Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Did I mention it also has trains? And yes. Big gap in the history, so I felt I needed to do something about it. 010 1
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have yet to talk to GMT about this. I’m hoping I might get to talk to them when I take it to Sand Diego in November… 120 2
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026RPI comes to mind. @writegameread.bsky.social might be worth talking to. 130 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Bolshevik, White, Anarchists, Ukrainian Nationalists, and a non-player Green faction 020 2
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have nothing to do with that game. This is my design using, but also adapting, the COIN system. 100 1
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Busy weekend at the graphic design coalface polishing maps for prototype games I’ll be bringing to @sdhistcon.bsky.social 2102 10
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Indeed, now what? www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...insidehighered.comAgentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses. Now What?A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole po... 020 2
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Not really. I teach this course every semester. This is just the first trip out for the cart for 2026. 010 1
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026New semester so my game fart gets its first trip out for my wargaming class. Which five games do you think got checked out first? 190 9
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I teach a course in wargaming at Clarkson University. Students play, analyse and design games. The course is incredibly popular. It involves my infamous cart of games to support teaching… 060 6
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Right. Also fountain pens are the way to go. 120 2
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025 But we are both in the realm of supposition. I teach at a tech school so our sample bases may also vary. 130 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025I have a suspicion that students are mostly not admitting to their gen-AI usage. 250 5
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025… - fast-paced, easy to learn, but most importantly fun. From feedback, and from watching students play , the approach seems to be very successful. Students are talking more than ever in First Year Seminar, they are laughing, having fun, and the ice is well and truly broken. 080 8
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Earlier this year I came up with an idea to use a common game as a touchstone for all incoming first year students at @ClarksonUniv, and we are giving it a go this academic year. This week every new first year student will have played it. The game I selected is Coup… 1120 12
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Cart is loaded for the first day of classes! Which games do you think students will borrow to play first? 040 4
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025This summer I have learned to develop blueprints in Unreal Engine. I have got to the point where I have this functioning, and a plan to integrate digital wargame design into my teaching. 030 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Teaching starts next week so it’s time to get the cart ready. 090 9
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Something exciting coming for wargaming in Northern New York… 020 2
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I have all of Ogre. Great introduction and small as you note. I have things with figures - Memoir 44 always goes over well, but students do note that Axis and Allies is tedious to set up. 030 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I know it’s July, but I’m starting to prep for the coming semester and need to load up the cart for my wargaming course. What games should I have on it on day one? 4140 14
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I had a literal fever dream, and came up with an idea for a war game with sheep, called Battlesheep. This is what happens to war gamers who also keep sheep… 170 7
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Student game designs from my Wargaming course, presented at the Research and Project Showcase @ClarksonUniv today. 0121 12
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Exciting new game from @sebastianbae.bsky.social 150 5
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Well, I’m more from the Sydenham and Paxton Green side of the Palace. But also; everything in London is downhill once you are from Crystal Palace 100 1
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Trying to explain to my students that I’m from a part of London called Crystal Palace resulted in some confusion today. 100 1
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The cycler was something I have drawn from. Part of my game involves raiding trains for supply on the lines of communication, but your game helped me figure out dealing with how trains don’t run all the time. 110 1
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I was going to present a COIN design at this conference. On war in Ukraine over 100 years ago. Definitely borrowed a few things from Red Dust Rebellion in my thinking on it… 120 2
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This isn’t even cross border. But it just seems too high risk right now. 010 1
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Prototype finished. Waiting for cards to come from the printer and then onto playtesting! 071 7
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Probably all of that linked to a lack of economic prosperity. 000 0
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The visual correlation of yesterday’s German election results by constituency and a partitioned Germany, 1945-1990, is quite striking. 2431 43
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Current view from the end of the driveway. 030 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Escape from Colditz with a group of highschool students as part of an outreach program. 030 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Happy Cyril and Methodius Day to those who celebrate. 030 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Cover art preview for a game I've been working on. More to come soon... 0120 12
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I find the US Terminology for this conflict odd and confusing as it is one conflict of the Seven Years War which also involved fighting over India. 130 3
Alastair Kocho-Williams @akochowi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Be grateful you got that far. I had my first knee surgery at 36. But solidarity - knee stuff sucks. 010 1