Michal Kabát is a Slovak game designer and researcher exploring how play evolves across cultures, bodies, and technologies. His work draws on the history of local game experiences in post-socialist countries, from improvised arcade culture and home-grown proto-LAN scenes to today’s independent and experimental communities.
He designs and studies games across VR, AI-assisted creation, and emerging interactive technologies, with a particular focus on adult play and pornology as meaningful spaces for intimacy, agency, and cultural reflection.
As a long-time game jam organiser and active participant, Kabát builds environments where rapid prototyping, collaboration, and experimental design thrive. His projects connect artistic practice, critical research, and playful experimentation, engaging themes of embodiment, media literacy, and the ways interactive media shape attention, pleasure, and imagination.