Conor Byron

Digimon World ~ デジモンワールド (1999)

Developed by Flying Tiger Entertainment/Bandai.

The hill I will die on:

The way we understand what a "video game" is, as a subset of the potential of interactive multimedia software, is extremely arbitrarily limiting and mostly a result of historical accidents and industry streamlining / conservatism.

We can dream far more interesting dreams.

Games that are basically visual novels / walking sims, done well: Boku no Natsu Yasume, Yume Nikki, a bunch of other stuff I'm not experienced enough to list...

When something is legitimately and straightforwardly a "video game" though, it becomes a lot harder to call it "art" imo. That said, Rez.

Games that reject "gaminess" and aspire to something like "interactive software art": Noby Noby Boy, Everything, LSD...

Games that are aware of themselves as games, but make a lasting statement by contemplating/subverting that gaminess: Earthbound, Undertale, Disco Elysium, Soulslikes...

The works of thecatamites, especially 10 Beautiful Postcards and Anthology of the Killer

Kazutoshi Iida’s Tail of the Sun

Keita Takahashi’s Noby Noby Boy

Yume Nikki and its imitators

working on my own laser software to make projections from svg drawings

CW: flashing lights

“allergies? not interested at this time.”

Proteus A game by Twisted Tree  A game of audio-visual exploration and discovery by Ed Key and David Kanaga Also available via Steam, Humble Store, and itch.io. (Check these sites for periodic discounts) P…

Playing Proteus again today (for the first time in a while) in prep for class this week. Just so beautiful, for sure a Top 5 All Time videogame for me, still.
twistedtreegames.com/proteus/

Thumbnail art for "The History of Chunsoft's Sound Novels" video. Shows a girl wearing headphones while reading a book. The English and Japanese words SOUND (音楽) and NOVEL (小説) are behind her.

!!NEW VIDEO!!

This time I cover Chunsoft’s Sound Novel franchise, a hugely important series in the history of Japanese video games that served as the progenitor to the visual novel genre and was a source of inspiration for all kinds of developers.

WATCH - www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...

happy 40th anniversary mario

And that was just ONE presentation. There were more and more all the time.

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

Philosophy is structurally unable to acknowledge that "I dunno, man, maybe?" is objectively speaking the correct answer to most of our questions.

gamedev on wildchorus is going well. is there a gamedev community here on bluesky?

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #games #gamedeveloper

Scanned print of image of horse on sensitised paper, c 1890, from Science Museum Group: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co532769/scanned-print-of-image-of-horse-on-sensitised-paper-c-1890

One of the earliest faxed images, made by Shelford Bidwell ca 1890.

The image was scanned with light, line by line. A selenium photocell transmitted the light as electricity, burning marks onto chemically-treated paper; or the image blocked it (no mark). Et voilà, "distant electric vision."

very loose but generally I’ll keep three documents for any project I’m working on:

1. A dump of all my ideas for the project.
2. An ordered, bulleted concrete to-do list.
3. A “journal” to log completed work, moving items over from doc 2 and adding any notes.

Next week, The Wire will publish its 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th issue, which feels like something worth celebrating.

By way of reflection, we've taken a look back through the archive at our previous milestones.

1) 50 Undersung Musicians (Issue 50, April 1988)

I also wish more people were empowered to design tech tools really only intended for the use of themselves and their friends - and be content with that, too.

a lot of people seem to have a perverse sense of pride about “not being audiophiles”. they don’t want to be saved

sun's haunted

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Age verification, the suppression of external linking, algorithmic influence of ideology: all of these serve a common goal, Raiden.

YouTube video by SIE Sound Team - Topic tubular

fantavision doesn't get enough credit for coming out before both rez and katamari. also its soundtrack rules

a poster with a voronoi diagram of the named CSS colors with their hex values

if I made posters of this, is it something you'd consider buying?

A depressed man says "sometimes I feel like I've seen too much to ever feel like a normal person." Alex reassures him "hey man... despite everything... it's still you. The man tears up. He says "wow. that's great. Did you make that up?" Alex, confidently says "yes... yes I did..."

The OST to Mario Artist: Polygon Studio also has some experimental bangers