Uh, something happened. Defence in December. Also, Game Studies Study Buddies to Dissertation pipeline is real, thanks @ckunzelman.bsky.social & @ztul.bsky.social

The best image in my dissertation about avatars, I think.

Your shadow-self is out there, somewhere, lurking. It wears your face but it is NOT you; do not become confused. You will need to identify where it hides and hunt it down. Use a sharp knife and carry salt with you at all times. The heart can be eaten, but at a price.

"I want to thank the metal band Deafheaven for making this dissertation possible."

My partner upon seeing my new double-storied imperial ruins: "So... it’s like a doll house!" She’s not wrong.

Interesting read from @jdragsky.bsky.social , although mostly physical, I do appreciate the call to lean into the irresolvable tensions and simulating the social reality of the characters / alternation between tension, alienation and bleed 🩸

Big-up for Konami’s optimisation of Silent Hill f. My pc is below the specs graphically, but on 1080p it runs really smooth (FSR), with some settings even on high. Alan Wake 2 could never.

Writing my dissertation conclusion.

Smell or listen? Might add the option to close your eyes. #indiegames

just in time to still play this TWO WEEKS INTO HANDING IN MY DISSERTATION about avatars, herewego

Writing this one made me realize I don’t think a lot of typical features of Wholesome or Cozy games are made for individuals like me. I don’t really associate fishing, buying & managing property and being a vendor cozy, for instance.

I wanna become a dictator because we as a society are in a dire need of 100% tax on anything cyberpunk. (Cyberpunk Swingers Party novel cover from one of the contemporary bestselling Czech sci-fi writers, a guy)

My first proper kitbash (combining four different kits) and my first #Warhammer fantasy mini. Nurgle (the god of decay and resilience) afflicted hunter with his plaguehound. The factory original on the right. Kinda happy as kitbashing is a part of hobby I did not do before my 15-year long pause.

out of context capitalism-coded subheadlines

I found it, the Dear Esther theme park (Ireland).

Seminally important bundle alert 🙌 And my game Lost in the Maze of Those Memories I Wander And Nervously Laugh is in there.

A (free) game about Velvet Revolution I co-made (writing/design/sound) won a very beautiful award. Good birthday gift, indeed. @charlesgames.bsky.social www.geeawards.com/blog/velvet-...

Randomly torrenting anime at the age of 16 let me there (my dissertation):

I’m gonna remember "parody bypass" for a while 🙃 artreview.com/space-racism...

I have some issues with it, regarding certain uses of language (addiction) and psychiatry (multiple personality disorder), but Hiroki Azuma in Otaku: Japanese Database Animals did really foresaw Fortniteficiation of everything as peak post-modernism.

My back hurts but ravens #wh40k

I am so back after 16 years. Custom scrap-made terrain, Plague Marines are mine.

(Still don’t know how to handle cz/en schism here, sorry!) POZOR new KRITIKA KAPITALISMU dropped Obor-definující Games of Empire je skvělá kniha i 16 let po vydání. Co znamená ludokapitalismus a biopolitika ve WoW v době kognitariátu? art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/zasad...

In my "phd dissertation to be handed in end of September, why not also write about Baby Steps" era (it rules btw) @devolverdigital.com @babystepsgame.bsky.social

Mixed media about dogs, scans and life in progress #gamedev

On the one hand I’m like, sure, obv. the power fantasy is appealing to Nazis, but I’m 2 missions in & the space marine talk is so cringey (in a good way?) and so funnily stupid that I can’t imagine anybody taking this at face value and being like "my rolemodel, sir Titus"

Yeah, I bet

This is my audience when I was listening to @rangedtouch.bsky.social go at Baudrillard. A second order simulacrum of a derelict battlefield from scraps. open.spotify.com/episode/12s8...

For those looking to be the friend with cool (and unrelatable? (but cool)) taste in games, it's Indiepocalypse #67! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @chia.bsky.social -Cover by Ezra (malenkoste.github.io/carnet/) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-67

It’s in Czech (and I’m thinking about translating these to English, would there be an interest?), but maybe it makes sense machine-translated: Clickolding, @ckunzelman.bsky.social’s mechanics of speculation and power fantasies: art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/cvake... Cc @strangescaffold.bsky.social

I backed this. Still at work. Looking forward to getting home from work and drill- playing this after work. Don’t expect less than signature and impeccable scottish accent.

It is so over lol www2.hm.com/cs_cz/produc...

Hey, I just cut a new video outta our game.

Cara's book is a wildly entertaining read & an invaluable snapshot of an incredibly transformative time in indie game dev & gaming media too. I highly recommend it if you've never read it.

It’s gone. Three years of work by a talented, delightful team. Fittingly, Wheels of Aurelia was also a story about fighting for the very rights that are now being eroded.

"sure, write shorter things" my editor told me. And then I decided to write about Games of Empire.

Nick Dyer-Witherford & Greig De Peuter – Games of Empire (2009)

I guess nothing means anything anymore in the timeline where there’s Spider-Man Magic the gathering

Billionaires be like

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

Me and my bros when we meet someone who is not a historical materialist

Czech fascists looking like 2010s first person shooter villains

@controllerrevolt.bsky.social bangers upon bangers

Best spent import duties in a while @controllerrevolt.bsky.social 💣💥

The disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld, yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all artreview.com/disability-i...

I just learned of Visiongame from artist extraordinary @janpospisil.bsky.social - look how cool this is: visiongame.cz It's a project to map & preserve Czech and Slovak game history - it has over 7,900 games (incluiding cancelled ones) and 2.300 studios, plus dev interviews & extra articles! :D

There’s also something to be said abt the spectacle of said individualistic exercise – what it is about our material existence that favors the out-of-time reality-show-like Apex Legends or Fortnite? @youmeyou.bsky.social @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social 🔥 bulletpointsmonthly.com/2023/05/03/e...

controller / revolt issue 1 is out now a zine about gaming through a punk lens controllerrevoltzine.bigcartel.com/ really hope you enjoy it

I’ve eyeing Metalabel for a while, watching it become a safe haven for creators I love. With a mission statement to foster more equal space than our current platforms. And I’m excited to launch a very special t-shirts with my artwork there! (*☻-☻*) dypt.metalabel.com/release-fe8s...