A game about building/coding #emulators titled EmuDevz is out today and free on #Steam. Here are some key features: • Full #NES emulation guide from scratch in JavaScript • Interactive 6502 Assembly tutorial • Implement CPU, PPU, and APU in any order • Play homebrew games to unlock ROMs ..and more!

Retro Textures 1 is out now! 🎉 Completely free to download and use in any of your projects. Includes 115 textures like walls, floors, windows, doors and much more! kenney.nl/assets/retro... (no tracking, no ads, no sign-up, etc.)

For over a decade I have tied my shoes one specific way: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. I learned it from Ian (aka Professor Shoelace) whose site is over two decades old. The knot has never failed me. I spoke with Ian about knots and the dangers of the modern internet. aftermath.site/ians-shoelac...

Wow, first I've heard of GOG being bought. It's one of the original owners, but still there's always worry.

After playing a lot of Quake recently, I've found something else that modern internet seems to have mostly lost along with forums, IRC, etc. The random site listing esoteric information like console commands and cheats codes hosted on some university's domain. www.eecis.udel.edu/~portnoi/qua...

Since Quake Brutalist Jam 3 just came out and I've never played any of them, I decided to playthrough the previous two. Just finished QBJ1 and while it was hit or miss for me overall, the standouts were excellent. Some of my favorites in reply...

Wow, somehow never thought of the "Kai" in "Kai's Power Tools" as being an actual person named Kai. Also involved with Bryce 3d lol. www.reddit.com/r/Bryce3D/wi...

Steam sale is over... Immediately get an email from Steam with 25 items on my wishlist that are now on sale.

Then and now are pretty much the same. A Close tie between System Shock 2 and Unreal Tournament. I'd say back then UT edged out SS2, but today it's the reverse. Planescape Torment and Silent Hill are right behind them though in my "today" opinion. Didn't play either until after 2000 though.

My favorite now: Thief: The Dark Project. Easily. Still playing fan missions regularly. Runner up - Unreal My favorite then: The same really but closer to being a tie Thief/Unreal. Half-Life's a strong third in both.

Finished "Death's End", the last novel of the Three Body Problem series. Struggled through these, especially this last one. Didn't really like any of the characters except maybe Luo Ji which made the 2nd book more enjoyable. But overall wouldn't recommend . Going to skip the last short story novel

Uhhhhh henold.itch.io/mario-65

Way back in 1992, me and my friends were picking another friend up from the airport. As we were walking this guy from behind us says "Hey, are you guys GWAR?" (They had just played in town and we all had long hair). We said "Sorry, we're not them." Then he introduced himself... It was Eddie Money.

Just finished "The Triad's Reliquary" for DOOM II by @rowye.bsky.social *Really* enjoyed it. Very impressive geometry and the balance flowed very well for me on UV. Felt just on the edge of surviving but would always find a cache of ammo/health at just the right time. www.moddb.com/mods/the-tri...

Orange has got the right idea for Xmas day

Been using the Augmented Steam extension for years. It's always been useful for info and finding deals on games outside of Steam. Recently, they added integration for the the Steampeek website and holy shit, this thing does an amazing job of recommending similar games. Far better than Steam itself.

Wrapped up 1000xRESIST. Thought it was pretty good! My only small complaint was it felt a little padded at spots. Felt like every time I got an objective to talk to someone it was almost guaranteed that person would be the furthest distance away they could be. So much running back and forth.

Man, this is a huge bummer. Really hope they come up with another solution other than "pull the plug" on all those user created levels. It's like LittleBigPlanet all over again. delistedgames.com/puzzle-game-...

Finished Routine. Overall I enjoyed it but you have to basically ignore that old trailer. This is not that game aside from a couple similarities. This is more walking sim than anything. Think SOMA but with no physics objects, only clearly defined things you can interact with. Also surprisingly short

Woah, insane Steam sale on games published by Spotlight by Quantic Dream. 90% off across the board 😲 Dustborn - $2.99 Lysfanga - $1.99 Under the Waves - $2.99 store.steampowered.com/app/721180/ store.steampowered.com/app/2161620 store.steampowered.com/app/1975440

One of the best games of all time. A lot of people love the games from their childhood, I'm no different. But Thief and it's sequel are games I played as an adult and look back on even more fondly and with all the custom maps and mods from the community I'm still playing it regularly 26 years later.

Oh shit, new Blackshard update and new DLC on the way. steamcommunity.com/games/322339...

Finally got around to playing the #DOOM2 mod "Ashes: 2063". Pretty impressive! Liked the atmosphere and on the Ultra Violence equivalent it was challenging but not frustrating. Looking forward to checking out the next two installments. www.moddb.com/mods/ashes-2...

UZDoom 4.14.3 has left "release candidate" state, and is now officially released! Be sure to read the forum thread for the final list of changes. github.com/UZDoom/UZDoo... What's next? UZDoom 5.0 of course. It's gonna be a chonker of an update! zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...

Black Friday basket time

I added this popup extension to my browser so it's even easier to see when opening a steam page: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Got this email about a GOG subscription service. GOG Patrons. I've no opinion one way or the other but I'm almost 100% sure this is an AI voice in the promo vid for it, which instantly turns me away. vimeo.com/1140726763/9...

Just gave the demo of @connorminnsmedia.bsky.social 's game Life Blood a try. Really enjoyed what's there! There was a bit of a big difficulty spike halfway through but I made it through. Gonna be there day one for this release for sure! Some screen in reply store.steampowered.com/app/3920230/...

Started playing Overlord (2007) on PC yesterday. It's fun in a Fable meets Pikmin kind of way. What really surprised me is how well it runs "Out of the box" for a console port from 2007. No issues at all. 4k/120 and no tiny text or game speed issues in sight. Wish more older games were like that.

Been listening to Kadath by The Great Old Ones a bunch recently. Probably gonna be my album of the year for sure Really digging "Under the Sign of Koth" and "Those From Ulthar" This is a 9 minute long song, the whole thing is good but the back half starting at 5:20 or so is 🔥 youtu.be/Kzd-r-xHHuM

Really looking forward to Unreal Redux. Dude's put a lot of work in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8z...

Just saw this over on the King's Field subreddit. "Life Blood", a solo dev game inspired by King's Field, Lunacid, etc. Looks pretty awesome! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C51L...

Aww man. Maru passed away ☹️ 18 years old though. That's decent for a cat.

So I guess Mississippi passed a law about age verification and @bsky.app blocked the entire state. That's great and all, but I'm in Memphis and I'm also blocked unless I use a VPN or my cell service. I know that the problem is because my connection at some point goes through MS but it still sucks!

This is quietly one of my most anticipated games. No idea when it'll be done and that's OK. I'll be there day one whenever it is.

2025 ain't great, but at least sucker MC's don't seem to be a problem anymore.

Nice!

Man, for a game that came out in 2009 The Sims 3 sure does run poorly on a PC that decimates the sys reqs. Tried playing it this weekend and despite trying all the different tweaks I could find it's always a stuttery mess when trying to pan the camera around despite it reporting a locked 60fps.

Played and finished Martha is Dead over the last couple days. It was interesting. Less of a horror game than I thought it would be and more a tale of mental illness. However....

First trailers for this were back in 2013!

Playing Lost Records: Bloom & Rage today. Interesting even if the dialog can be awkward at times. That performance though. DLSS set to ultra perf and I still go below 60 on a 4080 super. I'm using lossless scaling FG to hit 120 because it's somehow less wobbly looking than dlss fg in this case.

BLACKSHARD's OST is available on Steam for less than 3€ 🥳 Made by our dear @alt236.bsky.social & @al9000music.bsky.social, it's a huge part of our game's identity that you can now discover outside of the labyrinth... Enjoy 🩶 🎼 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3762090/BLACKSHARD_Soundtrack/

Outer Wilds VR is neat and surprisingly enough worked "out of the box" with my PSVR2 with PC adapter setup. Only minor complaint is that the scale seems off but I think that might just VR exaggerating the game's own diminished scale for planets and distances. Planets look like toys sometimes.

Just finished up the demo for "Metal Eden". It was pretty good! Make sure to go to the Steam forums and get the instructions on accessing the beta patch. Before, the demo had ran pretty poorly for me (hitching, frame drops), but afterwards it was smooth sailing. store.steampowered.com/app/990380

JFC, it's like I've been hearing a shitty record on repeat over and over for almost 30 years with no end in sight. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After only occasionally dabbling in Spelunky for the past 12 years, finally buckled down over the past few weeks and beat Olmec last night. Only took 877 deaths, lol. Now to check out the other paths in the game.

Got a frantic phone calls from my folks this morning. They sounded so relieved to hear my voice. My parents thought I was dead/kidnapped. Turns out they got a call from a farmer who... found my cellphone in the middle of his field? But I have my phone. And he wants to return it. Scam right? Well, 🧵

Oh shit, Paperklay is out. Been watching this one for a while. Love the style.

Just wrapped up BLACKSHARD by ‪@redlockstudio.bsky.social‬ What a great experience! Amazing atmosphere, sense of mystery, art style, and music. I'm super impressed by how they made a game about a labyrinthine megastructure but I never felt lost. All without obvious signposting. s.team/a/3223390/

I'm torn with the release. Sales aren't too good, but the reviews are excellent. The sale-to-review ratio is also incredible. I'm hoping for more eyes for Without a Dawn: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... Thank you for your support! 💚💛 #visualnovel #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steam