Hyperlocal games

Hyperlocal games were quite common in Czechoslovak homebrew production of the late 1980s and early…

Activist adventure in English

Three Czechoslovak activist games are now playable online, and one of them in English. Me…

The Biorhythm Craze

My new chapter on the visuality of informal computer culture in Czechoslovakia was just published…

Promises of the periphery

The new open access chapter discusses Czechoslovak games in the context of peripheries of game…

Anarchy in the computer clubs

The Polish online arts magazine Obieg has published my story about young crackers, hackers, and…

The DIY mouse project

In 1988, an influential Czechoslovak computer club launched an ambitious DIY hardware project. Local tinkerers…

Keeping the Spectrum Alive

My chapter about platform obsolescence in a book called Fans and Video Games: Histories, Fandom,…

Czechoslovak fanzine culture

I wrote a chapter for this bi-lingual cool non-fiction collection about fanzines and grassroots culture…

Say it with a computer game

Some of the ideas in the book first appeared in my 2013 article for the…

More on Czechoslovak text adventures

One of the earlier texts I published on games in 1980s Czechoslovakia came out in…