Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Progress on my new #gameassets! Worked on farming stuff, terrain, details, items, UI and more. It's going to be a big one, and it'll be very free. Planning to support this pack for long, adding updates along the way.

#pixelart

what the...

who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": http://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.

experimenting with fitting the Windows 95 UI into 2bpp (4 colours), by editing this screenshot

BY THE WAY ITS BEEN OVER A CENT...
*coughs*
By the way, it has been over a century, folks.

Was in the mood for a #pixel_dailies, today's theme is #terrain.
As if I don't get to do enough of that as a #gamedev 😂

me: do you sell ducks?

him: yes, but they're going quick

me: ok I'll take one

[later]

duck: quick

me: I see

For #gmtkjam I made SkiFree but you're the yeti #gamedev #godotengine

Digital sundial

There’s something freeing about using a DOS IDE as well. No distractions.

MS-DOS game programmers had do deal with several limitations, In this article, we'll go over some of these obstacles and learn how we used the DOS/4GW extender & protected mode to unleash the power of 32-bit DOS.

#DOS #Programming #DOS4GW #RetroComputing #RetroGaming
https://pikuma.com/blog/what-is-dos4gw-protected-mode

Beneath Apple Manor

A very interesting article about Beneath Apple Manor (1978) who predates Rogue by 2 years & was the 1st commercial Rogue Like. BAM already had advanced gameplay.

https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2012/12/game-79-beneath-apple-manor-1978.html

You can get the MSDOS version (1983) on Don D. Worth website: http://worth.bol.ucla.edu & play it!

#MSDOS #DOSBox #Apple #AppleII #rpg #fantasy #dungeoncrawler #rogue #roguelike #freeware #gaming #videogames #games #retro #retrogaming #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing