this video gives me the same problem I have with the Transformers films. Theres so much visual noise I cannot read what its actually meant to be. Looks nice in a still, but moving its just a mess. Games pushing 'maximum detail everywhere' lose overall readability. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj5O...

watching someone type code on youtube at CRAZY FAST HACKZOR speeds but having to go back and recorrect *literally everything* they type because theres so many mistakes is kinda infuriating. 🤦‍♂️

Played Driver (ps1) yesterday to see if I still got filtered by the unskippable first training/tutorial mission. the answer is yes. 🫠

validated the 'box of useless cables' in the loft by pulling out a SCART switcher that I never expected to see again so I can hook up a Mister with vga->scart (absolutely phenomenal on a crt) & dragged the venerable PS2 out for some Ibara. (also looks incredible with an RGB scart cable!) #shmup

The last 5 months have been my own personal version of 'Calvin waiting for his Propellor Beanie'*, but the FPGA board I ordered in Novemeber has finally arrived! (*hopefully without the accidental self destruction, and inevitable disappointment) www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

excited, been waiting for this since preordering in november :D

crazy, Now 360 games can be decompied/recompiled as native applications, allowing much better mods and tweaks than using emulator hacks. Fans stepping up when publishers dont bother to do it. 👏

ABYSS X ZERO work-in-progress: In between dungeons, you'll explore large open fields, with roaming giant creatures, like this one! I'm now working on the procedural animation system that allows it to walk on any type of terrain elevation, react to the player, etc #gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame #AXZ

its really is beautiful. I dont particuarly miss having a physical 'big box' game collection, but I would definately make an exception for stuff like this.

Two print on demand books, but which is better? There's only one way to find out... FFFIIIGGGHHT!

good list 👇

Coincidentally, while looking at 8 bit stuff I saw a new game begin developed by @suzukiplan.bsky.social for something called VGS-Zero which looks like a virtual/fantasy z80 8 bit console with extra 'hardware' support that can run on a pi zero 2. It looks very intriguing! github.com/suzukiplan/v...

really want to do some 8 bit Assembler but cant decide between: c64, spec, gameboy colour, atari 8 bit (800xl) or Master system. its pretty 50/50 between z80 and 6502 right now, and c64/spec are the obvious choice but I feel like I want to do something with a system I never had. Atari 800 looks fun.

currently reading some 6502 Assembly books and was thinking of trying some C64 or Atari stuff, this looks like it would be incredibly useful!

Tried the Sonic Galactic Fangame - very impressive, very well done. I am consistently impressed with the quality of the fan games. but man, I just have no fun at all playing it at all, something about Sonic mechanics and level design leaves me cold every time. I just dont get it, its a me thing🤷‍♂️

I love people making nonsense like this👌

Flipping through a 1986 C+VG mag and these Bob Wakelin painted ads for Imagine games hit hard.

Been playing Disney Lorcana TCG tonight with the kids and its pretty good. Fixes a few issues with early mana screw, and the pacifist 'quest' alterative to combat is pretty powerful (maybe too much, I got smashed by both kids who just quested while I desperately tried to attack!). Impressed so far.

feeling a terrible urge to attempt some 68000 ASM (either Amiga or ST) using magazine features and applications from coverdisks of the time. 🤔 I do remember Bullfrog (and maybe Argonaut) did some features. I wonder if its just being overly nostalgic and making life more difficult than necessary!😅

playing some Amiga games with the megadrive 3 button controller is quite transformative. [Fire/Up/Space] means games like Turrican use all 3 (and you get a button instead of 'Up to jump' which was always awful. Makes me wish there was more of an effort to support extra buttons at the time really.

More Neo Geo Pocket ASM homebrew from 2001 - a little platformer, a multi screen Manic Miner / Monty Mole clone with tiny 8x8 sprites. Collect the rings in all the rooms to win and the level layout is quite evil in places. This one was a bit more of a swine to rebuild but got there eventually.

oh my steam recap is absolutely dismal. 90% of my gaming this year has been: - Pi connected to a CRT (spec, c64, Amiga, 8/16 bit consoles) - Xbox360 (+Aurora) Japanese shmups + arcade stick. - Clone Hero (rock band clone, + drum kit!)

success, found a modern assember that works so I dont have to faff with Virtualising old windows! Heres my simple sprite test recompiled and working 23 years later 😁 Now.... vertical shmup time???! 🤔😅

I found a bunch of stuff from when I used to make Neo Geo Pocket Color homebrew games around 2001-ish!. Heres some sprites and title screens. Also found my own compiling tutorial on waybackmachine so currently trying to get a toolchain working but its proving to be quite an arse to recreate #neogeo

I have an addiction and it's been 0 days since I bought Yet Another Retro Joypad. 6 quid for the 3 button megadeive classic, bargain. 6 button is way more useful but the 3 button slab is for 100% pure comfy nostalgia.

I have rescued the Competition Pro joystick from the bin. I might try and rewire it as an actual DB9 stick that will work on old c64/amigas, and use a db9->usb adapter. Will lose the 3 extra buttons which I used for shortcuts but I've discovered the market for retro usb sticks is pretty much zero.

Every time I have to solder something I get reminded of one important fact. ..that I absolutely hate soldering.

First console I developed for, but im still old :D Here is my desk around 1998/99, PC debugging with an internal PSX development board, outputting to TV. I had to texture things on the TV with a wierd 3d program that could project and 'stamp' the (tim) textures on a 3d model. very strange.

Decided to try ShadPS4, damn its crazy seeing this full (native, 30fps) speed. 😱 Wonder if it can be unlocked to 60? 😱

Terminals, typography and the quirks of analogue CRTs rendering the fonts managed to tick a few of my geeky boxes. 👌 www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/20... by @masswerk.bsky.social

[Twitter image dump] #01 Probably my favourite #pico8 sketch, a mockup clone of Uridium with working radar, and strobed transparencies.

I scraped the majority of my twitter feed and discovered that I really do have a short attention span, and very rarely finish things. Still, there was some fun little 'doodles' that I forgot about that I might dump here just for examples of stuff I like. Apologies in advance.

This demo is an absolutely spectacular achievement to run on a 'common bedroom setup' Amiga 500, and the presentation about the constraints is very interesting

Bought big box in the shops, day 1. We had a lot of fun playing this at Rage Software Newcastle on the LAN. (a little bit more than Q3 that released very soon after, truth be told. Both were fun but while q3 was more straightforward, this had more crazy 'stuff' going on).

Things I was not expecting going into Recca Summer Carnival 92 #shmup (NES) -banging techno -SO MANY sprites -crazy raster effects -it absolutely kicking my arse. (The vid does not do it justice, the persistence of a CRT smooths the sprite flicking out considerably) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOT...

I loved the 'naughts and crosses' game at the end of these Tarrahawks episodes, and this pre-digital process is fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cbb...

got a preorder in for Batch 3 of @takiudon.bsky.social MiSTER Pi board in February. 🙏 Hyped for hardware accurate Saturn and N64 stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKw...

Ill-advised amateur fumblings in Romhacking, a thread. 🧵 Playing Phalanx on SNES, I found it hard to see these small red bullets. I had a look for the sprite tile in YYCHR which can open roms but couldn't find this bullet at all.

part of being more of a technical artist/designer in games for so long is that I'll sometimes obsess over how old games were made. eg currently im trying to work out how Nights circular levels were made. is it just a big heightmap or a geometry/rendering trick? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFxH...

Not find, but fix. BUCKY F*CKING BUTLER. Lego City Undercover, you had to arrest a guy trying to escape in a car who jumps over water (ideally). Driving AI + Physics + open world meant it could fail spectacularly in a multitude of different ways. And I had to fix em all youtu.be/c39QwICWhrk?...

Posting something blue 💙

tomorrow is 20 years since HalfLife 2 was released (16th Nov 2004). I want to replay it, but I also plan on replaying HL1 via the Black Mesa RTX remake first, and I dont want HL2 to look like a downgrade afterwards. hmm decisions...

WipeOut's Open Source PC Port is AWESOME! Here's How to Play it... Watch Here: youtu.be/RFLTUfl1nRE

I like to play emulated games with the correct controller AT ALL TIMES. I like to play shmups with an arcade stick. Where do you stand on playing -console- shmups with an arcade stick? 😅 (by that I mean those that traditionally expected to be played with a controller -NES, PC engine, Megadrive etc)

Didnt like it at the time but started playing Doom3 again and those 2d screen/panels you can interact with using the aiming reticle are still very cool. Im guessing they had their own scripting methods for these as theres a lot of buttons and UX menu stuff in there. Might have to look at the SDK 🤔

I never finished this as I (as mentioned) played it after SMW and the main thing that annoyed me was having to do it in one sitting with no save (which I sure as shit dont have time for these days). But, might have to give it another go with savestates on an emulator at some point.

Playing Titanfall2 for the first time today (forgot I had it): 'I feel like its only a matter of time before theres a diagonal Akira-ish elevator' Literally 2 ROOMS later: 'Ahh there it is...' 🙄 (I do love them but damn, its like a scifi game wilhelm scream)

been playing MGS 2 for the first time to take screenshots and to rip the environment textures for study/inspiration purposes, i know it's been said before but this game looks genuinely beautiful with unfiltered textures

THAT explosion

Hello Bluesky. Yes, Xhitter is now a dumpster fire run by an edgelord so here we are.