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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 17h

Have you played the Earth Must Die demo?

It went live yesterday, and already has a 100% rating on Steam <3

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 11h

I haven't yet watched it myself, but I'm going to throw Mad God out there. Also, The City of Lost Children, maybe? Why not.

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Atari Scene News @philsan.bsky.social · Jun 23

Audacity Games pages dedicated to David Crane's upcoming game for #Atari2600 console, Rescue from Poseidon's Gate, are now live so we can find out more about it. adgm.us/portal/guide... #atari #retrogames @atari.com @garrykitchen.bsky.social‬

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, and another big reason I'm doing this is because MonoGame's cross-platform DesktopGL target does not work with RenderDoc. There is no excuse for this. It's supposed to be coming to the new cross-platform Vulkan target, but that is months, if not years, away. I'm done waiting.

xot @xot.bsky.social · 20h

Things are looking up! I can dynamically update a GPU texture directly from a uint[] array. This will get the text consoles and Apple II video to the screen quickly. I also ported the Apple II keyboard emulation from MonoGame to SDL3. A bit of work, but better in the end, I think.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 1d

So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social.

(Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

www.bbc.com

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GameMaker @gamemaker.io · 1d

🔥 Feature Friday! 🔥
Dodge, jump and somersault over razor-sharp sawblades in an attempt to survive the deadly storm! Compete in the leaderboards and become the best blade-jumper in this supremely intense high-score chaser!

🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/3442980/...
@chinykian.bsky.social

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 1d

I considered it, but I didn't feel ready to go with C or C++. I want to see if I can port my MonoGame project to this, which should require a relatively small number of changes. Then maybe I'll port the SDL3 version to C.

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty painless, although I switched bindings after my initial success. I deleted the old bindings folder, added the PPY bindings with NuGet in VS2022, and I was basically good to go. It's not idiomatic C#, and figuring out how to work with its pointers has been the main pain point, but it's OK.

GitHub - ppy/SDL3-CS: C# bindings for SDL3 (https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL)

C# bindings for SDL3 (https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL) - ppy/SDL3-CS

github.com

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 1d

I only know about loading BMP images so far, but it's progress.

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 1d

This will surely end well.

An empty SDL3 window spawned by a C# application. The window corners are square. In your face, Windows 11.

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Jules Engel 🍉 @ghoulsengel.bsky.social · 1d

the MC from Skate Story seated on a folding chair, bent down

Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion seated on a folding chair, bent down

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d

When you say this, what I hear is "3D TVs and NFTs are here to stay"

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Jason Blum says Hollywood should 'embrace AI' and viewers 'don't care if what they’re looking at is AI"

"it’s here to stay. It’s very important to use it ethically and legally, and for studios and guilds to protect the copyright of the artists"

(via Variety)

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Daniel Johnston Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 1d

Today we released our 8-bit Adventure Pack! Over 1400 graphics, made by humans, including tiles, NPCs, enemies, bosses, items and a hero character. Everything you need to make a Game Boy-style adventure game 100% FREE for commercial use ci.itch.io/8-bit-advent...

#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

710 Tiles - overworld, animated and indoor tilesets

346 frames of NPC sprites with all kinds of different characters represented

The main character - Papantzin - with 107 frames of animation

Other enemies, bosses, items, effects and more to make 1489 assets in total!

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 1d

For those unaware, this might be one of Nightdive's weirdest remasters. They took the PC and N64 versions of Forsaken - basically two different games with completely different levels - and stapled them together into a frakensteined hybrid.

It works surprisingly well.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Forsaken Remastered (Steam) is $2.99 on Humble buff.ly/6Aiq9AE #ad

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 1d

To make matters worse, YouTube itself is now applying heavy AI filtering to Shorts. It looks so bad.

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 1d

Their healthcare plan has been two weeks away for 454 weeks.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Micah Weil is on his Bullshit again @micahweil.bsky.social · 2d

...not expecting to see @caseyexplosion.bsky.social in my Youtube feed this morning, and yet...

www.youtube.com/shorts/u6EYN...

Gordon Ramsay and the Unholy Microwave

YouTube video by FelixScottWeis_VA

www.youtube.com

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Baba Is You @babaisyou.bsky.social · 2d

Fox has been added into the game, and with this we're about ready to upload the new build for betatesting!
#babaisyou

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Recent progress on the Texscan MSI Compuvid Spectragen project: the page editor can now render graphic characters AND you can input them.

spectragen text editor written in python showing it's built in on-screen keyboard that allows the entry of non-typeable graphics and control characters

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus.icculus.org · 2d

Make Short Games That Are Really Good.

Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social · 2d

my four favorite games this year are all like 2 hours or under store.steampowered.com/app/3570370/...

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 2d

If you've ever wanted to know more about how Sega's most ambitious arcade cabinet came together, how it was received at the time, and the sheer effort that goes into moving these things and making them work, this is well worth your time!

Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 2d

This is the story of Sega's R360: The legendary arcade cabinet that spun players around and left arcade floors far too early. Exclusive interviews, developer quotes, and more!
I'd appreciate not only everyone watching, but also sharing this post and the video!
youtu.be/I-LnKFILB5I

Sega R360: Spinning Dreams in the Arcade

YouTube video by One Million Power

youtu.be

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 2d

Here's an article I need to bookmark for later.
If I want to do some ASIC design, I'll eventually want to do mixed-signal stuff, so I'll want to know how the analog is dealt with.

hackaday.com/2025/10/08/t...

The Entire Process Of Building An Open Source Analog ASIC

Our hacker [Pat Deegan] of Psychogenic Technologies shows us the entire process of designing an analog ASIC. An ASIC is of course an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, which is basically just…

hackaday.com

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/2SWrIB75vc8?...

Needles In The Camel's Eye (2004 Digital Remaster)

YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, it's not bad at all. I was mostly curious about the Enum.HasFlag() method, which I just learned about from Nick Chapas' tip series. It's ... not great.

www.youtube.com/shorts/1gdGG...

Enum Flags are awesome in C#

YouTube video by Nick Chapsas

www.youtube.com

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