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‘Everyone Felt Like They Owned It’: Collaboration and Empathy in Video Game Acting
The International Journal of Film and Media Arts has recently published an article titled ‘Everyone Felt Like They Owned It’: Collaboration and Empathy in Video Game Acting.
GDS 2025: How to Grow and Develop Sustainable Game Industry Clusters
At the Game Developers Session conference, Jan Houška attended the panel discussion How To Grow And Develop Sustainable Game Industry Clusters.
Czechia in Play: “Rozpravy o médiích” Podcast Discussed the Phenomenon of Czech Realities in Digital Games with GAMEINDEX
Jaroslav Švelch moderated the December episode of the podcast Rozpravy o médiích (can be translated as “discussions on media”), which focu..
GAMEINDEX team started work
The GAMEINDEX team started work at the beginning of October! We officially kicked off the project — and, of course, also began the tradition of shared team lunches.
GAMEINDEX: Two funded postdoc positions
We are seeking two post-doctoral researchers to conduct ethnographic studies of game production for the ERC grant GAMEINDEX: Politics and aesthetics of indexical representation in digital games and VR.
GAMEINDEX: 2 funded PhD positions
We are seeking two PhD students to work on dissertations aligned with the ERC grant “GAMEINDEX: Politics and aesthetics of indexical representation in digital games and VR.“ The project starts in October 2025.
GAMEINDEX: Politics and Aesthetics of Indexical Representation in Digital Games and VR
Jaroslav Švelch has received the prestigious ERC grant with his project GAMEINDEX: Politics and Aesthetics of Indexical Representation in Digital Games and VR.
Interview with Švelch Brothers
The blog Science at FSV UK has recently published an interview with Jan and Jaroslav Švelch from Prague Game Production Studies.
Guest Lecture: War Heroism and Call of Duty
Dom Ford (University of Bremen) visited the Prague Game Production Studies research group and gave a guest lecture on War Heroism and Call of Duty.
CGS Podcast: Post-Soviet Spaces in Video Games
Conversation in Game Studies podcast has recently interviewed Tereza Fousek Krobová, Jaroslav Švelch, and Justyna Janik for an episode about the representation of post-Soviet spaces in contemporary horror video games.