Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

sad to report, very belatedly, that game artist and designer Carolly Hauksdottir passed away unexpectedly after a brief hospitalization in 2023.

if you don't recognize the name, it's because Carolly wasn't an industry celeb. but if you played 90s graphical adventure and puzzle games, you probably played something she had worked on, like King's Quest IV, Inherit the Earth, Ishido, Ultima Underworld II, or Kasparov's Gambit.

Carolly had a lifelong relationship with the scifi and fantasy scene in california. if you lived in the Berkeley area, you will have seen her art if you ever visited the Other Change of Hobbit bookstore: she drew the best logo they ever had.

she was also the person who introduced Ken Williams to Lori and Corey Cole, whom she knew from the local scifi/fantasy/rpg scene. without that key introduction, we would never have received the Quest for Glory series.

RIP Carolly.

#sierraOnline #adventureGames #obituary

My kind of Art 🎨

Oomfies, what's more gay? The winner is likely going to be my desktop OS. Others ideas are welcome, as long as it's fairly usable, open source and not Linux

this project has been warming for years, and i'd like to gauge public interest in it.

it's hard to think of a more influential game than Ultima VII: The Black Gate. to this day, CRPG designers still talk about how they wish they could build a modern counterpart to Ultima VII, or how aspects of their design were deeply influenced by it.

after 34 years, the ship has long since sailed on seeing any kind of real successor. worse, to me, is that players now haven't even *heard* of it aside from random nods it gets in youtube videos

U7 was built, from scratch, by a handful of programmers, scripters, artists and composers at Origin in the early 90s. i'd like to pull apart the engine, the world editor, the VooDoo memory manager, and the various tools used to create assets, and explore how each of these are weaved together to create the game.

it would be written as a book, with chapters devoted to different aspects of the engine. something like fabien sanglard's Game Engine Black Books

if this is the kind of book you'd read, i'd love to hear it. if there's something specific you'd like me to cover, i'd love to hear that too.

i realize that this is an *extremely* specific hardcore and obscure topic. it's totally okay to say "nah, don't waste your time dude because i'd never read that." :)

#ultima #dosGaming #rpg #retroGaming

RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/116369982415746824

I really hate posting these kinds of begposts, but this has gotten more critical since I posted it. I currently have -7$ until next month, and I need to feed three people with that.

#mutualaidrequest

my dude has rediscovered the commons and I could not be happier for them

Every time I work on the AI of my game I feel dirty. Damn tech bros wrecking the good kind of AI.

🧵 Game dev years, 24/x

Our composer Ramon Braumuller made a tune for the initial Amiga version of Moon Child, featuring the lyrics "It's Moon Child, oh oh oh ooh! You've got the power to be his friend!" 😁

But after reinitiating MC for Windows, we decided to leave out the second part. 🙂 This is the final CD audio track for MC's title sequence.

#TeamHoi #ElectronicMusic #music #techno #dance #GameDev #gaming #games #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #windows #amiga #tech #DigitalArt #CreativeToots

incredible animal spotted at ikea

Another request for the wider fediverse. I'm trying to hunt down the name of an old website I used to go to that was basically a bunch of chiptunes that could fit on a floppy disk. I think it had weekly and monthly popularity charts.

Can anyone remember its name?

Picard levity tip: Before lifting your teacup off a small dish, give the command, "Prepare for saucer separation."