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For those that didn't know, we run a public archive of pre-release content for various games via archive.thedatadungeon.com which may be of interest to some! We also have an archive of technical documentation we're gradually building via library.thedatadungeon.com #digipres #digitalpreservation

So here you go ... Thank you again to my friends at both BioWare and EA. To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8...

You know the funny thing I don't see anyone remark on is that Fab requires an AI disclosure for submissions. Why's Tim okay with it there but complaining about it being required on other platforms?

📢 Some exciting news! 🎉 Our upcoming next-generation runtime, GMRT, will be free for commercial use and source avaliable for all non-console platforms! READ MORE gamemaker.io/en/blog/gmrt...

ICO Trivia #3: As first uncovered by dark0ssx in a YouTube video now 15 years old: Activating the 'Skeleton' feature of ICO's Debug Menu reveals a developer in-joke. An invisible wireframe office fan was placed in each map to help display the direction and speed of the wind. youtu.be/Sf0vlvAhe_s&...

Someone was whining yesterday about how awful it was for them to put the effort into something because an LLM couldn't magic it up for them.

This Canyon Test found in the Volition files at The Strong looks to be an early test for Red Faction: Guerrilla, from around 2004.

Had a nice day out in Pevensey.

If Epic thinks start up times are an indicator of success, clearly the Quake engine trumps Unreal Engine 5. Your move, Tim.

My partner wanted a photo of the shopping list, so of course I provided.

I can confirm that this client runs like shit.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Richard “Levelord” Gray. From his legendary work on Duke Nukem 3D to the countless players and developers he inspired, Richard leaves behind a lasting legacy. Rest in peace, Levelord.

Myst released on plenty of platforms - but a SEGA CD version was also planned! Here it is being shown at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show back in 1995. https://archive.gamehistory.org/item/c9adc7ca-554b-44ea-bac5-c0998c3e1888 #SEGACD #SEGA #Myst

I uploaded to YouTube, a variation of the 2002 Beyblade prototype video I posted last week. This one is longer and runs from start of simulation until both tops stop spinning. #indiedev #beyblade #retro #prototype #preservation

After 10 years I'm now officially unemployed, having had my last day today. If you're looking for a programmer that doesn't crap out slop, I guess I'm here.

The artistry going on with these environments is just insane, especially for the early 00s. When the blinds open and close at 3:18, there's so much detail in such a seemingly trivial thing. Beautiful.

New Blog: Programming Isn't Special Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists? https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html

10 minutes of early #Uru gameplay footage. Yes, we have this demo to play ourselves but there is something special about this footage. This was recorded when it was new, when the team (that also recorded this footage) still worked on it!

And on that note, that's Advent Rising finished. It was okay. I ended up skipping nearly all the combat near the end as it's very repetitive. Starts out very strong but sadly doesn't carry along for the rest of it. Scraped the surface of what could've been an interesting franchise, regardless.

Happy with progress on the engine so far this month. Fixed a couple of long-standing issues w/ culling, reverb effects are hooked up, console vars can be overridden via launch args, added a little tool for automating profiling, refactoring for some upcoming optimisation work and more on the way...

New Footage From Xbox's Cancelled Perfect Dark Reboot Surfaces Online

If you noticed our file archive on The Data Dungeon was empty last night, yeah that was my fuck up. Should be sorted now. We've also added sections for Halo: Reach, Armed Fantasia and Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.

While we're on the theme of #Myst 4, here's something REALLY cool! A prototype of "Myst 4: Adventures beyond the D'ni Ultraworld". Developed by Dreamforge, this was only finished about 20% before it was cancelled and Ubisoft themselves restarted development entirely. Here's part one!

This 2002 prototype video of " #MYST 4: Revelation " gives you an insight into how it all started out! I had to split it into three parts, so here's part one in which we'll see how the team wanted to build a living, breathing world.

My CGWORLD Making of Game Graphics issue just arrived. ‼️ Here are Silent Hill 2, Shenmue 2 and Super Monkey Ball pages. I’ll try my best to scan all of it later. 🫡

I still strongly feel like code generation counts as gen-AI. There's an art to problem solving and code that I'm starting to believe is way less appreciated in the industry than it should be. Engineers are leaving the industry because of it. This should matter.

So having finally been watching Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, I really don't see why people ever made the argument that Atlantis was plagiarising it? Sure there are some similarities, but they're so loose it feels like you could argue Cyberpunk plagiarises Blade Runner.

In this age of slop, people who care about art, humanity and craft should band together and do this. (Programming is an art form too, btw)

All the illustrations were reprinted for ICO's PS3 remaster. Globally, the remaster was always packaged as a collection with Shadow of the Colossus, but in Japan, you could buy ICO's remaster in isolation, and it had the same manual contents. Pictures originally taken by @pixelhunted.bsky.social

TIL that you don't have to retain the URL in a post on here. You can add it and then remove it as soon as the preview pops up, and that'll be retained, which saves on character count.

And here's the early, rough cut of the #realMyst trailer! There are two different versions of it. This one includes the Myst-era @cyan.com logo (they changed it for #Riven and then again for #Uru)

"WinUI is one of the multiple UI frameworks provided built-in for the Windows Runtime; the others being HTML5 (e.g., via WinJS) and DirectX." Ah yes, DirectX and HTML5, my favourite UI frameworks...

Experimented with using some existing things I had implemented a while back to emulate a light scattering effect for planets, but in a retro kind of style which I think ended up looking okay, though there are still some issues to figure out.

Holy shit, an old DOS issue of the 90s magazine GameByte included a screenshot of the level editor used for Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 - I don't think I've seen this anywhere before!

Ah yes, this about aligns with my knowledge of the cryptic numerical runes.

a teaser trailer from E3 2002, back when "Uru" was still to be called "MYST ONLINE". This was before Ubi told @cyan.com to add an offline part to the game! In hindsight i guess Ubisoft were absolutely right... #Myst #Uru

Just your daily reminder why relying on these things as a magic 8-ball is generally a terrible idea, and why companies should stop presenting them as such. (I've highlighted the mistakes, though I hope you would've spotted them anyway)