Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

Such a beautiful game. So rare to see this kind of risk taken by a AAA+ game studio.

#amiga #retrogaming #lucasfilm

For rainy days we have a treadmill but it's locked into the vendor's subscription service if you want to watch videos.

Except...tap the bottom left 10 times, wait 7 seconds, tap 10 more times, up pops a number, use that as a seed to generate a number with lrand48, reduce modulo 999999 (not 1000000!) and type that number back in, and now you have an Android tablet with web browser and access to YouTube.

Greedy (Eclipse, 1996) #DOSGaming

She will forgive almost anything once. Twice, if you’re lucky.

On the third transgression, there will be consequences.

Once, she could be easy. Once, she could be a childhood pet, a mother’s maiden name, an elementary school’s mascot. Once, she was unbreakable. Now, she is become endless strings of letters and numbers, incomprehensible, unpronounceable, holy and profane. Speak her secret names aloud and wake the end of days.

Continue: https://leemoyer.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/automata-hari-small-god-of-passwords/

Into The Shadows was an impressive looking 3D fantasy fighting game developed for Scavenger back in 1996 for #PC, #PlayStation and #Sega #Saturn. Only a rolling demo currently exists, but something playable is hoped to be found. Can it be saved?

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/04/into-the-shadows/

New blog post: I dug out my old copy of a favourite Japanese Mac game from 2004, and ended up discovering that it's had an official English translation hidden inside its files this entire time - that can be unlocked by just changing a single byte in the save file.

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/04/07/unlocking-puyo-puyo-fever-for-macs-english-mode/

FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system

The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition to allow companies to use facial age estimation (FAE) technology to obtain parental consent when collecting data from children under 13, a requirement for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

#FTC #ESRB #COPPA #games #gaming #facialrecognition #biometrics #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.techspot.com/news/102493-ftc-denies-esrb-petition-suggesting-facial-age-estimation.html

Unusual release of a piece of #DOSGaming history:
"Paco El Hare vs Los Marcianos Siderales," a never before seen 1994 DOS point & click adventure demo produced by Alcachofa (of Drascula fame) as a pitch to find a publisher, has been released on Steam (FREE):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643000/Paco_El_Hare_vs_Los_Marcianos_Siderales/

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coma28 - skogens djur 011 #pico8 produced with it2p8.py

print ad screenshot (1984) https://archive.org/details/eu_The_Micro_User_1984-11_OCR/page/n65/mode/2up?view=theater

Stephen's Circus 2 - Stephane Sinotte

"happy.p8" own composition #pico8 produced with it2p8.py for a studio making a commercial pico8 game who refused to honor a contract and pay me for the work and then later blocked me on all socials