peter max goodfellow

okay but a little respect for tuvix's uniform please

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Trying something.

if this is gonna happen in under a month to every multiplayer game that has almost a decade in the oven then at the very least it should just be open sourced and left to the laid off devs to do whatever with. literally the least you can do

Where does one find cool freelance games dev gigs? Tbh I relied on Twitter for too long.. and now that's dead. I'd usually just poke contacts, but so many long term gamedev friends have been laid off or got out of games entirely.

remember that one of the excuses for the british museum to keep so many foreign pieces is that they can present them in an objective and neutral environment

really not related, but did you ever play the elite force mod for swat 4? that had a voice input system which worked shockingly well (probably because it had a very small number of inputs to distinguish between). felt very natural!

2025’s Best-Selling Chinese Premium Games and Their Lore Was 2025 the most dramatic year for Chinese games

Finally wrote another blog post!

I shared the full chart of the top 20 best-selling Chinese premium games in 2025 and wrote a recap of all the drama, controversies and review bombs. Also includes some personal game recs and commentary

jingtong.bearblog.dev/chinese-game...

The Sharp Rateca Puter. Up top, left to right: a collapsable TV/radio antenna, brightness and contrast dials, a giant speaker, a smaller speaker, and input for the tapedeck, with the play counters that were more common on the day. Face, left to right: A 4.5 inch CRT (behind a plastic guard), VHF/UHF and radio dials, channel and band selectors (TV/COMP, FM, Shortwave, and Middlewave), the "RATECA PUTER' logo on the battery gauge, AFC switch, mode selector, tape deck controls, audio controls for balance, bass, treble, and volume, and a mollyguard to prevent dials and switches from being mashed (the mollyguard being a signature of Sharp's boomboxes of the time). Face, low: the collapsable carrying handle that doubles as a stand; computer power button; slide-out chiclet keyboard based on Sharp calculators of the day, with number pad; an LED clock, clock controls, alarm controls. Right side: mic jacks, earphone jacks in two different sizes, beat cut switch, fan exhaust, DC and AC power plugs, and a printer port (!). Help I'm trapped in an alt text factory

In the 70s, Sharp had a series of "Latte case" boomboxes; as the line went on, more and more got put into it, like TVs. One of the last in the line was the RatecaPuter - a latte-case boombox with a 2KB computer that could run SHARP Basic programs off of the built in tape deck.

may we see the map?

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

Méwilo screenshot from 1987

Freedom rebels in the darkness screenshot

Legend of Djel, Tramis designed its gameplay

Emmanuelle from 1990, Tramis wrote it

For Black History month: Muriel Tramis.
Known as the "French Roberta Williams", she's way more than that. Among the first black women game designers, her first games were her love letter to Martinique, Méwilo (87), and the incredible strategy game about slavery, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness (90)

Something I've been thinking about more is that, yes old games were pumped out because of insane labor crimes *but the art still exists* Unlike today where we are still putting humans in a meat grinder to make something, but that something is valueless ephemera from gamefied gambling houses or multiplayer games that live for less than a year and then die with no way to ever access them again I don't justify Chrono Trigger putting people in the hospital because I can still play it, but I can at least still fucking play it

Been thinking about Highguard and the impermanence of games these days (which is to say, moreso that usual)

dude you can't just make your hair perfectly do that

an overgrown torii gate in a forest (CRT version)

an overgrown torii gate in a forest

cool vaporwave mountains (CRT version)

cool vaporwave mountains

i'm making a #QBasic game using mode 13h, 320x200 8bpp. i'm using VGA line doubling to make it 320x100 then horizontally doubling each pixel for 160x100

i use a palette with 3 bits red/green and 2 blue, and "subpixel dither" in between colors. here's a thread of images showing what that's like

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UK leftists! Please please please fill out the UK govt survey on Earned Settlement *today* and rail as hard as you can against any changes to this system. We cannot let them spend billions on more surveillance and fascist bureaucracy of our communities ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Carapacian armour is a skeleton that envelops the wearer, the haunted vessel whispers in your ear, guides your hand, twists your purpose.

7,62 Hard Life - Beta Update! - Steam News Surprise! Yeap, we are updating 7,62 Hard Life. Why? Because even though the game was released 11 years ago, we see that the community is going strong, with a passion that could rival even modern titl...

Heart-warming that 7.62 Hard Life is still getting updates:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/306...

This is a fan-mod to a tactical RPG from 2007. The ultimate simulationist fantasy, every action takes X amount of miliseconds. You might live or die based on which pocket you're pulling a grenade from

playing counter strike with the boys and we're fixing racists.

i remember thinking it was really dumb for discord to add screenshare, now i genuinely use it most days.
definitely will be looking at stoat, hope it can get there soon!

Screenshot of Stoat.chat client showing the official Stoat(Revolt) server.

You know what, just hopped over to stoat.chat and giving it a go. Open-source, european, transparent roadmap, with identity-per-server, voice chat, self-host, server basic customisation already in so. Web +Unpacked linux client that works fine and I can wait for screenshare and all else.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

maybe also some of the multiplayer examples? natural selection 2, iron grip, nuclear dawn

i didn't see anyone mention the men of war games or their predecessors, which feels like the best answer to me. absolutely a real RTS, with direct control of units, though still from a bird's eye perspective. but as a bonus there's also inventory management.

i've just recently been partaking in both games, and while it's cool (surprisingly functional and beautiful!) it definitely isn't fully featured as an RTS. spiritually i think it's very much on point though!

People think the highest Michelin rating is 3 stars, but there is a hidden 4th level where the Michelin Man comes and kills everyone at your restaurant and mixes your ashes in tire rubber. Then he exalts you by wearing you around his waist for all eternity

no one is ready to hear this, but the MISERY mod for call of pripyat was genuinely an unparalleled piece of game design, and the only problem was they did not go far enough to force total engagement with all of the seemingly inconsequential systems.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue ‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

economists ran the numbers and, uh, it's bad!

GitHub - IRCSS/Blender-Geometry-Node-French-Houses: Blend file containing geometry nodes to procedurally create french style houses Blend file containing geometry nodes to procedurally create french style houses - IRCSS/Blender-Geometry-Node-French-Houses

nodes are all here for free use commercial or other wise. github.com/IRCSS/Blende...

Procedural support beams for the bridge. Again funny how there any thing from gothic, rococo, roman, elven to timur architecture in a single arc.

Made a bunch of geomtry nodes for this, a wrapper to wrap these shapes around cruves, spacing them perfectly etc.

Adobe making a great example that using proprietary software anywhere in your development is a massive liability, even if you fork over buckets of money. Why should people invest time and money learning your software if you just do this with no recourse.