Jaroslav Švelch
@electroslav.bsky.social
game scholar and historian at Charles University
vocalist and lyricist at Rest in Haste
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vocalist and lyricist at Rest in Haste
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This was clipped from a vid file I downloaded many years ago, but I've just seen that the BBC have uploaded a new version of the 'Commercial Breaks' expose of the rise of Ocean and the fall of Imagine.
Worth spending a half-hour watching for those interested in the UK's bedroom coder boom.
Worth spending a half-hour watching for those interested in the UK's bedroom coder boom.
1984: BANDERSNATCH, BAILIFFS and the Battle for a HIT GAME | Commercial Breaks | BBC Archive
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October 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This was clipped from a vid file I downloaded many years ago, but I've just seen that the BBC have uploaded a new version of the 'Commercial Breaks' expose of the rise of Ocean and the fall of Imagine.
Worth spending a half-hour watching for those interested in the UK's bedroom coder boom.
Worth spending a half-hour watching for those interested in the UK's bedroom coder boom.
My and Jan Houška's article "Czech Appeal" is out in open access! We talked to local independent game developers who make locally themed games and asked them about their motivations, production processes, and the reception of their games. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My and Jan Houška's article "Czech Appeal" is out in open access! We talked to local independent game developers who make locally themed games and asked them about their motivations, production processes, and the reception of their games. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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1/5🎥🏭When platform capitalism meets local labor: A Prague perspective on global streaming production.
My new article examines how Amazon's Carnival Row—filmed in Prague—embodies the contradictions of platform imperialism. 🧵👇
#StreamingMobileProduction #PlatformImperialism #CarnivalRow #Prague.
My new article examines how Amazon's Carnival Row—filmed in Prague—embodies the contradictions of platform imperialism. 🧵👇
#StreamingMobileProduction #PlatformImperialism #CarnivalRow #Prague.
March 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
1/5🎥🏭When platform capitalism meets local labor: A Prague perspective on global streaming production.
My new article examines how Amazon's Carnival Row—filmed in Prague—embodies the contradictions of platform imperialism. 🧵👇
#StreamingMobileProduction #PlatformImperialism #CarnivalRow #Prague.
My new article examines how Amazon's Carnival Row—filmed in Prague—embodies the contradictions of platform imperialism. 🧵👇
#StreamingMobileProduction #PlatformImperialism #CarnivalRow #Prague.
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Go in and do this. I was also 'upgraded' automatically with no notice to the 30eur annually more expensive AI Bullshit Plus version of Office 365. Nothing says "this is a necessary and groundbreaking technology" like having to force-feed it down people's throats.
Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
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January 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Go in and do this. I was also 'upgraded' automatically with no notice to the 30eur annually more expensive AI Bullshit Plus version of Office 365. Nothing says "this is a necessary and groundbreaking technology" like having to force-feed it down people's throats.
Happy to announce that for our game studies ERC project GAMEINDEX, we're looking for 2 PhD students. These are fully funded positions. More info here:
GAMEINDEX: 2 funded PhD positions | Prague Game Production Studies Group
gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz
January 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy to announce that for our game studies ERC project GAMEINDEX, we're looking for 2 PhD students. These are fully funded positions. More info here:
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Be careful, if you ever played Among Us, or probably watched The Thing I guess, you might be a CEO assassin!
Like fucking clockwork lol
Like fucking clockwork lol
December 10, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Be careful, if you ever played Among Us, or probably watched The Thing I guess, you might be a CEO assassin!
Like fucking clockwork lol
Like fucking clockwork lol
I sense some Blue Ice/Commander Blood vibes!
Babylon is a 1997 point and click surreal/mystical adventure game developed by Italian software house Colors, originally founded by Ivan Venturi after leaving Simulmondo.
It was supposed to be the first of a series but the publisher gave up on it after the first episode.
It was supposed to be the first of a series but the publisher gave up on it after the first episode.
December 5, 2024 at 12:11 PM
I sense some Blue Ice/Commander Blood vibes!
Happy to announce that my ERC Consolidator Grant project "GAMEINDEX:Politics and Aesthetics of Indexical Representation in Digital Games and VR" has been selected for funding. We're starting in October 2025!
gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2024/12/03/g...
gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2024/12/03/g...
GAMEINDEX: Politics and Aesthetics of Indexical Representation in Digital Games and VR | Prague Game Production Studies Group
gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz
December 5, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Happy to announce that my ERC Consolidator Grant project "GAMEINDEX:Politics and Aesthetics of Indexical Representation in Digital Games and VR" has been selected for funding. We're starting in October 2025!
gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2024/12/03/g...
gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2024/12/03/g...
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Did you know that in Brazil, there are places where you can pay to play games for a certain amount of time?
I narrated the past, present, and future of some of these spaces in the doc Um real a hora (2022) -- One real an hour --, which is now available in English!
Let me tell you more below! 👇🏽
I narrated the past, present, and future of some of these spaces in the doc Um real a hora (2022) -- One real an hour --, which is now available in English!
Let me tell you more below! 👇🏽
November 29, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Did you know that in Brazil, there are places where you can pay to play games for a certain amount of time?
I narrated the past, present, and future of some of these spaces in the doc Um real a hora (2022) -- One real an hour --, which is now available in English!
Let me tell you more below! 👇🏽
I narrated the past, present, and future of some of these spaces in the doc Um real a hora (2022) -- One real an hour --, which is now available in English!
Let me tell you more below! 👇🏽