Open for work! Unfortunately, I just found out that all funding and grants for my 2025 projects are canceled. Would love the opportunity to continue the musical journey started with #Ultros. Comfortable with #GameMusic #GameAudio. Retweets appreciated linktr.ee/ratvader

@cstross.bsky.social I can't find reference to it anywhere so either I've discovered a cool Easter egg or Amazon are up to something. Is it intentional that the Kindle edition of The Labyrinth Index contains a hyperlink to v3.globalgamejam.org/2018/games/c... ?

Our latest podcast episode is up! Earlier this summer Hit Save director @jonasrosland.bsky.social sat down CrunchBite, current project lead on the #XLinkKai tunneling program, and got the story behind one of gaming's most enduring community-driven projects dedicated to connecting gamers worldwide.

This Saturday, @sean.tcgs.co and @mat.tcgs.co (along with members of our wonderful Discord community) are running the Tatton 5k & 10k to raise money for @specialeffect.org.uk! Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru... Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...

Happy 23rd birthday to Syberia, the 2002 Adventure Game of the Year developed by Benoît Sokal and the team at @microidsoff.bsky.social! To celebrate the occasion, we've just added the PC GOTY edition to our archive! archive.hitsave.org/ark:/78322/6...

Up in the @hitsave.org archive today: Panzer Dragoon Orta, PaRappa the Rapper, Perfect Dark Zero, Perfect World International, Pikmin 1-3, Pokken Tournament, Okami, and Demon's Souls, enjoy! archive.hitsave.org/item?sort_by...

I'm a bit late coming to the last part of this, but playing hockey and starting to run regularly has been, no joke, life changing. I've lost weight, I'm sleeping better, eating better, my knee pain has more or less disappeared. Turns out all those "diet and exercise" people were right all along

Big personal milestone today, finished my first 5K! Only started running a few months ago after a couple of decades of zero exercise, really pleased with this progress

I realise the answer is ideological, but from a practical point of view the cost of keeping this service live until the heat death of the universe would be a rounding error in Google's overall budget. The desire of companies with infinite money to kill every useful thing they ever built baffles me

I've brought this up in interviews I've done with queer adult game devs There are no safe spaces for queer games in general as long as payment providers/banks get to set the terms of our existence This is the right-wing playbook. Get queer lives declared porn, then outlaw queer people I hate this

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

This September, @sean.tcgs.co and @mat.tcgs.co (along with members of our wonderful Discord community) are running the Tatton 5k & 10k to raise money for @specialeffect.org.uk! Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru... Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...

Sonic the Hedgehog came out on the SEGA Genesis 34 years ago today! To celebrate, we've added a History of Sonic VHS tape to our archive! It was released to promote the launch of Sonic 3, and includes behind the scenes looks at the creation of SEGA's mascot! archive.hitsave.org/ark:/78322/6...

Hey wanna see some cool experimental clicker / idle / incremental games? Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some *incredible* incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work! 1/ 👇📈👇📈👇

Excited to share I am now working with Hit Save! to get their press materials collection sorted and viewable for public use!

We sat down with @eland.bsky.social, developer of the innovative Japanese learning puzzle game So to Speak. What started as a personal mission became a six-year solo development journey that transformed an academic researcher into an indie game developer. hitsave.org/from-phd-to-... #indiegame

We had an absolute BLAST at PAX East this year, with close to 1,000 people stopping by our booth, talking about video game preservation, parents reliving and sharing memories by playing Duck Hunt with their kids, & making new memories with games from our amazing partners hitsave.org/pax-east-202...

Yesterday at #PAXEast two former Sony employees were walking by the Hit Save booth and noticed our #Trinitron CRT retro setup! Turns out they were both part of the team that made these legendary #CRT TVs a reality! We made sure to pass on our thanks and praise from the #retro gaming community! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Committing to your interests, no matter how nerdy or embarrassing, when you're young will save you heartache and soul searching later in life

Hello everyone! It's been a while. :) We would like to thank Time Extension for their recent article highlighting the current financial state of the GPS. We would like to expand on it somewhat and respond to some of the comments left by readers. www.timeextension.com/features/we-...

I played this when they did a brief early test and it fucking killed then, getting on it the moment I get home and so should all of you

Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏 We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️ Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

Happy #NationalExerciseDay, everyone! In honor of the occasion, we're debuting another piece of content from our archive to the internet! Join us at 7:00 PM Eastern as we premiere Zumba Fitness 2: Behind the Scenes Bonus DVD! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qitm...

Gradius Neo Imperial on SquirrelJME! I needed to add a version compatibility check because newer versions of DoJa changed the API naturally! So this is definitely an important feature for DoJa.

SquirrelJME: March Update! https://squirreljme.cc/doc/trunk/assets/rss/20250330_0400.mkd

We have just published our Q1 2025 update, filled with information about what we've been doing both in public and behind the scenes. Check it out, and check out our new Patreon tiers as well! hitsave.org/hit-save-upd...

Happy 18th birthday to Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars! We've just added the bonus disc from the Kane Edition release to our stream, so check it out for an hour and a half of behind the scenes, strategy, live action bloopers, and more! www.twitch.tv/hitsaveorg

The home computer market was how damn near everyone in Europe consumed their games. It was a big, government-supported and highly lucrative industry for a whole decade. It wasn't a bloody "scene". Do you think we had bloody fanzines promoting games or some shit? Every sodding time.

Happy belated 30th birthday to Chrono Trigger, one of the most celebrated RPGs of all time! We're a day late, but that's ok when the game's about time travel, right? We just added a special V Jump promo VHS to our archive and 24/7 livestream. It's got dev interviews, pre-release content, and more!

Thank you to @hitsave.org for sponsoring SquirrelJME six months ago! The funds have been put to good use!

This was so much fun to be a part of! Getting involved with video game preservation is one of the best choices I made in the last few years. The community is awesome, and I’m excited to see where things go from here! Great work @camerabird.bsky.social !

Happy #PokemonDay everyone! Today marks the 29th anniversary of the release of Pocket Monsters Red and Green in Japan! To celebrate, we've just added two new Pokemon VHS tapes to our 24/7 game preservation livestream: Pokemon Insider (US) and Pokemon Schnapp' Sie Dir Alle! (Germany)

FYI - IMO there is no genre MORE political than Horror! It's about life and death, good and evil, about survival and hope. It's politics all the way down.

Artifacts and materials are not people, and datasets are not lives, but if you're in need of haven or hard drive for the works of transgender materials, you got a free consult, anonymous or otherwise, from me. DMs open

Had a sudden desire to watch Due South a couple of weeks ago and, after much frustration trying to find a way to watch it online, resorted to simply buying a DVD boxset. Having a major nostalgia trip right now - never mind 24/7 streaming, this is how we were meant to binge-watch our shows

This is a wonderful cause to support and also you will get a cool as hell piece of art

Red alert! The Retro Computer Museum in Leicestershire, UK has suffered some nasty flood damage. Please considering donating to their recovery efforts if you are able to do so! www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/ret... #gamepreservation #fundraiser

Finally got the provisional lineup of streamers for the ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories fundraiser (@romchip.bsky.social) up on our donation site donate.romchip.org Fundraiser is SATURDAY FEB 22, 11AM - 11PM ET! Our Tier 1 Goal starts at $7K, w/ stretch goals at $9K and $11K 1/1

Updated my floppy disk guide with new sections covering copy protection schemes, the number of revolutions in flux dumps, and most importantly, my biggest discovery so far: The Wiggle Method (for microstepping manually, to salvage damaged disks by reading around the scratches) 😸 krugman.net/dumping/

We are in a low trust era thanks to late capitalism but we have to unlearn the mistrust applied specifically to people who don’t have many resources: cultivate acceptance that people are who they say they are. Don’t start mistrusting strangers just because you are scared or unsure. Assume fraternity

Happy birthday to SEGA's NiGHTS: Journey into Dreams, which came out on the Nintendo Wii 17 years ago today! We've just added the Making Of DVD to our 24/7 game preservation livestream. Check it out to see interviews, behind the scenes, and more! www.twitch.tv/hitsaveorg

Well, long bus journey and a well-timed Google Play credit finally pushed me into getting the mobile version. RIP my free time (and phone battery)

I know the movie doesn't do the game justice, but I promise there's cool stuff in here, including a neat little Doom retrospective with interviews from devs as well as other people in the industry! Oh and fun fact: DVD copies of the movie actually contained a Doom 3 demo playable on xbox systems!

Happy birthday to Id Software's Doom! The legendary FPS that can run on almost anything turns 31 today! To celebrate, we've just added the bonus content from the infamous 2005 Doom movie to our livestream! Check it out to see dev interviews, movie BTS, and a Doom 3 trailer! www.twitch.tv/hitsaveorg

We're kicking off our @bsky.app debut with a big one! Mattel's #Intellivision turns 45 this month, and we've just added over 3 hours of historical content to our 24/7 preservation livestream to celebrate! Check the stream to see ads, interviews, BTS, art, photos, and more! www.twitch.tv/hitsaveorg

I climbed 400 steps up a church tower for this