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Letibus Design catalogue (LOK, Abdec, Workworkwork, Herd) is now stocked by the US store Top Deck Games! www.topdeckgamesonline.com

NHK Sound Effects Collection 8: Steam Locomotive, Ship, Airplane (1990)

After missing them over the last few years, today I was lucky to catch the irises in bloom at the Portland Japanese Garden! japanesegarden.org/iris-tracker/ #photography

Rewrite Machine CD-ROM, January 1998 This is an artifact of the Nintendo Power system of convenience store kiosks, for selling Super Famicom (later Game Boy) games on rewritable cartridges. This disc would presumably have loaded kiosks with 104 SFC games in early 1998. Info: redump.info/disc/131221

You've Floyd your last Pink

Really cool to see a new CD+EG disc! I was glad to be able to help out with some debugging, looking forward to testing the production run on my Sega Saturn (currently delayed somewhere in USPS).

Oh wow… a new CD+G. Actually, CD+EG. This must have been a real labour of love. Oh, BTW, apparently PC-FX should also be able to play this (not listed in article). hackaday.com/2026/06/25/n...

Many thanks to @increpare.bsky.social for sending this wonderful Stephen's Sausage Roll coin!

My time machine is in the shop, they said it'll be ready in a week but how the heck am I supposed to get then to pick it up?

Game idea: All magic is from understanding the powers of holy relics. Hagiography as manual.

Game idea: Fitting together puzzle pieces, but some are missing. You're able to create your own pieces, to fill in spaces where you think you need things to connect. The trick is you need to make a system of pieces that only fits together where it makes sense.

Game idea: Metroidvania with no fixed traversal powers. Instead you scan obstacles in the world as you encounter them. Then, when you have observed enough that a clear pattern is established, you can request to synthesize a spell that gives you a new ability. #gamedesign

Years ago I ripped all Quest 64's music data and applied modern soundfonts (my goal was to upload a full "orchestral" OST to youtube). I decided to add little jokey animations to each track, but I got carried away, which doomed the project to never be completed. Here's the battle theme.

WWMD!

Game idea: Create programs to solve puzzles, written in a language heavy on English keywords. But: Each solution must take the form of a rhyme. Discover new rhyming schemes! Create new words to suit!

Game idea: Magic lesson warns you to only cast a spell in a wide open area outside, never indoors. The spell has chaotic interactions with nearby objects, usually fatal, as if missing initialization or clobbering memory. Exploit this at carefully chosen locations to effect prodigious workings.

How many Spartaci we got on this ship anyhow?!?

Awesome/wild guitar synth soundtrack! chiptune.app?play=hSwZCauk

Game idea: Once Bitten, Twice Shy. Escort an NPC across levels. They start really naive and will fling themselves into traps. They'll learn to avoid that hazard when resurrected. But accumulated lessons can eventually immobilize them, so protect them early on to preserve some capacity for risk.

Programming game ideas: Bug manifests as: - Ghost, solve its unfinished business to banish it. - Trickster, reveal its name to break a curse. - RPG enemy, weak to a debugging strategy. Sent by your archnemesis, tired self from last week. What would it look like to debug with a conversation tree?

This is a 1993 mini CD+G promoting Japan's approach to the 1994 World Cup. There are two songs with lyrics, and a good deal of information about the tournament history and schedule, with text, infographics, and narration.

Game idea: Reordering a program that has had all tokens put in sorted order. Could work on various levels, bits or bytes of machine code, assembly instructions, lines of a higher level language (probably indent or begin/end keyword based). Maybe some are unreachable garbage. See: Parsons Problems

Game idea: "The whole garden may be read as a book, or as a spell, which is, after all, the same thing. If you knew the words, you could speak what the garden says and you would then be able to control one of the countless forces that act in the sublunar world." - Foucault's Pendulum

Game idea: Machine Code Roguelike. You can reprogram the world to do magic, but if you trip any security features you die, getting a new, randomly generated world, with new architecture and security rules. Maybe construct a higher level interpreter, port into each run as you discover its structure.

The first game I ever imported, didn't play it much but enjoyed some cool music! Check out the Battle 2 track in a cool web USF player: chiptune.app?play=1AF5I_Pr

Happy #Questiversary! I first played Quest 64 in 2001, I distinctly remember daydreaming about it in school, that's when I started thinking about RPG magic spells as programs. I wrote up some of those thoughts a few years later: gashlin.net/blog/pages/2...

Game Idea: Volume Infinity. The last book in a series, with the rules for generating them all.

Game idea: Amanuensis. You copy out occult manuscripts. All nonsense, but you develop techniques of encoding and error correction that become useful elsewhere in the game world.

The End is 95th Percentile in Soonness.

I started playing this weekend, so far feels like something out of Last Call BBS in terms of length and number of ideas. Might be going for FPGA or CPLD design? Fun pseudo-philosophy vibes. I haven't managed to win the solitaire yet...

NHK Sound Effects Collection 7: Motorcycles, Cars, Bulldozers (1990)

Instructions: 1. Have watched attentively to performance of the action 2. Do likewise

Since it's Star Fox 64 it could have a unique protection chip used by no other game for some reason, like the CIC-NUS-6101 and 7102 (PAL). Ref n64brew.dev/wiki/CIC-NUS

Howard Cheng, Software Manager at SGI, posted this job advert asking for people to join the team that were working on the Nintendo 64 console. He later went on to join Nintendo and became vice president of research and development amongst other senior roles during his time there.

Think safety, only use this carabiner as a keychain. (Photos from 2009, probably IBM swag?)

Winners non sequit

from Portland Japanese Garden, April 25, 2026

Behind Garden State Sign Company in Howell, New Jersey, May 13, 2008. #photography Posted once before but without the tag, figured I'd give it another chance as it's one of my favorites (mostly non-ironically).

Crepuscular rays around a towering cloud, outside IBM building 906 in Austin, Texas, April 23, 2010. #photography

It's all fun and games until someone looses AI.

Park Bend Drive, Austin, Texas, June 30, 2007 Taken during my first trip to Austin for a summer internship with IBM. #photography

Construction site at The Domain, Austin, Texas, August 31, 2008 #photography

Mill City, Nevada, July 20, 2012 #photography

The Kickstarter for Annalog on NES is now LIVE! 🔥🔥🔥 Go check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ell...

Weakness counting, my only weakness

It is said the Ironic Throne was forged from ten thousand spoons

worth its wait in godot

20/20: Game has been released! Thank you all for your support. You are invited to POKE ALL TOADS!

Opus Magnum: De Re Metallica is out now! Craft alchemical substances using novel, occult glyphs in the DLC for the automation game Opus Magnum by Zachtronics! thinkygames.com/games/opus-m...