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by gxd 11mo ago
If you are interested in hacker culture, you might enjoy the game I released yesterday, Outsider ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ ). The main character is an old school hacker (AND a crack
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by gxd 11mo ago
I own the poster version ("The Art of Atari, the poster collection") and it's great. I have three of their posters hanging in my office right now. It's not just nostalgia, the art is terrific. EDIT: the poster collection
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by gxd 11mo ago
You're right. My comparison was more about sculptures as art vs the games as art. If you don't believe them to be equivalent at some level, it would be difficult to find this preservation work worthwhile. That said, unfinished gam
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by gxd 11mo ago
This is really important work. Humanity has done a decent job at preserving artifacts from our past despite wars and the effects of time on our cultural output. Throughout history, books, paintings, sculptures, music, and other forms of art
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by gxd 1y ago
I actually wrote my first toy multitasker on a Gameboy Advance, although that's ARM7... Great little project. It's a joy to develop on an emulator with good debugging tools.
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by gxd 1y ago
My upcoming story game, a love letter to SETI and the Hacker News crowd, offers some perspectives on the question: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ It will be out in 2 weeks!
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by gxd 1y ago
If you like CYOA games, you may enjoy my upcoming game Outsider, a modern sci-fi take on dynamic narrative games. It will launch in 7 weeks and I'm working on it full-time! Here is the Steam link: https://store.steampowered.
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by gxd 1y ago
If you like Puzzle Hunt puzzles, you might enjoy my upcoming game, Outsider, which contains a MIT-style Puzzle Hunt puzzle. You can complete the game without solving it, but the solution uncovers a whole new layer in the story: https:&#x2F
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by gxd 1y ago
I wouldn't have believed my eyes if I had seen that back in the day. The interesting thing is that the capability was there all along.
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by gxd 1y ago
It's a very common feeling and I'm no stranger to it as a solo game developer. But remember that the "grass is always greener on the other side". Chances are that, once you go back to the "nice job" at the end
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by gxd 1y ago
I think text-only games have a certain special power that modern games can't quite emulate. Modern city planners are more accessible and better in most ways, but there is a raw gameplay elegance in games like Sumer that I think could m
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by gxd 1y ago
I'm close to finishing a commercial interactive story with choices using Ink: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/
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by gxd 1y ago
Awesome! You can also find great art made with Deluxe Paint for the Amiga. The limitations from early computers in resolution and, most importantly, palette, create unique art styles: https://amiga.lychesis.net/applications
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by gxd 1y ago
They seem to be old Mac games. Old Macs are already being emulated and out of Apple's reach of you own an old copy of the OS. You can play these games forever even if Apple or the game makers go out of business.
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by gxd 1y ago
My uni had these, as I mentioned in a reply elsewhere on the thread. I'm curious to know what kind of Serious Work people here saw back in the day. I was a student so I had relatively rare access to the high end stuff... Most of my tim
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by gxd 1y ago
This is cool story! My uni's lab was all SGIs, IBM Risc 6000s and Sun workstations. But I visited the lab for the first time in 25 years last week and everything got replaced by cheap PCs... :( The 90s was perhaps the last gasp of high
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by gxd 1y ago
Wonderful project. Despite the great languages we have today, I still think that BASIC is among the best languages for sparking the love of programming in beginners.
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by gxd 1y ago
The demo would have been impressive even if it only had a handful of animations... With that many, it's absolutely mind blowing.
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by gxd 1y ago
I've been using this for a few years. I have a legal copy of Win98 with several games from my physical collection fully set-up. Getting to the desktop is just one click away on Win11. Also, my setup is fully portable and can run on any
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by gxd 1y ago
I was a huge fan of the demoscene growing up and IQ is one of the best. When my son was little, he loved watching demos on Youtube (a geek's version of Baby Einstein)! I like the scene so much, I explicitly mention it in my upcoming na
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by gxd 1y ago
This is a great opportunity to share my upcoming sci-fi narrative game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/ One of the two main characters is a veteran BBS-era and Internet movie pirate (amon
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by gxd 1y ago
Some games are almost entirely about the story, like mine: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/
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by gxd 2y ago
Correct. Phones are getting bigger (but thinner) compared to older phones while portable consoles are getting bigger compared to older consoles .
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by gxd 2y ago
One clear trend in mobile devices since the GBA times is the increase in screen sizes. The Switch's screen is just so much bigger than the GBA's. You also see that on phones, with popular models approaching if not exceeding 7&quot
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by gxd 2y ago
Great work! I learned about this game just last week when reading "The Secret History of Mac Gaming". This looks like an excellent adaptation.
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by gxd 2y ago
Some of these games are better than recent AAA titles...
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by gxd 2y ago
This topic is near and dear to me. It is so important that I'm working full-time on a game about how a first contact with an extraterrestrial could look like. If you are interested, I just released a free demo with ~2 hours of content:
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by gxd 2y ago
One of the saddest things in my gamer resume is that I was never able to get into Half-Life. I can absolutely see what everybody likes in the game - both technically and in terms of gameplay. But I was never into its uneven pace when compar
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by gxd 2y ago
I'm not far behind, so I decided to leave my megacorp job and do this instead: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040110/Outsider/
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by gxd 2y ago
A solo-developed game generating 10K-30K in MRR over more than a handful of months would already put you on the top 10% of all released games on Steam. It's not likely to happen unless you have experience in the space and possess str

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