mastodon 4.7.38 bits should be enough for everyone! Patai is my surname, because we Hungarians like it that way.
The Hungarian #retrogaming steamroller keeps on going! We just got a #C64 demake of Dune II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smiQnlbqpKw
It seems kind of rough around the edges at the moment, but there's definitely a lot of potential here if the creators intend to refine it further.
This is a very interesting and approachable technical breakdown of how Parking Garage Rally Circuit implemented its driving physics, and it's also a great demonstration of effective debug visualisations. Definitely worth your time if you're interested in arcade racing game mechanics.
I thought ugly pixel art scaling filters are a modern scourge, but I just found out that LucasArts used to apply them in the Macintosh ports of their adventures to boost their perceived resolution.
Looking at the screenshots, they would have achieved much better results by simply hand-crafting high-resolution variants for all in-game text and leaving everything else alone.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/316/indiana-jones-and-the-fate-of-atlantis/screenshots/macintosh/
The regime might be changing in Hungary now, but it's worth keeping in mind that over 98% of votes in this record-shattering election went to right-wing parties of various flavours. Progressives have a lot of work ahead of them if they ever hope to shift the Overton window back towards their side.
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io 🎉 Most pár órát bulizhatunk, aztán kezdődik az igazi munka.
I definitely consider myself a VR skeptic, but this Pixelmusement video provides an interesting counter-perspective. If you stop measuring a platform in terms of its mainstream commercial performance, you can potentially find some interesting experiences.