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The Weave now has three distinct Animal Crossing-style voices that smoothly adapt to both Spanish and English text. What do you think?

Thanks @zxprojects.bsky.social for your tips 😉

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I’m progressing on text presentation: each character now has its own “voice,” with gibberish in the style of Animal Crossing or Sims. Voices are pregenerated using Google Text to Speech and preprocessed into short syllables that play synced with the on-screen text (work in progress)

I'm alive!
After the last public beta I took a break… and made the mistake of buying Baldur’s Gate 3. But I’m finally back!
Today’s update adds a small text flash effect (you can speed it up by pressing A)

🎉 Characters can now move at fractional speeds!
The hero walks at 1.5x speed, and the mother at 0.75x.
Sounds trivial, right?
Well, I had to rewrite ALL the movement code to use non-integer types. It nearly killed me 😵‍💫

Merci beaucoup pour la mention ! ☺️

Une suite spirituelle de Loom sur Mega Drive et autres news rétro de la semaine Un demake de Prince of Persia sur Pico-8, un nouveau Dig Dug sur mobiles jusqu'à la fin du mois, une vidéo de PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY, une compilation des jeux Golden Tee, etc.

Les news rétro de la semaine, dont une suite spirituelle sur Mega Drive par @geesebumpsgames.bsky.social du point & click culte Loom... mag.mo5.com/271279/une-s...

The Weave by Javi Prieto @ GeeseBumps A fangame sequel to LucasArts' Loom (tm) for the Sega Genesis

Download it right now on itch, and please give me feedback!

Thanks a lot 😊
geese-bumps.itch.io/the-weave

YouTube video by GeeseBumps The Weave - Tech Demo walkthrough (june 2025)

✨ New technical demo is out! ✨

After 6 months of work, I can finally show you the latest progress on The Weave!

🎮 Completely rewritten engine

🎨 All graphics and animations redrawn by hand, pixel by pixel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3T...

✅ Dual color font support!

Almost everything ready for a new tech demo release with almost the brand new graphics 😎

Once I finish polishing a few final details and bugs, I'll FINALLY upload a new tech demo to Itch. Stay tuned!

✅ Almost all graphics have been redrawn since the last demo
✅ Almost all the code has been rewritten from scratch

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Finally done refactoring the entire game code (roughly 70%!) 🎉
New structures, cleaner & more robust functions — yet simple and easy to manage.
Combat is working again, with new features and lots of bugs squashed
#gamedev #retrodev #homebrew #SegaMegadrive #SegaGenesis #Loom

Zombie Xtinction Defense by Javi Prieto @ GeeseBumps Tower Defense game for ZX Spectrum in plain BASIC

I've just seen there's a mention on the same page for the @bytemaniacos.com 2025 BASIC Competition, which also includes a small game I made myself — so I could say I appear not once, but twice on that page! 😜

geese-bumps.itch.io/zxd

Waiting for the Retro Gamer magazine Issue 272 to come home 🥰

It's been a long way since the first time my name was in a Magazine, in Micro Hobby Issue 166 in 1985, four decades ago

I haven't forgotten about you!

The next version of the tech demo will be an almost complete overhaul of the entire visual aspect, with new graphics and lots of new animations. Please be patient! 😉

Testing animations for the Weavers Ghosts

There’s little time left until issue #005 of @brewotaku.bsky.social is released, where my small BASIC project for the ZX Spectrum, ZXD, will have its own little space. Many thanks for the review! 😉

First test of the new hand-pixeled graphics for the introduction scene, now running on the game engine

Kid's awake. Enough for today!

Finally back to pixel art after two tough weeks since I installed Civilization VII and ran out of free time. It's about time to replace the remaining AI placeholders.

✅ Now our forest also has both background and foreground items

First game test with all new graphics (still WIP)

❌NO stolen assets
❌NO AI graphics
✅Hand drawn and animated

Still work in progress...

So... let's draw some backgrounds

✅ Xander also redrawn

Now every main character has new design and animations

More characters and animations on the go

I'm starting to enjoy doing this 😊

Also, here's some of the main character's magic animations

Testing more characters and animations. What do you think of our new characters' style?

Also, there's now a subtle magic animation over your chosen option in dialogs

Magic animations also working