Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Did you release a game for a retro platform in 2023?

DOS? GBA? Mega Drive? C64? NES? PS1? Wii? Speccy?

Or do you know of one that you really like as a player?

Can you tell me about it within the next 14 hours?

I'm writing a very fast turn-around article for a retro book that I'm handing over first thing tomorrow morning and I want to finish it up by name checking some modern retro games, including those that aren't necessarily on my radar.

I obviously know about notable stuff like The Aching, Briley Witch 2, GoodBoy Galaxy, and Barren Planet, but there's just so much cool software coming out on "dead" platforms and I'd like to know about anything amazing that I might have missed.

It's currently about 15:30 UTC on the 10th of January 2024. That means your cut-off is around 5:30 UTC on the 11th of January. The sooner the better, though.

#GameDev #RetroGaming

Listen to Svetlana’s “The Space Adventures of General Mibi” by https://syniphas.bandcamp.com/album/the-space-adventures-of-general-mibi

using my blog to just dump all my knowledge of obscure lost games in the hope that one day someone will dump them online, starting with a FMV game staring Ty Burrell made for Minute Maid

https://virtualmoose.org/2024/01/08/lost-game-when-oranges-attack/

Played some of this old Atari 2600 game today, as it's one my brother and I adored - we played the hell out of this. I remember thinking it was super advanced, which I suppose it was in some ways back in the day. :)

It was an RPG called Dragonstomper.

#OhNoAGolem #Dragonstomper #Atari #Atari2600

I collect these. I call them "design in the wild" where end users fix design mistakes on their own. It's a bit shocking how often this happens. Think of how bad it has to be to reach this point. #ux

Steamboat Willie is public domain. So, the First Person Shooter I never knew I needed, or wanted, is coming soon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoNDAW4JrE

Happy New Year from Éric Zmiro's Prehistorik 2! 🥂

It's almost 2024 and I'm happy to report this is still the best logo sequence ever shown in a videogame https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx_fL91UI9kcYAfSPwMwfNjqkVljEwSLl5

Robbie and Bobby 🤖👦 Sky Dog #comics #webcomic

some old DOS utilities had a graphical mouse cursor in text mode! i’ve investigated how they did it. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/111123817309591559

#mood #endofyear #year2023 #year2024

Teapot nightmare

In 2022, Tom Lehrer released all his songs, lyrics and works to the public domain, an amazing move. While checking on the site, I found out he silently released more material in September of 2023 - a DAT tape of his work with an orchestra and some solo piano takes that are not elsewhere. If you're a Lehrer fan, quite a surprise.

https://archive.org/details/Tom_Lehrer_DAT_Recordings

Remember to play Dark Castle today to see the Christmas tree in the foyer! Have a retro holiday!

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #RetroGaming

I'm laying in bed. Christine comes in. "Are you okay?"

Me, puzzled. "Sure, why?"

"You cried out loudly."

"Oh!", I reply. "That was because I saw this." https://mastodon.social/@shaknais/111629168891156031

M4 engine lands ScummVM master.

This engine is used by two games, Orion Burger and Riddle of Master Lu. So far, only Orion Burger is completable. It is our second attempt to bring the engine, the first one started in 2008, and in 2011, we removed the engine because it hit a dead end in its development.

The engine has all of its logic hard-coded, e.g., every aspect, every actor, and every object has relevant code in C++. This is why it took so much effort from DreamMaster. And the resulting engine is almost 75k lines of code, supporting only one game so far.

@flexion @aks It doesn't look random, but it is also hard to make sense of it. It doesn't look like a list of vertices, that's for sure.