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June 29, 2026  ·  Applications  ·  Ondrex

Ember Chime - how to estimate time?

My first app is out. Ember Chime version 1 has been released on the Google Play Store. But that's not the end, quite the opposite. Read more in the article ;-)

Applications

June 20, 2026  ·  Applications  ·  Ondrex

Ember Chime - custom time guide

Ember Chime is a gentle hourly chime for Android that helps you pause, take a breath, and return to the present moment – as often as you like. Join the open testing..

Applications

May 7, 2026  ·  Games  ·  Ondrex

Glassworks Fajrum: Czech game about fire, sand and furnace operation

Arnsdorf, 1680. You inherited a furnace, a recipe, and a debt of fifty groschen. Buyers from Haida await behind the forest, the first batch is crackling in the furnace, and your glassblower wants a raise. Guide to a game that takes no nonsense.

Games

April 26, 2026  ·  Games  ·  Ondrex

Scriptorium: Czech game about ink, parchment, and survival in a monastery

Olomouc, 1465. You were given a cell, a goose quill, and a debt to the abbot. Cellarium with groschen awaits behind the wall, the first transmutation attempt smolders in the athanor, and an old scribe claims you will run out of ink by morning. Guide to a game that didn't worry about history — because it didn't need to.

Games

April 19, 2026  ·  Printing History  ·  Ondrex

City of ink and lead: how printing came to Prague

An anonymous figure who feared the scribes' guild. A printer who became mayor. And Melantrich — the man who swallowed the competition and gave his name to an entire street.

History

April 14, 2026  ·  Middle Ages  ·  Ondrex

Three fingers write, the whole body suffers: how scribes lived in medieval monasteries

The typo demon, women with teeth stained blue from lapis lazuli, and monks complaining about parchment margins. Real life in the scriptorium was far from quiet.

Middle Ages

April 7, 2026  ·  Printing History  ·  Ondrex

Gutenberg, Fust and Schöffer's betrayal: an ancient tragedy in the Mainz workshop

A penniless visionary, a loan shark with a lawyer, and a journeyman testifying against his master. The story of printing's invention is full of betrayal, court trials, and the Faust legend.

History