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Ondřej Trhoň🐍

@ondrejtrhon.bsky.social

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Meme is a thing body moves through / videogames, culture writer, game-art theory PhD wip / send me your avatars www.ondrejtrhon.cz / comms @charlesgames

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · Nov 17

Is this the right moment (the hype phase) to be shameless about self-promo? I hope so, since there’s a stuff I/we made that would meant a world to me if you checked out.

Like this posthumanist interactive fiction about... POTATOES and HISTORY ondrejtrhon.itch.io/cherry-color...

Cherry-colored Dream by Ondrej Trhon

Dissolve your humanity in the damp soil

ondrejtrhon.itch.io

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 9h

Uh, something happened. Defence in December.

Also, Game Studies Study Buddies to Dissertation pipeline is real, thanks @ckunzelman.bsky.social & @ztul.bsky.social

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 2d

Partly, it’s a mixtape of things I like. Like this article by @iwriteok.bsky.social shatterzone.substack.com/p/the-leftis...

The Leftist Case for Warhammer 40,000

In which we discuss the political history of a troubled game.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 2d

The best image in my dissertation about avatars, I think.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 3d

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.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 3d

#nocontextPhd

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 6d

"I want to thank the metal band Deafheaven for making this dissertation possible."

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 6d

My partner upon seeing my new double-storied imperial ruins:

"So... it’s like a doll house!"

She’s not wrong.

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 9d

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 🩸

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 9d

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.

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 9d

it, accidentally but fittingly, became a part of my conclusion!

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 10d

Writing my dissertation conclusion.

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Gabriel @gabrielhelfenstein.bsky.social · 15d

Smell or listen? Might add the option to close your eyes.

#indiegames

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 15d

just in time to still play this TWO WEEKS INTO HANDING IN MY DISSERTATION about avatars, herewego

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Phoenix @phoenixsimms.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 27d

"[T]his preoccupation with individual agency over interdependent, communal agency is pervasive in a popular genre of games that often claims to center the latter: Wholesome or Cozy games."

@phoenixsimms.bsky.social muses on communal care in videogames:

Co-opting Co-op - Unwinnable

The narratives of care that feel the most impactful are happening in game genres that aren’t explicitly labelling themselves as being “wholesome."

unwinnable.com

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 20d

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)

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 27d

seminal further art reading showing how artistic the practice of kitbashing can be @moldmoldmold.bsky.social www.smashbash.org/shop/p/vyrz6...

MOLD MOLD MOLD — smashbash

Haunting. Surreal. Beautiful. True art from a true artist. Published by PEOW2, distributed by me, tnp, a big mold mold mold enjoyer. Nick Borelli is a genius, and this book is a great introduction t...

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 27d

out of context capitalism-coded subheadlines

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · Sep 5

I found it, the Dear Esther theme park (Ireland).

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · Aug 28

Seminally important bundle alert 🙌 And my game Lost in the Maze of Those Memories I Wander And Nervously Laugh is in there.

Junch @junchgaming.bsky.social · Aug 27

I am excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity bundle page is now live!!!

Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST.

Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · Aug 22

A (free) game about Velvet Revolution I co-made (writing/design/sound) won a very beautiful award. Good birthday gift, indeed. @charlesgames.bsky.social

www.geeawards.com/blog/velvet-...

Velvet 89: 2025 Small/Indie Game Winner — 2025 Gee Learning Games Award

Finding People, Understanding Revolution “The smog is terrible, but the regime is worse,” declares Marie, a 17-year-old punk protesting in 1989 Czechoslovakia. She’s one of over 45 characters hidden ...

www.geeawards.com

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Randomly torrenting anime at the age of 16 let me there (my dissertation):

Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’m gonna remember "parody bypass" for a while 🙃

artreview.com/space-racism...

Space Racism: How the Right Captured Science Fiction

Before Musk and Thiel, a shadow history throws the often idealistic hopes of progressive science-fiction cultures into stark and unstable relief

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Forgot to add rest of ravens