It's been a long road to the final version. Congratulations on getting the definitive edition out there for folks to see. I've enjoyed seeing the progress on it over the years.
* The resurrection of a beloved 90s classic
* By its original author
* Constitutes the best iteration on this idea yet seen
You could do worse than to give this a shot. Well-paced challenge, charming art, peak puzzling. Bravo.
Meet the girls of CANNONBALL RUN 2177!
From left to right:
Lucida - Posthuman
Ari - Bee-derived GMH
Carmen - Immortal
Ryda - Famous Family
Opal - Pure Biotech
Null - Unknown
Priviu - Precog
Juno - Brassica Cultivar
Tivva - Not from Earth
Learn more: keysick.com/CBR2177
(Gorgeous art by @Nixhil7)
The Trailer is out! Spread the word:
youtu.be/l2_YyXGNYGI
CANNONBALL RUN 2177 is a management sim where you traverse the US by car. The story depends on your loadout, inventory, driver, passengers, weather, and choices, making no two runs alike.
Hit the Feelies page for more: keysick.com/CBR2177/
keysick.com/CBR2177/ a new MS-DOS game in 2025, made by my brother ???
itch.io/jam/dosember...
Well it's all y'alls time to be a chaotic race car driver in 2177 !
O yeah, that's me! We'll have a "Grand Opening" tomorrow. If I'm feeling frisky I'll even put a trailer up :D
@tomvii.bsky.social This is maybe a bit long in the tooth for memory but the lowest-scoring album-a-day of all time (-1,000,000 points!) turned 20 a few months ago and I went back and revisited the album: stale-meme.bandcamp.com/album/projec...
Logoed clothing should come with a sew-on patch: "This person's words and deeds are their own and do not represent [logo], and should not be construed as advertisement or promotion of [logo]. [logo] does not guarantee the relevance or completeness of this person."
Three ZZT releases on disk were recently acquired, and tomorrow their contents will be revealed and uploaded!
There is something on one of these disks that isn't just a text file which hasn't been seen before...
33 years later, we're still makin gaaaaaames!!!
@prettypinkpansy.bsky.social I was gonna tag you because subtle graphic design alluding to big naturals is a pretty niche achievement, but I've since learned that sometimes nature just hands you the perfect label and you do the rest.
White bufflehead duck in the water seen from behind, its bill open mid-quack
Oh, and my finger hit the shutter button at just the right instant to catch this picture.
Gold Duck Bonus
An ancient ZZT project from 2006, TAHWAIN, is finally seeing release as a Weave title: stale-meme.itch.io/tahwain if you know anything about ZZT, this one might be up your alley. Check it out!
A centaur with the caption "if centaur wear clothes" astride it. The centaur's clothes are diagrammed and labeled "shirt", in red, "pants", in blue, and "shants" covering its forelegs, in purple.
if centar war cloths
a shirt and pants very normale
there must be a new kind of agarment in the middle
to hold the front cloppitys that arent the arms
I am calling it a Shants
it would have to be a stretch fabric like a jersey
that could be pulled on over either the hindcloppitieys or the fronttorso
I will beat any human or animal at this game. I will beat you as my main and then beat you as Dan on the rematch. All I need is a time machine for my hands, the spirit is willing but the flesh has aged 30 years.
13% of my serotonin is in this screenshot.
One of my favorite ZOZ avatars by TGH! For reference, this is what that attack looks like in-game: (My humble skills as programmer notwithstanding, the avatar is gorgeous at any scale)
I checked out joey's itch page and it would have been cool to be able to see some of his design philosophy in application. Maybe that'll be for a future article. In the meantime, I've just completed my own examination of design patterns in gaming, and it's playable! stale-meme.itch.io/purpose
1 down, SCUMBROUS. 1 across, SQUIRTINGCUCUMBER, all one word. 2 across, RZECZPOSPOLITAPOLSKA, all one word. 2 down, GLUCOSAMINE.
Well now I don't have any eyes but you don't have any Klimts. So who's the worse off between us really
What kind of guy ain't know bout no Klimts? That's not a thing I'd be tellin folks tbh, bein' ignorant about Klimts liable to get you the wrong sort of enemies these days. Go find yourself a Klimt and have a good hard look. Then pick a couple outta my collection. It's that simple.
couple a Klimts. I dont care which ones but make one of them the kitty cats
Best Nonfiction game 🏆📝 PURPOSE by @lbc.bsky.social youre a smiling pixel wandering across an empassioned manifesto about creativity and games. WiL has been making games with ZZT software for 31 years so has real thoughts for you to ramble around. Intimate and Inspiring stale-meme.itch.io/purpose
I knew I was saving my channel points for something big, but…
Played Cold by WiL (stale-meme.itch.io/cold) and it honestly scared me more than most other horror games. Real panic inducing.
O hey - the game I made over thanksgiving weekend is out of beta and consumable by all and sundry: stale-meme.itch.io/cold please to enjoy an arctic! (Also very cold temperatures are scary, consider yourself warned)
A game design document with the heading "Starting Rooms" and the content "Have a collection of rooms that are marked as starting rooms. These will be where players spawn." Below it an AI autocomplete suggestion of "Ending Rooms" with the content "Have a collection of rooms that are marked as ending rooms, these will be the rooms where players go to die."
AI Autocomplete giving us the game mechanics of the future
DOS-era text reads "Press SPACE to continue shivering."
Through the power of emergence, I accidentally created the bleakest game in my worldography over Thanksgiving weekend. if you have a keyboard and a web browser and want to give it a try, ping me here and I'll send you a link to the HTML5 build.
zephyr2525.itch.io/ramen-quest There is a troll chef (maybe the same as a troll cook?) in this game Ramen Quest which was an entry to Oktrollberfest 2020
