Ondřej Trhoň🐍
@ondrejtrhon.bsky.social
Meme is a thing body moves through / videogames, culture writer, game-art theory PhD wip / send me your avatars www.ondrejtrhon.cz / comms @charlesgames
Also had a pleasure to see this collective talk at our festival about the utter need to kill indie games as a commodity form. what more do you want
Chamrad Collective@chamrad.sk · 6d agowe've made a short game poem, so if you want to save some part of yourself, hurry up--the house is on fire. out now chamrad.itch.io/aj-stenam-ho...
The trash girl aesthetic (Ada Rook, Porpentine, Tea Strazicic) feels like the reaction to postmodern waning of affect as Jameson foretold.
i wrote about @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social's Concerning the Dog Days from the perspective of someone who has never had a dog and has no idea how to talk to dogwalkers www.arcadewatch.sk/articles/a-o...
... a Ondřej mlčal | Concerning the Dog Days: Memories of a Dogwalker
Tento text bol pôvodne zverejnený 7. 7. 2026 vo forme dvoch osobitných správ (stále nie som ochotný kúpiť Discord Nitro) poslaných...
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Say what you want about Berserk’s (1997) toned down grimness, but the inclusion of witty Tell Me Why intro and melancholic synthpop soundtrack does wonders with the overthetop campy masculinity. I love the emotional texture it gives to the „emotionally stunted big guy with a sword kills everything“
I’m 33 today, you are legally mandated to play my dog artgame ondrejtrhon.itch.io/concerning-t...
Concerning the Dog Days: Memories of a Dogwalker by Ondřej Trhoň
What does it mean to have a dog?
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One of the joys of nichepublishing on @itch.io is that every (okay, first) $2.5 feel like millions. Blessed.
“Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence [West] in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.” (Heidegger, 1954)
God I don’t miss the sort of gamer rage that critical writing tend(s) to produce. My fb is now full of 40k fans feeling like I am attacking their very souls. Somebody wrote a report to the public TV (I wrote for) council for me being imperial when writing about space marines and fascism.
Finally making my own card game happen. It’s hopefully a bit funny.
Our obsessive digi zine on Resident Evil Doors is out! Essay on atmospheres, rhythms, liminality and doors having faces & personalities + diagrams about doors + gallery of doors. Free for all door enjoyers. Enter: ondrejtrhon.itch.io/doors-of-res... Shares appreciated.
Hey, it would mean a world to Lešek (and us) if you could share your thoughts on Playing Prague in the form of a Steam review. It’d help tremendously our game which was born as a love letter to our city. Much obliged! 🐾 #indiegame #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/4729310/...
Transcription is about phones, but also about much more: mediation. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Ben Lerner’s Hall of Mirrors
On Transcription
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Damn, my article about 40k and fascism is 20k characters long...
Digging into old #warhammer stuff for an article on 40K and fascism. Left is 5th edition core rules intro (the first I picked up). Right is current edition. It’s a VERY different vibe.
What I like about 3D gamedev are happy accidents like this Didn’t plan on having this diffuse halo effect with my sun. It just so happened by combining the altered skybox and volumetric clouds plugin. Now it’s one of the main screenshots of the game.
After two years, I finally completed my artgame aboug having a #dog. 🐕 It is build almost entirely from things (images, sounds, thoughts) collected on dogwalks. Trailer below, play it here, it’s short: ondrejtrhon.itch.io/concerning-t...
A really good take by @lewisgordon.bsky.social: perhaps this repetetive, empty aesthetics is very timid in the face of chaotic and unpredictable reality. Unified, repeating office space anxiety (Matrix, Fight Club ...) was already there in the late 90s. artreview.com/the-life-and...
The Life and Death of the ‘Liminal Space’
‘Backrooms’, the directorial debut by Kane Parsons, is going gangbusters at the box office, but is this just ‘prestige slop’?
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I attempted to go to the first Prague Warhammer store opening
It’s in Czech, but I consider it as a shoutout to @bpbigg.bsky.social, whose Adult Analysis Anthology made me write this and drop his work on national television’s website. art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/za-vi...
Za virtuální čáru: Svět 18+ videoher reflektuje lidskou sexualitu v dobrém i zlém
Přečtěte si esej Ondřeje Trhoně o tom, proč stojí videohry pro dospělé za pozornost.
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Another day of feeling dumber a dumber for playing this game
The phase I’m at with developing my personal project: googling the spelling of wall jump
Scanning my dog for my dogwalking artgame, accidentally making horrors beyond human comprehension
Just gonna leave it here: Ikea introducted the LACK table in the same year Lacan died.
