Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4mo ago Replying to @Walruths@mastodon.social @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange "Please, paw, don't put old Weller down!!" @Walruths@mastodon.social @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange fantastic reply
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 5mo ago Replying to @root42@chaos.social The real reason why we all install Wine on Linux. #linux @root42@chaos.social the source code leaked a few years ago...
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 5mo ago Replying to @GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io <p>You’re going to like this: My biggest retro-computing project yet! It’s an app that gathers information, specs, community, new peripherals.. everything I can think of. </p><p>Here’s the public TestFlight beta. PLEASE let me know where I have made mistakes or omissions!</p><p>Retro Computers<br /><a href="https://testflight.apple.com/join/pY3ZksZz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">testflight.apple.com/join/pY3Z</span><span class="invisible">ksZz</span></a></p> @GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io pinch-to-zoom in the Timeline view would be cool!
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 5mo ago Replying to @gingerbeardman@mastodon.gamedev.place 2/2 I'm also launching… Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software https://fitsonafloppy.com ✨💾✨ Which includes a free "flying disks" screensaver! @gingerbeardman this is wonderful
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 5mo ago Replying to @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net <p>this project has been warming for years, and i'd like to gauge public interest in it.</p><p>it's hard to think of a more influential game than Ultima VII: The Black Gate. to this day, CRPG designers still talk about how they wish they could build a modern counterpart to Ultima VII, or how aspects of their design were deeply influenced by it.</p><p>after 34 years, the ship has long since sailed on seeing any kind of real successor. worse, to me, is that players now haven't even *heard* of it aside from random nods it gets in youtube videos</p><p>U7 was built, from scratch, by a handful of programmers, scripters, artists and composers at Origin in the early 90s. i'd like to pull apart the engine, the world editor, the VooDoo memory manager, and the various tools used to create assets, and explore how each of these are weaved together to create the game.</p><p>it would be written as a book, with chapters devoted to different aspects of the engine. something like fabien sanglard's Game Engine Black Books</p><p>if this is the kind of book you'd read, i'd love to hear it. if there's something specific you'd like me to cover, i'd love to hear that too.</p><p>i realize that this is an *extremely* specific hardcore and obscure topic. it's totally okay to say "nah, don't waste your time dude because i'd never read that." :)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/ultima" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ultima</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dosGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/rpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rpg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tomodori.net/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retroGaming</span></a></p> @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net i would absolutely read that.
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 7mo ago Replying to @polpo@chaos.social <p>Here are my <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/9games" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>9games</span></a> which are all over the map. <a href="https://my9games.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">my9games.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @polpo great picks, you convinced me to do one
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 8mo ago Replying to @Ailantd@mastodon.art <p>The critical reader.</p><p>Continuing my black masses exploration with this quick scribble with added flat color scheme.</p><p>Very out of comfort zone by the way. Which makes these exercises quite fun.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/scifiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scifiart</span></a></p> @Ailantd@mastodon.art I saw this maybe a year ago and styled my phone lock screen around it. love love love this painting so much
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 9mo ago Replying to @firman@mstdn.social <p>Cheryl Williams (The Evil Dead)</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/evildead" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evildead</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fanart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fanart</span></a></p> @firman@mstdn.social swallow this excellent work!
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 17mo ago Replying to @evan@fedi.evrys.me @wikipedia@wikis.world the scale is a little misleading here, it looks like the event doubles traffic but it's actually only a ~25% increase Still way more than I would expect a single news event to influence things on such an already high-traffic website, wow! @evan@fedi.evrys.me @wikipedia@wikis.world Start. All. Graphs. At. Zero.
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 6mo ago Replying to @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place @MossRC excited! I dig the wololo cover. @MossRC@social.mossrc.me backed!
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 7mo ago Replying to @polpo@chaos.social @jfaulken nice picks! I had a hard time choosing between Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. @polpo haha I'm a super Ico nerd so it was easier for me. I considered doing 2, one classic and one modern 🤓
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 5mo ago Replying to @tschak@oldbytes.space <p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FujiNet</span></a> is a WiFi Adapter for a growing num of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> and <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> platforms.</p><p>Here is an <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AtariLynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AtariLynx</span></a> playing Battleship over the Internet. :)</p><p>(yes, it crosses platforms)</p> @tschak nice! I need to get one Is that an OG screen or a mcwill/bennvenn replacement?
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 5mo ago Replying to @tschak@oldbytes.space @jfaulken the latter. @tschak it looks so good it had to be. Ty!
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 9mo ago Replying to @retrohistories@digipres.club <p>Contemplating the last 24 years of incredible advances in silicon, emulation and product design, and how it’s led to this: the ability to play GBA games anywhere we want.</p> @retrohistories@digipres.club I love it, what hardware is that?
Open post John Faulkenbury @jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place · 7mo ago Replying to @mwichary@mastodon.online 18. This company is called G. O. GRAPHICS. Cute. @mwichary@mastodon.online the first image has a very Avant Garde 'A' but none of the rest do. Was it maybe falling off the front of the machine??