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Voxel Pops: Lexaloffle Show Voxatron Editor
- willvarfar 16y agoI love the recent more-mainstream popularity of indie and innovatively-retro games! I'm sure there was a vibrant scene making these games in the last decade, but I never saw it. It wasn't at all mainstream even in computer programming circles. In the 90s it seemed possible for any one of us to make a game themselves and somehow get it on a magazine coverdisk and be famous! Making a game was something a dedicated individual could just-about do. Llamasoft, Archer Maclean, that rollercoaster game, etc. Even back to small shops like populous and so on. Fantastic! And then in the last decade I forgot about that feeling. And suddenly minecraft and world of love have somehow catapulted that small-time big-fun gaming into the mainstream hacker news! I guess it might have been the iphone app idea. Now I want to go make a game myself! It must be mid-life crisis and harking back to our youth...
- joeld42 16y agoGood timing! The Ludum Dare 48-hour game programming contest is just over a week away. http://www.ludumdare.com http://www.ludumdare.com A number of these folks, incl. Notch and Lexaloffle, are #ld48 regulars.