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JFV Hiriart

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Contact

Name:

JFV Hiriart

Email:

J.F.V.Hiriart@salford.ac.uk

Department:

School of Arts & Media

Organisation:

University of Salford

Address:

Room 3.27, Salford University, Media City UK, Salford Quays, M50 2HE

Country:

United Kingdom

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Biography

Expertise:

Games studies, Digital design and production, Games programming, Games art, Concept art

Job title:

Lecturer in Computer and Videogames

Biography:

After my graduation as a designer in 1994, I worked in a broad range of creative industries, acquiring experience in illustration, animation, motion graphics, and interactive design. From 2000 to 2002 I worked as a Lead Multimedia Developer within the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where I had the opportunity to work closely with one of the biggest Television broadcasters in Chile. In 2003, I directed a Centre of Research and Development of Learning Resources within the same institution, where I had the opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary team of educators, psychologists, and designers joining efforts to produce innovative learning materials for pre-scholar, primary and adult’s education. In 2008 I decided to specialise in Games design and development, doing a MSc in Creativemore...

Qualifications:

Ph.D. (c) in Games and Digital History. University of Salford, School of Arts and Media. M.Sc. in Creative Games, University of Salford, School of Media, Art and Design (2008) B.A. in Design, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, School of Art and Design (1994) Other education Doctoral Course. Historical Representation on Games. University of Gothenburg (2014)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1.	The game of making an archaeology game : proposing a design framework for historical game design	156	117
2.	Gaming the past : designing and using digital games as historical learning contexts	146	132
3.	Designing and using digital games as historical learning contexts for primary school classrooms	143	32
4.	Playing with taskscapes : representing medieval life through video games technologies	111	46
5.	Designing and using game environments as historical learning contexts	109	25
6.	Surviving the Middle Ages : notes on crafting gameplay for a digital historical game	104	53
7.	Can we build it? Using experimental prototyping and iterative development for historical game design	81	67
8.	Andrew Reinhard. 2018. Archaeogaming: an introduction to archaeology in and of video games	80	187
9.	Bringing things to life : understanding everyday life through the procedural representation of material culture in historical video games	67	36
10.	Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games	53

My Latest

Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2021, 'Playing with taskscapes : representing medieval life through video games technologies' , in: The Middle Ages in Modern Culture: History and Authenticity in Contemporary Medievalism , New Directions in Medieval Studies , Bloomsbury, pp. 174-185.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2021, 'Life was really hard! Designing and using digital games to explore medieval life in primary schools' , in: Return to the interactive past : archaeology, heritage and videogames , Sidestone Press, Leiden, pp. 157-171.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2020, Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games , in: The Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference, 30th June-3rd July 2020, Online (Twitter).
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2020, How to be a “good” Anglo-Saxon : designing and using historical videogames in primary schools , in: Communicating the Past in the Digital Age Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Methods in Teaching and Learning in Archaeology (12th-13th October 2018), 12th-13th October 2018, University of Cologne.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2019, 'Designing and using digital games as historical learning contexts for primary school classrooms' , in: Historia Ludens : The Playing Historian , Routledge Approaches to History , Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, United Kingdom, pp. 37-53.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2019, 'Andrew Reinhard. 2018. Archaeogaming: an introduction to archaeology in and of video games' , Antiquity, 93 (368) , pp. 551-553.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2019, Gaming the past : designing and using digital games as historical learning contexts , PhD thesis, University of Salford.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2018, The game of making an archaeology game : proposing a design framework for historical game design , in: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) International Conference, 19-23 March 2018, Tübingen, Germany.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2018, Bringing things to life : understanding everyday life through the procedural representation of material culture in historical video games , in: PLAY/PAUSE Symposium, 24th January 2018, University of Birmingham, Birmingham.
Hiriart, JFV ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-684X 2017, Designing and using game environments as historical learning contexts , in: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference (CAA 2017), 14-16 March 2017, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.