hoolis

hoolis

@hollerpots.bsky.social

In an ideal world I'd make a living writing pulp fiction and making obscure games for obsolete hardware with no audience. Web: https://www.hoolis.net Itch: https://hollerpots.itch.io/

86 Followers 217 Following 136 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago
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This could be a metaphor for... everything.
#retrogaming #genesis

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2 weeks ago

That's at least 4 feet, the hill drifts are wild

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2 weeks ago

The trick is to not go back out in an hour and see all your effort gone.

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3 weeks ago
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Snowy voxel MS-DOS landscapes.
#DOSGaming ❄

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2 weeks ago

What's alarming here is the missing 2-3ft retaining wall and stairs going down to the cars.

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3 weeks ago

This has the perfect early 2000s feel. I dig it.

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1 month ago

The REAL Dark Eye

(It worked in the 80s)

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1 month ago
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'Games Where a Person in Front of a Greenscreen Talks Directly to You' a list of games by MichaelKlamerus | Backloggd Does not count games filmed on sets and the actor must be looking directly at the player and talking to them

sorry I don't have time for discourse. I'm doing important work here
backloggd.com/u/MichaelKla...

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1 month ago

If more movies in the theater had a small budget I might actually go more often. Really enjoyed Iron Lung. Andrew Hulshut's OST is excellent. Looking forward to Squirrel Stapler on the silver screen.

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1 month ago

Weirdly I most want to know how it smells

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1 month ago
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COMPART/ROOM256I.GIF

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1 month ago

For those I connected with recently on DOS enthusiasm, I'm still poking along. I've just really struggled with creative energy lately.

But! I slogged my way through a couple OPL2 songs today! Here's one: hoolis.net/fun/hjpmusic...

It'll replace the level 1 ocean tune.

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1 month ago
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FANTASY/CRYSTORB.GIF

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1 month ago
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2 months ago
A 3x3 collage of all 9 games I've released for MSDOS from 2020 to 2025. Top left to bottom right: Barbarians, The Chambers Beneath, Pym's Daily Word Square Puzzle, Star Cadre: Combat Class, Barren Planet, Team Droid, The Anarchic Kingdom, Ossuary, and the CGALIB demo game CGA Robots.

Now that 2026 is underway, it's a good time to post an updated collage of my DOS games. Since I have nine out now, that fits into a nice neat rectangle. So here are all 9 #msdos games I released from 2020 to 2025. All #cga, all running on an #ibmpc, all available from cyningstan.itch.io

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1 month ago
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OBSIDIAN "Egg" Advertisement YouTube video by Jacob Strick

It had some gnarly TV ads: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nizt...

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1 month ago

In the second shot I immediately heard this: youtu.be/Fkjtzz12YOM

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1 month ago

I just realized Gimli is the Quake Ranger.

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1 month ago
A road sign lists businesses: Best Buy, Homelife, Michaels, CompUSA, Pet Smart, TGI Fridays

πŸ₯²

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1 month ago

Well done. Mylk was/is a favorite

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2 months ago

This was always one of my favorite anime dad jokes.

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2 months ago

Ahem.

"OK Boomer"

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2 months ago
A screenshot of a first person game showing a two headed dinosaur and a corpse. Heavily pixellated, constrained to 90 degrees. Text reads "Beastiario"

OK I'll play. "Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers*"

*More specifically, those of good taste remember

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2 months ago

🀘HELL YEAH🀘

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2 months ago

A Hellraiser themed Myst clone was a lost opportunity.

"The Surrealistic Adventure That Will Tear Your Soul Apart"

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2 months ago

If it helps, that single project is what I was eagerly following on that other place. It one of the things I was sad to lose when I bailed in 2022!

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2 months ago
A canvas print of a stylized interpretation of Dark Souls's Undead Berg, evoking a 60s Lovecraft paperback cover to me

Wife surprised me with an absolutely stunning print by @partyinthefront.bsky.social I've oggled

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2 months ago

I was entirely too optimistic when I put "coming in December 2025" in my DOS jam entry, forgetting December was historically a crap show.

But I'm off for the rest of the year and just played Skyroads end to end, so it's looking up.

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2 months ago

Plugging @delightmonster.bsky.social who did the fun illustrations for my DOS jam manual :-)

bigchallenges.bigcartel.com/category/sti...

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