So, WikiFlix is this wonderful place where public domain cinema classics are waiting for us.
📽️ From Nosferatu and Night of the Living Dead, to Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou, you can watch everything here: https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos 🔜 Gamescom Dev
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mastodon 4.7.3Game urbanist, game designer. Occasional city geographer, author, researcher, and educator. Teaching at D6 Learning.
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D6 Learning:
Grab dozens of games in a truly indie bundle, support the Game Worker Hardship Fund, and try to come up with ideas for self-organized studios.
🎁 The bundle: https://itch.io/b/3802/game-industry-hardship-fund
🛠️ The fund: https://uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fund-2026
The technology of 'Hunter' or how a 1991 Amiga game simulated an entire island: https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/03/20/the-technology-of-hunter-how-a-1991-amiga-game-simulated-an-entire-island/
Classic and deadly Dungeons & Dragons module 'The Tomb of Horrors' has been (rather accurately) turned into a JRPG you can play in your browser. Here: https://mralcoro.itch.io/the-tomb-of-horrors
Hibernated 2's Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS loading screens by Dylan Barry. http://8-bit.info/2019/04/19/the-art-of-hibernated-2/
I must have read this book (Usborne Guide to Computer and Video Games) a billion times as a kid... Wonderfully, it's also available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/UsborneGuide
Sometimes researching stuff can lead to lovely old PC Gamer articles like this one on 'The best pubs in PC games'. Here's the link: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-pubs-in-pc-games/
Read Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker --the existence of which I only discovered yesterday-- and was deeply impressed. I now want to re-read Dracula.
Do you want to learn how to come up with, design, flesh out, and populate cities for video games? Interested in a #gamedev focused game urbanism course?
Join me then next Wednesday (Mar. 4) in my *Designing Cities for Video Games* course. Here: https://www.d6learning.com/course/gamecities26
The Rise and Fall of The Palais Cinema https://www.behance.net/gallery/21331301/Sequence-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-The-Palais-Cinema
Just finished Forbidden Solitaire. Wonderful game, clever solitaire mechanics, amazing pacing, and a wonderfully weird (and campy) horror story. Can't recommend it enthusiastically enough!
Happy to announce that, with the help of Indie Press Revolution, physical copies of Ex Novo will be available at Gen Con 2026!
You can find the impressive (and free) BBC sound effects archive here: https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on the Atari 2600; looked just like the movie ❤️
GOG is having its Spring Sale, and I simply had to grab several (mostly old) games including:
• Jupiter Hell
• Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
• Timequest
• Nox Archaist
• Rise of the Dragon
• Timequest (pictured)
• EPIC + Inferno
• Time Gate: Knight's Chase
'The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château: A Secret History' by the Digital Antiquarian for all the tasteful people who wisely adore Gabriel Knight 3. Read it here: https://www.filfre.net/2026/04/the-mystery-of-rennes-le-chateau-part-3-a-secret-history/
Now here's something I don't believe I ever thought about: 'Why and How to make in-engine gameplay trailers' - https://www.darzalgames.com/in-engine-trailers/
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@ThreeOhFour @vga256 Agreed. A friend still has one, and I do remember that helping him set the thing up was a wondrous experience. Also, everything felt much better 20+ years ago.
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All sessions will be recorded, and learners will have lifetime access to all the recordings and all course materials.
Constant and personalized feedback throughout the course is a given 🙂
[illustration of Rockvil from Infocom's AMFV by Aaron A. Reed]
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The sessions combine lectures with workshops, and will guide you in creating your own game city in text. They have been designed to also...
▶️introduce you to game urbanism
▶️teach you how to script & prototype cities in ink
▶️let you explore the cities of interactive fiction.
A (rather glowing) TR-49 review by Eurogamer ❤️ https://www.eurogamer.net/tr-49-review
Infocom's Cornerstone and the mu machine that would have brought it to every platform of the '80s are not so lost anymore... https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/04/cornerstone-and-the-mu-machine
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@glocq @martinfleis This is fascinating -- thank you!
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@ramon_wilhelm@mastodon.gamedev.place Great game.
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@ThreeOhFour @vga256 awwwww ❤️
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I think it's based on the exact same title.
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@csepp@merveilles.town They got them off a CD-ROM based on the actual shows.
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@morgant@mastodon.social @nGFX@oldbytes.space @kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I believe they used to be, but on this particular site they are saved as images. Or so I think.
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@cobbpg@mastodon.gamedev.place @yora@mastodon.gamedev.place Oh, wow -- had completely missed that one.
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I should also point out that PC Gamer's titles are exactly what titles should look like.
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@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place Yeah, seems you are right. Still pretty handy for free projects and prototyping.
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@frankiezafe@mastodon.gamedev.place Very much agree.
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@DamonWakes @kenney BTW, would be happy to help (if that wasn't entirely obvious from that little heart I posted)
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I will be presenting the course, answering relevant questions, and making a short introduction to both game urbanism and ink in a live event on May 6.
You can join me by reserving your (obviously free) spot here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988090421970?aff=oddtdtcreator
My *Create An Interactive City In Text using ink* D6 Learning course will be returning this May, and I can't wait to jump back into texty game urbanism using @inklestudios@beta.mstdn.cf 's amazing ink.
◾️ Find out more here: https://www.d6learning.com/course/create-an-interactive-city-in-text-using-ink
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@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place Exactly!