mastodon 4.7.3I make apps for my company Junecloud and play adventure games on Twitch.
Transfer Point is now available! It’s a point-and-click adventure game about regret, forgiveness, and email. It was made in World Builder, a Mac app from 1986. You can play it free in your web browser. InvisiClues are also available here if you need a hint! https://robotspacer.software/transfer-point.html #MARCHintosh
Transfer Point will be available this Friday, March 27. You’ll be able to play it for free in your browser at https://robotspacer.software. A downloadable version will be available for $5 on https://robotspacer.itch.io to play on your own classic Mac or emulator. The download includes a PDF of the illustrated manual. #MARCHintosh
I started making a simple Mac app to help me port my World Builder game to Playdate, and I realized I’m basically just remaking World Builder at this point
Marchintosh is over, but we can still celebrate 40 years of Silicon Beach Software’s World Builder—and the release of my new World Builder game, Transfer Point. Let’s check out some more World Builder games 🌎✍️ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
I’m very exicted about this! This game has everything you need
• Portable TV
• Go on the computer and do email
• Weird door
• Handsome man with nice glasses
Happy autism acceptance and national burrito day everyone 💖 (It’s also autism acceptance month but burritos only get one day)
Painting finished and signed ✨ Nothing big today, just defined her face a bit more, added shadows on the Lil Sweetie, touched up the normal guy in the window, added a subtle highlight on the ground around the bus stop. It’s not perfect but I got pretty close to what I was hoping for!
Playing Outer Wilds for the first time tonight~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
Finally had a chance to spend more time painting today. Made some good progress! I might even finish this in time for the game launch next week?
My IGDB entry got approved, so Transfer Point has its own Twitch category now 😎 https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/transfer-point
Had a nice chat the other day with GetSelious about my game Transfer Point, point-and-click adventure games, and more. https://youtu.be/6_CK5L-lUP4
It’s fascinating that Blippo+ is nominated for an Apple Design Award as an app, not a game. Though I guess to be fair they did say video is no game. Anyway it deserves an award in either/both categories. Nice to see Blue Prince, Consume Me, Despelote, and TR-49 here also! https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/
This was the first time I’ve watched someone play through the whole game, and it was a delight. It’s hard to know how people will react to a story, puzzles, jokes… but this was exactly the response I was hoping for. Thanks again to suchminutiae for playing! VOD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2735138278
Apple pushed out updates for a bunch of apps, adding this text to the release notes: “This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.” Does anyone know what specifically was addressed? Just curious. It sounds like the developers of the apps were not informed. I know they’ve done this in the past but as I recall they are usually more clear about what was fixed. #iOSDev #AppStore
OK so technically I found Jake but he’s unconscious and then I wound up in the hospital. Let’s try to do more of a rescue this time. Continuing The Tower~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch #MARCHintosh
Pretty sure at one point I landed my ship sideways without any damage? So I’m basically a professional spaceship pilot at this point. Outer Wilds continues~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
I’ve had a lot of similar thoughts about LLMs and this is a good way to describe them. I’m not necessarily attached to programming itself, but I am very attached to making things. Programming languages let me describe exactly what I mean and get a consistent response. I’m all for reducing complexity, but not at the cost of predictability. The worst thing about computers is when they behave in a way that doesn’t make sense to me and I lack the knowledge or ability to understand why.
I released my game today! Let’s celebrate. I’m going to talk about it for a little while, then we’ll play a bunch of other World Builder games. (No spoilers for my own game!) https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
Continuing Outer Wilds, the marshmallow roasting simulator where nothing weird ever happens https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
Continuing my first playthrough of Outer Wilds~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
Type Help final stream part 2 FINAL https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
My launch party stream is on YouTube! I talk about World Builder and the challenges of making a game with 40-year-old Mac software. I also discuss the trailer, illustrated manual, cover painting, Playdate port, and more. Then I share some other World Builder games! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkgOorIssnw
Let's type help one more time~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
I figured out how to extract audio from a World Builder sound library yesterday. They’re stored in the resource fork as ASND resources. Sound Mover 1.9.1 can save them as data files: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sound-mover Then SoundEdit can convert them to AIFF: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sound-edit
…Unfortunately the sound quality is quite a bit worse after this process. They sound dull or muffled, like they’re losing the high end. So I guess I’ll stick to playing them in an emulator and capturing the audio.
Game dev stream time, working on the Playdate version of Transfer Point! https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch #Playdate #PlaydateDev
My wife, who is much cooler and smarter than me, made a really good video about Consume Me and I think you should watch and enjoy it. I made the tiny contribution of suggesting which font would be funniest for the word “sinful” https://youtu.be/bpc47nXzxsM
Last week I landed on the ███████ ████ but I couldn’t get past the █████ ████?? Outer Wilds continues~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
Let’s get back to uncovering Marie Antoinette’s secrets in Wisconsin. Continuing Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
Continuing to explore Outer Wilds in my trusty and durable space ship~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
The situation has become increasingly strange in Galley House. Fortunately I have been reassured multiple times that there are no ghosts here. Continuing Type Help~ https://www.twitch.tv/robotspacer #Twitch
Watch Look Back imo. Best film I’ve seen in years I think. It’s beautiful and perfect.
