Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

@grumpygamer open source classic overhead shooter, #CDogsSDL

https://cxong.github.io/cdogs-sdl/

Was a freeware DOS game from 1997-2001, open sourced and I’ve been maintaining since 2013

One of the unusual features is that it can read wolfenstein 3d data, so if you have that installed via steam or gog, you can play through that whole game but overhead instead of first person

So now I can talk about it: we're working with Cyan to digitize their video archives! Over 100+ hours of footage from the making of the Myst series.

We're SO excited about this project. Please help a little with our expenses if you can!

https://gamehistory.org/cyan

If you have 100 followers or less? Reply to this with a couple of screenshots and a short brief of your game / the game-adjacent thing you're working on, and I'll Boost you to my er like, 5.6k followers.

I'll space things out so I don't spam my folks. Can't promise I'll do every single one. But, we just got a LOT of new #GameDev folks here from dying-site who need to find their people.

(I'm just copying eniko here, but it's a very good idea and it seems especially relevant right now)

tetris, screenshot, amstrad pcw (1988) https://www.mobygames.com/game/141393/tetris/screenshots/amstrad-pcw/668560/

Found a new font called Schrodinger Condensed.

EU: Right, enough's enough, we've got too many chargers, everything's on USB-C now.
Phone people: ugh fine
Laptop people: ugh fine
Big Red Hairy Face Machine people: phew, they forgot about us, we can keep on using figure-twelve Jones plugs, how's that new advert coming Harry
Harry: "25 minutes of shaving time from a single twelve-hour charge!"
Big Red Hairy Face Machine people: God I love being the industry that time forgot

Old commission

#gravityrush #gravitydaze #kat #sony #fanart

reminder i made a banger shirt you should wear https://transbian.threadless.com/designs/mac-cheese/womens

2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

Ad blockers are also cybersecurity. Say it with me.

They reduce malvertising, watering hole attacks, and general malicious script execution. It’s not all about you, ad firms.

I'm sorry my tales haven't been as daily as they used to be (trying-to-stay-afloat reasons) - thank you dear readers for your continued presence.

And welcome new dear readers, it is good to see you all! Thank you for being here!

If you're interested in additional commentary or epilogues for these tales, please consider following my Free Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/Teryl

It's a thing one can do without spending a single coin!

(But if coins do get tossed my way, I wouldn't complain)

My most recent Bad Keyboard, the ShiftKeyBoard, is up on my tumblr:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/721218604811616256/

But here's a preview image to entice mastodon

#badkeyboards #keyboards

few remember this, but back in the mid-90s origin systems built #UltimaIX as a 3d game with a unique isometric camera using a software renderer running at 640x480

screenshots from this early pre-alpha were sent around to a few german gaming mags, and then forgotten as it went into development hell

here are a handful of the dozen or so screenshots from that early build of U9, before it was scrapped in favour of a 3D hardware GPU-friendly renderer

although the final game would look much prettier, i always thought this early build preserved the soul of #Ultima

#RetroGaming

Day of the Tentacle copy protection from the floppy disk release:
#DOSGaming

boost this cat when they least expect it

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