Life's too short for shitty controls. #gamedev
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Life's too short for shitty controls. #gamedev
Roster of 3x3 games. Mine are: Tetris, The Journeyman Project, Strahl Fine Sweeper, Into the Breach, Rocksmith 2014 LSD Dream Emulator, Myst and Clair Obscur
Nobody asked for it but here are my 9 games in no particular order (from my9games.com) 😅
#my9games
Just wanted to reply something along those line too and saw that somebody already had ☺️
Photo of a pencil sketch of a happy cartoon unicorn pointing at typography behind it reading "Never gonna Slop" with the last word inside a stylized stop sign.
Same picture but now with inked outlines in black.
Final design, all inked and colored in with colored pencils, the unicorn's mane is a purple-yellow gradient, apart from the SLOP-sign, the letters are filled with a hand-drawn rainbow gradient.
Just made a new sticker design! 🦄✨️. There's something inherently joyful about working with colored pencils, I love it 🥰
#sticker #design #noai #unicorn
"erden" 🥁👏👏👏😂
Photo of a small Sony Trinitron TV and a brand-new Sony Playstation 2 next to it with its tray open. On the TV we can see the PS2 BIOS menu, the date reads 02/01/2002 20:05:01
Closeup of some brand new Euro bills and coins (the currency had just been introduced as this photo was taken) sitting on a very small, baby-blue Wacom tablet (incl. stylus) on my desk. Also visible: A few felt-tip pens, my trusty Nokia 6210, the GTA 3 manual to the PS2 version of the game, a file, a blue Logitech mouse and part of a "Coyote and Road Runner" mouse pad.
Photo of a CRT screen displaying a blue ASCII screen of the Windows 2000 Professional installation. In front is a box with CD-ROMs of other Microslop software, a flap of a Platinum blank CD-ROM, and a VHS case of a Simpsons episode showing Sideshow Bob menacingly behind Bart.
Photo of a "DEXXA" computer keyboard, complete with coffee stains and a German keyboard layout. Very prominently, somebody (me) applied a sticker to its top that mimics the Commodore 64 case label; at least as well as I could recreate it myself from the tiny photos I'd had saved from The Internet.
In the spirit of the #retro podcast I'm on this Sunday, here are some more photos I took in 2001 and 2002 for some #nostalgia 😊
Promo image advertising the live ATSCast on 8th of March with TheLousyLoser, Suerion, MrMalex95 and yours truly
Just received the official promo ☺️
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Oof! 😬
Interested in writing for games and game narratives in general? Then feast your eyes on this magnificent tome of densly packed widsom! 🥰
My schedule is free right now, so if you need an artist for your project, feel free to contact me anytime!
I can do concepts, sequential art, and illustrations or 2D assets that can be used for your project!
This Sunday around 18:00 CET I'm in a live podcast on the topic of "Retro" by Austrian Streamers. It'll be live on Twitch (albeit in German!) but if you want to join the chat and ask questions, please do!
I'll reply or quote with a link when the date draws near. #retro #pocast
If you're a Woman in Horror, be it artist, illustrator, author, writer, reviewer, director, WHATEVER-
Say hi and link to your work here!
Let's make a thread of Horror from Women that people can peruse & discover some cool, new stuff
I'll start, in the comments/replies :)
♀️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 📚🎨 ✍️ 📽️🩸 #wihm
Ist der FIFA bestimmt grade ganz schön peinlich, an wen sie ihren Peace-Prize vergeben haben 🤔
🔴LIVE
Drawing of a comic unicorn looking over the rim of a glass of water.
Drawing of a cartoon shrimp with a unicorn horn looking miserable as there are some pain-lines around its back bend
Also, I finally made some illustrations for the channel redeems "Hydrate!" and "Posture Check!" as I tend to shrimp under my desk and yes I used "shrimp" as a verb 😅
Today’s stream starts in 4.5 hrs from now (21:00 CET), as always at twitch.tv/PixelProphecy. It's a bit web programming, then perhaps something creative or cozy ... possibly both! 🦄✨
An image showing the Google Docs screen; a thumbnail of my converter atop a yellow arrow pointing from the Docs screenshot to one depicting the same text but as it appears on a MediaWiki page. All headers, formatting, and list-nesting is retained, yaaay!
Since in the long run I want to move away from Google Docs and get all the documents I have created over the years into my personal MediaWiki, I needed a converter to do this.
Maybe it's of use to you as well?
► philstrahl.com/tools/post-t...
As a chronic creative person I can relate to iHanna's latest post about starting something new amidst all the musts.
"Can we allow [this] frivolous act of self-indulgence? Yes, yes we can. [...] You are allowed to do “this” (creative thing) for yourself!"
😊✨️
If any of you are itching for a gamejam, tomorrow Lightbear Software's "uplifting Game Jam" starts -- there even are cash prizes!
Also: I'm on the judges panel and very much looking forward to playing some uplifting games 😊✨️
itch.io/jam/upliftin...
That's a pretty interesting twist on city builders! Also it looks cery nice! 😻
The year is 2026. Someone dumped their collection of a few 1990s floppies containing ZZT games. Out of those, even now, we found two that were not preserved.
Back up your ZZT floppies and hard disks today, if you haven't yet! I will happily sort them for you.
An image showing the Google Docs screen; a thumbnail of my converter atop a yellow arrow pointing from the Docs screenshot to one depicting the same text but as it appears on a MediaWiki page. All headers, formatting, and list-nesting is retained, yaaay!
Since in the long run I want to move away from Google Docs and get all the documents I have created over the years into my personal MediaWiki, I needed a converter to do this.
Maybe it's of use to you as well?
► philstrahl.com/tools/post-t...
The word "lol" with a sweaty-smile-emoji scaled up, on top in hot pink the words "100% Millennial cringe!" superimposed. It looks very cringe indeed lol 😅
People who only know me from writing can instantly tell that I’m a millennial just from how I end every other sentence lol 😅🙈 #hashtag
Very much so! 😅
I meant to type "binging" but I guess "bibgibg" is when you binge with a bib on which is also not incorrect.
I'm bibgibg the demo for way too many hours and can't wait for BLACK JACKET to be out.
It's a good time for card games, what with Forbidden Solitaire just around the corner as well!
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Willkommen in meiner Welt! 😅
"Full" in 2001 meant Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer, and Kid A 😅 Plus some B-Sides I discovered through Napster 🤫
Screenshot (but taken with a camera) of a Winodws 2000 Explorer window showing a filder titled "MP3s" with the subfolders "CDs", "Downloads", and "Downloads Archive." There are 3 WinAmp playlists as well, "Full Radiohead.m3u", "Full XP!.m3u", and "SID to MP3.m3u"
Closeup of a Logitech ball mouse on a new, blue IKEA mouse pad in front of a S-VHS video recorder + remote.
Top-down photo of a Nokia 6210 cell phone lying on top of a spread of the "Digital Production" magazine.
Photo of a couple of DVD boxes in a rack. The titles are: two South Park seasons, "Alien", "Blade Runner - The Director's Cut", "Die Wochenshow - Die Highlights", "Being John Malkovich", "Men in Black", "Star Trek First Contact", "Replacement Killers"; "The Silence of the Lambs." Cut off to the right, it appears it's the CD-ROM case to the first Max Payne.
Throwback to 2001: Here are some photos of my stuff I took sometime in June of that year. They feel like an unplanned time capsule and got me very nostalgic 🥰 Hope they bring you joy as well!
#retro