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You keep posting on 𝕏, and I keep judging you.

"I shall be with you on your wedding night" (Frankenstein) — Bernie Wrightson, 1983

🎥 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) ➡️ Dir. David Lynch #DinoMovieGifs | CW: flashing lights

LazyGit's speedy interface has enabled me to screw up my git repos faster than ever.

This is what happens to kids who are bullied for their names.

The GameMaker engine series behind Undertale, Hotline Miami and Spelunky is going free for commercial use on PC https://bit.ly/3TUWFHK

Anyway, we’re making Frame of Mind – A Game of Thoughts, a reflective narrative game about memories, thoughts, and the challenges of feeling different. The demo is out now on Steam. Give it a try and wishlist it if it feels like your kind of game here: bit.ly/485kRud #pitchyagame #indiegame

NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO ▶ Soulsborne 1.00 series concludes with Demon's Souls PS3 🙏 I don't usually post these anymore but Demon's Souls tends to be overlooked in the general series so any reposts and shares are appreciated 👉👈

This is a photo of Intel engineers working on the CAD design for the Intel 80286 CPU. I was drawn to the image on the right - since we have high resolution die photos, could we actually find what part of the CPU he was working on? Yes, we can #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #reverseengineering

GOAT

Reminder: Library Editions of Eric Powell's The Goon RETURN next March with a brand-new 2nd Edition! Pre-order volume 1: https://bit.ly/4x5DpV7 The first of 5 volumes, this Library Edition release will feature new covers, in a 7x10 hardcover format. By @eric-powell-comics.bsky.social

Background paintings for Space Ace (1983), dir. Don Bluth, Bluth Group

I know you're all wondering: The perfect 7-hero roster of the Avengers is Rom, Ghost Rider, Captain America, Spider-Woman, Misty Knight, Iron Man and Harvey Pekar

I was reverse engineering Mother 1 more, and saw the road and the house in the RAM... isn't it cool? 😹

Race for the Chalice, 2 player split-screen Adventure inspired game for #Atari2600 console forums.atariage.com/topic/393881... #atari

By Richard Nadler.

I usually don't boost posts with more than 1K reposts but sometimes you gotta.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Ralph Reese’s cover art for Choose Your Own Adventure #22, the 1983 title "Space Patrol."

A Ten Hour Documentary on Pool of Radiance https://setsideb.com/a-ten-hour-documentary-on-pool-of-radiance/ #d&d #goldbox #poolofradiance #retro

GameMaker's GMRT runtime will soon be free for all developers

2D-centric engine GameMaker is making its "next-generation runtime" GMRT free for commercial use from January 1, 2027 www.gamesindustry.biz/gamemaker-to...

📢 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...

“I have designed many 8x8 bitmap fonts over the years. They are freely available to be used in games you create in exchange for a mention in the credits section or perhaps a coffee?. I know of 310 usages in games and apps so far.” https://damieng.com/typography/zx-origins/ #gamedev #font

Restoring a Soviet ES-4001 Mainframe Control Panel

Three interior illustrations by Robert Tinney, for a series on CASE, aka "computer-aided software engineering," for BYTE magazine's April 1989 issue. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/robert-tinne...

THE PATH LEADS ONLY ONE WAY. DOWN.

Yelling into the void again in support of @kenney.nl. I know they won't bother but knowing that billionares could actually destroy anyone for doing things they don't like always makes me want to yell

This artwork is titled "Motion of Light", an oil painting created in 2016 by American contemporary impressionist artist Erin Hanson.

black & white, magazine pre-release screenshot (1999) archive.org/details/Comp...

Paul Evans, UK Dungeness Colours (May 2025) ink and acrylic on pape

WASM-4 explained: a tiny WebAssembly fantasy console you can code in almost any language https://papoo.work/doc/ab8e059e36fb2b9a #fantasyconsole #wasm4 #gamedev #creativecoding #retrogaming #indiedev

this is correct

this is beautiful because it shows us how heathcliff sees jimmy, not how we see jimmy, and the love in his heart is so strong. powerful and misunderstood, romantic and alluring but dangerous and ultimately doomed, as all frogs are

I made this as a visual aid for what it's like to develop games: #GameDev

Quick little overview of how I did my seagull vertex shader. No CPU animation. One draw-call for entire flock. No texture lookups except color. All math. 🕊️ #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

Hajime Sorayama

Me: "Yeah, things are mostly looking good, but I never figured out why the compositor just drops a frame once in a while?" Coworker: "Is it because of this line in your demo that says drop every 200th frame?" Me: "THE. F#@&ING. WHAT???"

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

AAA games have a problem I've been struggling with for some time now where because everything looks so good, it's hard to distinguish objects at a distance? I first noticed it in Space Marine II where I was shooting grey monsters waaay off framed against a grey mountain and honestly I could have...

"BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY for quality Games Software Programmer..." (Source.)

The ICL System 4

PSA, Please Repost. eBay has just roped *EVERY* account-holder into their generative AI training system. Not good, but at least they do have an opt-out switch in the settings. Log onto eBay, go to Account settings, find the Opt-out & flip that switch to 'Off'. [some direct links in ALT] #NoAI

PSA for my cis (and transphobic) followers.

Umbasa.

Adios by Antonio Saura, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137672