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I don't care what anyone says, this is the peak era of graphics in games
It's amazing how much they've achieved since I wrote about ScummVM's history in an Ars feature 11 years ago, when they were at a then-incredible 34 supported engines. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/01/maniac-tentacle-mindbenders-of-atlantis-how-scummvm-kept-adventure-gaming-alive/
A new engine lands in ScummVM.
An engine for "Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess" also known as "KULT: The Temple of Flying Saucers" has landed ScummVM master.
It is a small and pretty unique game. So far, we support only DOS CGA rendering, but Hercules and EGA graphics support is in the works.
The engine is small, just 9.5k lines of code, the original was even a .COM file.
What makes this engine a bit special is it is our engine #100!
For this month's issue of Retro Gamer magazine, I spoke with the team who worked on SimCopter. We went over several topics, like the infamous easter egg, the cancelled SimMars and the troubles in Maxis before Electronic Arts came in to save the day (at least, at the time...).
Activision Blizzard's CEO has said he "rewards profit and nothing else," so it didn't go over well when Blizzard devs were rewarded for a banner quarter by having their bonuses slashed. I wrote about it a bit in the latest This Week in Business column:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/blizzard-president-sends-a-message-this-week-in-business
Who made the best 'About...' screens in the vintage Mac era? I present: ICOM Simulations, Inc. Theirs went above and beyond the usual boring text box while employing animation and ... music! I show them here in this video #MARCHintosh #MARCHintosh2023
How the Finnish demoscene turned Helsinki into "The mobile gaming capital of the world."
There is one crucial line in this article, "We know we have the social security network to fall back on, so you don't have to mortgage your own house to set-up a company."
In other words, a good benefits system is the basis of an innovative population. People with a safety net are likely to take more risks in their businesses.
Governments take note.
But for low effort you could package them all into an ebook and get it included in a StoryBundle; that'll likely net you several hundred dollars or more, which isn't much but depending on the state of your transcripts may be worthwhile. (I'm sitting on many hundreds of thousands of mostly-unpublished words in interview transcripts with notable people, too, so I know the feeling well of wondering how to publish it in a format that earns money.)