In honor of Myst's birthday, here's some footage we helped Cyan recover... This is part of an unused easter egg from Myst that would've appeared in the Mazerunner puzzle, featuring the original dev team! Watch the full video in our digital archive: archive.gamehistory.org/item/f969182...

Stuck in bed with a cold thinking about flight sims...

The paper I'm working from for my flight physics uses the following coordinate system: x = forward, y = right, z = down So by all means Harold, x can be up if you want, why not 🤷‍♂️

A sketchy flight up to about 50 ft followed by a horrible crash. I'll call that a success ! #gamedev #flightsim #physics 🛩️

I'm hoping to get my flight sim to take off at some point this week🤞 Added simple engine(s) support to it now that respond to the throttle and provide forward force - there's no drag/air resistance yet though so it just goes faster and faster. Also added a chase-cam! #gamedev #flightsim #physics 🛩️

It's time computers got friendly again.

Some vfx practice #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #vfx

I started making a dirt simple aeroplane flight model. It's been on my #gamedev career todo-list for years. Time to begin! Just basic blocking out lift/drag surfaces to begin with. Next up boxes & cylinders to give it mass & momentum. ✈️

Make a simple propellor effect for extra immersion ! #gamedev 🛩️

⚠️ #IndieDev PSA: Key scammers are now impersonating major gaming press outlets to steal Steam keys. ALWAYS check & verify the email address of ANY key request! Also beware of fake channels using stolen content on Twitch or YouTube, or Steam Curators requesting keys by email. 1/4🧵👇

Got my flight sim taking keyboard input and using that to drive the aerodynamic control surfaces. One step closer to take-off! #gamedev #flightsim #physics 🛩️

This project is defintely helping me reliably spell: ailerons

Playing around with ideas for the cover #homebrew #mastersystem

Some days, progress is just fixing one stubborn bug. That’s enough. You’re still further than yesterday. #gamedev #indiedev

Got the control surfaces coming in from XML now. Next up: add some player inputs them link up to drive the "flappy bits" as they're known in the aviation biz 👍 #gamedev #flightsim #physics ✈️

Jolt and Bullet didn't work out. I went back to the O.G. : ODE I now have a plane that can sit on the ground (only the pink wheels are colliders, the green parts are just for mass distribution), and spin around when you apply forces. Next: give it actual aerodynamics 🛩️ #gamedev #flightsim #physics

NES game development on a Commodore 128. At Software Creations we used C128s for some of our early NES games - Solstice, Fast Break, World Games. The C128 based development system hardware and software was written by Mike Webb. This video shows me loading up the NES Magic Johnson's Fast Break code.

Fixing problems with my own physics engine was proving to be a poor use of my time ... so I'm gonna give Bullet a try. (Guess I'm also obligated to have a stack of cardboard boxes to crash through!)

This week's #retrocomputing post follows up on this by actually putting that #MSX / #TI994a / #ColecoVision graphics chip through all its paces at the "video memory and control register" level. bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/p...

1.000 WATER CREATURES! #pixelart #fish

BOING! - I'm now at the point of "writing your own physics engine" where I need to stop and do some more learning :D #gamedev #flightsim #physics 🛩️

More work on my flight model / physics engine today. I'm generating contact points (the white dots pairs) for wheel x ground plane collisions. Now to handle those collision constraints to stop it falling through the floor - an important pre-requiste for take-off! #gamedev #flightsim #physics 🛩️

I struggled with 'spinning mass' high-school Physics, so my confidence is low. But retrying after 30 years - I think I've got it working! The plane spins fine on its up axis but I saw some wobble. I had doubts about it so as a test I put a huge mass in-front/above and it seems.. right? 🤔😅 #gamedev

For the flight model I'm working on, I moved a bunch of code into a RigidBody class, and it now has linear position, velocity, force capabilities. This simple test is just "if tap UP, apply 50KN force along Z-axis" #gamedev #physics 🛩️

What I have working on Spectrum Next. 🤔Hmm... I think this might just be running a bit too slow, but at least I gave it a try.

Uh oh. This can't be good.

The NES game library is full of technical wonders! One of my favorite effects has to be the spotlights 🔦 in "Rescue: The Embassy Mission." What’s even cooler is how SIMPLE it is to achieve if you know the tricks! Let me break it down for you! 🧵 #nesdev #screenshotsaturday

Anyhow, that’s how we used to time code in the old days, and goodness, what a performance boost here at very little cost. Got to love the Next. I’ll leave you with the coloured Cobra MkIII. Enjoy.

I started making a dirt simple aeroplane flight model. It's been on my #gamedev career todo-list for years. Time to begin! Just basic blocking out lift/drag surfaces to begin with. Next up boxes & cylinders to give it mass & momentum. ✈️

The sun's rising for the first time over a completely new graphics system: Unity 2020.3 -> Unity 6.2 HD Render Pipeline -> Universal Render Pipeline This is still a VERY early work-in-progress, but at least it's not flat magenta any more! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #NovaSquadron

After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now! moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash #msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame

"Fragments" vec3 p; for(float i,z,f;i++<3e1;z+=f=.003+abs(length(p.xy)-5.+dot(cos(p),sin(p).yzx))/8.,o+=(1.+sin(i*.3+z+t+vec4(6,1,2,0)))/f) for(p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),p.z-=t,f=1.;f++<6.;p+=sin(round(p.yxz*PI2)/PI*f)/f); o=tanh(o/1e3);

Working on my next-gen simulator engine & editor project today - it's been a while so to get back into the swing of things I added auto-word wrapping to the message boxes. Supporting the & underscore character made a few gotchas, but it all seems to be working now. #gamedev

Thunder Helix 0.626(a) is now live on the 'preview/beta' branch [added] APC vehicle. Find some in the free-flight map. [fixed] Mis-aligned zoom buttons on the map screen. #flightsim #lowpoly #gamedev #solodev 🚁

KABOOM! #gamedev #lowpoly #flightsim 🚁 Update that adds this vehicle, coming soon! store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/...

Working on the manual PDF for Grid Cartographer. Adding the Game Link chapter today - including a list of the 35 supported games. I'm still learning Affinity Publisher, but it's going well. #DTP

Doom, She Wrote.

MyHouse.WAD? How about MyHouse.EXE!

The new clouds still need some better lighting effects, but chasing planes through them feels pretty good #gamedev #flightsim

This story of one coder's 16-year effort to make an emulator for a largely forgotten laser disc video game system is a fun reminder of the mountains people will climb simply "because it's there." www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-...

Doom, She Wrote.

Things I can't wait to get back to this autumn/winter, no. 463 🙏

“Just make it exist!” Isn’t that simple, and neither is “making it good.” I know the left hand graphic has been making the rounds and is meant as motivation, but as a frequent victim of Scope Creep, please learn from my mistakes 😂🥲

Cop the official Max Payne Low Resolution shirt! If you are so sartorially inclined. Made from the original game models from Max Payne 1. In the lowest resolution possible. #RMD30 Pre-orders are open until 22 September via @iam8bit.com 🔥 https://bit.ly/8bit-remedy-30th