Right now? Oh I'm just waking up in Tokyo to play DEMON SCHOOL.

Since you asked, this is how your e-mail finds me.

Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it. store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

In college I needed a final project for an OS class and Bungie had just released the source code to Marathon 2, so I made a Marathon Process Manager. All the processes running on the machine are represented as enemies and if you kill them, the process dies. Of course, they also fight back.

Some fun news for obscure game likers! 7 Days: Salvation is getting a remake. This was the original ambitious 3D survival horror game that came packed in with the 2009 Chinese handheld Dingoo a320

Make sure you calibrate your indie level.

Make sure you calibrate your indie level.

One thing I learned is that you need to have an incredibly deep settings menu for any Steam game, even if your game runs at max settings on a Dorito connected to a hamster wheel with alligator clips.

Hotel Infinity launches today on Meta Quest & PS VR2! It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/... PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep... youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...

Look, you gotta play this.

Today I noticed I know it's obvious but Games make me happy

Well it's just about Halloween and so I guess I should share some horror games I played this year that you might want to try. I played a lot of games that I didn't like very much, but these all have something cool to offer.

One thing a lot of my friends missed from other social media platforms was interacting with venerable Japanese game devs. To that end I've made a list of folks I know are here, focusing on devs whose games you will have heard of. Please share and tell me who I'm missing! go.bsky.app/5R1tEtT

Putting Dante in everything: part 30 #pixelart #dante

fun story: game had a custom C preprocessor. Too many people were checking in E3 build hacks they'd never remove, so I added expiring asserts that became compile errors after the last day of E3, and also had some code to look for E3 hack comments and automatically add the asserts to the prepro file

cowabummer

Small brain: jpg makes it easy to share images on the internet Big brain: you can buy a jpg Large brain: we can track the jpg in the most inefficient database of all time and that way you can sell it Galaxy brain: the jpg cannot be sold

I can't deal with the new icon for Preview in macOS Tahoe. I guess it's supposed to be a magnifying glass or something? Like one of those monocular glasses that watch makers screw up in their eyes so they can work on tiny parts? Maybe? It looks like a weird beaker and bugs the heck out of me.

Not even being hyperbolic that having this realization at age 22 saved me

About a decade later I wrote a parser for Crash Bandicoot GBA that would convert phonetic romaji into font indexes ("KONNNICHIHA") so that our translators could do their work. You could switch to katakana with the # character. It worked but I felt very sorry for them. We didn't have UTF-8 yet.

Ryoichi Hasegawa on the localisation process for the Japanese version of Ecco the Dolphin (released in June 1993 in Japan): xcancel.com/rio_hasegawa...

So last week Meta announced a new game engine, which they built specifically for scalable, streaming worlds. Some details of the technical design of the engine just dropped and the thesis of the design is interesting. Check it out. developers.meta.com/horizon/blog...

The f stands for "first-rate"

Also don't sleep on HOTEL BARCELONA!

See you guys in like 3 days

My daughter didn't believe that I worked on "the first Android phone," so I pulled my G1 out of the closet and charged it up. It still had Replica Island on it! Here she is playing a game I made when she was a year old, 17 years ago, with bonus dog.

Hell yeah, I'm Ju-on: The Grudge for Wii.

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

CLOCK TOWER... on Game Boy Advance?! Half-homebrew, half-port, From @bobschneeder45.bsky.social & @blamerobots.bsky.social Team C.U.T.S. bring you: Clock Tower - Advance - Download NOW archive.org/details/cloc... *Fan-made, non-profit. Not official software.* #クロックタワー #clocktower #horror #homebrew

Rec Room was fun, but had to lay off a lot of folks, so I am looking for the next opportunity. If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you. Picture is purely for attention.

I’m going to be thinking about this for years

Man I hope the Silksong folks have some vacation planned after this. Talk about a high-pressure launch. I wouldn't have slept for a week if I were in their shoes.

Panzer Dragoon Saga tech fact: The game shipped with a bunch of debug menus/features At boot up, if the game detect a save with a special name, debug modes will be enabled. More debug flags are enabled if a button on 2nd controller is pressed when hitting start. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC2L...

It struck me yesterday that the pattern of core fans gatekeeping their favorite niche media and getting upset when it goes mainstream is about the perceived loss of a safe space community, about losing the ability to use their fandom as a marker to identify members of a common subculture.

The first computer my family owned was a Mac SE, on which I played Shadowgate, Prince of Persia, a thousand World Builder games, and Shufflepuck Cafe. But my first real computer was the Apple II/e at school, where I was introduced to Karateka, EA Summer Games, The Bilestoad, and BASIC.

The trajectory of my life as computer nerd was fundamentally altered by AKIRA in ~1992, which e-break turned me on to Japanese. Now I have bilingual kids and 15 haniwa statues on my desk and a business card with two sides. Turns out you can dual wield nerd interest in video games and cultural study.

you wanna tell me an NPC’s not important when she’s got HER OWN CUSTOM ANIM SET okay mmhmm sure

I haven't seen anything in English about the horror film 近畿地方のある場所について (About An Area in the Kinki District). I read the manga and saw the movie recently. The story revolves around a pair of reporters slowly realizing that a string of weird reports all come from a remote area outside Osaka.

Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan (1981) Episode 3

The Limey is one of the greatest, most unique, quietly badass films ever made. I saw it for the first time in a theater a couple years ago (after many times at home) and it was stunning, better than ever. Honor Terence with a watch.

Important piece from AV watch regarding whether Sadako from The Ring could have cursed a Beta tape just as well as a VHS tape despite dying before the video wars even began. (they conclude yes)

Midnight Murder Club emerges from early access today The hide-and-seek party shooter adds a new PvE mode along with other surprises. Use the Guest Pass and bring along your friends for free: play.st/4fCnRB7

Moero!! Robocon (1999) Episode 11

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Columbo

Virgin Angel // Crystal Soft // PC-98

I was shocked to learn how many ppl my age have not done any one sport/art/hobby in their life for minimum 10 yrs w consistency. I hope everyone finds a thing they love enough to keep at for a decade, bc reflecting on it afterwards will instantly demystify skill acquisition + the myth of Talent.

Random game Saturday, it's Fighter Maker and Fighter Maker 2. Make your own fighting game by hand-animating every move (with IK, bones, key frames, etc), setting up damage regions, and linking it all together in a behavior tree with button mappings. Then try it out in the ring.

I'm playing a little Metal Gear Solid 2, because of course I am, and I just love the way they do shadows on the Big Shell To make sure Raiden wasn't casting stencil shadows on top of lightmapped ones, they actually cut into the geo and disabled Raiden's shadow in larger shadowed areas