I've tried to get in touch with the engineer on LinkedIn, but his account seems inactive.

Unfortunate; I'd love to know the USB spec for the input dev it probes for:

s3c2410 usb gadget driver loaded. Version 1.3.6 Grey Innovation
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Probing Grey-keypad...

Additionally, I'm doing this in MAME mostly as an excuse to re-write the S3C24xx SoC emulation, as the current code is pretty old and nearly impossible to maintain.

The boot messages that it bangs out the UART point to a named engineer at Grey Innovation, an Australian hardware contractor.

2005-2006, which makes the alt text that I put for the image even funnier.

It's important to enjoy things that actually existed.

To quote Ed Norton's character in Death To Smoochy: You can't change the world, but you can make a dent.

In game dev, it means enjoying the small things. Was Superman Returns crap? Totally. But it was fun wiring up all the prop pick-up points!

You have to admit, though, Judge Doom definitely has some pretty strong Riccitiello energy

Oh, so, microtransactions

And no, I won't bring up his magnum opus, where he helped launch Kiera Knightley into vaunted accolades that she never would've gotten without that dude's critically-important contribution to the overall piece by being an uncredited medic for District 8 in The Hunger Games; Mockingjay Pt. 1.

Sometimes I think I succeeded at doing what I wanted to do in the months immediately following Activision's Guitar Hero layoff back in 2011. That in this universe, I got back down off of the chair - but I still died. And the past 14 years have simply been existing in Purgatory.

20 years of gamedev experience, and all I really want, is to work on emulation.

Along with the MAME team.

And, I dunno, have a bottle of beer. S'not gonna happen.

Software development at this point is the daily lie I tell myself to have something, *anything* to do.

Nor is anyone's code!

Apropos of nothing, what would be the best way to contribute to the project now, financially?

That's good at least, hopefully you watched my intransigent screeching about how this exemplifies everything wrong with modern media. But what's the plan? It's not like Patreon are particularly given to doubling back on their decisions.

(Narrator: "They Are.")

Adding rabbits to Minecraft, making Helldivers 2 gender-agnostic, doing menu code that Indiana Jones game about a large circle or something. Bit of an odd trajectory, ya know?

(if you've been triple-notified, sory, but I had some pretty major typos in the first two responses)

Sorry to ruin the magic, but until tonight I'd never even heard of y'all.

I'm just a kink-friendly, open-minded game developer with two decades of experience under his belt on major franchises, and a very low tolerance for bullshit.

And this Patreon cancellation thing is some extreme bullshit.

With the number of reposts, I just want to say that I've no idea what Shame Games are up to. They just seem like my sort of jam. Best guess is some incel got super angy about the fact that not even virtual characters would fuck 'im, and so the resulting crash-out ended up with SG getting bus-thrown.