Greetings everyone! I'm going to move forward to creating the final version of Argumentation: A game about how history works as rapidly as possible now, so that when the funds become available through Backerkit I can order a proof  quickly. I will keep you updated as progress on the final version moves forward. Thank you as always for your support.  

I know I keep saying this, but I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. Argumentation is a project near and dear to my heart, and I am eager for it to become a physical object in the world that each of you can hold in your hand and play with your friends. I plan on making that happen as soon as possible. 

In the meantime, if you have any suggestions for the remaining cards, I would very much like to hear them. New Questions about history are of course welcome; but I would also love to hear about additional historical Frames that could go into the final version. In particular, new ways of understanding history that come from non-Western cultures, and information about those who helped to conceptualize them. 

So if you have any suggestions, please send them to [email protected]. I'm going to give everyone a week to send them in, then move rapidly into producing (and sharing) the final version of the game. And thank you again. 

- Jason Walters

 We’re over the top and funded! I can’t wait to email each of you and get your input so we can create the final version together. The next step for me is to figure out *how* to email all of you using Backerkit. If you would like to give me any input before then, my email is [email protected] And thank you once again for your support. – Jason Walters

 Wow; 86% of the way there! Thank you for supporting and believing in this project. It will be a unique addition to your collection, as well as something you can play repeatedly with your friends, examining your beliefs about history each time in a way I hope will be useful in your everyday life. As well as being fun and entertaining, of course! 

Greetings everyone! Here is the last of the original artwork I've commissioned, like the rest from Celina M Castaneda of CMC Fine Art & Illustration. It’s a yet another amazing depiction, this time of American paleontologist, snail biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould.

From the game: "An evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, snail geneticist, historian of science, and professor of zoology at Harvard University. Her argued that in history as in evolution there is no inherent progress, and that humanity is not inevitably marching toward anything better than what it had before. Most people disagree with Gould, while doing their very best to prove him right."

Gould represents the view that history has no direction or pattern. 

From the game: "There is no pattern to history. Periods of accomplishment are followed by periods of decay. 'Progress' is mostly a myth; there is nothing inevitable about it. The simple passage of time improves nothing. Does your room become clean because you patiently stare at it?"