Honza Švelch
svelch-honza.bsky.social
Honza Švelch
@svelch-honza.bsky.social
video game production scholar at https://gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/ / guitarist at restinhaste.com / profile picture by https://www.luisblackaller.com/
My colleague @janhouska.bsky.social has just published an article about language management in Czech video game companies at Multilingua journal: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

It's a really interesting interdisciplinary research, combining game production studies and sociolinguistics.
Language management in semi-peripheral game production: how foreign workers in Czech video game studios experience the use of English, Czech, and other Slavic languages
The paper applies language management theory to study the interactions of international with local workers (simple management) and language policies (organised management) in 10 Czech video game studi...
www.degruyterbrill.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
With Vít Šisler, we have recently published an article about the concept of gamevironments revisited from the perspective of game production studies, identifying 10 challenges that can help enrich the gamevironments analytical framework.

journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
Gamevironments Revisited from the Perspective of Game Production Studies | gamevironments
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de
March 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The application is still open until April 30, 2025.
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
March 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM