Locomalito

Today marks the 16th anniversary of L'Abbaye des Morts. And we're working on an update! It was a small side project that @gryzor87.bsky.social and I made in the afternoons during a week-long trip to France. We released it in the void, but somehow it became a classic within the homebrew scene.

Hoy es mi cumple :} Ya me queda menos xD

Gracias por los mimitos :_) Llevo un tiempecillo un poco off, atendiendo varios frentes en el outernet, pero sigo avanzando y terminando proyectitos que ya subiré cuando tenga más cuerpo pa socializar. Un día de estos. O de aquellos xD

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Cuando la gente se toma en serio las opciones de personalización y el software lo permite: skins.webamp.org

Woah hay un porrón de skins de Serial Experiments Lain. Sabía que no estaba sólo en el mundo! xDDD

Recordatorio de que V-Amp existe, es gratuito, compatible con los skins clásicos y (al menos en mi ordenador) escala mejor que el clásico.

Llevo unos días rumiando una tanda de posibles mejoras para una hipotética actualización de The Curse of Issyos :]

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También tengo que decidir si el color más oscuro del sombreado en los fondos va a ser negro, o un tono oscuro. En la segunda opción el negro se reserva para los sprites, y los fondos quedan en tonos relativamente pastel.

La otra opción es mantener una paleta ultra saturada parecida a la original pero no limitar el número de colores por tile. Eso lo probé y el resultado tiene un rollo muy a lo PC Engine. Concretamente me recordaba a Astyanax.

Llevo unos días rumiando una tanda de posibles mejoras para una hipotética actualización de The Curse of Issyos :]

@lorenschmidt.bsky.social

Ya que implica cambiar la resolución, estoy tonteando con la idea de arcadizarlo un poco estéticamente, pero tengo varios caminos posibles en cuanto a color: a lo Capcom (Black Tiger, Trojan...), desaturado a lo Irem (Ninja Spirit, R-Type 2...) o saturado a lo sega (Altered Beast, Shinobi...)

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it's here! spooky movie recs 2026. this year's list is special. i worked /entirely/ too hard on curation and couldn't be more excited to share this with y'all. brief notes on watching experimental work (3 posts) then recs. commence MOVIE RECS 2026 - SPOOKY EXPERIMENTAL + ARTHOUSE. let's go!

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Everest Pipkin

@everest.bsky.social

Replying to @everest.bsky.social

Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.

19 Sept

That art deserves a Compile-like shmup

70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifiart.bsky.social

Gilbert Raffin's 1979 album art for Panama

timeextension.comPsikyo Memories Shmup Collection Coming In 2027 For PS5 And Nintendo Switch 2Marion and Pom-Pom blast off once again

19 Sept

As an adult who loves playing video games but has very little free time, I think more people should learn from the Psikyo approach to game design. They pack a ton of content and purpose per second.

Time Extension@timeextension.com

Psikyo Memories Shmup Collection Coming In 2027 For PS5 And Nintendo Switch 2

steamhype.comSteam HypeSteam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

14 Sept

Great video game news (for once!)

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

12 Sept

I’ve had an unexpectedly productive day today. I’ve managed to make a lot of progress on #Snailord

Btw I forgot yesterday, but it was also the 13th anniversary of Verminian Trap, a party game designed for the now-defunct Ouya microconsole. I started working on an update for this game too, but it ended up becoming a different project (the snail dungeon game I've been posting about lately).

Also... The Curse of Issyos turned into Maldita Castilla, and later we did The Curse of Issyos too. I guess working on whatever feels like doing at any given moment comes with these unexpected twists :P

The upcoming version features updated graphics, improvements to gameplay, enemy behavior and level design, as well as an alternate ending. All while keeping the spirit and simplicity of the original intact. Release date to be announced.

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this game's journey ♥♥♥♥♥

We made our game and moved on to the next project. But somehow its simplicity, background and raw aesthetic (monophonic music and single-color sprites) resonated with the retro community. 16 years later, there are dozens of ports for classic systems created by different teams around the world ♥

When I say there are dozens of ports, I mean it literally. Just in physical format—and among those that have made their way into my hands—there are already these.

After two years working on Hydorah, we decided to take a break to make a very small, ZX Spectrum-style game. The trip gave us the inspiration, as we learned about the history of the Cathars and the siege of Montségur. More info about that here -> forteressesroyalesdulanguedoc.fr/en/discover/...

@sebagamesdev.bsky.social

9 Sept

Gunmetal Gothic does the ratio thing well: The 4:3 option is 320x240 (76.800 pixels) And the 16:9 is 384x216 (82.944 pixels) So the two aspect ratios have a relatively similar area. In this case, since it's 3D, it doesn't affect the level design—only the view.

Locomalito@locomalito.com

My hot take is that if you want to make an NES-style game but with a 16:9 aspect ratio, you need to change the resolution from 256x224 to something like 320x180, so that the amount of pixels on screen is similar. + Tiles won't feel extra repetitive + Fov not excessive + Larger presence of sprites

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Bad Computer

@badcomputer.bsky.social

8 Sept

Razing Core for SEGA Master System is now available. The full version and demo are here: badcomputer0.itch.io/razing-core

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sebagamesdev.bsky.social

6 Sept

Did you know I made a visual-mode specially designed to edit/view behind layers? It's called Layer-Peek-Mode, and it's just one of many unique features of #PixydraStudio. store.steampowered.com/app/4869680/...

youtu.be【開発者本人が語る】『オリュンポスの戦い』38年越しの完全リメイクYouTube video by The Battle Of Olympus™

5 Sept

Wishlisteado con la fuerza de mil soles :_))) youtu.be/W6cLmT6_oNg?...

3 Sept

Fin de mis cacaciones, en las que no he viajado ni hecho nada especialmente intagramable, pero he pasado tiempo con mis seres más queridos y me he INFLADO a gamedev, que es algo a lo que no le puedo dedicar mucho tiempo seguido últimamente. [Wipzerk mode off]

#Snailord title WIP

#Snailor WIP Trabajando en el nivel de prólogo, que tiene un ambiente muy distinto porque es el único que transcurre en el exterior.

@retrogamermag.bsky.social

28 Aug

Siempre que profundizo en alguna mecánica puramente arcade al final llego a la conclusión de que un shmup japonés ya encontró la solución hace décadas

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Komi Games

@komigames.bsky.social

24 Aug

Escape a space nightmare as the sole survivor of an alien infestation, in the new @grahfmetal.bsky.social point & click adventure! Search for clues, solve puzzles and avoid deadly zombies, mutants, robots and much more... Wishlist on Steam TODAY! store.steampowered.com/app/4964640

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Retro Gamer

27 Aug

If you're looking for a fun Metrodivania, @pqube.bsky.social Aggelos II is out now. There's a review in our next issue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFvP...

youtube.comAggelos 2 | Launch TrailerYouTube video by PQube

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sebagamesdev.bsky.social

@sebagamesdev.bsky.social

9 July

Another cool thing you'll able to do in #Pixydra is preview your sprites as sprite stacking. I made this feature especially for play with my kids and they love it =)

25 Aug

Ando montando el único nivel de #Snailord que es exterior y es curioso porque, aunque dentro de la mazmorra la vista cenital (en la que ves las cuatro paredes) queda de lujo, cuando son árboles queda horrible. Supongo que tendré que tirar de la vista distorsionada estándar con todo en una dirección.

25 Aug

La otra opción es hacer la vegetación de forma ornamental, sin guardar relación con la vista o las proporciones.

24 Aug

#Snailord WIP Some new enemies have been added. It's great to see new content after months without any progress on this project. It's a score-based arcade game, but it's getting the charm of a classic, deep RPG.

JaénJam II🦎🕹️ - del 23 al 26 de Julio 🌻😎

23 Aug

#Snailord WIP Unless there are any last-minute changes, I think I've already defined all the items and their effects.

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@jaenjam.bsky.social

22 Aug

Holaaa, ¿qué tal el veranico? ☀️ Nosotres necesitabamos descanso, y nos faltó publicar las charlitas (disculpad la demora) Pero ahora... ¡Acabamos de subir todas las charlas y vídeos! 🍿 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... También os dejamos la encuesta de esta gamejam: app.youform.com/forms/dmbjmmin

youtube.comJaénJam, 2a edición - YouTube

21 Aug

Instead of using obvious names and effects, I'm thinking of using three words to describe each object. One for the object type and two adjectives. For example:

21 Aug

Time to go back to the snail dungeon game. It's been months since the last time I did something for it.

21 Aug

I still have to decide how deterministic or procedural the game will be. Since it's an arcade-style game, the number of enemies and objects per level shouldn't be random, but the location of each element can be. It should be somewhere between Berserk, Gauntlet and Tower of Druaga.

My hot hot take is don't make 16:9 for retro games or 2D sidescrollers. 4:3 works best for most situations.

18 Aug

I made it so Darkula can use stairs mid-jump. And also that thing where you can press the jump button a moment before landing and still perform a follow-up jump.

@sebagamesdev.bsky.social

18 Aug

(Does this have a name like the coyote-time thing?)

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16 Aug

Well... a secret feature I've been keeping from #pixydra is that you can test gameplay with your own sprites =) Stay tuned, Pixydra Studio will be available in early September!