Jaroslav Švelch is assistant professor of media studies at Charles University, Prague. In his monograph Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games (MIT Press, 2018), he traces the hidden histories of home computing and gaming in the former Soviet bloc. He has also published work on video game monsters, humor in games, and video game voice acting. He is a cofounder of the Central and Eastern European Game Studies (CEEGS) conference.

Martin Kouba is a software engineer based in Sušice, Czech Republic. He is a fan of open-source software and enjoys playing both digital and nondigital games.