pagans react to these very foreign characteristics and her badass accomplishments as a warrior in the ancient Colosseum, the Roman streets, and the seas? How will the ancient Romans socialize and interact with her? How will the ancient pagan Romans react to her music and her dancing and singing sexily in many streets of the ancient pagan Roman Empire? I just want to know how culturally sensible the ancient pagan Romans are. Keep in mind that these are ancient PAGANS in the Roman Empire and not ancient CHRISTIANS in the ancient Roman Empire cause those two groups are very different culturally, socially, mentally, and morally.

I know this is a weird question but I just want to know how culturally sensible the ancient pagan Romans are.

I'm developing an indie game called A Legionary's Life. It follows the events of the Second Punic War from a Roman soldier's perspective. The game starts right after Scipio's landing in Spain and the current early access version ends after Zama. The full game is planned to include the Second Macedonian War, too.

There's also a free demo, which roughly covers the first three years of the campaign.

I'd really appreciate any feedback from the UNRV community. It would be great discussing my game with you.

https://legionaryslife.com

I am ahowl11. My name says HRTW Mod Leader but that was an old name and if I can just have it changed to ahowl11 I'd appreciate it!

Anyways, I am the leader of a mod called Rome Total Realism. It is a mod for the computer game, Rome: Total War.

http://www.rometotalrealism.org/

The old RTR teams are gone now, and a new one has arisen with me starting the RTR Project. Our mod will be on a grand scale focusing on the entire history of the Greco-Roman world from the Rise of Alexander to the Fall of Rome.

Right now we are only in our sixth month of development, but we already have a release out!

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?643025-RTR-Project-Imperial-Campaign-v0-5-Released!

Also a friend of ours has been playing it and posting his campaign to youtube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhjRGtB_rFAygivDhEZwd-ph48Rfg3fkm

For our next version we are concentrating on the world of the Roman Republic and Hellenistic Kingdoms from 280 BC to the Marian Reforms. We are thinking about ending the game right before the Cimbri and Tetones made their invasion.

We are in need of people who know their history on this time frame! Whether it be political, military, or geographical. The map will stretch from Iberia to India, and from Scandinavia to Ethiopia. We are looking to have a very diverse world filled with troop types, cities, characters and Kingdoms.

Also if anyone here has 2d or 3d graphics talent, we are also in need of those skillsets!

Please comment below or message me if you are interested

regards,

~ahowl11

Cant wait till it comes out...

http://www.totalwar.com/attila

More pics and info here

Lo, now the din of the Races sounds about me! My ears are smitten with sudden and general cheering. But this does not upset my thoughts or even break their continuity. I can endure an uproar with complete resignation. The medley of voices blended in one note sounds to me like the dashing of waves, or like the wind that lashes the tree-tops, or like any other sound which conveys no meaning.

Pliny the younger, Letters, 9,6

I have spent these several days past, in reading and writing, with the most pleasing tranquillity imaginable. You will ask, "How that can possibly be in the midst of Rome?" It was the time of celebrating the Circensian games: an entertainment for which I have not the least taste. They have no novelty, no variety to recommend them, nothing, in short, one would wish to see twice. It does the more surprise me therefore that so many thousand people should be possessed with the childish passion of desiring so often to see a parcel of horses gallop, and men standing upright in their chariots. 

If, indeed, it were the swiftness of the horses, or the skill of the men that attracted them, there might be some pretence of reason for it. But it is the dress1 they like; it is the dress that takes their fancy. And if, in the midst of the course and contest, the different parties were to change colours, their different partisans would change sides, and instantly desert the very same men and horses whom just before they were eagerly following with their eyes, as far as they could see, and shouting out their names with all their might. Such mighty charms, such wondrous power reside in the colour of a paltry tunic! 

And this not only with the common crowd (more contemptible than the dress they espouse), but even with serious-thinking people. When I observe such men thus insatiably fond of so silly, so low, so uninteresting, so common an entertainment, I congratulate myself on my indifference to these pleasures: and am glad to employ the leisure of this season upon my books, which others throw away upon the most idle occupations.

So do I say while it seems that Gallia Belgica might go further in this worldcup they seem to have in a far away land

The forthcoming Roman Empire history show from the series 13 Days Of Blood will arrive in 2015 with the producer Stephen David promising "true interaction with real history."

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It's currently work in progress, many things to update.
Too me, games can help with learning things via association, as well as being entertaining.



 

The game is currently in development, but when it is finished it will be available to download for free.

Here's a link to the games' website:

Wildfiregames - Zero AD

The site conatins videos, historical articles and a photo gallery.

I'm advertising my game, it's been open since 2008 and it's not accurate. Might not be what you guys like in a game but I'll post it and let you decide that.

I asked for permission to post a link on these forums and it was granted. Check with the webmaster if you have doubts. I am not a spam-bot.

The link:

Roman Senate Simulation

The game is up, and we're in a sort of beta testing stage to make sure the game is balanced. Still, that's no reason not to join in. The pace of the game is meant to be fairly slow. My storyline team agrees we don't want players to feel like they're grinding away in an MMO. But there's still plenty to do and we're always open to suggestions.

It costs nothing to play but your time.

I'm an amateur php programmer from Kentucky. When I'm not programming I'm building roads and airport runways. So this is basically my hobby.

If you have any questions please ask.

thanks.

I am new to the forum but a long time lurker. Recenlty put out my own alternate history rpg set during the reign of Caligula. Thought it may be of interest to some of the posters here. The game is called Servants of Gaius and built around the premise that Caligula was really a god:

Servants of Gaiud PDF

Brendan