Oh no, another weekend without a Pixel Prophecy stream 🙈 I haven't fully recovered yet and need some more rest before getting back to my usual shenenigans. Wish you all a great weekend and week therafter! 🦄✨️

Would it kill them to write what's new in the "What's new" section?! 🙄

In case some of you missed Valve's email a couple ofbweeks back, here's the offical announcement regarding changes to the Store page https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/506217467911081529 #gamedev #steam

This is huge! (...and I think I need to update steamcapsule.com/guide) store.steampowered.com/news/group/4... #gamedev #gameart #gamemarketing #indiegames #steam

Hello everyone! I have to cancel this week's stream, I'm still ill 🤒

I'm taking part in Morl Society, an online conference featuring niche talks, hosted by Sean Morley. You can also take part! Give a short talk on a niche subject you're really into! It's fun! Sign up here […]

I hate being on the brink of being sick before bedtime (scratchy throat, cough, clogged nose, aching limbs) and waking up the next day all better only to arrive at the same symptoms. It's been 3 days, pick a side!

With my laptop purchase I got two keys for games, one from Intel, the other from NVIDIA and the utter bullshit you have to go through their broken redemption processes is something else. And, as expected, NVIDIA claims I redeemed my key already while their site timed out. Yuck! I need a shower.

I have to copy a 12 TB RAID that's Mac-formatted (HFSJ) to my local Widows-formatted (NTFS) drive under Windows 11. I got the trial of MacDrive Pro and can confirm it's utter garbage: Read failures and system freezes every 10 minutes that only a force shutdown solved momentarily. 🙄 The solution […]

Real quick before I pass out for today, here’s another bite-sized story, simply titled ”Town”. 📕 https://pixelprophecy.com/microfiction/?post=2025-01-31-town #writer #microfiction #story

Today's spooky Halloween stream starts in 3 hrs from now at https:/twitch.tv/pixelprophecy 🦇👻🎃🧙‍♀️🍂

It's been a while since I streamed, but this month with @dosgameclub we're doing TOONSTRUCK, a zany adventure game I've never played in my life. So I figured: instead of getting stuck alone, why not get stuck together?? Come and hang out in 15 minutes or so at […] [Original post on dosgame.club]

If you're into #cyberpunk and/or #retrocomputing stuff, please have a look at my designs in the GLITCH EMPORIUM! The prices there are better than on RedBubble 🤫 💾 https://shop.pixelprophecy.com

Here’s another snack-sized story I wrote earlier this year titled ’Rear-view mirror”: 📕 https://pixelprophecy.com/microfiction/?post=2025-02-21-rearview-mirror #story #writer #microfiction

Almost forgot: I wish you all a Happy Halloween! 🍂👻🦄✨️🎃🌙

Spent 3 full days setting up my new laptop with all the programs and tools thag I need to be my creative self. But deactivating hundreds of phoning-home functions, "AIs" (many silently autostarting) almost broke me. All that felt like an invading zombie horde and I am that priest with a shotgun.

This is Nugget. Nugget wants to remind you to make a back up of your project(s) today. 😸

Today's stream starts in ~2.5 hrs from now. I'll play some more Ludum Dare games and then it's back to the traditional assorted retro, ramblings, and of-topic tangents 😅 https://twitch.tv/PixelProphecy

Throwback Saturday: I re-discovered that pop-rock song I made in 2012 that I think holds up pretty well 😊 What do you think? 🎶🎸 https://www.sephcarissa.com/music/ferrum-fletus/ #intrumental #poprock #music

Thanks to a botched update, I spent the better part of today recovering my system from a snapshot I had made of it in January. Here's hoping your day was better! 😊🤞

On Mastodon (and BlueSky) I only have a fraction on the followers I used to have on Twitter but the interactions with you are at a similar level, if not higher. Thank you so much, you wonderful bunch, you! I love sharing my stuff with real people with natural intelligence ❤️

I got a DOS laptop! And the thing I've been developing in an emulator for months now works without issues on it! 🤯❤️ #dos #retrocomputing #toshibasatellite #knightrider #ega

In today's stream I'll continue playing Ludum Dare 58 games and maybe do some DOS game dev. Let's find out together in 5.5 hrs from now! Stream starts at 21:00 CEST 🕹 https://twitch.tv/pixelprophecy

Couldn't sleep but didn't feel like getting up. Picked up phone. Avout 3 hrs have passed since then. Wrote ~2000 words of an outline for a Knight Rider episode/fanfic. Why am I like this?! 😅 Good night, nerds!

And here’s today’s progress: My DOS game’s title screen with a neat animation on the title and my EGA fade effect. Maybe I keep tweaking that image, though 🤔 #ega #dos #retrocomputing #knightrider

Looking for a snack-sized story? My latest micro fiction story titled “Fluke” just dropped: 📔 https://pixelprophecy.com/microfiction/?post=2025-10-17-fluke #writer #story #scifi #microfiction

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Did some more EGA pixelart today for my DOS fan game (instead of working on the actual game). I fear it’ll become a slide show—but then again my code is so over-engineered, it already is on slower machines 🙈 #ega #pixelart #dos #retrocomputing

I streamlined and unified my DOS engine, keep passing pointer rather than heap allocations, buffering text output to sprites and in general made everything easier to work with. The result: It runs now much slower than before 🫠

Why yes, between ny many other projects I have been writing and editing my #microfiction . Here's one of my recently published stories: https://pixelprophecy.com/microfiction/index.php?post=2025-10-11-grin #writer #fiction #story

In S1E3 we see Michael playing a game on KITT’s screen, so I thought I modify it slightly and make a GIF for y’all. Should appear on Giphy and Tenor in the next few hours, just enter @PixelProphecy (with the @-sign) in the GIF search bar 😊👍

Had this wonderful encounter today I want to share with you 😸

This will never not be funny!

Made a game for Ludum Dare 58? Would you like me to play and stream* it? Then head over to ✨https://pixelprophecy.com/submit ✨ I usually stream on the weekend, next stream this Saturday at 21:00 CEST! * Games are picked randomly and devs in the chat are favored #ldjam #ld58 #ludumdare

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Remember my NES chiptune cover of the #knightrider theme? https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@PixelProphecy/115092895223554752 Well. Now I made an OPL-2 AdLib cover. 😅✨ 🔊Sound on! #music #chipmusic #furnace #adlib #fmsynth #retro #soundblaster

Spookyfied my avatar for October like a good trend follower.

I love the clunky future that Knight Rider predicted even besides the talking, self-driving car: Car phones! Smart watches! Helpful visualizations! 🥰

I’ve changed some things under the hood and needed a test program so here’s another screensaver for DOS: Select the logo with left/right and the background color with up/down. You’re welcome! ► https://pixelprophecy.itch.io/idlebounce #dos #retrocomputing #screensaver

I’ve changed some things under the hood and needed a test program so here’s another screensaver for DOS: Select the logo with left/right and the background color with up/down. You’re welcome! ► https://pixelprophecy.itch.io/idlebounce #dos #retrocomputing #screensaver

Update on my DOS "game". Mechanically it's still just "click the ball" but I pushed some pixels today for a nice background and there’s now music and sprite animations! Goodnight, nerds! #dos #retrocomputing #gamedev #pascal

Stream today in ~2.5 hrs from now with more DOS gamedev shenanigans! 💾 https://twitch.tv/PixelProphecy

It's finally time to announce my game: Island Architect! Sculpt seaside towns in Island Architect, a relaxing builder inspired by coastal Europe. Build winding streets, whimsical towers, or calm fishing villages in this cozy experience. Wishlist now on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3079100/...

Meanwhile, I made music! Here's a melodic instrumentalnelectronic piece I call "Message Pump", my attempt at something a bit more "poppy" than my usual stuff. 🕺🎵😎 https://sephcarissa.com/music/message-pump #music #electronic #instrumental

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

Stream today in 3 hrs and ~10 mins from now. I'll give DOS :msdos: game dev with PASCAL another try (last week was cut short by a migraine). We'll try and get AdLib OPL playback working. 😬🤞 http://twitch.tv/PixelProphecy

Sorry for my relative radio silence this week. Lots of stuff and busywork kept me, well, busy. And today I went to our uni reunion and had a splendid time meeting everyone after 15+ years. Also had the joy to share a ride with synth maestro Dorian Concept 😊👍

"Your meaningful contributions showing genuine technical involvement looks promising" -- what a waste of words! And that's in relation to *ruffles paper* a simple starfield generator for GameMaker 😆 Oh, how I destest such eMails!