Michał Mochocki, myself, and Aleksandra Mochocka have published a paper in the journal “Games and Culture”. The paper’s title is “Polish History up to 1795 in Polish Games and Game Studies”.
De Nederlandse demogroep Ultra Force maakte grafische indrukwekkende demos zoals de Vector Demo van Arjan Brussee. Ze deden ook veel met nieuwe audiotech voor PC's. Ook maakten ze demos voor bedrijven zoals bijvoorbeeld Fuji. Check het nieuwe artikel:
Ultra Force was een onderdeel van de demoscene. We kunnen het, voor een gedeelte, zien als de bakermat van Jazz Jackrabbit. Maar waarom is dat zo? In dit nieuwe artikel lees je over de geschiedenis van de demoscene en deze Nederlandse demogroep.
Thrilled to announce our latest article. Every Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy Game has Preserved & Scanned! Check out the scans and download the ROMs. Huge thanks to Jeremy Parish for loaning them to Hubz to scan and Sean Riddle for dumping the ROMs. Enjoy!
Finally updated the #morguefilewiki from MediaWiki 1.35 to 1.39, the latest LTS release, complicated slightly by overwriting all the files in the first instance with the contents of an archive expanded with truncated filenames and breaking everything comprehensively.
Seems stable now — no obvious weirdness — but I'll keep an eye on it.
I didn't do much wiki work in 2023, admittedly; a little editing here, a little admin there. But I'm dusting off the wiki-page-a-week idea for 2024: pick a game, create a page (from template), dig up some stuff to upload.
I'll be starting next week (this week was all about the upgrade) and when I do, I'll be encouraging any potential contributor — whether experienced researcher/wiki editor or complete newbie — to join me in building out the wiki!
The Morgue File is a wiki built to hold research materials on game history, and getting started can be easy.
For instance, you could look on MobyGames to see which magazines reviewed the game, then find scans of those pages on the Archive and upload them to the wiki.
(Or if you don't want to tangle with editing, just send them to me to upload!)
An hour is all it takes to get a page started. Not aiming for comprehensiveness; it’s a first draft.
Starting in a few days, I'll pick a game each week and put out a call to action for additions to the page. If you know a good magazine article, interview, newspaper piece, YouTube retrospective, or old forum thread that covers that game, there's a place for it on the wiki!
Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”
Disney animators used rotoscoping in film animation, but @jmechner brought it to gaming with Karateka. Blend the animation layers yourself in The Making of #Karateka, the first title in our #GoldMasterSeries of interactive documentaries. Available next Tuesday, August 29, for PC & console.
Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time (www.404media.co)
Ethan Lee has been keeping your favorite indie games running for years by porting them to Linux. Now he wants developers to start thinking about “maintenance” instead of “remasters.”