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Joachim Froholt
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Hi! I write about games, and try to make them as well.

Games: https://joachim.itch.io/
Writings: https://spillhistorie.no/ (English: https://spillhistorie.no/content-in-english/ )
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/joachimfroholt

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jfroholt.bsky.social
This is neat:
Number one on Hacker News.
February 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
jfroholt.bsky.social
It's got to have something to do with that island.
February 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
jfroholt.bsky.social
Vedkommende sier basically rett ut: "Jeg hadde vært landssviker under andre verdenskrig." Det er jo også noe.
January 31, 2026 at 9:25 PM
jfroholt.bsky.social
Husker en søndag jeg sto på ei hei i skogen med en merkelig, knøttliten bærbar CRT-TV for å få gode nok forhold til å se Babylon 5 på TV2 i sort/hvitt med snø.
January 31, 2026 at 9:19 PM
jfroholt.bsky.social
Pretty neat! I love a good checkerboard.
January 31, 2026 at 9:16 PM
jfroholt.bsky.social
Buy these. You have to work a bit to enjoy them. But it's worth it!
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
jfroholt.bsky.social
Merker jo at samplene er gamle (jeg liker ikke hvor "harde" de er, det skriker litt i ørene), men jeg liker låten. Takk. Nå må jeg tilbake til Samantha Fish (ikke hip hop).
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
jfroholt.bsky.social
This is probably the most interesting part of the interview.
Most of the response: Suddenly I had months of uncommitted time. I went to visit my brother Bill, a journalist then living in Nicaragua. This was at at time when my government was funding «freedom fighters» against the leftist Sandinista government. I spent a couple months in the region, visiting Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in addition to Nicaragua. Traveling with my brother in a remote region of northern Nicaragua, we came upon the burnt-out shell of a bus. As we took photographs, a local woman came up to us. She explained (my brother translating) that the Sandinista government had created a bus service between this remote valley and other parts of the region. Her sister lived in a different valley. It was a great convenience to the sisters to have regular bus service when they wanted to visit, instead of having to hitch a ride in the back of a truck. One night, as the bus was coming into the town, armed men appeared out of the darkness and shot out the tires. The passengers were ordered to leave, and the bus was set aflame. These men were «contras,» led by military partisans of the recently overthrown dictator, Somoza. They were funded by my government, the United States. Perhaps inspired by Sandinista rhetoric, this woman had a naive faith in democracy. The United States is a democracy, she knew, but the things its government did in the name of the American people were not always good. She and her sister needed this bus service. If the people of the United States knew that their government was destroying useful bus service in northern Nicaragua, they would act democratically! They would stop funding the armed men who destroyed the buses! Please, she asked me, when you go back north, tell everyone what you saw here. Let them know that we need bus service in northern Nicaragua! Here was a story worth telling, with my interactive storytelling tools. I could put the player in the point of view of someone from a very different background.
January 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM
jfroholt.bsky.social
Blir nok fort noen ikke fullt så gode titler også, kan jeg røpe. :)
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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The game itself does what it's supposed to, though the minigames all play the same so it gets repetitive. A neat curio, if nothing else. 3/3
Not all typing games have to be shooting down spaceships.
November 22, 2023 at 9:24 AM