Dr. Renard Gluzman is a game designer and a senior lecturer at Shenkar College and a research fellow at the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History. His recent publications include Venetian Shipping from the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453–1571 (Leiden: Brill, 2021); "Ship biographies as a form of microhistory," in Venezia e il senso del mare. Percezioni e rappresentazioni, eds. Ermanno Orlando, Maurice Aymard (Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, VSLA, 2022); id. & Pnueli, Vered, “Fear, Greed, And the Exclusion of the ‘Local’ in the Formation of a Global Gaming Industry in Israel,” in Proceedings to DiGRA 2022: July 7-11, Kraków, Poland.