A person throwing an orb-shaped stuffed Hatsune Miku into a crowd.
MAGFest Staff telling the audience to stop throwing the Miku.
A person throwing an orb-shaped stuffed Hatsune Miku into a crowd.
I captured this moment! it’s one of my favorite memories from the entire convention now lol
this post really resonated with me and i have to share what the final fantasy xi website looks like right now... i feel like it still manages to capture that exact magic from christmas time in MMOs from back in the day
yeah… I don’t know what it’s gonna take to get back to that tumblr/myspace point of customization in social media but I’m waiting…
you may be interested in this: bsky.app/profile/hedr...
thanks so much for always releasing these officially!
are you SATISFIED YET
thinking 1 year of inactivity = retired is crazy when most active artists I know have way longer gaps between projects than that
ICYMI, @ondereh.bsky.social and I helped put together a showcase of the niche but fascinating LEGO Island speedrunning community for @mattkc.com’s second channel. Check it out if you’re interested!
youtube.com/watch?v=lq1P...
A signed Madeon "next era" teaser poster hanging on a wall.
Got mine up too in my home office! They’re so cool
That’s sick! Picked one up!
Is this still in development?
CDs in particular are still utter black magic to me; how is it even possible that there is like an hour and a half of 44.1 KHz audio contained within microscopic bumps we can’t even see
Sub-11 RTA is real!!
Congratulations! Now you can fix the speed problem we found with faster machines, and it can be playable again! Good work!
I would like to share this wonderful blog post recounting the decompilation project by the main developer on the project, Christian, who I had the absolute pleasure of working with: blaubart.com/blog/the-dec...
Merry Christmas!
this post is really weird, i’m pretty positive none of the accounts they mentioned are genuine
this is what my sleep paralysis demons look like
This is a day I have been waiting to see for a very long time. As the first 3D open world game ever made, LEGO Island was developed on the cutting edge of technology at the time. I'm so glad that we can preserve this fascinating part of gaming history!
Repo:
github.com/isledecomp/i...
I want to give a shoutout to the isledecomp team. Without this team of brilliant people, none of this would have even been possible. I could not have asked for a better team to be a part of.
Thank you so much to anyone who has contributed code or even just taken interest in our project, genuinely.
Although we have implemented every function, our job is not done! We have years of work ahead of us to improve the accuracy, naming, documentation, and structure of the source code. Accuracy and presentation is really important to us, so we'll likely be smoothing this out over a long period of time.
I'm so happy to announce that we have completed the LEGO Island decompilation!
All 4529 functions that the game is comprised of have been painstakingly reverse engineered back into their original C++ equivalents over the course of a year and a half, essentially giving us the source code!
that must be what they were warning Porter about
twitter still sucks
the one where it was almost christmas
Wine has an implementation of D3DRM, but the majority of the functions are stubbed and nobody has picked it up in years since almost nothing uses it.
We currently use it when building the game for Windows on other architectures, but the game doesn’t start because of the incomplete implementation.
Thanks! Yeah, it’s a bit of a blackbox unfortunately. Our current plans are to reimplement it using SDL3/OpenGL ES.
(Alternatively, @microsoft.com should give us the source code to Direct3D Retained Mode; it hasn’t been updated since 2001 and only shipped with 2 commercially successful games!)
Yeah, we’ve managed to establish a workflow in the team that is very efficient and focused, so we don’t really update about progress anywhere that is immediately accessible. Though there is an official announcement of sorts planned for 100%, so no need to worry that this will fly under the radar.
Please check out the repo if you think you’re qualified!
github.com/isledecomp/i...
We are looking for any help we can get with making the codebase portable so we can preserve this game now and into the future!
Work has begun here; we have already replaced the majority of Windows APIs with cross-platform replacements, but reimplementing D3DRM is going to be a huge undertaking.
