She’s literally me

The phase I’m at with developing my personal project: googling the spelling of wall jump

Scanning my dog for my dogwalking artgame, accidentally making horrors beyond human comprehension

Just gonna leave it here: Ikea introducted the LACK table in the same year Lacan died.

Extremely funny that corpo-cyborg-freelancers of Marathon’s dystopia are canonically better than gamers.

Late to the discourse, but bought Marathon yesterday and: 1. Graphic design top-notch, esp. the intro cinematic 2. I guess we’re officially in resigned era? You’re no longer an action hero/a "gladiator"/or even a fantasy character. You’re freelancer, contractor, doing virtual work for corporations

One of the greats. Somehow combines Half Life 2’s Lost Highway and Silent Hill on a scratchy pencil mountain from hell.

Happy 25th Anniversary of The Day That Phil Elverum Of The Microphones And Mount Eerie Saw Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon At A Dollar Theater In Aberdeen.

Israeli forces shot all four members of the Bani Odeh family in the head, including their 5yo and 7yo. The 7yo, Othman, was blind and had special needs. This comes a day after Israeli settlers shot 28yo Amir Moatasem Odeh and stabbed his father.

Field recordings from dog walks of the past two years categorized, ready to be used in my dogwalking dogscanning artgame. Praying to the Unity god that these fit.

Italian board of tourism has its eyes on me

🎺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMO...

Second commission was having Lily Zone build their room map into WebGL, so it’s more accessible: lilithzone.itch.io/room-map-onl... Great work, uniquely toying with perspective of the virtual camera, layering of motifs, worlds within worlds within worlds all based on a topology of a real place.

I will stop soon, but hear me out – for the on-line exhibition I curated we had some funds to commission two games: a) @szemi-petra.bsky.social remade their Border as interface into a Twine game! How cool is that! Play here: ondrejtrhon.cz/border_as_in... #twine #interactivefiction #indiegame

I also did made a podcast & sampled Serial Experiments Lain for it. With two longform discussion on art, games, artgames, game art, geek culture and much more with @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social and Petra Szemán. share.transistor.fm/s/24dd5c1b

I had a joy curating this selection of game-infused art, including Twine games, WebGL games, quite a few videos about CS mods, GTA machinima and more. Quite happy with it tbh. Essay included. All in English! artycok.tv/en/post/tran...

Figured i might occasionally translate my game writing into English. I don’t quite like Substack, but the alternatives seem... daunting? Either pricey or lock down your mailing list. Should I just continue Substacking? Or use self-hosted Wordpress or something?

I know the world is kinda ending again, but i put this out: ondrejtrhon.itch.io/milennial-ta... I’m quite proud of this multi-year project! It’s as much a #tarot deck as a weird literary work (the guide "explaining" memestocks, hauntology, NGE etc.). I may make raytheon expansion later.

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!