Jeltron

OutofPrintArchive, 24 days ago to random

I truly hate to say this as I absolutely adore Star Trek.
But I’m trying to watch the first episode of the final season of Discovery.
45 minutes in and I’m horrified at what I’m watching.
I’ve had major ups and downs with this particular series.
But the non stop out of place, way overdone action sequences.
The constant unfunny quips, the off putting direction and camera work.
It’s all just too much for me.
Damn.
This is the complete opposite of what I love about Star Trek. 😲

alienmelon, 1 month ago to gamedev

new post!
Solo-Devs and Risk-Takers (An Artistic Exploration of Experimental Tools)
https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/solo-devs-and-risk-takers-an-artistic-exploration-of-experimental-tools
"Exploring experimental digital work will always be very new by principle that this is an ever growing possibility space where anyone’s wildest dreams can be made true…”
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#GameDev #IndieDev #Curation #Art #Programming #FOSS #Software

hbons, 1 month ago to random

oops I just impulse purchased 2 gameboys.

bbbbbr, 1 month ago to random

Been doing tooling work to support Toxa's upgrade of ZGB to a cross-platform engine that adds MegaDuck, SMS and Game Gear support (to the existing GB/GBC capability).

It's mostly Makefile, build automation and converting utilities from python. Not particularly exciting or glamorous, but can be satisfying when the output of a converted utility matches the reference output without too much struggle. :)

nhsactivistrn, 1 month ago to random

root42, 2 months ago to retrogaming

Kriby‘s Dreamland 2 is a very nice platformer. I do not yet understand all the mechanics (what’s up with the minigame at the end of a level?) but it seems extremely well done. I notice that Nintendo originals are all very high quality whereas 3rd party games often are lacking in many ways or badly ported from other platforms. Nintendo really seems to design games for the Gameboy first.
#retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #kirby

OutofPrintArchive, 2 months ago to retrogaming

After hooking up my PS3 which had been boxed up for 7 years, I ended up playing Ridge Racer 7 all night last night, so I had to look up some articles...

Coming Soon feature for Rage Racer on PSone from CVG 183 - February 1997 (UK)

This magazine can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/computerandvideogames7.html

#retrogaming
#playstation

Coming Soon feature for Rage Racer on PSone from CVG 183 - February 1997 (UK)
Coming Soon feature for Rage Racer on PSone from CVG 183 - February 1997 (UK)

root42, 2 months ago to Nintendo

Slowly I am progressing. A couple of treasures are already mine!
#nintendo #gameboy #warioland

Jeltron, 2 months ago to gameboy

We are just wrapping up Unearthed and I'm doing some final testing in DMG mode. One of the things I'm most proud of is that the art translates to the DMG palette. It's not easy to do with such a colorful puzzle game but the Game Boy pocket is such a nice handheld that I'd be pretty sad if it couldn't run on one.

Here it's running in the 'gb' mode on the funnyplaying fgpa.

#gameboy #gamedev #fgpa

Jeltron, 2 months ago to random

I got an fgpa Gameboy from funny playing and I'm pretty impressed with it. Same exact form factor as a gbc but with a lithium ion battery, usb-c charging and a nice screen. Not too hard to assemble either. A comparable modded Gameboy would cost over $100 more and likely have a smaller screen.

OutofPrintArchive, 3 months ago to random

/me Goes to Youtube....

-Oh wow! A two part Wii U retrospective that's over 4 hours long! click

/Continues to shit on the system and it's games as well as the Wii from the very beginning and just doesn't let up,

/me mumbles, dislikes, closes tab and unsubscribes from channel, while continuing to curse underneath my breath for quite a bit longer.

Again, why the hell put in all that time and "effort" just to shit on something over and over?

/sees watch numbers... :huh:

OutofPrintArchive, 4 months ago to retrogaming

Review for Mini Mario Kart on Game Boy from CVG 137 - April 1993 (UK)
A rather cruel April Fools joke.

This magazine can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/computerandvideogames7.html

#retrogaming
#Nintendo
#GameBoy

hbons, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

guy went to buy fireworks in Germany. decided to smoke a cigarette whilst driving. tried to toss it out the window but the wind blew it back into the car. 😂

there's video! 😘👌 sit back and enjoy the show. and remember kids to never throw your trash out the window!

https://twitter.com/HarryJager7/status/1740855268341121274

OutofPrintArchive, 5 months ago to retrogaming

Feature titled:
The Rise And Rise Of The DS.
Taken from Official Nintendo Magazine 31 - July 2008 (UK)

This magazine can be downloaded in full here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/OfficialNintendoMagazine.html

#retrogaming
#Nintendo
#NintendoDS

Feature titled: The Rise And Rise Of The DS. Taken from Official Nintendo Magazine 31 - July 2008 (UK)
Feature titled: The Rise And Rise Of The DS. Taken from Official Nintendo Magazine 31 - July 2008 (UK)

Jeltron, 5 months ago to boardgames

Have you ever heard of the game Tablut? My journey to discovering it started when I was visiting a viking exhibit in Montreal.

It is part of a family of ancient strategy games called 'Tafl' that have variations in many countries. It has Welsh versions, Norwegian versions, Irish versions...

I made a digital version of the game board and exported it as an APK so people can play it on their phone or tablet with a friend.

https://benjelter.itch.io/web-tablut

#tafl #tablut #boardgames #itch

SwiftOnSecurity, 7 months ago to random

UX designers who eliminated the filesystem from user consciousness in name of simplicity ruined the world and are morally culpable for shriveling minds of children who are unable to tackle the challenges of today thanks to a choice sold as advocacy for the user but was ultimately motivated by control of a disempowered customer.

Jeltron, 8 months ago to art

One of my favorite things in art which is hard to replicate in games is a feeling of looseness.

In games things often need to be heavily controlled & what works for a static image can look strange in motion. I think it's even harder at a low resolution where every pixel counts.

@gbstudiocentral is running a low-stakes pixel art jam & I think I'm going to make my goal to make something that looks loose.

Check out the jam here: https://itch.io/jam/gbpixelartjam23

#art #gamedev #pixelart #gameboy

Jeltron, 8 months ago to pixelart

When I first started messing with pixel art I was not as into it and I preferred just sketching freehand. I think there's actually a name for this style but I forget what it is called.

While purists may not call it 'real' pixel art, I would like to do something in this style at some point.

Some of the cutscene art in my horror game Decline was started this way but I ended up touching it up because the low res of the Gameboy makes it hard to pull off.

#pixelart #gamedev #games

alienmelon, 8 months ago to random

feel like i should write another tools blog post where i share all the alternative game engines i’ve collected. there are a lot! many open source. many definitely don’t get the attention they deserve.

djlink, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to gamedev

A couple free & open-source Engines and game frameworks you can use today as alternatives. Feel free to comment with more.

Godot - https://godotengine.org
MonoGame - https://www.monogame.net/
FNA - https://fna-xna.github.io/
SDL - https://www.libsdl.org/
SFML - https://www.sfml-dev.org/
Adventure Studio - https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
bgfx - https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
armory3d - https://armory3d.org/
ogre3d - https://www.ogre3d.org/
Renpy - https://www.renpy.org/

#gamedev

OutofPrintArchive, 8 months ago to random

Ah damnit. Spent an hour in the character creator in Starfield just before I have to leave for work.
Finally finished. Gave my character a name and clicked finish. Then the game crashes. 🫤