And here we go, coincidentally in time for Sonic's 35th bday, the entire Sonic 1 development timeline—or at least our best understanding of it—in three bite-size chunks. I've already talked about 1988-1990 in detail in earlier posts, so let's take a look at 1991 and the final lead-up to release 🧵

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

It's a me, the consumer! I wish to consume ethically under this here capitalism. I'll take a look at my choices now - oh a no!

the reasons for the "death of the indie web" are long and varied but this is, imo, one of the largest. it is kind of funny that we went from "users post news on forum" to "users comment on news directly" to "users comment on social media that the news posts to"

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

In this humorous Mega Man Legends interview from 2/98, Keiji Inafune shares the inspiration behind Tron's design, the challenges of finding the right difficulty, and other mecha-centric anecdotes. shmuplations.com/rockmandash/

It's time for another fun installment of Saturday Shmuplations, where we look back at important moments in gaming history through primary source interviews in our archive. Today we focus on Castlevania and Shining Force!

finally completed Million Onion Hotel 100%!! Thank you for relisting it @oniongames.bsky.social, I had a lot of fun revisiting it and finally getting the true ending Very much not a mobile gamer but this is one I can absolutely recommend.

Flippin thru a big stack of old furry comics i bought and this got my ass good

It's cool someone is doing this but I'm mainly just glad to see someone explain how to get this to run on an emulator at all. (I played through the first bit of the game so many times trying to get it to stop crashing!)

alien soldier is my favorite game cause you can tell it was made by a guy who wanted to fuck the megadrive

😎 now... Now we begin the arduous process of mailing these out.

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

We're almost done animating this and it should be out real soon!! Please keep an eye out for it, I think people are going to enjoy this one, it's one of our best. #IndieAnimationDay

It happened again! Japan loves Sega consoles now more than it did when they were new

This is where I think there's parallels to the '83 crash. E.T. performed reasonably fine, but Atari invested so much into it that anything other than the biggest game ever would be a failure by *their* metrics! That's not the game's problem, that's management's problem

Some people walk or bike to work, but I always take my

If you want to hear a compelling story of a resilient animation studio in a small town and some harsh truths about why Canada's animation industry may not be as self-sufficient as it should be and why we may not be supporting it in the best way, do yourself a favour and give this episode a listen!

Here comes the flower warrior

why yes, I HAVE been listening to Chaotix Case Files

fanart for a rude dog

welp, i need money for Printer Fund so here i go opening up commissions again. artistree.io/pkohberger Let me draw or write for you!!!

Whenever I see a venture capitalist group buying up an artistic platform or a website or a newspaper and picking it apart, I'm reminded of a Stephen King quote from a documentary about him possibly making a "better investment" than buying a radio station:

LOVISH is out in 2 days! Let's do a short AMA! Anyone got any burning questions? #indie #gamedev #love

Dynamite Headdy / ダイナマイトヘッディー When I drew the scene where Headdy danced to Bit It, I thought a lot about how to connect the scene. I drew this scene by referring to each frame. #dynamiteheaddy #ダイナマイトヘッディー

Old art for Treasure fans ;D

very pleased to see people watching more of my music and music-related vids on youtube, ESPECIALLY my cover of the Widget the World Watcher theme. you ALL LOVE Widget and remember his theme so fondly! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ng...

Dawn appeared at the local random-prompt comix jam!

if ur a fan of Ashita No Joe or classic anime in general AND really good indie rock, PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO!! my friend Joe dressed up as Joe (lol) and this is a great intro to his band, Joe Versus, and the concept/inspiration behind it! Plus stunning original art by @zeneroze.bsky.social 👀

Apparently the AI bros are on another round of "Hatsune Miku is AI, checkmate luddites" so this is just a reminder that the singer behind Miku was paid and still earns royalties, and beyond that, Miku is nothing more than a MIDI soundboard with advanced pitch converter options, it is not genAI.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

With ALL YOU NEED IS KILL in theatres, I'm reminded of my lifelong ambition to open a skewer stand specifically so I can call it ALL YOU NEED IS GRILL.

Cool backgrounds on The Flintstones (s01e22 "The Tycoon"). I've been watching the show in order and this episode immediately jumped out, the background designs feel even more UPA-like than usual, and the average lawn quality in Bedrock seems to have taken a huge leap.

The release date is finally here 😍! LOVISH, coming February 5th to Windows and modern consoles! #lovish #indiegame #pixelart

Thank you to everyone that came out to MAGFest and played the demo and posed with the giant ChainStaff!

A delightful short film animating an interview between the filmmaker and his father Arana Puranam (2023) from Studio Eeksaurus and creator Adithi Krishnadas Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Furu...

So there I was, New Years Day, 2000. The exact moment in life when I would choose between a path of wealth and success, or a blue hedgehog

All this discussion of networking and making friends has been deeply alienating to me, as someone who can make neither friends NOR professional contacts due to being immensely off-putting in a way that is somehow obvious to everyone I meet but no one will explain it to me

I am so Mario Kart-brained that I assumed the white area of this car track was a big puffy cloud with a little angry face on it

Mon Amour is so damn fun y'all — I guarantee you'll die not even a second after starting a level, & laugh. I've 100%'d the game when it came out, & think I'm due for a replay, cause it's such a good time, & the music is great

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

someone's gonna wanna hear this: former Westone founder Ryuichi Nishizawa (Wonder Boy/Monster World series) is currently in the very early stages of planning an original sidescrolling action game with Kouichi Yotsui (Strider, Suzuki Bakuhatsu, etc)

Highly recommended ear snacking for Sonic sickos (there's quite a few of us apparently)

It’s not Larian’s fault but it chaps my ass that because they’re Larian they can have a trailer with a full on orgy in it in the middle of the Game Awards and meanwhile adult content in games everywhere else is getting cracked down on left and right.

Nice one, Spidey.

Here it is: my second Bonanza Bros. comic, HIGH SOCIETY. There will be a physical version forthcoming with bonus material. In the meantime, please enjoy. moon-hotel.neocities.org/works/bbros_...

ChainStaff is not something that's usually in my wheelhouse but this bloody side scroller comes from someone with experience making games and has so much WEIRD I can't help but be charmed. store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/... Game Dev: @mommysbestgames.bsky.social