Jaroslav Švelch - Critique of Game Production: The Case of Czechoslovak Amateur Computer Games

Guest lecture at the seminar “Homo Ludens” (Florian Bettel & Ernst Strouhal, Dept. Cultural Studies)

Jaroslav Švelch is an assistant professor at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of the recent monograph “Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games” (MIT Press, 2018). He has published work on history and theory of computer games, on humour in games and social media. He is currently researching history, theory, and reception of monsters in games.