Game and Interactive Software Scholarship Toolkit (GISST)

The Game and Interactive Software Scholarship Toolkit (GISST) is a system for citing the run-time state of computer game emulators and retrieving those states in a web browser. It was co-created with Dr. Joseph C. Osborn of Pomona College in 2015-2017. GISST developed out of the Game and Metadata Citation Project (GAMECIP) and resulted in numerous publications, including an interactive example in Digital Humanities Quarterly in 2021.

The GISST project was recently funded thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More information can be found on its dedicated project website.