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danielalbu

@danielalbu@mastodon.gamedev.place

• Freelance game developer 🎮
• Host of Tech Talk with Daniel Albu YouTube channel 📼
• Co-producer & co-host of the YouTube channel https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ConvosCurtis! 📼

Tech Talk with Daniel Albu: https://www.youtube.com/@danielalbu

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danielalbu, to random
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🎙️ Tune in TODAY for my conversation with the incredible Khris Brown!

🗒️ In this conversation, we discuss Full Throttle, The Dig, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Psychonauts and more!

⏰ Premiering in 15 minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMHbOCLjxg

Cheeseness,
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@danielalbu I know what I'm doing this morning

sayomgwtf, (edited ) to random
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Incoming Gabriel Knight shenanigans!

May 3rd at 3pm eastern time on Conversations with Curtis ʕ•ᴥ•ʔﾉ☆

@danielalbu invited me and I dragged Cesar Bittar with me! It's been almost a decade since Cez and I have been together on livestream ❤️

Cez is Phoenix Online producer, I am publishing for Phoenix Online

Linky here ~ https://www.youtube.com/live/L6Sy097s4os?si=fjSBc82hkMy_OjPH

#gabrielknight #sierra #videogame #retrogames #retrogaming #livestream

m501, to retrogaming
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Watching @danielalbu play the indiana Jones adventure game with designer Noah Falstein - you get designer insights while playing in real time

https://www.youtube.com/live/Z07Y0agXgyU

mixnmojo, to random
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News from Mojo: Michael Lands a New Interview https://mixnmojo.com/news/Michael-Lands-a-New-Interview

danielalbu, to random
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A year ago today, I premiered my first Tech Talk with Daniel Albu conversation!
Yesterday, I premiered the 26th one!

I wanted to thank all of the amazing gaming legends and pioneers who joined me for a conversation in 2023!

You can find them all here:
https://www.youtube.com/@danielalbu

darioscarpa,

@danielalbu Thanks for the many hours of interesting stuff!

Wolfi,

@danielalbu amazing! I have yet to listen to them but I definitely plan to!

atmcashpoint, to gaming
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I took a stab at recreating some of the early Edison sprites seen in @danielalbu 's Gary Winnick interview. They're a lot shorter than the versions in the published game, and look a lot less squashed when they're seen with aspect ratio correction (image 3).

You can also see the shorter early sprite for Wendy in a piece of WIP art Ron Gilbert posted on his blog a number of years ago.

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An attempt by me at recreating some of the early Maniac Mansion sprite art shown by Gary Winnick in his interview with Daniel Albu. I've posted the early art for Weird Ed, Dr. Fred, and Nurse Edna next to the final versions. It's really obvious here that the sprites were greatly expanded in height for the final game.
The same comparison image of the early sprites as redrawn from Gary Winnick's notebook and the final versions, now with aspect ratio correction applied. The proportions of the early sprites look a bit better than they do in the previous image.
A piece of concept art from the production of Maniac Mansion that was posted by Ron Gilbert on his blog. The image shows a printout of a game background with a character sprite visible, and a hand-drawn concept for the GUI above and below it. There's just one line of text at the top of the screen, as in the original Commodore 64 release. The GUI concept below the background is very much based on the UI in Labyrinth: there are two scrolling lists, with the left-hand one listing verbs, and the right-hand one showing the inventory. Not all of the verbs (or presumably items) would appear on screen at once. At the very bottom of the GUI, all three character names always appear, to allow character selection. The background art is an early version of the mansion porch exterior. The grate leading under the house is absent, and four windows are visible on the right side of the front door, where the final game only has three. The front doorbell is also missing. An early version of Wendy's sprite is standing in front of the door; this version is notably shorter than in the published game.

danielalbu, to random
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📅 30 years ago today, Doom was released!

💾 At midnight on December 10, 1993, after working for 30 straight hours, the development team at id uploaded the first episode of the game to the Internet, letting interested players distribute it for them!

mogul,
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@danielalbu The first version of the game absolutely saturated the network with multiplayer traffic. I know because when I brought it into a campus computer lab where I worked after hours with friends, the lab network administrator showed up about 30 minutes later to figure out wtf was going on.

Two days later I caught him in the lab playing it with the other network admins. 😂

atmcashpoint, to gaming
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I love how thrilled @danielalbu is whenever he hears about unreleased versions of . :D

(Clip from Daniel's livestream yesterday playing The Curse of and with Bill Tiller.)

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3w6AIRQD4_YUI4h2STSs629TIu_O83s1?si=KibHjJrqdOYG1H9i

atmcashpoint,
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@danielalbu Screenshots of the regular inventory (left) & idea inventory (right) in Brian Moriarty's version of . They were separate sets of icons; the upper right GUI button switched between them.

Notice Low's idea inventory includes the Space Shuttle, Earth, Mission Control (?), Toshi Olema (the cut fourth astronaut), Judy Robbins, & Ludger Brink!

A screenshot of Brian Moriarty's unreleased version of The DIG, showing the idea inventory, for items too big to carry around all the time, as well as abstract concepts. The icons here are drawn in shades of blue on a blue background. Low's idea inventory includes icons for the Space Shuttle, Earth, a satellite dish (perhaps representing Mission Control), Toshi Olema (the fourth astronaut later cut from the game), Judy Robbins, and Ludger Brink. The buttons to minimize the GUI and switch between the idea and item inventories are visible here as well.

danielalbu, to random
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The team at Double Fine just published an extensive article celebrating Grim Fandango's 25th anniversary titled "A Very Grim Anniversary" and among others, it features my conversation with Bret Mogilefsky (@mogul) in it!

Check it out!
https://www.doublefine.com/news/a-very-grim-anniversay

mogul, (edited )
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@Cheeseness @danielalbu I went to a Doublefine party to celebrate Grim Fandango's 25th birthday last night and while up on stage Tim made a pretty heartfelt apology to the original team for allowing crunch to get so bad and not looking after the team's mental health. It was really something to hear that after all this time. 🥲

grumpygamer, to random
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I know a lot of you are doing last minute Halloween gift shopping, might I suggest Thimbleweed Park?

https://thimbleweedpark.com

mogul, to random
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A little thing is happening Sunday, if you're interested...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qwAzIYaGUI

sayomgwtf, to random
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When the fancy microphone comes out, it means it's livestream day ~☆

I get to have some Zak McKracken shenanigans with @danielalbu and @DavidBFox today!

Going live in a few hours ʕ•ᴥ•ʔﾉ☆

YT: https://youtube.com/live/cuQoMGcixb8?si=g7IZRD77fI0xwmnW
Twitch: https://twitch.com/Curtis_Craig_Talks

imalcolm,
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@sayomgwtf @danielalbu @DavidBFox

It was a great stream; unfortunately I missed the first half, but it got me fired up to play through Zak again for the first time in many years. 😎

DavidBFox, to random
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Starting right now! Noon PT

From: @ConvosCurtis
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ConvosCurtis/111246126902624073

axwax,
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So many childhood memories are flooding back - thanks for the live playthrough and stories
@ConvosCurtis
@danielalbu
@DavidBFox
and @sayomgwtf

#ZakMcKracken #LucasfilmGames #C64

ConvosCurtis, to random

It's 1997, and the world is a dumber place than ever...

We'll dive into the world of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders with none other than @DavidBFox and LucasArts shenanigans doodler @sayomgwtf!

📆 Tomorrow @ Noon (PT)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/cuQoMGcixb8?si=g7IZRD77fI0xwmnW
Twitch: https://twitch.com/Curtis_Craig_Talks

sayomgwtf, to retrogaming
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I AM SO HAPPY OMG

This is a dream come true! To get to play my favorite LucasArts game with one of my favorite developers ever

Thank you @danielalbu for inviting me ❤️

Zak McKracken shenanigans with @DavidBFox and yours truly October 16th ʕ•ᴥ•ʔﾉ☆

https://www.youtube.com/live/cuQoMGcixb8?si=DEc9tQrN08A3WlGq

aaronsgiles, to random
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Watching @danielalbu play Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine gives me a chance to just marvel at how well the game works in emulation.

Usually when I'm playing, I'm in hyper-focused find-the-bug mode, or running under the debugger and trying to deliberately test the boundaries to break stuff.

But knowing how much is going on behind the scenes from CPU emulation to thread scheduling to 3D graphics emulation to my custom Windows GDI implementation to the hundreds of other little things that all need to be working in harmony, and seeing it all work well enough to smoothly play a game for others to enjoy is deeply satisfying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MLtKDxLhmU

ConvosCurtis, to random

🎉 Celebrate July 4th with a game of your choice!

✅ Choose your favorite game on our Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/846107256146624512/1053061485280100414/1124322637552824341
And @danielalbu will play on Tuesday!

Will it be a Phantasmagoria 1 speedrun?
Or Dark Forces II?
Or Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine?
Or some other game?

📆 July 4th @ noon (PT)
https://www.youtube.com/live/nNMFQwN5-Fk

ConvosCurtis, to random

Tori is back!
@danielalbu is back!

🕹️ Now, it's time to play a bunch of games!

📆 Tomorrow @ noon (PT) 📆
YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/HoJmuH8LMwQ
Twitch: https://twitch.com/Curtis_Craig_Talks

ConvosCurtis, to random

🏝️ It's Monkey Island Friday!

🏴‍☠️ Time for Paul & @danielalbu to RETURN to Return to Monkey Island

⏰ Going live in 30 minutes! ⏰
☠️ YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/iH2WxEG14l0
⚓ Twitch: https://twitch.com/Curtis_Craig_Talks

ConvosCurtis, to random

🎙️ Join us on Sunday for @danielalbu's 4.5 hour conversation with former LucasArts employee and SCUMM legend, Aric Wilmunder!

In this conversation they discuss... well... everything!

📅 Sunday @ Noon (PT) 📅
https://youtu.be/60_rrdPobjU

ConvosCurtis, to random

🏝️ It's Monkey Island Friday TOMORROW!

🏴‍☠️ Time for Paul & @danielalbu to RETURN to Return to Monkey Island

📆 Tomorrow @ Noon (PT)
☠️ YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/iH2WxEG14l0
⚓ Twitch: https://twitch.com/Curtis_Craig_Talks

ConvosCurtis, to random

🏝️ It's Monkey Island Wednesday TOMORROW!

🏴‍☠️ Time for Paul & @danielalbu to RETURN to Return to Monkey Island

📆 Tomorrow @ Noon (PT)
☠️ YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/iH2WxEG14l0
⚓ Twitch: https://twitch.com/Curtis_Craig_Talks

aaronsgiles, to random
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Oh hey, hello there Indy!

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