Hervé Piton
@hervepiton.bsky.social
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Demoscene (Exocet) and retrogaming
An in-depth review of the legendary Deluxe Paint posted a few days ago:
stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-...
#pixelart
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Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga
Back when EA was cool, they packaged their software in album-style sleeves and promoted their developers like rock stars. I was a Dan Silva groupie.
https://stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
25 days ago
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Monsta, one of the first games I worked on together with other people over 20 years ago has just been officially ported to the iPhone and iPad. It was originally designed for the PalmPilot if you remember those 🙂
apps.apple.com/rs/app/monst...
about 1 month ago
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Grant Kirkhope
2 months ago
There’s a new plaque on the wall of a small building in Ashby de la Zouch …. Legendary
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World’s Narrowest Fiat Panda... because why not.
www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/w...
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World’s Narrowest Fiat Panda is one anorexic 19-inch-wide EV destined for the record books - Yanko Design
Classic cars often become platforms for bold customization, but few reimaginings are as visually striking (or ugly, I have to admit) as this one. Italian mechanic Andrea Marazzi has transformed a 1993...
https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/worlds-narrowest-fiat-panda-is-one-anorexic-19-inch-wide-ev-destined-for-the-record-books/
3 months ago
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6 months ago
We made a Nintendo 64 demo for Revision 2025! 📺
youtu.be/v3wYV6gxJII
It has baked lighting with normal mapping, specular shading (at the end), and of course bloom. The beautiful song was made by
@prismbeings.com
with guitar performed by
soundcloud.com/sou_andrade
Some development notes below.
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_lemon
6 months ago
big ups Moby for doing something incredibly nice, especially for students + as a teaching tool (let alone as a lovely resource for musicians) <3
#education
#music
#nonprofits
mobygratis.com
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mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects
Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.
https://mobygratis.com/
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It was really fun creating the graphics and animations for this little Atari ST production presented at Buxton Bytes. Code by Tom, music by Adam Gilmore.
youtu.be/T_naN3-AglI?...
#demoscene
#atari
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Cracking On by Tom, Exocet and Adam Gilmore (Atari ST fantasy cracktro)
YouTube video by evldhs
https://youtu.be/T_naN3-AglI?si=PHF48w8naeSXir0W
7 months ago
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Un bon article sur l'histoire et les nombreux déboires de Thomson :
www.usine-digitale.fr/article/tech...
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Technicolor, un fleuron français à l'héritage plus que centenaire
Technicolor Creative Studios, spécialiste tricolore des effets visuels et de l'animation, a demandé fin février son placement en...-Entertainment
https://www.usine-digitale.fr/article/technicolor-un-fleuron-francais-a-l-heritage-plus-que-centenaire.N2229512
7 months ago
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100% of the 'top of the month' on
pouet.net
is now made of Atari ST releases. I don't think that has ever happened before! 💪
#demoscene
7 months ago
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Planet-D
7 months ago
Atari City by Exocet (
@hervepiton.bsky.social
) / Checkpoint 🔗
demozoo.org/graphics/128...
🗓 Released in 2014 at Silly Venture 🇵🇱
#demoscene
#creative
#atari
#2d
#graphics
#pixels
#drawing
#painting
#pictures
#pixelart
#digitalart
#computerart
#art
#picoftheday
#pictureoftheday
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486_DX2.ICO (1995)
10 months ago
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I don't often finish games, but I felt I had to make an exception for Stray. Lovely game - looks great, plays well, and just the right length for me (8 hours with plenty of time to goof around).
10 months ago
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cure
11 months ago
Cluster? I hardly know her!
#pixelart
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Here's the Atari ST demo we've released at Sommarhack with SMFX. Includes some crazy technical achievements from Tom and Spkr as the demo had to run without writing any data to the screen memory.
#demoscene
#atari
youtu.be/z2Ke-Irp7U8?...
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A Series of Raster Effects by SMFX (Zero Bitplane Atari ST demo)
Atari ST demo without using pixel graphics, entirely made from background colour raster splits. Released at Sommarhack 2024 Zero Bitplane Compo. Demozoo: https://demozoo.org/productions/352741/
https://youtu.be/z2Ke-Irp7U8?si=zSPu8Rcn5T0BrLos
over 1 year ago
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An 8-bit duck who's too cool for school Thomson TO8 specs - 320×200 16 colours, max 2 colours per 8×1 block
#pixelart
over 1 year ago
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Little things in
#pixelart
... 320x200, 16 colours
over 1 year ago
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Interesting read about the open ecosystem philosophy behind the 3DO business model.
tedium.co/2024/04/20/3...
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3DO History: Trip Hawkins’ Big Bet On The Model
Why 3DO’s true innovation wasn’t its early 3D hardware, but its business model—a model that perfectly matches its founder’s philosophy.
https://tedium.co/2024/04/20/3do-trip-hawkins-history/?utm_source=Tedium&utm_campaign=Tedium_04_20_2024&utm_medium=email
over 1 year ago
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My entry for the tiny pixel art graphics competition at Lovebyte 2024. 21×24 pixels in 16 colours (EGA palette)
@lovebyteparty.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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almost 2 years ago
The Atari STe roguelike aventure game "nano Cave", for which I've done the music, has been released.
electric-dreams.itch.io/nano-cave
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Nano Cave by Electric Dreams
https://electric-dreams.itch.io/nano-cave
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"The Commodore Amiga and its Undying Adoration by Anarchist Creatives" - interesting read about the (mostly Amiga, but not only) demoscene:
marincomics.com/amiga-demosc...
I liked the quote below about seeing technical limitations as a motivation.
almost 2 years ago
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Prosperity, decline, and return of Adobe Flash "When you separate the animation from the code, you are pushing away the art from the technique, and this is a problem. Flash provided the bridge: code that can work beautifully and art that can be functional."
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Multiplatform
https://multiplatform.com/news/prosperity-decline-and-return-of-adobe-flash-with-indie-developer-nacho-rodriguez/
almost 2 years ago
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I took part in this year's Teletext Advent Calendar and my contribution is now live on ORF and ARD.
teletext.orf.at/channel/orf1...
ard-text.de/index.php?pa...
Hat tip to
@illarterate.bsky.social
for organising this.
almost 2 years ago
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