Its snowing :)

Can I just say .... FUCK OFF 2025 ! Thakyou

Lordy lawks. I aint even got StarQuake finished, and already I'm starting to work on SabreWulf :( Thats Christmas Day for ya ! #Pico8

Wish I could sacrifice a sprite for tokens. Just imagine, 1 8x8 sprite could give you an additional 64 tokens ! One can dream though. #Pico8

Easier than posting for #ScreenShotSunday ... minionsoft.itch.io/pico8-starqu... Not finished, but its getting there ;) #Pico8 #GameDev

Yay, I'm in the "Play it, test it, find a bug, fix it" mode ;) #GameDev

Dont ya just love it. A minor tweak of sprite memory which was full a moment ago has now allowed me to have 4 new baddy animations :)

Just remember this exists ...and it still makes me very happy to hear it every year ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGg...

R.I.P. Stanley Baxter :( www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1X4...

This line from Video Games (Apr 83) was too prescient. One of the more frustrating things to me about the state of video game preservation is what feels like a general lack of interest in pre-'80s games; I will never stop banging the drum about the importance of '70s games (especially Death Race).

Fecking Sunday drivers ! I don't care if you car looks like ECTO1, bloody drive faster than 5 miles an hour for pity's sake.

BRING BACK TOFFOS!

@fishwithlasers.bsky.social Bloody nora, sorry mate ... a few days behind (again). But many belated happy returns for you 175th Birthday (ok, maybe not that many but I'm guessing it feels that bad)

9:30 in the morning and already my brain hurts :(

Love this! #retrocomputing #coding

Watched my first Christmas film of the year tonight :) Ya cant beat a bit of Lethal Weapon ;)

Sad times :( Still have 3000 tokens left, and 16k chars available, but running at 100.14% compressed capacity :( She's dead Jim :( #Pico8

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Yup ..A.I.is the future :(

Tonight, simple maths eludes me :(

Its that time again. Lots of progress me thinks :) #ScreenShotSaturday #Pico8 #GameDev #Retro #Remake #StarQuake

I turned it off. Don't need it and want to save power.

Few issues at home, but now back on track and things are getting real ;) #Pico8 #GameDev #StarQuake #Remake

Woohoo ! When I'm happy with my map data I can crunch it down from a whopping 1120 tokens, to a rather impressive 160 :) Now that's a saving I'm happy with. Still occupies 15.1Kb of actual chars tho :( #Pico8 #GameDev

Should I be the one to blame if the users of my software are idiots ? #GameDev

That's me done for today. 256 rooms defined so far, just another 256 to go. GFX are subject to change, but looking OK for me so far ;) #Pico8 #GameDev #Remake #Retro

Q: Would a game such as Knight Lore or Head Over Heels or GunFright be classed as a (3d) physics engine ? #GameDev

This coding lark is like wading through treacle :(

And that's one fully working attract screen done :) #Pico8 #GameDev #Remake #Retro

Another obscure arcade tile from way back when that I've started a remake of. Can you guess what it is ? #Pico8 #GameDev #Remake #Retro

I live in the UK. Its a shit hole. Its going to pot. The place is a mess and the government is shockingly bad. I'd say it could well be one of the worst places on the planet. But look on the bright side, at least I don't live in America.

Blimey. Looking back over some of the WIPs I've let slip is a shame. Some of those games looked bloody gorgeous. Games like Zaxxon and BankPanic! and Gyruss and Wizadore and 1942 plus many many more. All well into development. I really should sit down and finish at least one of them ;) #Pico8

Ooopsies ! Doesn't bode well :( #Pico8

Managed to get hold of a copy of this today. I know you can read the online PDF version. But just having a tangible version in my hand gives me the feels so much, its bumping up my coding impetus ;) archive.org/details/Big_...

Today I adult'd. And it was good !

The fruits of my itch from 3 days ago. Progress is really coming on :) #Pico8 #Remake #Retro #Cybernoid #GameDev

Looks like WWIII is about to kick off :( Must mean I've got just enough time to start 5, maybe 6 new W.I.P.s :)

Cant believe it. ChatGPT has been giving out my Pico-8 cartridges willy-nilly for free, by-passing the purchase side of the Itch.io page ! The liberty of it ! Cheeky bloody A.I.

Its true, the worst thing you can do when you have an itch is to scratch it :(

So, its a post-post-post #ScreenShotSaturday :) Still needs some work on the spriting, but the E.o.G. Boss is sorted :) #Pico8 #GameDev #Wizadore #BBCMicroRemake

Which transition looks bettererer(tm) ?

I'm sorry, its my bad. ITCH.IO is down again because everyone is flocking over there to play my games online. If they just paid the nominal £1 they could own it themselves and play it whenever they wanted without clogging up ITCH.IO :)

This is utterly amazing :)

Just looking at the some playtimes of games on Steam .... Euro Truck Simulator - 72 hrs, Half Life 2 - 85 hrs, Bioshock - 28 hrs .... and then there's L4D2 - 1,115.2 hrs :)

This is quite something - massive respect to Kate Nash for putting this out into the world. Give it a listen. Kate Nash - GERM youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?...

BREAKING NEWS : The earth is about to be devoured by a giant star goat ! We need to evacuate quickly. I propose we build 3 star-arcs. doesn't matter who's on arc A or C, but Arc B needs to be filled with American Republicans and launched A.S.A.P.

Its the day after, so lets have a post #SheenShotSaturday screenie ;) #Pico8 #GameDev #Wizadore #BBCMicroRemake

There are 10 frames (out of 18) where you are fully above the arrow. But do you have the hit box the WHOLE length or the arrow, or just the arrow head ? #Pico8 #GameDev

OK, I know its a little early, but here's a pre #SheenShotSaturday screenie ;) #Pico8 #GameDev #Wizadore #BBCMicroRemake

HahahahahHAHAHAhaHAhaHAHaHaHaHahAhAhAhAaaaa .... so, fixed my 55 day long bug ...finally :) Now I have to ask myself, do I continue with Wizadore, or put it on the W.I.P. pile (and save it for another day) and continue with ALIEN-8 ;) #Pico8 #GameDev