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Hervé Piton

@hervepiton.bsky.social

Demoscene (Exocet) and retrogaming

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Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga Back when EA was cool, they packaged their software in album-style sleeves and promoted their developers like rock stars. I was a Dan Silva groupie.

An in-depth review of the legendary Deluxe Paint posted a few days ago: stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-...
#pixelart

17.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monsta, one of the first games I worked on together with other people over 20 years ago has just been officially ported to the iPhone and iPad. It was originally designed for the PalmPilot if you remember those 🙂
apps.apple.com/rs/app/monst...

30.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There’s a new plaque on the wall of a small building in Ashby de la Zouch …. Legendary

31.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 294    🔁 46    💬 8    📌 3
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World’s Narrowest Fiat Panda is one anorexic 19-inch-wide EV destined for the record books - Yanko Design Classic cars often become platforms for bold customization, but few reimaginings are as visually striking (or ugly, I have to admit) as this one. Italian mechanic Andrea Marazzi has transformed a 1993...

World’s Narrowest Fiat Panda... because why not.
www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/w...

01.07.2025 08:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot of a graphics demo with an arched outdoor hallway made of rock walls with the sky seen behind, with the out-of-frame sun casting its light to the cobblestone floor and walls.

A screenshot of a graphics demo with an arched outdoor hallway made of rock walls with the sky seen behind, with the out-of-frame sun casting its light to the cobblestone floor and walls.

We made a Nintendo 64 demo for Revision 2025!

📺 youtu.be/v3wYV6gxJII

It has baked lighting with normal mapping, specular shading (at the end), and of course bloom. The beautiful song was made by @prismbeings.com with guitar performed by soundcloud.com/sou_andrade

Some development notes below.

25.04.2025 19:08 — 👍 124    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 3
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mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.

big ups Moby for doing something incredibly nice, especially for students + as a teaching tool (let alone as a lovely resource for musicians) <3
#education #music #nonprofits
mobygratis.com

25.04.2025 18:11 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Cracking On Cracktro by Adam Gilmore + Exocet + Tom, released 16 March 2025

Download on Demozoo: demozoo.org/productions/...

28.03.2025 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cracking On by Tom, Exocet and Adam Gilmore (Atari ST fantasy cracktro)
YouTube video by evldhs Cracking On by Tom, Exocet and Adam Gilmore (Atari ST fantasy cracktro)

It was really fun creating the graphics and animations for this little Atari ST production presented at Buxton Bytes. Code by Tom, music by Adam Gilmore.
youtu.be/T_naN3-AglI?...
#demoscene #atari

28.03.2025 08:02 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Technicolor, un fleuron français à l'héritage plus que centenaire Technicolor Creative Studios, spécialiste tricolore des effets visuels et de l&#39;animation, a demandé fin février son placement en...-Entertainment

Un bon article sur l'histoire et les nombreux déboires de Thomson : www.usine-digitale.fr/article/tech...

27.03.2025 14:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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100% of the 'top of the month' on pouet.net is now made of Atari ST releases. I don't think that has ever happened before! 💪
#demoscene

26.03.2025 22:15 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Vintage ! :D
Très sympa visuellement, en particulier les arrières-plans.

26.03.2025 22:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Atari City by Exocet (@hervepiton.bsky.social) / Checkpoint

🔗 demozoo.org/graphics/128...

🗓 Released in 2014 at Silly Venture 🇵🇱

#demoscene #creative #atari #2d #graphics #pixels #drawing #painting #pictures #pixelart #digitalart #computerart #art #picoftheday #pictureoftheday 😍

20.03.2025 08:49 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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486_DX2.ICO (1995)

21.12.2024 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don't often finish games, but I felt I had to make an exception for Stray.
Lovely game - looks great, plays well, and just the right length for me (8 hours with plenty of time to goof around).

07.12.2024 17:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cluster? I hardly know her! #pixelart

22.11.2024 16:28 — 👍 373    🔁 81    💬 10    📌 1

Thank you, that means a lot ❤️

14.09.2024 12:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything you see here is only achieved by switching the background colour for each individual line at the exact right time.

11.07.2024 15:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A Series of Raster Effects by SMFX (Zero Bitplane Atari ST demo)
Atari ST demo without using pixel graphics, entirely made from background colour raster splits. Released at Sommarhack 2024 Zero Bitplane Compo. Demozoo: https://demozoo.org/productions/352741/ A Series of Raster Effects by SMFX (Zero Bitplane Atari ST demo)

Here's the Atari ST demo we've released at Sommarhack with SMFX.
Includes some crazy technical achievements from Tom and Spkr as the demo had to run without writing any data to the screen memory.
#demoscene #atari
youtu.be/z2Ke-Irp7U8?...

11.07.2024 15:53 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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An 8-bit duck who's too cool for school
Thomson TO8 specs - 320×200 16 colours, max 2 colours per 8×1 block
#pixelart

03.07.2024 08:16 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Little things in #pixelart...
320x200, 16 colours

22.05.2024 20:42 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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3DO History: Trip Hawkins’ Big Bet On The Model Why 3DO’s true innovation wasn’t its early 3D hardware, but its business model—a model that perfectly matches its founder’s philosophy.

Interesting read about the open ecosystem philosophy behind the 3DO business model.
tedium.co/2024/04/20/3...

22.04.2024 18:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My entry for the tiny pixel art graphics competition at Lovebyte 2024.
21×24 pixels in 16 colours (EGA palette)
@lovebyteparty.bsky.social

26.02.2024 22:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Nano Cave by Electric Dreams

The Atari STe roguelike aventure game "nano Cave", for which I've done the music, has been released.
electric-dreams.itch.io/nano-cave

25.12.2023 12:56 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"The Commodore Amiga and its Undying Adoration by Anarchist Creatives" - interesting read about the (mostly Amiga, but not only) demoscene:
marincomics.com/amiga-demosc...

I liked the quote below about seeing technical limitations as a motivation.

18.12.2023 09:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prosperity, decline, and return of Adobe Flash

"When you separate the animation from the code, you are pushing away the art from the technique, and this is a problem. Flash provided the bridge: code that can work beautifully and art that can be functional."

17.12.2023 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I took part in this year's Teletext Advent Calendar and my contribution is now live on ORF and ARD.
teletext.orf.at/channel/orf1...
ard-text.de/index.php?pa...
Hat tip to @illarterate.bsky.social for organising this.

16.12.2023 19:27 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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