Replicas of Ruins

What we do

Replicas of Ruins provides consulting services, reissues historic games, and creates new games and related media, events, and experiences.

Consulting

We design, test, and implement game-based experiences and gamified systems. Our approach is human-centered and grounded in ethics.

Editions

Replicas of Ruins Editions are reissues of historic games. We partner with archives to highlight the significance of select titles, making them available to the public.

Originals

Replicas of Ruins Originals are games, experiences, events, and anything else we create. Have a project you’d like to collaborate on? Drop us a line.

About

Replicas of Ruins takes a humanities-based approach to games and gamification. Drawing on more than a decade of experience researching and designing games and gamification, we produce new games, reissue old games, and consult on a diversity of projects that want to implement game elements.

Who

Carly A. Kocurek

Founder and Principal

Carly A. Kocurek is a game designer, researcher, and historian. Her scholarly work has formed the basis for two books, Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade and Brenda Laurel: Pioneering Games for Girls. Her games have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and Paste magazine called Choice: Texas "one of the best games of 2014." She founded Replicas of Ruins in 2018 as an umbrella for her consulting and public projects. You can read more about her and her academic work at her personal site.

Games Consultancy