Jaroslav Švelch
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Monster Studies

Should the monster play fair?

My article about reception of monster AI in Alien: Isolation has just been published in...

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Monster Studies

Bioshock’s splicers as ‘computational others’

My probe into BioShock’s splicers has finally been published in a magnificent special issue of...

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Monster Studies

Panel report: Politics of ludic monsters

In March 2019, I made a trip to several U.S. cities. At most of the...

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Monster Studies

Terror in Toronto & Macabre in Moscow

It is about time to post an update on my monster research. This Spring, I...

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Monster Studies

On Bioshock’s splicers and the AI of Alien: Isolation

November and December 2017 were quite hectic on the monster front. A lot of new...

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Notes from a monstrous workshop, CEEGS 2017

This year’s CEEGS conference, which took place the last September week of 2017 in Trnava,...

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Monster diary #3: Lessons from ancient and medieval monsters

As I noted in my previous post, video game monsters have so far not attracted...

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Monster diary #2: Monsters of my youth

As I promised last time, I am going to write a bit about my personal...

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Monster diary #1: Why study video game monsters?

Hello! My name is Jaroslav and I joined the GTA team in July to research...

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Game Studies, Monster Studies

Monsters by the Numbers

My critique of video game monsters, published in the 2013’s Monster Culture in the 21st...

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