as usual, if you've been waiting to pick up any of my music at notquitereal.bandcamp.com, today's the day to do it. realis is in a really interesting place and perpetua is bursting at the seams with traditional FatT tracks and also crumbs of musical ephemera that are sticking the video game together
folks, it's bandcamp friday today. and i just happen to have a big brand new album out - my most ambitious musical project ever - that you should buy! ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...
SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, March 12th will be STELLATHON: A FUNDRAISER FOR YOUR COOL ONLINE FRIEND.
Games streamers! Artists! Storytellers! Giveaways, baby! Participants will be revealed throughout the next week.
Let’s get @antlervel.vet her money back!
Poster by @yotsuben.bsky.social.
video games don't make me feel whatever emotion it is these screenshots make me feel anymore
a compilation of my photos of maine, "A Place Without Bodies" volumes 1 and 2, to advertise it for my early spring sale. in the top left it says "Early spring/"FUCK! I got bills" sale!". in the middle, over a moody photo of a gas station, it says "Over 600 atmospheric photos of Maine in 2 volumes for $20! (That's 2/3rds off its normal price!)". and on the right, over a foggy photo of a bridge, it says "Licensed for commercial use! Use 'em in games, art, albums, more!"
hooooo heyo! some surprise bills have come up here, so i'm doing an early spring sale of my photo packs of maine, "A Place Without Bodies"! over 600 moody, atmospheric photos, WITH license for commercial use! normally $60, cut down to $20! and it lasts all march! ko-fi.com/s/bc50ecb11f
some people are just culturally doomed
lol fuck this show and every open mouthed consumer who thinks it’s good
Chrontendo Episode 31 (00:47:37)
Yes! Exactly this. Well remembered wisdom from the Queen
love to work in a field with 0 institutional memory
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
personally I only love software that openly despises me
the flattening of context and the relative lack of firm institutional memory is a huge huge problem for games as a medium!
don’t like this view, hence making the post I made. there was simply a different set of design values, player motivations and required vocabulary at that time.
I don’t mind that type of ‘unwinnable state’ puzzle mechanic specifically, but I also didn’t like this one and never revisit it! not my style of input
Neither have I
the experience functioning as intended
I did this in the third grade ~1989, including a ‘terrapin turtle’, you simply cannot impress me
☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽
Thank you, still one of my favorite things I’ve done
discoursing with an ancient text parser and figuring out what it can understand, and what it wants you to understand, and where the hidden clues lie, is one of my favorite hardcore game experiences
please enjoy my old lo-fi let’s play series all over again!
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we also beat these games via folklore, and dubiously reliable playground word of mouth. there was a lot of lying and myth-making. friends would come sit around the computer with you after school and mash in guesses. very few of us ever beat them “without help”.
also publishers like sierra operated hint lines that cost upwards of 99 cents a minute. I dreaded the day the phone bill would arrive and my shocked parents would yell at me
adventure games from the 80s were intentionally designed to be tricky, mean and occasionally counterintuitive so that you could get stuck for long periods of time. this was called “value for your dollar”
I was on newsgroups in my freshman year of high school, child
my AIM handle was “Misato”. just Misato no numbers fight me & lose
Perfect
hehehe it was just a demo for funsies but we do a lot of prototyping in this vein so I feel Seen! Very excited about what you’re making sickos.jpg
