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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 4h

@Tijn I gather you're not playing on "Survivalist" difficulty as foolish young me did back in the day 🫠

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 20h

@brouhaha Thank you! 😊

♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Remember my NES chiptune cover of the #knightrider theme?

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@PixelProphecy/115092895223554752

Well. Now I made an OPL-2 AdLib cover. 😅✨

🔊Sound on!

#music #chipmusic #furnace #adlib #fmsynth #retro #soundblaster

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Spookyfied my avatar for October like a good trend follower.

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@Tijn Yep, it's a Bethesda game. Well, technically an Obsidian game on Bethesda's foundation. I am sorry you have such a bad time with it. Back in the day I had no issues with the vanilla version, but that doesn't account for much. Can you get a refund?

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Did some more #ega #pixelart on the this classic shot and, most importantly, coded up a fancy EGA fade out effect by first ordering all colors by perceived lightness and swapping to the next-lower during the fade out until all are black. 😊👍

#dos #retrocomputing #programming

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 7d

I love the clunky future that Knight Rider predicted even besides the talking, self-driving car: Car phones! Smart watches! Helpful visualizations! 🥰

Still from a first-season episode of that week's bad guy in a car, driving and talking into a rotary phone receiver

Still from a first-season episode of a macro shot of Michael's watch showing a simple LCD clock and two labels (Engage and Transmit) and a tiny AM wheel and looks overall very cheap and plasticy

Still from a first-season episode of a shot of KITTs screen showing a digital drawing of a black car on a road behind 5 pink cars and a green countdown timer. It looks a bit like an 8 bit take on the Mario Kart title on the SNES with all the garish colors and simple shapes.

♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 7d

🥹 Omg thank you so much, anonymous DOS user!

Screenshot of the itch.io backend reading "You sold IdleBounce for $3.00"

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I’ve changed some things under the hood and needed a test program so here’s another screensaver for DOS: Select the logo with left/right and the background color with up/down. You’re welcome!

► https://pixelprophecy.itch.io/idlebounce

#dos #retrocomputing #screensaver

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I’ve changed some things under the hood and needed a test program so here’s another screensaver for DOS: Select the logo with left/right and the background color with up/down. You’re welcome!

► https://pixelprophecy.itch.io/idlebounce

#dos #retrocomputing #screensaver

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Update on my DOS "game". Mechanically it's still just "click the ball" but I pushed some pixels today for a nice background and there’s now music and sprite animations! Goodnight, nerds!

#dos #retrocomputing #gamedev #pascal

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10d

I've given up on the interrupt and instead tied my playback code to the frame rate 🙈 And it workd sufficiently enough that I could optimize font handling (fully transparent glyphs won't allocate memory) and implement animated sprites 🙉. I'm over the bump, I guess! Well, this bump 😊

♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Thanks for the raid @cyangmou

And here's the VOD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hKsO8CQTOw

#dos #retrocomputing #pascal

♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11d

🔴LIVE

♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Stream today in ~2.5 hrs from now with more DOS gamedev shenanigans! 💾

https://twitch.tv/PixelProphecy

PixelProphecy - Twitch

📹YouTuber, 🦄 unicorn herder, 🕹Indie Game Dev, and, well, 🔴 streamer apparently) from Salzburg, Austria. I love being creative with a computer, be it game dev, art, music, visual effects, CGI, or the random dive down memory lane to look at old computer games. That and ☕coffee.

www.twitch.tv

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Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect @bottosson.bsky.social · May 20

It's finally time to announce my game: Island Architect!

Sculpt seaside towns in Island Architect, a relaxing builder inspired by coastal Europe. Build winding streets, whimsical towers, or calm fishing villages in this cozy experience.

Wishlist now on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3079100/...

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Meanwhile, I made music! Here's a melodic instrumentalnelectronic piece I call "Message Pump", my attempt at something a bit more "poppy" than my usual stuff. 🕺🎵😎

https://sephcarissa.com/music/message-pump

#music #electronic #instrumental

Abstract artwork for the song cover. No, this is not "AI".

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@dogwelder Me neither, but I just started out with it a few weeks ago. I am slowly getting used to begin/end;m and that darn := assignment operator 😅

♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15d

All I wanted was code a DOS :msdos: game in PASCAL with graphics and sound, I never meant to dive into x86 assembler, yet here we are:

I got my 8h interrupt handler ported to ASM, hooked, reading bytes from memory and parsing OPL commands, however pushing them onto the bus for the OPL to […]

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 15d

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

4 frame comic. First frame we see a tent and a crowd. text reads : Charlie Kirk didn't hold debates on college campuses. What he was organizing were flash mobs where his supporters rallied at colleges to create ideal conditions for drama. 2nd frame, someone is speaking at a mic while people with red caps are holding phones up. text reads: Students who dared to stand up to him were facing a sea of hostile faces. The goal was to make them feel vulnerable to get good footage out of them. 3rd frame, we see the person from the 2nd in a youtube thumbnail. text reads : clips were then edited and clickbait thumbnail created to drive the highest engagement possible. the game was rigegd from the onset. 4th frame, we see a silhouette of Kirk. text reas: Charlie Kirk was "winning every debate" because there was no debate. It was a campaign to radicalize young men and purposefully make campuses unsafe to women and minorities.

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Tinkered around with it some more and turns out that my interrupts never fired even once and I couldn't fix it. Have to mull it over for a few days, I guess.

Anyway, here's the VOD: 😊👍
https://youtu.be/hQ6b8c7zziU

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17d

🔴LIVE

♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Stream today in 3 hrs and ~10 mins from now. I'll give DOS :msdos: game dev with PASCAL another try (last week was cut short by a migraine). We'll try and get AdLib OPL playback working. 😬🤞

http://twitch.tv/PixelProphecy

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♞ PixHELL Prophecy 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Sorry for my relative radio silence this week. Lots of stuff and busywork kept me, well, busy. And today I went to our uni reunion and had a splendid time meeting everyone after 15+ years. Also had the joy to share a ride with synth maestro Dorian Concept 😊👍