Source code for the 1988 game The Colony has been posted to Github
Y’all ever wonder what the game you’re working on in World Builder for Macintosh System 6 would look like on the @playdate and then accidentally start designing and coding it a little bit? Haha this is rhetorical question it happens to everyone
Gameplay's a bit clunkier than the likes of Super Sidekicks and Soccer Brawl, and less varied than the Kunio-kun games (Nintendo World Cup and its Japan-only sequels), but the presentation is fantastic and it's miles better than the UK-made games of this sort from the time. Shame it never got an international release or a sequel.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fandamental/first-person-shooter-the-definitive-fps-documentary/posts/3818387
All along I've wanted it to be the first high-gloss gaming documentary that actually gets the balance of depth and nostalgia right, and to make a doco that doesn't fall into the stereotypical oversimplification and cringey 8-bit graphics/music crap that plagued most of the other projects with the pull to get big-name interviews. Looks like we did it.
Photo and description of injury, not for squeamish people
And all that's with instinctual knowledge about minimising fall damage honed by years as a dancer in my 20s. (I probably would have broken something otherwise.)
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Opening sequence of our 1997 game The Last Express.
https://youtu.be/U7k3_CX6NII
In today's blog post, I explain this very special game's connection to my latest artwork (and my new graphic novel "Replay"): https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-news/#a-new-departure
This new video by Luke Muscat about the creation of Fruit Ninja is a great watch if you're a designer or just a fan of the game!
https://youtu.be/St5v2uI-Nis
@MichaelKlamerus @greg Indeed, like on all those adventure games that got a great FMTowns port, or how lots of PC games were actually best on Mac but are way easier to set up for most people and *nearly* as good on DOS with patch A plus the audio ripped from the Mac or Windows CD version.
@MichaelKlamerus Hence why I mentioned the UI change as a possible negative. And now we're getting into the troubling question of what defines "best"? It could very well become a flowchart/decision tree for many games.
We've had a mandated "gamble responsibly" disclaimer at the end of every ad for years, but gambling addiction is still a huge problem here. They're introducing a on ban credit card payments for "in-play" matches now, though, so that's something at least. (We have a casino here that was somehow allowed to keep its licence despite flagrant illegal activity they themselves sanctioned, too. Yay for gambling tax revenue.)
Unique and interesting look at Iran's first ever video game, clearly inspired by Prince of Persia, courtesy of the efforts of Arash Hackimi. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/the-history-of-iran-s-very-first-video-game
8/16-bit sprite style indie games and boomer shooters are played out, someone bring back the vibes of old 90s Macintosh shareware games
Back in 2020, I published Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a concise book – 64 pages – that actually starts centuries before Gutenberg, with Chinese and Korea printing, and then digs into 1450 to 2020, covering ~600 years of technological advances. Set in hot-metal type (Monotype Bembo) in North Yorkshire, printed in London, and bound in Germany with a foil-stamped cover & slipcase, I still have copies available for shipping worldwide! https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress (ebook edition available)
