Chronicle

Play through the shocks that kept remaking higher education.

Each chapter gives you one institutional response. The reward is not a win state. It is a pattern you can still recognise in the AI era.

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A stylised poster of the earliest university era.

How to play

Each chapter introduces a historical shock. Pick a response, reveal what universities actually did, then carry the unlocked scarcity badge into the rest of the run.

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NextLicensed teachingThe Guild of Learning

A medieval lecture scene with students and a master in a manuscript-like style.

Shock

Urban revival, church law, and administrative demand pull advanced study into cities.

Inside academia

Masters and students organise as corporate bodies, negotiate privileges, and create the recognisable medieval university.

Typical anxiety

Learning is becoming too mobile, too urban, and too commercial.

Play through the shocks that kept remaking higher education.

Choose how your university reacts