It’s in Czech, but believe me, this text of mine about Silent Hill f is I think kinda good. (Feels anti-patriarchal, might translate later) art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/utect...

returning to sianne ngai for the homestuck book and realizing yes we do indeed now live in the the age of gimmickmaxxing

I am basically loving Silksong so far (18hours), but damn, they didn’t have to take cues from soulslike bossruns, did they? Still can’t see the value of having to boredly traverse the same long area again and again, just make me port after a few tries or something

Sampling that Serial Experiments for a podcast about games and art (eng)

Czech friends are raising (very modest) money for their queer slavic TTRPG. High recommend. 🐺 www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...

Here’s the reason nobody saw me after dusk this week. #wh40k

They, great people with great games indeed, need your support!

A full issue on Mieville, I co-conducted an interview with the man and wrote about biopower that New Crobuzon exercises on Remade

Thinking about replacing items in my dog-walking artgame from rotating pictures to rotating dithered sprites. Good call?

Fellow media people: me & my friend did and interview with China Miéville, and it’s a really nice discussion of limits of political usefulness of fiction, nerdíness in literary genre and politics, reflection on the process and more. 36k chars+spaces rough cut. Anybody knows of a place to send this?🙏

I love how insanely board games stretch fictional time. We played this five hour game of Warhammer 40,000 (Kill Team). Epic, thrilling, full of suspense. My brother in christ, in reality it would be like 30 seconds.

September throwback - If found… taking palce at Achill Island at real Achill Island! @dreamfeel.bsky.social / @annapurna.com

Writing cultural criticism be like

I’ve wanted to use this meme for four and a half years. I can’t wait to not be able to save anyone with my knowledge of ideological implications of videogame embodiment.

It’s in Czech, but I wrote about Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, transgression in games and art, ending with the discussion about the critical potential of transgressivity as a method. Also, Elephant is great. art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/pres-...

It is completely reasonable to spend 20 minutes looking for the best gif from Space Marine 2 for your PhD defense

Alright, I’ll wait until Pro Max version of this cheese drops

How come books are allowed to tackle challenging topics but games aren’t

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

It’s itch creator’s day, but all my games are free anyway – but I guess it’s a good excuse to drop some self-promo. I did things about fluid bodies, living soils (and potatoes), weird objects, feels, the pandemic, rocks on a British coast, OCD and one photobook: ondrejtrhon.itch.io

this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands

Thanks to a gifted ps4, I am now finally ready to graduate from the souls class

What it’s like to be a kid in war? We asked Jasminko, founder and director of the War Childhood Museum, who’s working with us on We Grew Up in War that also takes place in Sarajevo. Give our free demo a try and tell us what you think. store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/... #indiegame #gamedev #kids

i played for judging this and liked it. super sad for Santa Ragione, and the general state of game censorship. re: Steam in particular, a landscape where everyone has to depend on a totally unaccountable monopoly to survive is not one that benefits artists in any way.

"Cute may be flirty or even sexy, but to orgasm is not the objective. Cute appears unthreatening, but watch out! Those big eyes distract from the fangs." McKenzie Wark on Cute Accelerationism

We did an interview with Miéville about Bas-Lag, Drum and Bass, politics of the fantastic and how a frog picture politicized him more than Le Guin. Hopefully soon in CZ/EN.

There’s something psychoanalytic father-figure syndrome going on with the way people relate to corporate IPs, raging about how the corporation “destroyed” your favorite lore. The lore is there. Make your own. Take it and remake it. Nobody is stopping you.

Important demo time. Our game shifting perspective on war (games), centering kids and their resilience, imagination and stories is now playable. Give it a go, let us know if we did it right. store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/...

varnishing my guy

(czech writing about affect theory and game studies alert) Konečně jsem se dostal ve svý sérii o herních knihách k afektu. Pocity, počitky, vztah k práci i ideji kybernetické kontroly. Emoce jako to hlavní, čeho si na svodech virtuálních světů všímat. Víc zde: art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/zasad...

Kinda proud, I think it’s somewhat fun: I made a millennial tarot. 74 cards, housing crisis & existential vegan anxiety. Sarcasm meets poetic pop-theory, includes three (!) associative booklets/guides. It should be printed before Christmas. More at ondrejtrhon.cz/tarot/

I worked on this!

I woke up to a world, into which @adarook666.bsky.social remade my teenage obsession Children of Bodom, blessed timeline open.spotify.com/track/34k7Aj...

Great reminder www.avclub.com/return-of-th...

“I never see you at the club” I never see you making three-armed abominations for the plague god #40k

Four books into Siege of Terra and I wish that Abnett at least co-wrote the beginning of Solar War. Saturnine (#4) is so much better than the previous three books in stylistics, tempo, thrill and imagination. Also, curiously, fascists are still winning in this one.

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.