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Soup Raiders Goes Native: What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine | Elias Farhan

https://eliasfarhan.ch/gamedev/cpp/2026/08/14/srnative-01-why-a-custom-engine.html
This post grew far beyond my original idea, but I wanted to set out my thoughts on building a custom engine before delving into the technology itself. Building an engine takes time, but it gives us control over how the game loads and updates, removes engine-licence fees, and teaches us about asset compilation, rendering, and optimisation. We can even expose parts of the engine to players, allowing them to improve the game or create mods (and potentially entirely new games) with our technology. After Unity’s runtime-fee announcement, technological independence became an even more important concern for game developers.
#dev #gamedev #gaming
archive.org #38685

Converting a PS4 Persona 5 Royal NG+ Save to Steam with Adversarial Interoperability

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/converting-a-ps4-persona-5-royal-ng-save-to-steam-with-adversarial-interoperability/
Persona 5 Royal was 80% off on Steam recently and as I already established, I will repeatedly pay Atlus for their games. Only problem is I don't want to start a full play through yet again. Thankfully we have adversarial interoperability.
#atlus #gaming #hacks #persona
archive.org #38682

Dungeons and Dryers · thega.me.uk

https://thega.me.uk/2026/07/dungeons-and-dryers/
But last weekend, while I was running my monthly ‘Storm King’s Thunder’ D&D campaign, I asked one of the group to help me get the dryer down from the shelf. Immediately the group set to work removing the back panel and trying to figure out what was wrong with it, while still playing D&D.
#diy #dnd #funny #gaming
archive.org #38645

World historic amounts of gamedev talent thrown out to rot – Laura Michet's Blog

https://blog.lauramichet.com/world-historic-amounts-of-gamedev-talent-thrown-out-to-rot/
There is a never-before-seen glut of experienced, highly senior talent just lying around right now, like cuts of meat someone threw out of the fridge to rot on the floor of the restaurant. Game dev teams don't get birthed as fully-formed agglomerations of talent... it takes years for them to come together as effective creative communities and start making material they can be proud of. So we're looking at an industry that's not only hemorrhaging talent, but also hemorrhaging the interpersonal trust and momentum you need to make good games.
#MSFT #gaming #sony
archive.org #38638

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 - Andy Tockman

https://tck.mn/blog/correlated-randomness-sts2/
Briefly, in Spire 1, the game used several distinct pseudorandom number generators, to prevent e.g. randomness within a combat from influencing future card rewards. However, they were all initialized to the same starting state, which meant they produced the same sequence of numbers. A crafty player could therefore pay attention to the results of past random events and gain information about future random events.
#gamedev #gaming #random #slaythespire
archive.org #38589

How the Vectrex game console sunk a 124-year-old company - The Silicon Underground

https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-the-vectrex-game-console-sunk-a-124-year-old-company/?utm_campaign=how-the-vectrex-game-console-sunk-a-124-year-old-company&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss
On May 4, 1984, Milton Bradley, a leading producer of board games for 124 years, agreed to sell itself to Hasbro. Changes in the way people played games in the 80s, especially kids, put pressure on the company. In this blog post, I’ll explain how changing times led Milton Bradley to make a transformational bet at the worst possible time that ultimately sunk the maker of the game Battleship, and what happened to what was left of Milton Bradley.
#80s #gaming #retro #toys #vectrex
archive.org #38550

The Visible Zorker Project

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/
But it also lets you see the game running as you play. Every time you type a command, you’ll see the source code of the functions that executed it. You can also browse the game’s variables and the state of every object. Track your progress on an interactive map. So you can see exactly what the game does and how it does it.
#gaming #ifiction #zork
archive.org #38548

Game Quest: The Backlog Battler on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3356660/Game_Quest_The_Backlog_Battler/
This Arcade Hack & Slash answers the age old question: "What if the games you never play could attack you?" Fight back your backlog! The more you paid, the more damage they will do to you! (just like in real life).
#funny #gaming #steam
archive.org #38523

NetHack 5.0.0: Release Notes

https://nethack.org/v500/release.html
NetHack 5.0 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack, which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.6. ... A list of over 3100 fixes and changes can be found in the game's sources in the file doc/fixes5-0-0.txt. The text in there was written for the development team's own use and is provided "as is". Some entries might be considered "spoilers", particularly in the "new features" section.
#games #gaming #nethack
archive.org #38513

The Legend of Zelda Map - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld

https://makerworld.com/en/models/539128-the-legend-of-zelda-map#profileId-456377
A 3D map of The Legend of Zelda. I still remember unfolding this map in the first Nintendo Power and being amazed. I tried to capture as much detail as I could while designing this for a 0.4mm nozzle to keep the print time down. The 1 AMS version proved pretty challenging, but I wanted to be able to share this with as many of you as I could. The overall size without the frame comes out to about 420mm x 140mm.
#3dprinting #gaming #nintendo #zelda
archive.org #38484

The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S

https://gardinerbryant.com/the-anatomy-of-an-impossible-port/
In its final form, Dead Cells runs at roughly 25 frames per second on the R36S, fitting into about 400MB of resident memory. It boots, plays, and remains stable. The lighting is gone, but the pixel art carries itself. After a few rooms, it simply feels like Dead Cells.That original feasibility rating said “Low”, but it didn’t account for bmdhacks, stubbornness and time.
#deadcells #emulation #gamedad #gaming
archive.org #38359

Netrunner – Convolution BBS

https://convolutionbbs.org/netrunner-2/
Finally, an online ‘cyberpunk’ game that comes close to portraying computing as depicted in classic cyberpunk works like Neuromancer by William Gibson. In this game the player is a NetRunner, an arrogant and bold futuristic hacker. Armed with his cyberdeck and an arsenal of offensive, defensive and analysis software he’s ready to invade corporate systems in the grid and raid their credits, for fame and fortune! It’s no cakewalk though! Waiting for the unwary are Intrusion Counter-measures (IC). Machine controlled defenses that can inflict damage to hardware and software, steal the players own credits and even cause… death.
#bbs #cyberpunk #gaming #netrunner #retro #retrocomputing
archive.org #38347

Warframe Mandascore

https://buff0000n.github.io/mandascore/
This is an app for viewing and editing Mandachord songs. The main motivation was to provide a way to be able to copy my songs into the game without having to pause a video. But while I was at it I went ahead and made it a full blown editor.
#gaming #mandascore #music #tools #warframe
archive.org #38163

Adventure 751 (1980) | Renga in Blue

https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/01/adventure-751-1980/
Adventure 751 has been, by my reckoning, the most sought-after variation of Crowther/Woods Adventure. It was generally available on the online portal CompuServe from nearly the beginning of the service and it disappeared when they shut down their games in the 90s. Arthur O’Dwyer started a web page in 2012 (with semi-regular updates!) dedicated to hunting down a copy. To finish off a wild 2025 in game preservation, Arthur O’Dwyer announced the game has been found (by LanHawk, a regular amongst the comments here) and is playable.
#gaming #history #ifiction #nifty #retro
archive.org #38162

Diabaig by conornally

https://conornally.itch.io/diabaig
Diabaig is a traditional turn-based ASCII roguelike where you are never more than a few mistakes away from death. Choose a starting class, find powerful items, and learn new spells and techniques to face increasingly dangerous adversity. You will discover many floors with rooms filled with unique creatures, magic scrolls, unknown potions and mighty weapons. Use everything at your disposal to survive as long as possible and defeat the dragon, but remember to keep enough spare for the return journey.
#ascii #games #gaming #rogue #roguelike #rpg
archive.org #38130

The Same Game, Twice - The Strong National Museum of Play

https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/the-same-game-twice/
Our arcade games are wonderful examples of living traditions (to use Mansfield’s term), and so we approach their conservation in the same philosophical way. We haven’t replaced the CRT in our Pac-Man yet, and perhaps we never will, but the key principle is to preserve these incredible machines, as ethically as we can, as living traditions.
#arcade #gaming #pacman #retro
archive.org #38103

wavephoenix/hardware/mini-receiver at main · loopj/wavephoenix

https://github.com/loopj/wavephoenix/tree/main/hardware/mini-receiver
The WavePhoenix Mini Receiver is a small, low-cost WaveBird receiver replacement. It has been designed to be as cheap as possible (~$4 in parts) and simple to build. The receiver uses a cheap, off-the-shelf wireless module (the RF-BM-BG22C3), which can either be hand-wired, or assembled onto a custom PCB.
#diy #gaming #hardware #n64 #retro #wavebird
archive.org #38092

Celebrate the fictitious 35th anniversary of Ruin, a faux point-and-click adventure game that never was | Rock Paper Shotgun

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/celebrate-the-fictitious-35th-anniversary-of-ruin-a-faux-point-and-click-adventure-game-that-never-was
The actual game in question here is Ruin: Chapter 0, an interactive fiction game in the stylings of something you might have seen on the ZX Spectrum, albeit with a lot more flair. And, perhaps, a lot more glitches - a big flashing imagery warning is needed for this one. Playable within your browser, it's kind of hard to describe what you do, or even what you're doing, in Ruin. From what I can gather, you are a knight, the hero of rune, tasked by the king to retrieve a sword and defeat evil forever. But no matter what, I just keep getting my ass kicked by this evil, and every time I die it just says "get owned" at me! Rude!
#gaming #ifiction #nifty #retro
archive.org #38032

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. : r/dwarffortress

https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/1oxdxuu/comment/nowwrov/
This goes straight to my list of all-time favourite DF patch notes Here's some of my other favorites: * Stopped vampires from pinning their crimes on babies * Serpentmen can kick * Babies no longer start strapped with a knife * Dwarf children die from embarrassment for not wearing clothes at an age of 2 * Dwarves come to the hospital to rest without injuries (and also endless tooth surgery) * Fixed bug with mules shitting luggage * For some reason, horses are now made of iron. * Made undead respectful to one another * Rain kills everything it lands on * Fixed the range of evil creatures detecting eachother, causing werecreatures and vampires to climb trees because they are scared of hell * Sleeping on a melting iceberg results in waking up as a demon
#bugs #dwarffortress #funny #gaming #weird
archive.org #38017

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it.
#gaming #history #ifiction #retro #zork
archive.org #38014

DOOMed to Fail: A Horror Story With Rebecca Heineman (Burger Becky) - CoRecursive Podcast

https://corecursive.com/doomed-to-fail-with-burger-becky/
Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, and dramatic rock anthems to record. We also learn about how game piracy led her to game development and what it was like to do game development in the mania of the mid-nineties. Finally, we close with Becky’s advice on learning bare metal development skills.
#burgerbecky #gaming #history #podcasts #retro
archive.org #38011

Whispers in the Walls 2e by Pandion Games

https://pandiongames.itch.io/whispers-in-the-walls
This is a solo journaling RPG about the knowledge of the walls. You play it by yourself in the dark. As you draw cards, you’ll be directed to prompts to write as the P.I. trying to solve a mystery. Throughout the game, you’ll draw cards from your constructed Whispers Deck to learn what the walls, ceiling and floors are telling or showing you, keep notes on what you think it all means and ultimately conclude the truth. A session takes between 15 and 60 minutes and is highly replayable. Each session is unique.
#gaming #journalling #rpg #ttrpg #writing
archive.org #37919

Last Tea Shop Expanded Edition by Spring Villager

https://springvillager.itch.io/last-tea-shop-complete
Last Tea Shop Complete is a revised and expanded version of a one-page solo game about tea and conversation. Set up your stall and wait for visitors to emerge out of the mist. Over a cup of tea, chat to the visitor about their life and help prepare them for their trip into the Lands of the Dead. Record their thoughts, fears, dreams and hopes in your journal for posterity.
#gaming #journalling #rpg #ttrpg #writing
archive.org #37917

Artefact by Jack Harrison

https://mouseholepress.itch.io/artefact
ARTEFACT shifts the focus to the perspective of a single magical item, and its history as it passes through the hands of many different keepers. You’ll feel the weight of time as the item is lost or abandoned again and again, the dust & decay piling around it until it’s found again by someone new.
#fantasy #gaming #rpgs #ttrpgs #writing
archive.org #37916

HyperRogue by Zeno Rogue

https://zenorogue.itch.io/hyperrogue
The twist is the unique, unusual geometry of the world: it is one of just few games which takes place on the hyperbolic plane. Witness a grid composed of hexagons and heptagons, straight lines which seem to be parallel, but then they diverge and never cross, triangles whose angles add up to less than 180 degrees, how extremely unlikely is it to reach the same place twice, and how the world seems to be rotated when you do return. All this matters for the gameplay. The game is inspired by the roguelike genre (although in a very minimalist way), works of M. C. Escher, and by puzzle games such as Deadly Rooms of Death.
#gaming #nifty #noneuclidean #rogue #roguelikecelebration
archive.org #37867

The new Metroid Prime art book offers insights into Nintendo’s process | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/games/803399/metroid-prime-visual-retrospective-art-book-review
Metroid Prime 1–3: A Visual Retrospective is a fabulous resource for learning more than I ever thought I’d be privy to about Nintendo and Retro Studios’ ambitious first-person adventure series. The 210-page hardcover book launches on October 28th, weeks before the series makes its long-awaited return with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on the Switch and Switch 2. It’s the perfect $50 gift for someone who’s pored over video essays about the trilogy’s design, and who’s always wanted to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the games were made
#books #gaming #metroid #nintendo
archive.org #37830

I made a tool to generate AI powered recaps of TTRPG sessions - ~games.tabletop - Tildes

https://tildes.net/~games.tabletop/1q8y/i_made_a_tool_to_generate_ai_powered_recaps_of_ttrpg_sessions
My party recently finished Descent into Avernus, which we played over Discord and FoundryVTT given how scattered across the country we all are. A regular party of the campaign was the DM poking and prodding players for "someone write up a recap of last session", helping keep us all in the loop, players who were absent in particular. A few weeks ago it occurred to me that this could be automated, and Scribble was born.
#ai #gaming #tools #ttrpg
archive.org #37706

SDL DOOM! v1.10

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/play-doom-ports.html
For decades, tech enthusiasts have made the 1993 video game Doom playable on screens of all sizes, including treadmills, calculators and pregnancy tests. (Even this article.)
#doom #gaming #web
archive.org #29497

SDL DOOM! v1.10

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/play-doom-ports.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KU8.W3qp.3oxjIeBU4gMc
For decades, tech enthusiasts have made the 1993 video game Doom playable on screens of all sizes, including treadmills, calculators and pregnancy tests. (Even this article.)
#doom #gaming #web
archive.org #29498

The VMU Pro turns the Dreamcast’s memory card into a handheld emulator | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/news/665012/8bitmods-sega-dreamcast-virtual-memory-unit-vmu-pro-emulator-nes-sega
8BitMod’s upcoming VMU Pro offers the same functionality as Sega’s original, but it’s rebuilt from the ground up with upgrades that include a full-color screen and enough processing power to use it as a handheld emulator for retro games.
#dreamcast #gaming #hardware #retro #sega #vmu
archive.org #29518

An Ode To The Game Boy Advance | Brain Baking

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/03/an-ode-to-the-game-boy-advance/
In March 2001, Nintendo introduced an advanced portable model to the gaming market with the release of the Game Boy Advance (GBA, codenamed Advanced Game Boy or AGB). Equipped with a modernized 32-bit ARM CPU running at twice the speed of the Game Boy Color (GBC), this small device was more than capable of playing SNES-like games—still at the price of only two AA batteries.
#gameboy #gaming #gba #nintendo
archive.org #29592

Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/#allchanges
It turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints. With a few additional changes, we were able to clear up any confusion for players who care about the score, and were confused by the differences between what the manual claims and what actually happens in-game. Next time someone tells you that "E.T. for the Atari 2600 is the worst game ever made" you can tell them that this is not the case. It's been fixed, and you know how.
#2600 #atari #et #gaming
archive.org #29597

Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers The Gift Of Linux | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/give-your-animal-crossing-villagers-the-gift-of-linux/
thanks to the work of [decrazyo] there’s a piece of furniture that you can add to your Animal Crossing house that will never get old: an x86 emulator that boots Linux. As explained in the video below, this trick leverages the fact that Nintendo had already built a highly accurate Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator into Animal Crossing on the GameCube, which could be used to run a handful of classic games from within the player’s virtual living room. But it turns out that you can get that emulator to load a user-provided ROM from the GameCube’s memory card, which opens the doors to all sorts of mischief.
#animalcrossing #emulation #gaming #hacks #linux #nes
archive.org #29659

The story of Rogue - Spillhistorie.no

https://spillhistorie.no/the-story-of-rogue/
Rogue is one of the most influential games of all time. Even if you haven’t played it, you’ve definitely played several games that have Rogue’s DNA in them. It became so popular when it was released for UNIX-based systems in 1980 that it created its own genre, which we still know as ‘roguelike games’. Even in the decades when these games were niche experiences, the genre was important. The action role-playing game Diablo built directly on the roguelike genre, which means that all the games that followed in Diablo’s footsteps also have their roots here.
#gaming #history #rogue
archive.org #29740

Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

https://lparchive.org/Legend-of-Zelda-Four-Swords-Adventures/
Released in 2004 for the Nintendo GameCube, Zelda: FSA made use of the wack-ass peripheral known as the GCN-GBA link cable. By hooking these cables up to your Game Boy Advances, you and three friends could play through a cooperative adventure through a land of shittily scaled sprites and bizarre graphical effects known as Hyrule. At the end of each level, everyone gets judged by the game and their heroic cohorts and through a variety of criteria (mainly money), there's a winner for each level. Cooperate and compete. Nintendo's done that a couple of times now.
#gameboy #gamecube #gaming #gba #nintendo #zelda
archive.org #29742

Solitomb is a demon-fighting prototype which mixes Balatro and solitaire, from the maker of Slipways | Rock Paper Shotgun

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/solitomb-is-a-demon-fighting-prototype-which-mixes-balatro-and-solitaire-from-the-maker-of-slipways
Solitomb, a solitaire-based dungeon crawler in which you fight demons by building hands of playing cards. It's currently - heywaitaminute - a pay-what-you-want PICO-8 prototype by designer Jakub Wasilewski where "all money earned goes towards making the bigger version possible." Like Slipways, it already seems like a frightfully clever piece of design.
#cards #gaming #pico8 #solitaire
archive.org #29811

As public perception of AI sours, crowdfunding platforms scramble | Polygon

https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/481022/ai-tabletop-kickstarter-backerkit-gamefound-wise-wizard-draconis-8
While the ethics of this technology’s ecological and social impact are debated, use of the technology comes with repeated controversy. This instance of AI-assisted art from the company that made the award-winning Star Realms deck-building game has caused some to take to social media in disappointment and frustration. A few fans of the company state they won’t purchase another game by Wise Wizard, with at least one store stating it will no longer be stocking the company’s products. This anti-AI sentiment is not unanimous, however. Projects like Wonders of the First, Grimcoven, and Terraforming Mars still raised millions of dollars from thousands of backers as recently as June of this year — giving crowdfunding platforms an incentive to keep AI projects on the site, as long as the money is still there.
#art #business #crowdfunding #gaming #genai #kickstarter #ttrpg
archive.org #29861

Knock Off: The Battle for Imagination

https://knockoffthegame.com/
The game’s setting is a truly unique twist on the genre, featuring action figure toys engaged in friendly battles within a young boy’s bedroom. These battles are fueled by the imagination of children, creating a hidden world where these toys come to life. The plot intensifies with the introduction of a powerful new toy, whose elitist views lead to a head-to-head clash with the older knock-off toys. The destiny of imagination rests in your hands.
#fighting #gaming #toys
archive.org #29896

Oasis

https://oasis-model.github.io/
Oasis takes in user keyboard input and generates real-time gameplay, including physics, game rules, and graphics. You can move around, jump, pick up items, break blocks, and more. There is no game engine; just a foundation model.
#ai #gamedev #gaming #genai #ml
archive.org #29931

International Center for the History of Electronic Games

http://www.icheg.org
The International Center for the History of Electronic Games® (ICHEG) at The Strong collects, studies, and interprets video games, other electronic games, and related materials and the ways in which electronic games are changing how people play, learn, and connect with each other, including across boundaries of culture and geography.
#archives #feeds:subscriptions #gaming #history #imported:opml #videogames
archive.org #23869

Can we do the thing people do when fictional history is made and pretend that the games from UFO 50 were our childhood games? : r/ufo50

https://www.reddit.com/r/ufo50/comments/1fp3h81/can_we_do_the_thing_people_do_when_fictional/
I grew up in the 2000s, around the mid 2010s I discovered emulators and started playing a bunch of LX games. I remember playing some of them for hours at a time. Now the collection is out and I'm replaying them all. UFOsoft really just knew what they were doing
#gaming #reddit #retro
archive.org #30476

POLYBIUS on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/906120/POLYBIUS/
POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine’s VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video.
#gaming #jeffminter #llamasoft #vr
archive.org #30479

UFO 50 Reddit is roleplaying as if the LX console was real | Polygon

https://www.polygon.com/culture/457296/ufo-50-subreddit-roleplay-metafiction
It started on Wednesday with a simple thread prompt from redditor DorikoBac: “Can we do the thing people do when fictional history is made and pretend that the games from UFO 50 were our childhood games?” DorikoBac, too young to have owned an LX in the ’80s, imagined discovering UFO Soft via emulators in the mid-2010s.
#gaming #retro
archive.org #30490

Elite 40th Anniversary

http://www.elitehomepage.org/fourty/index.htm
Today, 20th September 2024, is the 40th anniversary of the day the world first experienced Elite, the 3D space trading and combat game written by Ian Bell and David Braben, first on the BBC Microcomputer in conjunction with Acornsoft. To commemorate this, I have added further sources (Apple, Atari, C64, NES, SNES (unfinished) "Elite"; and BBC "Elite II" (unfinished)) to the Elite Archive.
#elite #gaming #retro #space
archive.org #30499

Raspberry PiBoy – Building a Handheld Gaming System from Walnut and Carbon Fiber – MICHAEL K CASTOR

http://www.mkcastor.com/raspberry-piboy-handheld-gaming-system-in-walnut-and-carbon-fiber/
Portable Raspberry Pi enabled gaming system projects seem to be everywhere. The concept is relatively simple; get an old GameBoy (or other old portable) shell, stuff in a Raspberry Pi Zero as well as some switches, LiPo battery and charger, an LCD screen, and maybe an audio amplifier and you’re set (except for the giant mess of wires.)
#diy #gaming #hardware #imported:pinboard #raspi #retro
archive.org #31318

Raspberry PiBoy – Building a Handheld Gaming System from Walnut and Carbon Fiber – MICHAEL K CASTOR

http://www.mkcastor.com/raspberry-piboy-handheld-gaming-system-in-walnut-and-carbon-fiber
Portable Raspberry Pi enabled gaming system projects seem to be everywhere. The concept is relatively simple; get an old GameBoy (or other old portable) shell, stuff in a Raspberry Pi Zero as well as some switches, LiPo battery and charger, an LCD screen, and maybe an audio amplifier and you’re set (except for the giant mess of wires.)
#diy #gaming #hardware #raspi #retro
archive.org #27507

Nintendo Switch - Matt Gemmell

https://mattgemmell.com/nintendo-switch/
The main feature, of course — even the eponymous feature, if you like — is that it’s neither tethered to your TV, nor an exclusively squint-inducing handheld device. This is a fundamentally humane and grown-up move. I have a home office, but I don’t want a man cave or boy’s room or whatever you might call it. I’m married, and I like my wife. I prefer to be in the same room as her, even if we’re both doing different things and only periodically talking to each other (this is also one of the fab things about marriage). The Switch lets me shut off the TV but keep playing, without having to go to another room. I keep all my games stuff in the living room.
#adulthood #gaming #imported:pinboard #nintendo #switch
archive.org #31326

Nintendo Switch - Matt Gemmell

https://mattgemmell.com/nintendo-switch
The main feature, of course — even the eponymous feature, if you like — is that it’s neither tethered to your TV, nor an exclusively squint-inducing handheld device. This is a fundamentally humane and grown-up move. I have a home office, but I don’t want a man cave or boy’s room or whatever you might call it. I’m married, and I like my wife. I prefer to be in the same room as her, even if we’re both doing different things and only periodically talking to each other (this is also one of the fab things about marriage). The Switch lets me shut off the TV but keep playing, without having to go to another room. I keep all my games stuff in the living room.
#adulthood #gaming #nintendo #switch
archive.org #27483

Ian Bell's Text Elite Page

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text/
Text Elite is a C implementation of the classic Elite trading system in a text adventure style shell. I originally coded this to formalise and archive the definition of the Classic Elite Universe, but have released it, with sources, now that Christian Pinder has publicly reverse engineered BBC Disk Elite trading into C.
#c #elite #gaming #imported:pinboard #pico8
archive.org #31415

Ian Bell's Text Elite Page

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/text
Text Elite is a C implementation of the classic Elite trading system in a text adventure style shell. I originally coded this to formalise and archive the definition of the Classic Elite Universe, but have released it, with sources, now that Christian Pinder has publicly reverse engineered BBC Disk Elite trading into C.
#c #elite #gaming #pico8
archive.org #26706

Sega-16 – Unofficial Shmups Glossary

http://www.sega-16.com/2005/04/unofficial-shmups-glossary/
Bulletmagnet from the Shmups forum has compiled this awesome glossary of shmup terms, which is great for those just getting into the genre, as well as those with questions about what certain terms mean or are called. Some terms were also taken from the Shooter Lingo section of the now-defunct shmup site Starbase299.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #shmups
archive.org #31564

Sega-16 – Unofficial Shmups Glossary

http://www.sega-16.com/2005/04/unofficial-shmups-glossary
Bulletmagnet from the Shmups forum has compiled this awesome glossary of shmup terms, which is great for those just getting into the genre, as well as those with questions about what certain terms mean or are called. Some terms were also taken from the Shooter Lingo section of the now-defunct shmup site Starbase299.
#gaming #shmups
archive.org #25881

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures - mGBA

https://endrift.com/mgba/2014/12/28/classic-nes/
From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.
#emulation #gameboy #gaming #imported:pinboard #nintendo
archive.org #31712

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures - mGBA

https://endrift.com/mgba/2014/12/28/classic-nes
From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.
#emulation #gameboy #gaming #nintendo
archive.org #25413

Vectrex Thrust Source

http://www.emix8.org/static.php?page=VectrexThrustSource
Here is the complete source code for my game Vectrex Thrust. This game would never have been possible to write without all the information people have shared on the web, so releasing this source code is my way of giving something back and hoping that someone will find it useful.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #source #vectrex
archive.org #25080

Bad Crazy in Internet Space - Page 3 | Ten Ton Hammer

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/65475/page/3
It was determined that 'The Enslaver' and his Avatar-class Titan had to go. I was approached by one of the leaders of Red Alliance to help make this happen, but almost immediately we were down the rabbit hole. Much to my surprise, the RA director didn't want in-game information from me; he wanted us to use the forensic resources of our intelligence agency to trace down The Enslaver's home address. At a coordinated time, armed with this information, a RA member would apparently cut the power to The Enslaver's house in the real world, and in EVE a RA capital fleet would assault the abruptly pilotless Titan. Yikes.
#eve #funny #gaming #imported:pinboard
archive.org #25046

About Us | The Digital Game Museum

http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/about-us/
Our office and collection storage in at 3553 Ryder Street, Santa Clara, CA. We don’t have enough space to put up exhibits, so we show exhibits at events like Maker Faire Bay Area, PAX Prime, and others, and we place small exhibits in interesting places. We hope to move to a space that will include changing exhibits and game play space in the near future. To do that, we need your financial support and the support of corporations. Can you help?
#california #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #31846

About Us | The Digital Game Museum

http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/about-us
Our office and collection storage in at 3553 Ryder Street, Santa Clara, CA. We don’t have enough space to put up exhibits, so we show exhibits at events like Maker Faire Bay Area, PAX Prime, and others, and we place small exhibits in interesting places. We hope to move to a space that will include changing exhibits and game play space in the near future. To do that, we need your financial support and the support of corporations. Can you help?
#california #gaming #retro
archive.org #24964

How In-app Purchases Has Destroyed The Industry (by @baekdal) #opinion

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/how-inapp-purchases-has-destroyed-the-industry/
I don't like writing negative articles that don't include a solution to the problem, but in this case, there is no solution. The state of in-app purchases has now reached a level where we have completely lost it. Not only has the gaming industry shot itself in the foot, hacked off their other foot, and lost both its arms ... but it's still engaging in a strategy that will only damage it further.
#development #freetoplay #gaming #imported:pinboard #microtransactions #mobile #to:fb
archive.org #32020

How In-app Purchases Has Destroyed The Industry (by @baekdal) #opinion

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/how-inapp-purchases-has-destroyed-the-industry
I don't like writing negative articles that don't include a solution to the problem, but in this case, there is no solution. The state of in-app purchases has now reached a level where we have completely lost it. Not only has the gaming industry shot itself in the foot, hacked off their other foot, and lost both its arms ... but it's still engaging in a strategy that will only damage it further.
#development #freetoplay #gaming #microtransactions #mobile #to:fb
archive.org #24526

EVE Online Image Server

http://image.eveonline.com
Welcome to the image server of EVE Online. You can use this service to obtain images related to entities in New Eden. At this moment, it is possible to get alliance logos, corp logos, character portraits, ship renders and inventory type icons in various resolutions.
#eve #eveonline #gaming #images #webdev
archive.org #24400

MAME 0.151 ROMs : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs
MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".
#archives #gaming #imported:pinboard #mame #mess #videogames
archive.org #24389

Gamasutra - The new gen's most important question: Who cares?

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/205224/The_new_gens_most_important_question_Who_cares.php
It's unpopular to say you don't care about consoles, to suggest you don't need to care. It feels like disloyalty to the industry. But what's becoming clear, even if it feels controversial and treacherous to say -- even if it threatens the industry and its loyal consumers, galvanizes them to internet arguments -- is that the console business and the industry models that built it are no longer the main avenue for the medium of games. They're probably not even the most important, even though they remain the most visible to your average person.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #indie #playstation #to:fb #xbox
archive.org #24364

Rocky's Boots (1982) (The Learning Company) : Free Streaming : Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1982_Learning_Company
Rocky's Boots is an educational logic puzzle game by Warren Robinett and Leslie Grimm, published by The Learning Company in 1982. It was released for the Apple II, the CoCo, the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. It was followed by a more difficult sequel, Robot Odyssey. It won Software of the Year awards from Learning Magazine (1983), Parent's Choice magazine (1983), and Infoworld magazine (1982, runner-up), and received the Gold Award (for selling 100,000 copies) from the Software Publishers Association. It was one of the first educational software products for personal computers to successfully use an interactive graphical simulation as a learning environment.
#design #electronics #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #24302

Make a Neon Vector Shooter in XNA: Particle Effects | Gamedevtuts+

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/implementation/make-a-neon-vector-shooter-in-xna-particle-effects/
In this series of tutorials, I’ll show you how to make a neon twin stick shooter, like Geometry Wars, in XNA. The goal of these tutorials is not to leave you with an exact replica of Geometry Wars, but rather to go over the necessary elements that will allow you to create your own high-quality variant.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #tutorials #xna
archive.org #32143

Make a Neon Vector Shooter in XNA: Particle Effects | Gamedevtuts+

http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/implementation/make-a-neon-vector-shooter-in-xna-particle-effects
In this series of tutorials, I’ll show you how to make a neon twin stick shooter, like Geometry Wars, in XNA. The goal of these tutorials is not to leave you with an exact replica of Geometry Wars, but rather to go over the necessary elements that will allow you to create your own high-quality variant.
#gaming #tutorials #xna
archive.org #24221

Announcing Artillery's Project Atlas, a Hardcore RTS for the Browser - The Artillery Blog

http://blog.artillery.com/2013/09/project-atlas-and-the-artillery-platform.html
The Artillery Platform, which Atlas is built upon, uses JavaScript and WebGL to deliver a high-quality, low-latency multiplayer gaming experience to anyone with a modern web browser. The platform is centered around 3D experiences with real-time multiplayer capability and strong community support. The JavaScript-based game engine features a component-entity design, a modern deferred rendering pipeline, and development tools designed to allow creative expression and super-fast iteration.
#gaming #html5 #imported:pinboard #nifty #to:twitter #webdev #webgl
archive.org #24207

How Atari box art turned 8-bit games into virtual wonderlands | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4716444/how-atari-box-art-turned-8-bit-games-into-virtual-wonderlands
The original Atari featured a wealth of games with box art that was quite a bit more imaginative than the “grizzled man holding a gun” template that’s so popular today. The concept of playing a video game in your house, on your television, was still in its infancy in the late 1970s, and Atari needed a way to market its games. One solution was to commission intricately detailed covers that sold the idea of a game much better than any simple screenshot could. “The game-playing experience wasn’t 100 percent of the experience,” says Tim Lapetino, an artist and designer currently working on a book about the history of Atari cover art. “Part of what made the world complete was the artwork that conjured up this other place. I wasn’t sitting in my living room anymore; I was on this desolate planet or in space. And it was mostly because of that art.”
#art #atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #24202

In Search of Scanlines: The Best CRT Monitor for Retro Gaming - Tested

http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/456719-best-crt-retro-games/
Your 1080p HDTV may be great for Blu-ray movies, but it sucks for SNES games. Adopting new television technology means saying goodbye to the advantages of older hardware. And yes, there are advantages. There's no such thing as a best TV for all eras of content. And for retro gaming, diehard gamers and collectors turn to old CRTs and specialty scaling hardware in search for that perfect picture.
#arcade #crts #gaming #imported:pinboard #monitors #retro #tvs
archive.org #32155

In Search of Scanlines: The Best CRT Monitor for Retro Gaming - Tested

http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/456719-best-crt-retro-games
Your 1080p HDTV may be great for Blu-ray movies, but it sucks for SNES games. Adopting new television technology means saying goodbye to the advantages of older hardware. And yes, there are advantages. There's no such thing as a best TV for all eras of content. And for retro gaming, diehard gamers and collectors turn to old CRTs and specialty scaling hardware in search for that perfect picture.
#arcade #crts #gaming #monitors #retro #tvs
archive.org #24187

Tuition Aid From a Zombie Elf - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/tuition-aid-from-a-zombie-elf.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Last year, Mr. Johnson received one of the first two grants given by Gamers Helping Gamers, a nonprofit organization founded by a group of successful young New Yorkers to assist a very specific group of students: those who play the fantasy trading card game Magic: The Gathering.
#education #gaming #imported:pinboard #magic #mtg #to:fb
archive.org #32158

Tuition Aid From a Zombie Elf - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/tuition-aid-from-a-zombie-elf.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all
Last year, Mr. Johnson received one of the first two grants given by Gamers Helping Gamers, a nonprofit organization founded by a group of successful young New Yorkers to assist a very specific group of students: those who play the fantasy trading card game Magic: The Gathering.
#education #gaming #magic #mtg #to:fb
archive.org #24170

Case Study: Auto-Resizing HTML5 Games - HTML5 Rocks

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/gopherwoord-studios-resizing-html5-games/
In the summer of 2010, we created Sand Trap, a game that we entered in a competition on HTML5 games for mobile phones. But most mobile phones either displayed only part of the game or made the game too small—making it completely unplayable. So we took it upon ourselves to make the game fluidly adjust to match any resolution. After a bit of re-programming and using ideas outlined in this article, we had a game that scaled across any modern browser, whether it ran in a desktop or a mobile device.
#css #gaming #html #html5 #imported:pinboard #js #webdev
archive.org #32191

Case Study: Auto-Resizing HTML5 Games - HTML5 Rocks

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/gopherwoord-studios-resizing-html5-games
In the summer of 2010, we created Sand Trap, a game that we entered in a competition on HTML5 games for mobile phones. But most mobile phones either displayed only part of the game or made the game too small—making it completely unplayable. So we took it upon ourselves to make the game fluidly adjust to match any resolution. After a bit of re-programming and using ideas outlined in this article, we had a game that scaled across any modern browser, whether it ran in a desktop or a mobile device.
#css #gaming #html #html5 #js #webdev
archive.org #24056

Stellar Track (Game)

http://www.giantbomb.com/stellar-track/3030-20288/
Stellar Track was a conversion of a college mainframe Star Trek game released by Sears in 1981. It is a suitably primitive game where you have to run scans to locate enemies and starbases on a 6 x 6 galactic map. You run scans to find the enemies then must warp to their quadrant to confront them with either phasers or photon torpedoes. You use the joystick to determine the numerals of where you intend you to travel to.
#atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #odd #startrek
archive.org #32200

Stellar Track (Game)

http://www.giantbomb.com/stellar-track/3030-20288
Stellar Track was a conversion of a college mainframe Star Trek game released by Sears in 1981. It is a suitably primitive game where you have to run scans to locate enemies and starbases on a 6 x 6 galactic map. You run scans to find the enemies then must warp to their quadrant to confront them with either phasers or photon torpedoes. You use the joystick to determine the numerals of where you intend you to travel to.
#atari #gaming #odd #startrek
archive.org #24035

Huenison

http://www.retream.com/Huenison
Do you know those weird, abstract games that you find yourself instantly drowned in and hopelessly addicted to? Be warned: you just stumbled upon one. A great one. Amiga and PC versions
#amiga #gaming #pc #retro
archive.org #23918

Monopoly auction rule: Official? Yes. Smart? No.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/03/monopoly_auction_rule_official_yes_smart_no.html
An old blog post about an “unknown” Monopoly rule has been making its way around the Web the past few days, starting with a piece on BuzzFeed, then spreading to MSN, Yahoo, HuffPo, and a slew of other places. The gist is simple: When landing on a property, you’re allowed to auction it off, with the highest bidder paying the bank, rather than just purchasing it yourself.
#funny #gaming #imported:pinboard #monopoly #to:fb
archive.org #23745

Hexagonal Grids

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
Hexagonal grids are used in some games but aren’t quite as straightforward or common as square grids. I’ve been collecting hex grid resources for nearly 20 years, and wrote this guide to the most elegant approaches that lead to the simplest code, largely based on the guides by Charles Fu and Clark Verbrugge. I’ll describe the various ways to make hex grids (I’ve counted 74 so far!), the relationships between them, as well as some common algorithms. Many parts of this page are interactive; choosing a type of grid will update diagrams, code, and text to match.
#dev #games #gaming #hex #imported:pinboard #programming
archive.org #32286

Hexagonal Grids

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons
Hexagonal grids are used in some games but aren’t quite as straightforward or common as square grids. I’ve been collecting hex grid resources for nearly 20 years, and wrote this guide to the most elegant approaches that lead to the simplest code, largely based on the guides by Charles Fu and Clark Verbrugge. I’ll describe the various ways to make hex grids (I’ve counted 74 so far!), the relationships between them, as well as some common algorithms. Many parts of this page are interactive; choosing a type of grid will update diagrams, code, and text to match.
#dev #games #gaming #hex #programming
archive.org #23737

Metroid Password Format Guide

http://games.technoplaza.net/mpg/password.txt
This document is a guide to the password system used by Metroid for the NES. It applies to the original Metroid 1 released in the US and Europe. I believe the information is also accurate for the hidden Metroid 1 game that can be unlocked in Metroid Prime, and for Metroid Zero Mission for Game Boy Advance.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #metroid #nes #nintendo
archive.org #23637

Raspberry Pi in a NES Case - Part 1 - Wiring up the front panel and external connectors // Igor's Blog

http://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2013/01/08/raspberry-pi-in-a-nes-case-part-1-wiring-up-the-front-panel-and-external-connectors/
When mine arrived, I didn’t really know what to use it for, but then it hit me: I can build an emulator box for all the NES and SNES games that I loved to play as a child.
#diy #emulation #gaming #imported:pinboard #nes #raspberrypi
archive.org #32352

Atari Combo Controller has what you need for any cartridge

http://hackaday.com/2013/05/03/atari-combo-controller-has-what-you-need-for-any-cartridge/
Retro gaming enthusiasts take note: this joystick is what you need to play any Atari game on the original console. It plugs right into the original console hardware and removes the need to choose the joystick, paddle, or keypad controller separately. You just leave this puppy hooked up and move your hands to the set of controls used on each game.
#atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #joystick #to:fb
archive.org #32360

Atari Combo Controller has what you need for any cartridge

http://hackaday.com/2013/05/03/atari-combo-controller-has-what-you-need-for-any-cartridge
Retro gaming enthusiasts take note: this joystick is what you need to play any Atari game on the original console. It plugs right into the original console hardware and removes the need to choose the joystick, paddle, or keypad controller separately. You just leave this puppy hooked up and move your hands to the set of controls used on each game.
#atari #gaming #joystick #to:fb
archive.org #23585

Remember When You Could Order Dungeons And Dragons From The Sears Wish Book? (1984) | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2013/04/30/remember-order-dungeons-and-dragons/
I came to play Dungeons and Dragons a little later than most and as I look at the prices for the likes of the Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual…I think I know now what the first thing I need to do is when I finally invent that time machine.
#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #imported:pinboard #rpg #sears #to:fb
archive.org #32367

Remember When You Could Order Dungeons And Dragons From The Sears Wish Book? (1984) | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2013/04/30/remember-order-dungeons-and-dragons
I came to play Dungeons and Dragons a little later than most and as I look at the prices for the likes of the Player’s Handbook and Monster Manual…I think I know now what the first thing I need to do is when I finally invent that time machine.
#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #rpg #sears #to:fb
archive.org #23577

Multiplayer Game 'Eve Online' Cultivates a Most Devoted Following - Businessweek

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/multiplayer-game-eve-online-cultivates-a-most-devoted-following
“At the time, I had been dating a girl for only three weeks and was terrified,” says Joshua Goldshlag (Eve name: Two Step), a 35-year-old CSM member and computer programmer from Massachusetts. “I certainly did not want to mention that I had been elected as an Internet space politician.”
#eve #gaming #imported:pinboard #spacepoliticians #to:fb
archive.org #23568

Pizza Hut launching Xbox 360 app that lets console owners order pizza from Xbox Live | Polygon

http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/22/4252934/pizza-hut-for-xbox-360-app-kinect
The Pizza Hut for Xbox app makes the chain's entire menu accessible to users, who can then build their own customized pizzas and place orders via Kinect motion controls, voice commands or the controller. Users can link their Xbox and PizzaHut.com accounts and save their order settings to streamline future purchases, as well as view and take advantage of deals at local stores.
#fat #gaming #hut #imported:pinboard #pizza #to:fb #xbox
archive.org #23566

Oculus Rift Teardown - iFixit

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Oculus+Rift+Teardown/13682/1
Let's face it, the year is 2013. Where are our flying cars? Why isn't deep space travel a thing yet? Why hasn't virtual reality become, well, reality? The Oculus Rift seeks to fill that lack of virtual reality in our lives. Still in its early developmental stage, the Oculus Rift promises to deliver VR gaming to the yearning public. Join us as we take a peek inside the Oculus Rift and its hardware.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #oculusrift #to:fb #vr
archive.org #23543

Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
It turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints. With a few additional changes, we were able to clear up any confusion for players who care about the score, and were confused by the differences between what the manual claims and what actually happens in-game. Next time someone tells you that "E.T. for the Atari 2600 is the worst game ever made" you can tell them that this is not the case. It's been fixed, and you know how.
#2600 #asm #atari #atari2600 #et #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #32397

Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600

http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et
It turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints. With a few additional changes, we were able to clear up any confusion for players who care about the score, and were confused by the differences between what the manual claims and what actually happens in-game. Next time someone tells you that "E.T. for the Atari 2600 is the worst game ever made" you can tell them that this is not the case. It's been fixed, and you know how.
#2600 #asm #atari #atari2600 #et #gaming #retro
archive.org #23516

How to run Continuum (SubSpace) on a Mac - wonko.com

http://wonko.com/post/how-to-run-continuum-on-a-mac
In the past I've run Continuum in a VirtualBox VM, but that's a pain and it's not as fast as I'd like. This time I decided to see if I could get it running in Wine, which would make it easier to play, and faster as well. It turns out a fellow calling himself spiffyguy on the SubSpace forums had already gotten this working!
#continuum #gaming #imported:pinboard #mac #subspace
archive.org #23383

New Hardware Rave: Freespace 2 Looks F%#*ing AMAZING! | Space Game Junkie

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/oped/hardware-rave-freespace-2-fing-amazing/#more-4149
So a couple of nights ago, I went through the familiar steps of manually adding the Freespace Source Code Project files to my GOG copy of Freespace 2. This time, however, I added all the extra high-resolution stuff from the MediaVPs (i.e. all the optional stuff) because I figured my new rig could run it (my last one totally choked when I added all the optional MediaVPs). Once it was all said and done, I ran the launcher and set up everything as ordered (as well as adding Spidey’s lighting settings) and ran the game at maximum resolution with everything set as high as possible for my first time ever. What resulted was nothing short of breathtaking.
#freespace #freespace2 #gaming #imported:pinboard #space #to:fb
archive.org #32678

New Hardware Rave: Freespace 2 Looks F%#*ing AMAZING! | Space Game Junkie

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/oped/hardware-rave-freespace-2-fing-amazing#more-4149
So a couple of nights ago, I went through the familiar steps of manually adding the Freespace Source Code Project files to my GOG copy of Freespace 2. This time, however, I added all the extra high-resolution stuff from the MediaVPs (i.e. all the optional stuff) because I figured my new rig could run it (my last one totally choked when I added all the optional MediaVPs). Once it was all said and done, I ran the launcher and set up everything as ordered (as well as adding Spidey’s lighting settings) and ran the game at maximum resolution with everything set as high as possible for my first time ever. What resulted was nothing short of breathtaking.
#freespace #freespace2 #gaming #space #to:fb
archive.org #22583

WidgetWorx > SpriteLib

http://www.widgetworx.com/widgetworx/portfolio/spritelib.html
SpriteLib is a collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites). It was created to provide hobbyist game developers with an assortment of images to use in their creations. Because of SpriteLib, developers don't have to waste precious time or money creating graphics from scratch.
#art #gaming #graphics #imported:pinboard #javascript
archive.org #22533

Bear McCreary – Official site

http://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/albums/moon-breakers-soundtrack/
There’s little that ignites my imagination more than the swashbuckling outer space dogfights of yesteryear. So, I was excited to write a bombastic, retro-infused soundtrack for “Moon Breakers” – a multi-player online combat game from Imba Entertainment / Uber Entertainment that is now available to play for free on Steam.
#bsg #gaming #imported:pinboard #moonbreakers #music #nifty
archive.org #22190

PSA or Read Me ! / Main forum / Moon Breakers

http://moonbreakers.userecho.com/topic/102787-psa-or-read-me/
Ventrilo Server : moonbreakers.darkstarvent.com Port 3997 this is a free download that allows you to talk (or just listen) to us "cool" people while you play the game. this can help organize better strategy with your teammates and ask some tactical questions of the Praetorian (really good pilots or the people you love to hate).
#gaming #imported:pinboard #moonbreakers #vent
archive.org #32787

PSA or Read Me ! / Main forum / Moon Breakers

http://moonbreakers.userecho.com/topic/102787-psa-or-read-me
Ventrilo Server : moonbreakers.darkstarvent.com Port 3997 this is a free download that allows you to talk (or just listen) to us "cool" people while you play the game. this can help organize better strategy with your teammates and ask some tactical questions of the Praetorian (really good pilots or the people you love to hate).
#gaming #moonbreakers #vent
archive.org #21903

MAKE | Updated Power Glove with Bluetooth and Arduino

http://blog.makezine.com/2009/04/03/updated-power-glove-with-bluetooth/
Matt Mechtley is responsible for this maker’s dream project: getting a classic Nintendo Power Glove to work with custom games by replacing it’s brain with an arduino, implanting an accelerometer for motion detection, and using a bluetooth modem for wireless connectivity. He’s outdone himself with downloadable code, schematics, this awesome video, and an Instructable to top it off.
#arduino #bluetooth #gaming #hacks #imported:pinboard #nintendo #powerglove
archive.org #32832

MAKE | Updated Power Glove with Bluetooth and Arduino

http://blog.makezine.com/2009/04/03/updated-power-glove-with-bluetooth
Matt Mechtley is responsible for this maker’s dream project: getting a classic Nintendo Power Glove to work with custom games by replacing it’s brain with an arduino, implanting an accelerometer for motion detection, and using a bluetooth modem for wireless connectivity. He’s outdone himself with downloadable code, schematics, this awesome video, and an Instructable to top it off.
#arduino #bluetooth #gaming #hacks #nintendo #powerglove
archive.org #21812

Iain Banks: My Favourite Game - Edge Magazine

http://www.edge-online.com/features/iain-banks-my-favourite-game
Novelist Iain Banks might be better known as Iain M Banks, the pen name under which most of his speculative fiction is published. Of this oeuvre, his Culture series is most widely celebrated, depicting a utopian, galaxy-spanning civilisation whose citizens (when they aren’t meddling in the affairs of lesser races) have plenty of time for gaming.
#culture #gaming #imported:pinboard #scifi #to:fb
archive.org #21717

The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code From Digital Death | Game|Life | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-source-code/?pid=2480&viewall=true
He saved all the videotape he took in October 1985 of his brother running and jumping around their old neighborhood, footage that he rotoscoped into the animations for his Apple II game Prince of Persia. He saved all of the meticulous journals he kept of the production process, documenting each tiny step of the creation of the landmark hit game.
#apple #awesome #gaming #imported:pinboard #princeofpersia #retro
archive.org #32951

The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code From Digital Death | Game|Life | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-source-code?pid=2480&viewall=true
He saved all the videotape he took in October 1985 of his brother running and jumping around their old neighborhood, footage that he rotoscoped into the animations for his Apple II game Prince of Persia. He saved all of the meticulous journals he kept of the production process, documenting each tiny step of the creation of the landmark hit game.
#apple #awesome #gaming #princeofpersia #retro
archive.org #21493

Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/prince-of-persia-creator-finds-lost-source-code-23-years-later-20120329/
he managed to misplace the original source code for that first Prince of Persia game and has been searching for it ever since. Yesterday he found it, and the discovery is all thanks to his father. The three packs of 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks had been safely stored away in a brown box along with a load of Amstrad copies of his 1984 game Karateka. The problem he faces now is how to extract the code from those old 3.5″ disks to his MacBook Air, but he has a friend on board with the requisite skill set.
#archival #gaming #imported:pinboard #princeofpersia #retro #to:fb
archive.org #33049

Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/prince-of-persia-creator-finds-lost-source-code-23-years-later-20120329
he managed to misplace the original source code for that first Prince of Persia game and has been searching for it ever since. Yesterday he found it, and the discovery is all thanks to his father. The three packs of 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks had been safely stored away in a brown box along with a load of Amstrad copies of his 1984 game Karateka. The problem he faces now is how to extract the code from those old 3.5″ disks to his MacBook Air, but he has a friend on board with the requisite skill set.
#archival #gaming #princeofpersia #retro #to:fb
archive.org #21294

BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/
BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And it’s all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript.
#browserquest #gaming #html5 #imported:pinboard #webdev
archive.org #33063

BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest
BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And it’s all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript.
#browserquest #gaming #html5 #webdev
archive.org #21272

The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction - Apollo 18+20

http://pr-if.org/event/apollo-18/
So, a bunch of us made some interactive fiction games, one game per track on the album Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants. The regular tracks are generally short games. The Fingertips tracks are one-move games (however the authors interpreted that). Here’s They Might Be Giants. They have lots of great albums besides this one, and you should go buy them all. Here’s the original post about the tribute, and here are the games. You can play them online via the links below, or you can download them to play offline (updated March 26, 2012, 1337 EDT). See “How Do I Play?” at the left if you’re unsure what to do.
#apollo18 #culture #gaming #ifiction #imported:pinboard #tmbg #to:fb
archive.org #33067

The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction - Apollo 18+20

http://pr-if.org/event/apollo-18
So, a bunch of us made some interactive fiction games, one game per track on the album Apollo 18 by They Might Be Giants. The regular tracks are generally short games. The Fingertips tracks are one-move games (however the authors interpreted that). Here’s They Might Be Giants. They have lots of great albums besides this one, and you should go buy them all. Here’s the original post about the tribute, and here are the games. You can play them online via the links below, or you can download them to play offline (updated March 26, 2012, 1337 EDT). See “How Do I Play?” at the left if you’re unsure what to do.
#apollo18 #culture #gaming #ifiction #tmbg #to:fb
archive.org #21267

Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation

http://io9.com/5886178/why-mass-effect-is-the-most-important-science-fiction-universe-of-our-generation
Mass Effect is epic. It's the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more with a protagonist who could be the love-child of Picard, Skywalker, and Starbuck. It's one of the most important pieces of science fiction narrative of our generation. Mass Effect goes so far beyond other fictional universes in ways that you may not have yet realized. It is cosmic in scope and scale.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #masseffect #scifi
archive.org #21139

Tourney | Auch on Water

http://auchonwater.com/2012/03/04/tourney/
“Tourney” is a game that barely exists. It’s the shadow of an idea that slipped into the world last week during a free-wheeling conversation about design, agency, failure, and whether games can make meaningful statements about the nature of tragedy. To help the discussion along we invented a few imaginary games that could serve as stable reference points in unfamiliar terrain. One of the things we dreamed up is Tourney, a game about maintaining one’s integrity in the face of inevitable decline.
#gaming #if #ifiction #imported:pinboard #nostalgia #tragedy
archive.org #33105

Tourney | Auch on Water

http://auchonwater.com/2012/03/04/tourney
“Tourney” is a game that barely exists. It’s the shadow of an idea that slipped into the world last week during a free-wheeling conversation about design, agency, failure, and whether games can make meaningful statements about the nature of tragedy. To help the discussion along we invented a few imaginary games that could serve as stable reference points in unfamiliar terrain. One of the things we dreamed up is Tourney, a game about maintaining one’s integrity in the face of inevitable decline.
#gaming #if #ifiction #nostalgia #tragedy
archive.org #21119

A Metroid marriage proposal that would make the Chozo proud | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/29/metroid-marriage-proposal/
Marriage is a sacred commitment; it's no kind of small thing to consider. You need to show you mean business. You need to put some effort into a proposal. Jered McFerron did when he decided to rewrite the code for the 1986 NES classic, Metroid, in the C++ programming language. This undertaking wasn't initially to propose to his love, Jenni, but struck as an inspiration mid-project when he knew she was the gal for him.
#aww #diy #gaming #homebrew #imported:pinboard #marriage #metroid #nes #nifty #nintendo #to:fb
archive.org #33108

A Metroid marriage proposal that would make the Chozo proud | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/29/metroid-marriage-proposal
Marriage is a sacred commitment; it's no kind of small thing to consider. You need to show you mean business. You need to put some effort into a proposal. Jered McFerron did when he decided to rewrite the code for the 1986 NES classic, Metroid, in the C++ programming language. This undertaking wasn't initially to propose to his love, Jenni, but struck as an inspiration mid-project when he knew she was the gal for him.
#aww #diy #gaming #homebrew #marriage #metroid #nes #nifty #nintendo #to:fb
archive.org #21105

The Llamma's Game Console Forums • View topic - Trace Corrosion Repair Tutorial Part 2

http://forums.llamma.com/viewtopic.php?t=12694
It has been pointed out by chunkhead from the afterdawn.com and llama.com Forums that some X-Box motherboards have a corrosion problem on some traces. This corrosion is due to some sort of contamination from the factory. Due to this corrosion, it was found that some X-Boxes affected can produce the following symptoms: (1) The X-Box fails to power down using the power on/off button on the front panel. The power cord has to be pulled out to shut it down. (2) As soon as the power cord is plugged in, the X-Box powers up without pressing either the on/off or eject buttons. (3) While the X-Box is on for a certain amount of time, it shuts down by itself for no reason. The time factor before shut down can vary wildly.
#diy #electronics #gaming #imported:pinboard #repairs #xbox
archive.org #21019

Arzea Walkthrough Guide, Review, Discussion, Hints and Tips at Jay is Games

http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/02/arzea.php
When I'm not writing reviews for JayIsGames, I work full-time as a wizard. It's not easy work, believe me, nor is it nearly as glamorous as the movies make it out to be. One wrong incantation and you've blown yourself up or summoned an uncontrollable horde of demons. Arzea, a Metroidvania-style adventure game created by Arkeus originally for a Ludum Dare 24-hour game development competition and then expanded upon, demonstrates the kind of danger that magic can lead to. You're a wizard stranded in a strange world with only your wits and a variety of spells and upgrades to help you get home.
#gaming #imported:pinboard #metroidvania #nifty
archive.org #20781

Atari 2600 Wireless Joysticks | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2012/02/09/atari-2600-wireless-joysticks/
These early generation wireless joysticks were a far cry from the wireless pads we’ve come to enjoy (and expect) today. For starters, each joystick contained a 9-volt battery, an on/off switch, and a non-retractable 6″ antenna poking out the front of each one. I guess after the batteries died, you could still sword fight with them.
#atari #gaming #imported:pinboard #wireless
archive.org #33231

Atari 2600 Wireless Joysticks | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2012/02/09/atari-2600-wireless-joysticks
These early generation wireless joysticks were a far cry from the wireless pads we’ve come to enjoy (and expect) today. For starters, each joystick contained a 9-volt battery, an on/off switch, and a non-retractable 6″ antenna poking out the front of each one. I guess after the batteries died, you could still sword fight with them.
#atari #gaming #wireless
archive.org #20772

SWTOR Level 50 (110%) Speeders Compendium - OldRepublic.NET

http://www.oldrepublic.net/342-level-50-110-speed-speeders-compendium.html
I know some of you saw some crazy looking speeders @Fleet or in your travels across the Galaxy. Most of you were wondering, how do I get that speeder? So, due to popular demand, I decided to create a compendium for you guys, with all (almost) available Level 50 (110%) speeders. I may miss some, but be sure I'll keep this guide updated at all times.
#gaming #speeders #swtor
archive.org #20537

SWTOR Catches the Dancing Bug…that Makes Players Immortal | Inside Gaming Daily Blog

http://www.insidegamingdaily.com/2012/01/05/swtor-catches-the-dancing-bugthat-makes-players-immortal
According to a post on Geekosystem, BioWare’s new MMO allows players to dance by entering different commands—which, apparently, is something that other MMOs let you do as well, a thing I didn’t know was true. But what sets SWTOR apart from those other games is that, while your on-screen avatar is boogying with the “/getdown command”, your enemies “can’t maintain focus,” meaning you can’t get hit. This is not a bug they should have fixed :)
#dancing #funny #gaming #swtor
archive.org #20393

Why Star Wars: The Old Republic Matters | PIXELS OR DEATH

http://pixelsordeath.com/soapbox/soapbox-2-why-star-wars-the-old-republic-matters
And with this comes my old friend: the solo, in-my-brain roleplaying. SWTOR is the first MMORPG to engage the part of my brain where my imagination dwells – and I’ve played a lot of them. Usually, I’m left with the cheap thrill of my level increasing, or my sword getting gnarlier, and SWTOR definitely leans on these same trappings occasionally. But, regardless, Bioware has succeeded in igniting my brain in ways that only single player games have previously – and, to frank with ya’ll, I can’t stop playing it. The in-brain back story and moral compass are all firmly in play, and enriching the game constantly.
#gaming #mmo #mmorpg #starwars #swtor
archive.org #20340

Apparently Valve employees have Half-Life 3 t-shirts | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/02/apparently-valve-employees-have-half-life-3-t-shirts
Keep in mind that Valve isn't above trolling its own fans -- Gabe Newell could have a 50-square-foot room at Valve studios stuffed full of Half-Life 3 t-shirts, foam hands and head crabs to keep the excitement alive, and a lot of empty hard drive space for the actual game. Nonetheless, @Ekanaut, the marketing man for Monday Night Combat studio Uber Entertainment, spotted this Half-Life 3 shirt "worn by a Valve employee" at Seattle's Eastside Industry Night.
#funny #gaming #halflife #valve
archive.org #20133

SupaBoy portable SNES, the most fun you can have without a soldering iron -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/02/supaboy-portable-snes-the-most-fun-you-can-have-without-a-solde
We previewed Hyperkin's SupaBoy back in the summer and loved the idea of toting 'round original SNES games without resorting to Ben Heck-style crafting. The handheld takes full-size cartridges, packs a 3.5-inch screen and a battery that's disappointingly rated for just two point five hours (best keep a power cable handy). It'll also double as a home console: there's an AV-out port and slots for two classic controllers for when you wanna kick it old-school. It's reportedly compatible with titles like Mario World, A Link to the Past and Starwing Starfox, but who needs them when we've got a mint condition copy of Tetris Attack at home? It'll cost you $80 and is available from Amazon as of yesterday -- we suggest you get to practicing blowing the dirt from the connectors, since you'll be doing a lot of it soon.
#gaming #mobile #snes #want
archive.org #20130

3D Classics: Kid Icarus trailer. It’s Kid Icarus... - Tiny Cartridge - Nintendo DS, DSi, & 3DS News, Media, Videos, Imports, Homebrew, & Retro Junk

http://tinycartridge.com/post/13646783286/3d-classics-kid-icarus-trailer-its-kid-icarus
3D Classics: Kid Icarus trailer. It’s Kid Icarus with… backgrounds! This is seriously mind-blowing stuff. I’m not even being sarcastic, either. This game looks awesome with even static backgrounds. I’m genuinely impressed. They look kind of better than the NES could do, giving it a PC Engine-esque look. I’m so down for this.
#gaming #kidicarus #nintendo
archive.org #20121

Voltron: Defender of the Universe – Game Review (2011) | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2011/11/30/voltron-defender-of-the-universe-game-review-2011
THQ has given fans of Voltron a twin stick shooter, in the vein of the classic arcade game, Jackal. You get to pick any of the five Lions at the beginning of the stage and with a sweet intro to the mission thanks to THQ using actual clips from the original Voltron animated series you are ready to bring a whole bunch of pain to the forces of King Zarkon.
#gaming #voltron #xbla
archive.org #20100

Watch THQ and Twitch.TV Tonight To Help Form Voltron Fan Event! | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2011/11/30/watch-thq-and-twitch-tv-tonight-help-form-voltron-fan-event
Thanks to our friends over at THQ and Twitch.TV for having the Green Lion drop this press release off to share with you. Watch live video from THQtv on www.twitch.tv In celebration of THQ’s release of VOLTRON: Defender of the Universe (NOW available on XBox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network...
#gaming #oldschool #voltron
archive.org #20077

Why Haunted House for the Atari 2600 so Great? | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2011/11/28/why-haunted-house-for-the-atari-2600-so-great
As I sat upon the creaky wooden steps, I felt as though my grip on sanity was beginning to loosen. My breaths came in rapid, gasping spurts, and my heart was beating with such ferocity, I felt for certain it would leap from my chest and fall to the unforgiving floor where it would flop to and fro like a great crimson fish. My skin was slick with a veneer of cool, clammy sweat, and my hands, which held the source of my terror, shook a bit as I read each cursed word inscribed in that hellish tome. Why did I ever allow my curiosity concerning the priceless urn of the Graves Mansion get the better of me?
#atari2600 #gaming #hauntedmansion #retro
archive.org #19987

Midway’s Space Zap Arcade Flyer (1980) | The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2011/11/18/midways-space-zap-arcade-flyer-1980
During the Retroist Arcade Meet Up last week, our very own Plcary asked the gurus of 1984 if they remembered an arcade game where you were positioned in the center of the screen and had to defeat wave after wave of enemies as they came rushing at you, not using a joystick but four directional buttons and a firing button. The gang at 1984 and myself were stumped on this one, but Plcary kept at it and found out the name of the arcade game and it is Midway’s Space Zap from back in 1980.
#arcade #gaming #midway #spacezap
archive.org #19786

StarCraft changed my life | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/18/2571255/starcraft-changed-my-life
Back in the real world, at Legends, StarCraft fans continued to trickle in. We had the whole main floor to ourselves, and it finally started to fill up late in the afternoon, but "real" sports fans vastly outnumbered us for most of the day. Just after the soccer fans finally chilled out, some NY Giants fans congregated in the balcony and proceeded to be real jerks about it; one jersey-clad fan stood and pointed at us from above, as if we were a curiosity in a zoo. In a particularly tense moment, where the football fans started yelling irrationally at their own screens, StarCraft fans started chanting "MLG! MLG! MLG! MLG!," as if that would quiet the opposition.
#barcraft #gaming #sports #starcraft
archive.org #19784

Major Game Publishers Onboard with SOPA and Protect IP Act

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/3746/article/major-game-publishers-onboard-with-sopa-and-project-ip-act
Among the publishers include giants like Electronic Arts, Capcom USA, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Sega, THQ, Square Enix, Take Two, and Ubisoft. Major developing studios have also declared where they stand with the proposed law that enables the government to blacklist websites and stifle freedom of speech. These studios include 38 Studios, Nival, and Gears of War developer Epic Games. A full list of ESA members can be found at the organization's website here.
#copyfight #freedom #gaming #internet #sopa
archive.org #19780

Report: Good Old Games to offer Good New(ish) Games | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/17/report-good-old-games-to-offer-good-new-ish-games
"Traditionally, GOG.com has looked for great classics that are three years old or older," he said. "We will continue to add classic games, of course, but we are actively working to sign newer titles now." Rambourg noted that the newer games will cost more than most GOG releases --$13.99 to $16.99, but that the company plans to maintain its DRM-free model. The low prices suggest that these won't be brand new games, but simply games more recent than GOG's current three-year cutoff period.
#gaming #gog #retro
archive.org #19770

Skullgirls and mastering the art of defense | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/16/skullgirls-and-mastering-the-art-of-defense
These tutorial systems have been serviceable in the past -- for example, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift had a good tutorial system that taught players how to use each character -- but no tutorial system has better illustrated how to effectively master the genre. In BlazBlue, if you've never touched a 2D fighter, you're out of luck. If you've never devoted serious time to a 2D fighting game before, Skullgirls will teach you how to crawl, walk, then dominate your opponents. It wants to train you to be a master and I'm all for that.
#fighting #gaming #skullgirls
archive.org #19734

PETA decides Super Mario 3D Land promotes animal cruelty – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/peta-decides-super-mario-3d-land-promotes-animal-cruelty-20111115
To help get the point across, PETA has drawn Mario in his Tanooki suit holding a racoon’s head with blood dripping all over the floor. You can also play Super Tanooki Skin 2D the game, which puts you in the role of a skinned raccoon performing jumps as you try to catch a flying Mario who is wearing your blood-drenched skin.
#animals #gaming #mario #nintendo #peta #tanooki
archive.org #19695

Kill Screen - My Purple-Haired Made-Up Best Friend, and Why She Had to Die

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/my-purple-haired-made-best-friend-and-why-she-had-die
Before I tell you this story, I should introduce Rachael Webster. The trouble is, I’m not sure how to do that. Was she a friend of mine? Sure. A great friend. We spent nine months together as tight as Siamese twins. But she wasn’t family, and I never really met her in person. I could say she didn’t exist, but that’s a copout: she obviously existed, and had a life, and friends, and a career, at least until her budget ran out and I had to write her out of this world.
#alternate #fiction #gaming #marketing #reality #writing
archive.org #19672

Interview: Getting to the core of Otomedius Excellent | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/10/interview-getting-to-the-core-of-otomedius-excellent
If you buy the Special Edition, you'll be able to see these entirely practical outfits on the characters in an artbook, as well as on ... a pillowcase. "When we were thinking of putting together the Special Edition," Lu said, "we were trying to come up with things fans would like. We had this beautiful artwork with Mine Yoshizaki, so we wanted to do something interesting and fun that would show it off. Also, one of the Japanese special editions comes with a bedsheet, so our super hardcore fans can have a full bed set." See? Practical through and through.
#gaming #gradius #odd #pillowcases #shmups
archive.org #19666

Is it Game Over for Nintendo DS and Sony PSP?

http://blog.flurry.com/bid/77424/Is-it-Game-Over-for-Nintendo-DS-and-Sony-PSP
Portable gaming, played primarily on Nintendo DS and Sony PSP devices, has been dominated by these two companies for over two decades. In this model, at retail, consumers pay around $200 for the gaming device and up to $40 for popular game cartridges. Because of the similar form factor, overlap in consumer base (especially younger players on iPod touch) and the casual nature of game content, Flurry combines iOS and Android devices with traditional portable devices to form the category. With the inclusion of smartphone game revenue into the category, shifts taking place in market share become clearer.
#android #gaming #ios #mobile #nintendo #sony
archive.org #19618

Grandpa Aaron loves Bioshock, can't wait to see you for Thanksgiving | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/05/grandpa-aaron-loves-bioshock-cant-wait-to-see-you-for-thanksgi
It's getting to be that time of year where mushy, sentimental and "awww"-inducing chatter overwhelms all channels of media and fills your heart with a warm sense of home, whether you like it or not. For example: Reddit user Jungleradio gave his 80 year-old grandfather copies of Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, Braid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for his birthday, with quaint, heartwarming results.
#awesome #gaming #grandpa
archive.org #19470

Coffee Table MAME Console — DIY How-to from Make: Projects

http://makeprojects.com/Project/Coffee-Table-MAME-Console/1378/1
Oftentimes makers will build MAME cabinets that resemble old-time arcade games, but ultimately they’re just PCs with buttons and joysticks wired in. With the Coffee Table MAME Console, we’re going to build a stripped-down version of the arcade machine. It doesn’t need a monitor because you can use your TV, and instead of having the computer inside the enclosure, the console connects to your PC via Bluetooth.
#arduino #bluetooth #diy #gaming
archive.org #19404

MAKE | Build a Classic Video Game Console from MAKE Volume 28

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/11/build-a-classic-video-game-console-from-make-volume-28.html
We’re super excited about our new issue, MAKE Volume 28, which just hit newsstands last week. The issue theme is Toys and Games, and naturally, our entire focus was on fun, from the playful 8-bit graphics style of the cover design by eBoy to the 176 pages of projects and profiles that give you ...
#arduino #diy #gaming #make
archive.org #19403

Beta registration opened for upcoming sci-fi MMOFPS Repulse | Massively

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/beta-registration-opened-for-upcoming-sci-fi-mmofps-repulse
Filed under: Betas, Sci-fi, Galleries, Trailers, Video, New titles, News items It's proving to be quite the year for MMOFPS fans, with several upcoming titles aimed in precisely that direction. Repulse is another entry in the genre from Aeria Games, set in a future setting wherein human beings...
#gaming #mmofps #repulse
archive.org #19401

Star Trek Online opens up testing for the dilithium exchange | Massively

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/03/star-trek-online-opens-up-testing-for-the-dilithium-exchange
Filed under: Sci-fi, Business models, Previews, News items, Star Trek Online, Free-to-play The economy of free-to-play games can be a tricky business. Usually, they're managed by keeping a strict distinction between in-game currency and purchased currency, but Star Trek Online is taking a slig...
#gaming #mmorpgs #scifi #startrek
archive.org #19400

The Wall-Mounted Gaming Consoles Workspace

http://lifehacker.com/5855559/the-wall+mounted-gaming-consoles-workspace
This triple monitor workspace not only has floating monitors mounted to the wall, but also an impressive gaming console wall. "The Wall" holds a Wii, PS3, and XBox, as well as the necessary HDMI switch and other peripherals.
#gaming #nifty
archive.org #19315

5 reasons you should love classic World of Warcraft

http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/11/01/5-reasons-you-should-love-classic-world-of-warcraft
I have a lot of love for World of Warcraft in each of its iterations. When I wrote 5 reasons you should love Mists of Pandaria, it really made me start to look back at the history of the game -- not necessarily the lore and story that I usually write about, but the various expansions from classic all the way to the upcoming Mists. Though the expansions themselves were vastly different in terms of story and progression, there are still things to love about every single one -- yes, including Cataclysm.
#blizzard #gaming #warcraft #wow
archive.org #19293

Half Of 26-Year-Old's Memories Nintendo-Related | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

http://www.theonion.com/articles/half-of-26yearolds-memories-nintendorelated,2361
""Due to sheer repetition in his peak synaptic years for processing new information, every neural strand in Philip's basal ganglia is embedded with the Konami Code: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start," McCarroll said."
#funny #gaming #neuroscience #nintendo #onion
archive.org #15194

Game Informer asks: Will Kinect work if you're Gwar? | Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/21/game-informer-asks-will-kinect-work-if-youre-gwar
Sure, Kinect has been tested in plenty of super scientific ways over the past few months, and given plenty of secondary uses through impressive hacks, but will it work if you're ... Gwar? Game Informer had bassist Beefcake the Mighty and lead singer Oderus Urungus stop by its offices to capture on video a monumental 10-minute Dance Central session. If you haven't already clicked through excitedly, we should warn you the clip is a bit on the NSFW side of things, so viewer beware.
#gaming #gwar #kinect #xbox
archive.org #15106

SubSpace: Documents

http://sharvil.nanavati.net/projects/subspace/documents.html
"This page contains links to documents that I have written regarding SubSpace and Continuum. Some documents go into the details like offsets of key data structures that I found in a specific executable while others are descriptive, high-level documents. There might even be some documents that don't make much sense. Those were just scrap documents I wrote to keep track of bits of information as I was going through the assembly so they're not formatted for presentation. They make sense to me and if there's enough interest, I could be convinced to clean them up a bit. "
#gaming #networking #subspace
archive.org #14844

Solar Realms Elite 0.995: Documentation

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Documentation.html
"n Solar Realms Elite (SRE), you rule a solar empire. The goal is to become and remain the most powerful empire. You can gain strength by buying forces, and you can gain size by colonizing planets. You start with 6 planets, and a little bit of money. You are required to feed your people and army, and to pay to maintain your planets and army. If you fail to do these things, disastrous results may occur. You are given 20 years (“turns”) of protection, during which you can not attack or be attacked. You can not perform covert operations (except Spy). This provides a way for smaller empires to build up their defenses and planets before they enter the “real world”. "
#bbs #doorgames #games #gaming #oldschool #sre
archive.org #13944

Achievements Considered Harmful? - Chris Hecker's Website

http://chrishecker.com/Achievements_Considered_Harmful%3F
"Sadly, there is a contentious debate amongst psychologists about how rewards affect motivation, and I spend a bunch of time in the talk discussing this debate. Psychology is at the soft end of science, to put it mildly, and so it's easy for people—including academics—to have an agenda or opinion and "interpret" the data in a way that backs up that agenda or opinion. This is human nature, of course, and confirmation bias is everywhere in life, but reading some of the papers reminds me more of a schoolyard yelling contest than of peer reviewed research. "
#achievements #badger #gaming #rewards
archive.org #13900

Pyro Maniacs: Achieving Nothing in TF2 | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/06/21/achieving-nothing
"This isn’t a rant for or against Team Fortress 2 Achievement servers. It’s a recounting of the bizarre/hilarious/terrifying experience I had on one of them – yes, my personal reactions to what I encountered do inevitably slip in, but mostly it’s a portrait of this unique facet of gaming subculture. Whether you agree or disagree with their existence, these beat-the-system servers are fascinating enough to be worth talking about."
#achievements #badger #gaming #tf2 #valve
archive.org #13899

Jon Combe | Experiments | Thrust: A classic computer game remake using

http://joncom.be/experiments/thrust
"Thrust was just awesome and it is that game which I have attempted to recreate here using just JavaScript and the HTML tag. I have 'cheated' a little in that I use Scott Schiller's excellent SoundManager 2 Javascript audio manager (which in turn uses Flash) to play the sounds, but I think that is fair game in the spirit of what I am trying to do."
#canvas #classic #gaming #html5 #oldschool #thrust
archive.org #13823

Hydorah - Locomalito

http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_hydorah.php
"Hydorah is a game designed for classic shoot em up players, who still love clean designs and challenging adventuresThe whole game takes obvious influence from Gradius, Castlevania or R-Type, but also from other classics treated worse by the time: Turrican, Enforcer, Space Manbow, Hellfire, Guardian, Hydefos, Armalyte and many others..."
#freeware #gaming #hydorah #indie #retro #shmups
archive.org #13654

modernity tumbling by - How to Use Good Old Games on Your Mac

http://blog.hypomodern.com/post/594049451/how-to-use-good-old-games-on-your-mac
"If you’re like me—a nostalgic 90s gamer—then you’ve probably looked at the ever-expanding catalog at Good Old Games with some envy. There they all are again, the classics! Betrayal at Krondor! Master of Orion! But you’ve grown up and moved on to a Mac. Well, envy no more; I’ve figured out a fairly straightforward path to get you some nostalgic gaming action… DOS gaming action, at least."
#dos #gaming #mac #retro
archive.org #13346

Spacetime Studios - The Front Page

http://www.spacetimestudios.com/content.php
"Pocket Legends is a Mobile Massively Multiplayer Game available for the iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. It is a 3d online role-playing game where you can join thousands of players from around the world. Play with your friends and make new friends online. Cooperate to undertake wild adventures in endless dungeon campaigns!"
#gaming #ipad #iphone #mmorpgs #mmos #rpgs
archive.org #13183

Mike Taylor - The Causes of Chaos

http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/advent/coc
"An image of the original game is available for download as a C64 tape-image file. I found this image, pirated, out there on the Internet. The people who did it rather sneakily removed my name, and that of the publisher, from the cracked version that's in circulation, so I've restored them in this version of the image; but if you want the cracked version, you can have it - my feeling is that if it weren't for these people stealing my game, I wouldn't have a running version of it myself. So they can have some credit. "
#c64 #gaming #ifiction #pirates #retro #yay
archive.org #13057

Welcome to A & C Games Online

http://www.acgamesonline.com
"We buy, sell, trade Video Games and consoles and accessories (NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Playstation, Dreamcast, Playstation 2, XBOX, PSP, Gameboy, Nintendo DS, XBOX 360, PS3, Atari, PC, and more, even Neo Geo AES, MVS, CD and PC Engine, japanese imports and arcade sticks) "
#canada #gaming #retro #store #toronto
archive.org #13026

The Official Palm Blog: Palm webOS games get Unreal

http://blog.palm.com/palm/2010/03/palm-webos-games-get-unreal-.html
"At the annual Game Developers Conference this week, Palm and Epic Games are demonstrating Unreal Engine 3 on Palm webOS. Unreal Engine 3 powers Epic's popular Unreal Tournament 3 and Gears of War along with many other titles from leading game developers. Licensees of Unreal Engine 3 will soon be able to build games for Palm webOS. "
#gaming #palm #pdk #unreal #wow
archive.org #12999

Retrode - Home of the world's first USB reader for classic console games.

http://www.retrode.org/wordpress
"This web site is dedicated to my USB reader for 16-bit games, the Retrode (was: snega2usb). Feed your SNES or Mega Drive / Genesis emulator with games from your original cartridges! The project started as a little proof of concept for myself, but eventually turned out way larger (and cooler!) than that."
#gaming #hacks #hardware #nintendo #retro #roms #sega #usb
archive.org #12928

Mimeo and the Kleptopus King // ShaunInman.com

http://shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/23/mimeo_and_the_kleptopus_king
"Mimeo (even the name) started as a Mario clone with a twist: instead of power-ups affecting the player, they affect the entire game world. A story and mythos quickly developed. The so-called Mimeoverse consists of two 16-bit demiverses sharing 32-bits between them. When the evil Kleptopus King, an 8-bit octopus with an inferiority complex, discovers a portal into Mimeo’s realm and begins to syphon off its bits, Mimeo is sucked in and downsampled to 2-bit. So begins Mimeo’s quest to restore balance to the demiverses."
#art #games #gaming #iphone #kleptopus #mimeo #mobile #nifty #shauninman
archive.org #12860

Wii to fret over 'Rock of the Dead'

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/11/wii-to-fret-over-rock-of-the-dead
"the game allows you to use a Rock Band or Guitar Hero ax to chop through the legions of the undead. Obviously, a guitar peripheral will be mandatory, though the developer is preparing contingency plan should Nintendo frown upon the requirement."
#gaming #rockband #wii #zombies
archive.org #12792

Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/10/hands-on-dd-on-the-microsoft-surface
"I just returned from the Microsoft campus (well, I stopped for a panini), where students from Carnegie Mellon University are showing off their awesome project, a version of D&D that runs on the Surface. Now, before you start rolling your eyes, just recognize that this isn’t just a holy grail for tabletop gaming nerds. I mean, it’s that too, but really it’s a proof of concept that shows how fun and intuitive something like this can be, and how accessible a team can make it. I honestly think that if they had these things scattered around like Golden Tee cabinets, they’d get a huge following. "
#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #microsoft #rpg #surface
archive.org #12789

Microsoft Pulls Plug on Xbox 1’s Online Play - UNG» UnNamedGaming.com

http://unnamedgaming.com/?p=11136
"I wanted to let you know that on April 15, 2010 Microsoft will discontinue Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox 1 games playable on Xbox 360. Our first step in this process will be to turn off auto-renewals for those members who only use Xbox LIVE on a v1 Xbox. While I can’t comment on the specifics, this change will allow us to continue evolving the LIVE service with new features and experiences that fully harness the power of Xbox 360 and the Xbox LIVE community. We did not make this decision lightly, but after careful consideration and review we realize that this decision will allow us unprecedented flexibility for future features."
#eol #gaming #xbox
archive.org #12774

maemo.org - Downloads: The Ur-Quan Masters

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/uqm
Wow. Now we're *really* living in the future when this runs on a phone. "The Ur-Quan Masters is the public release of the legendary Star Control 2 from 1992. Starcon2 was a revolutionary adventure game which featured role-playing elements and 2D arcade-style space combat in the grand tradition of Space War. The Ur-Quan Masters brings together the best features of the PC and 3DO versions and adds a fast-paced Super Melee mode."
#gamines #gaming #maemo #n900 #nokia #sc2 #starcontrol
archive.org #12762

Movement Mechanics in “The Legend of Zelda” « Troy Gilbert

http://troygilbert.com/2006/10/the-movement-and-attack-mechanics-of-the-legend-of-zelda
"While Link can move a single pixel at a time, in any direction, the longer he continously moves in any direction the more he gravitates toward aligning himself with the underlying grid of the screen. The tile grid for LoZ is 16 tiles wide by 14 tiles high (including 3 tiles for the status display at the top of the screen). Each tile is 16×16 pixels. Link operates on a half-tile grid, though (32×28 tiles, 8×8 pixels each). As Link moves, if he’s not currently aligned with the half-tile grid, he is adjusted, one pixel at a time, toward the closest correction. As a result, if Link is 4 pixels off alignment he’ll line back up with the grid after moving 4 pixels."
#design #gaming #link #nes #nintndo #zelda
archive.org #12702

cyoa

http://samizdat.cc/cyoa
"many choices At its atomic level, a cyoa book is a collection of numbered pages of a few different types. Most pages tell a portion of the story, then finish by telling you to jump to another page. A smaller number of pages tell a conclusion to the story and represent an endpoint with no further jumps. We can subdivide these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups further based on the number of choices offered or the goodness of the ending. To visualize this, imagine color-coding every page in the book and then laying the pages out next to each other"
#adventures #books #chooseyourownadventure #cyoa #gaming #visualization #writing
archive.org #12650

The Second Coming of Moondoggie | EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=682
"It's a hefty wave to catch, but our browser has already been Atlas for five years - the IGB is perched atop a custom-written HTML parsing and rendering system. While a noble technical endeavor, this leaves to us the tasks of upgrading and extending the IGB to match the ever-shifting currents of the HTML standard. Hardly the best way for us to serve you, the player! But, like Atlas, we now have two Pillars upon which to rest these burdens. The first, and undoubtedly greatest, is the Heraclidean support provided by Awesomium and its Prince of Code. This library harnesses the raw strength of the Chromium browser toolkit - the muscles, knit from Webkit, that writhe cobra-like beneath the skin of Google's Chrome - and hand-delivers rendered HTML pages to us as nice 3D surfaces, which we can then readily display in our own Trinity engine."
#browsers #chrome #chromium #eve #eveonline #gaming #google #mmo #webkit
archive.org #12649

OSX.Loosemaque: It’s Not Just a Game Anymore | Symantec Connect

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/osxloosemaque-it-s-not-just-game-anymore
Must be a slow day on the OS X malware front. This is really reaching... "What’s interesting is that the author of this “game” flat-out says what it does on his Web site. Reading through the author’s description, it seems that he has created this game/threat as some sort of artistic project. The aliens are your files and there are consequences for “killing” them."
#games #gaming #indie #osx #security #symantec
archive.org #12624

ATLUS ENDS YEARS OF ALLEGEDLY NOT PRINTING ENOUGH COPIES OF GAMES AND THEN LAUGHING AT EMPTY-HANDED CUSTOMERS, RELEASES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD VERSIONS OF PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) SYSTEM CLASSICS VIA PlayStation®NETWORK | Game development | Press release

http://www.develop-online.net/press-releases/52328/Atlus-PSN-releases
"Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today broke from its supposed practice of undersupplying the retail channel and guffawing as fans desperately scramble to find one of only dozens of copies of a game"
#altus #funny #gaming
archive.org #12604

D&D camp, circa 1982 - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/27/dd-camp-circa-1982.html
"Here's a lovely interview with an alumnus of the Shippensburg Adventure Game Camp, a residential D&D camp for 10-17 year olds held at Shippensburg College (now Shippensburg University) in Pennsylvania. Campers played a series of rotating adventures in aged-grouped parties, with the councillors comparing notes behind the scenes to keep all the groups in synch and to ensure maximum fun and mayhem for all the players."
#80s #boingboing #camp #dnd #gaming #retro
archive.org #12572

Post Position » Interactive Fiction Suggestions, Fall 2009

http://nickm.com/post/2009/09/interactive-fiction-suggestions-fall-2009
"People who are interested in interactive fiction but who haven’t played much or any of it ask me for suggestions from time to time — not as often as I’d like, of course, but, luckily, once in a while. I’ve had a page of recommendations up on my site since 2005. The games on that list remain good ones, but I’m now updating those recommendations to take into account games from recent years. I’m posting the new recommendations here. Note that many of the people who ask me about IF are of a literary bent, as am I, and my suggestions reflect that."
#gaming #if #ifiction #textadventures
archive.org #12544

"My PSO Hacking Days" | Slashdot Comments | Sega Dreamcast Turns 10

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=29368461&commentsort=0&mode=nested&sid=09/09/09/1540259&threshold=1
"I was actually one of the most well-known cheaters in PSO. A few friends and I disassembled the game and figured out how various parts worked, making GameShark cheat codes in the process. I had a serial cable between my PC and Dreamcast that let me dump memory and target-debug PSO."
#dreamcast #gaming #hacks #pso
archive.org #12536

Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games ARTICLE - Activision Patches ( Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision )

http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Activision_Patches.html
I had no idea these existed. I so totally would have had a full set of Starmaster patches. "To obtain any of the coveted Activision patches, a player would need to play a particular game, reach a pre-determined score, and mail a photograph prooving the accomplishment to Activision. Weeks later the Activision patch would arrive in your mailbox compliments of Activision, accompanied by a nice letter from the company congratulating you on your game-playing skills and welcoming you to the club."
#2600 #activision #atari #gaming #oldschool #retro
archive.org #12531

While My Guitar Gently Beeps - The Beatles - Rock Band - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all
"While over the years there has been no shortage of Beatles merchandise, some of it crass, the decision to release the game on the same date as the new CDs is, as well as an irresistible marketing tactic, a signal that the game is meant to be an authentic part of the band’s canon (as is McCartney’s decision to show footage from the game during his current American tour). The Beatles are positioning themselves to once again play a significant role in the evolution of popular music — this time by embracing interactivity. "
#beatles #gaming #music #rockband #system:host=www.nytimes.com
archive.org #12512

IGN: GC 2009: The Rise of CCP and EVE Online

http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1014861p1.html
"DUST 514 is a first-person shooter that's being incorporated into the EVE universe, acting essentially an MMO for consoles. It's a mix of first-person shooting and real-time strategy gameplay where you play as a marine with a rifle running around on the ground. It's not only set in the EVE universe, it's actually connected to EVE. The DUST battlefields will determine who controls territory within EVE's world. The EVE Online players will have to contract players of DUST to go in and destabilize territory. CCP's hope is that the first-person shooter crowd on consoles and the PC EVE Online crowd will eventually form alliances together."
#ccp #dust514 #eve #eveonline #gaming #mmo #system:host=pc.ign.com
archive.org #12510

Nintendo Famicom / NES 101: A Beginner’s Guide - racketboy.com

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/nes/2009/07/nintendo-famicom-nes-101-a-beginners-guide.html
"The Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the most iconic video game consoles of all time and was the machine that got many 80s kids hooked on this interactive medium. There’s a lot of ground to cover when talking about this landmark console, but hopefully we cover the most important points here."
#gaming #nes #nintendo #retro #system:host=www.racketboy.com
archive.org #12494

This Is The Only Level | Armor Games

http://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level
"The elephant forgot the rest of the levels, but luckily he still has one left! Help him beat it in all his metagaming glory. Use your keen knowledge of gaming and dexterity to manhandle your way through a variety of challenges. Get your mind out of the box for once! Take it outside for a walk, or maybe grab a bite to eat with it. "
#awesome #elephants #flash #games #gaming #metagaming #system:host=armorgames.com
archive.org #12488

chewing pixels » Gaming as Performance

http://www.chewingpixels.com/gaming-as-performance
"Arcades are videogaming’s’ public installations, a shared focal point for performance, drama and wonder in front of an impromptu assembled audience. The best arcade games encourage crowds to gather and watch a player perform the game. Sometimes the crowd watches because, like seeing a beginner play Chopsticks at a publicly-stationed piano, so the man butchering Dance Dance Revolution counters his hopelessness with endearing committal and a winning smile. "
#arcades #art #gaming #performance
archive.org #12455

Evil Avatar - Harmonix to Launch Music Creation Service, Allows for Sale of Songs

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90424
"Back when Guitar Hero World Tour was announced, we found out that one of the features would be a music creation studio. Harmonix and MTV Games were asked about including a similar feature and responded that they were interested, but wouldn't release it till they could do it correctly. Looks like that time is approaching as Billboard has word that they will be releasing "Rock Band Network" which will allow users to create, upload, and even sell their own songs. When's it coming? Apparently later this year."
#awesome #gaming #harmonix #music #rb2 #rockband
archive.org #12424

EidoGo - Source Code

http://eidogo.com/source
"The EidoGo Player (SGF viewer and editor) is an independent piece and can be embedded into any webpage. The basic Player is entirely client-side (browser-based) and does not include the joseki tutor, pattern searching, GNU Go, or saving features. To use these features, you must set up code server-side (see site source code below)."
#gaming #go #sgf
archive.org #12410

Ragdoll Metaphysics: Could The Xbox 360 Be The Last Console You Buy? (or, The Actual Most Important News of E3) | Offworld

http://www.offworld.com/2009/06/ragdoll-metaphysics-could-the.html
When was the last time the resources of a console actually got completely exploited? "The 360 evolves back towards its PC heritage: a machine that is awesome not simply because of its processing power, but because of the things you can adapt it to do, and the modularity that it demonstrates. A device you can bend to your interests, rather than its stated purpose."
#consoles #gaming #microsoft #xbox360
archive.org #12402

Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released! | ProgrammerFish - Everything that's programmed!

http://www.programmerfish.com/source-code-of-several-7800-games-released
"Remember the Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites wheimagen Atari’s 7800 series was still around. Now since the era of those consoles is over and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari Museum, a site run by Atari enthusiast, has got hold of has unofficially source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire the state-of-the-art (because this is what it was back then) of game development."
#7800 #assembly #atari #code #gaming #oldschool #programming #retro #source
archive.org #12397

Planeswalker Rules : Wizards of the Coast

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=magic/planeswalkers/week5
"It's an exciting time in Magic's history, and I say that both as a player and as a member of Magic's creative team. We're witnessing the birth of something special here, and this year we'll just be scratching the surface of the impact planeswalkers will have on the game and beyond."
#fun #gaming #magic #mtg #planeswalkers
archive.org #12374

Press The Buttons: Gaming Sound Cues Of Stupendous Excellence

http://www.pressthebuttons.com/2006/11/gaming_sound_cu.html
"I have a lot of unrealistic dreams, and one of those dreams is to somehow arrange for the Legend of Zelda "opening a treasure chest" tune to play every time I open something. That melody should accompany every opening that reveals something amazing, from unpacking an order from Amazon.com to unhooking a girlfriend's bra. Holding up the revealed item for all to see is optional."
#funny #gaming #sounds #zelda
archive.org #12355

Full Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected from App Store | Touch Arcade

http://toucharcade.com/2009/06/20/full-commodore-64-emulator-rejected-from-app-store
"iPhone developer Manomio has been secretly working on a major App Store project for the past year that has just been completed, but may never see the light of day in its current form.What Manomio has done is to create a fully licensed Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone that can play classic games and even run Commodore 64 BASIC.Did I mention it was legally licensed?"
#apple #c64 #emulators #fail #gaming #iphone
archive.org #12354

Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else? | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/09/games-dvd-music-downloads-piracy
"the reality is that nowadays, one can choose between a game costing £40 that will last weeks, or a £10 CD with two great tracks and eight dud ones. I think a lot of people are choosing the game - and downloading the two tracks. That's real discretion in spending. It's hurting the music industry, sure. But let's not cloud the argument with false claims about downloads."
#business #copyfight #filesharing #gaming #music
archive.org #12320

Tattiebogle.net - Mac OS X driver

http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controller/OsxDriver
"have created a USB driver which allows you to use wired XBox 360 Controllers via USB, and wireless XBox 360 Controllers via the Microsoft Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, on your OSX machine, including support for the Apple Force Feedback library. The driver is licenced under the GPL."
#controllers #drivers #gaming #osx #xbox360
archive.org #12317

Leaked Intec Proton Pack Wii Accesory | UnNamedGaming inc.

http://unnamedgaming.com/?p=6561
"I know this is something thats popped up on a couple of other sites but I figured I would post this for our enjoyment to. This looks SWEEEEET! Looks like Intec is going to release a controller attachment for the upcoming Ghostbusters game on the Wii. No guarantee yet whether or not this is real, just thought it was something interesting to check out."
#gaming #ghostbusters #sweet #wii
archive.org #12306

See Metroid: Other M in action [update]

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/02/see-metroid-other-m-in-action
Oh hell yes. "Wanna see Team Ninja's take on the Metroid franchise in action? Yeah, we thought that would get your attention. We've got the video we captured straight from the show floor, so now you can feel the mind-melting thrill that we got just a few minutes ago."
#gaming #metroid #nintendo
archive.org #12296

Complete NES Nintendo Set | Collections | gameSniped.com

http://www.gamesniped.com/2009/05/28/complete-nes-nintendo-set
"EVERY GAME RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC LICENSED BY NINTENDO IN NORTH AMERICA IS HERE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF STADIUM EVENTS. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT NES COLLECTING, YOU KNOW STADIUM EVENTS IS SIMPLY “WORLD CLASS TRACK MEET” WITH A DIFFERENT NAME AND TITLE SCREEN. ALSO INCLUDING A LOT OF PAL EXCLUSIVES, BLACK TENGEN, CAMERICA, COLOR DREAMS/BUNCH GAMES/WISDOM TREE, AVE, ACTIVE ENTERPRISES, AND FAMICOM GAMES."
#awesome #gaming #nintendo #want
archive.org #12273

Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator - GamesByEmail

http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic
"Introducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the dice rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day.The Dice-O-Matic is 7 feet tall, 18 inches wide and 18 inches deep. It has an aluminum frame covered with Plexiglas panels. A 6x4 inch square Plexiglas tube runs vertically up the middle almost the entire height. Inside this tube a bucket elevator carries dice from a hopper at the bottom, past a camera, and tosses them onto a ramp at the top. The ramp spirals down between the tube and the outer walls. The camera and synchronizing disk are near the top, the computer, relay board, elevator motor and power supplies are at the bottom. "
#awesome #dice #diceomatic #gaming #hack #hardware #random #randomnumbers #rubegoldberg
archive.org #12265

Twenty Sided » Blog Archive » Starcraft: Bot Fight

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale?p=1597
"The setup is this: Seven AI players. Randomized start locations. Using the Broodwar expansion. The last “player” is the human observer, who controls no units but who can see the entire map. The script in question runs on the map “The Hunters”, although it could easily be exported to other maps. There are two Protoss players, two Zerg players, and three Terran Players. The computer players are all set to “insane” level difficulty, informed that all other players are their enemy, and told to go at it. Mayhem ensues."
#ai #gaming #starcraft
archive.org #12209

Bad Crazy in Internet Space | Ten Ton Hammer

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/65475
"CCP often touts this sort of thing with the bland marketing lingo of 'player generated content.' What that actually means is that you get to share a galaxy with Russian aluminum magnates, French-Indonesian nightclub-owning hackers, self-aggranziding 'spymasters,' and people who will cut the power lines to your house to destroy your internet spaceship. There's something deliciously addictive about the sweeping, endemic insanity, one of the ever-present yet rarely remarked upon facets of this most unhinged of MMOs."
#awesome #eve #gaming #mmorpgs #mmos #pvp #spaceships
archive.org #12146

"The Gaming Revolution" - Pop Culture, Silhouttes, Nerdy T-shirt by Sean Mort

http://www.threadless.com/product/1779/The_Gaming_Revolution
"I don't want to overcomplicate the idea behind the tee too much so i'll just say this; all consoles (i think) are represented from the NES to PS3, the NES being the home console which brought the gaming industry back to life. Cheers to everyone who voted and commented on this, Sean x"
#clothing #gaming #tshirts #want #wishlist
archive.org #12141

What were arcades like? - RPGnet Forums

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=440112
"I was reading about arcades and how you'd have to queue to play popular games as well as follow rules like no throwing in fighting game or the others wouldn't let you play. This seems rather strange. The money cost must have gotten expensive pretty quickly as well. I'm not old enough to have been to them when they were around so I'm curious about what they were like."
#arcades #gaming #getoffmylawn #iamold #ohgod #retro
archive.org #12044

Jumpman

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4821.msg156004#msg156004
"The idea of this game ( if it's OK for me to get pretentious for a minute Smiley ) was to kind of imagine this platonic form of the generic "really old platformer"*, like from the age of the 2600 and the Apple //, and then to try to take the world that these games described sort of "at face value". All those old games (for hardware reasons, of course) seemed to kind of take place in a world of floating neon blocks where faceless creatures slide endlessly back and forth for no reason. I wanted to imagine a world that was really just built that way."
#awesome #gaming #jumpman #retro #via:waxy
archive.org #12029

LARP ALERT

http://maps.google.com/maps?cbll=40.457662,-80.007541&cbp=12,310.45443546675455,,1,10.375837805207798&gl=us&ie=UTF8&iwloc=addr&layer=c&ll=40.458262,-80.007505&oe=UTF-8&panoid=KD0g-IcPQW09qFcP2RU2kg&q=8+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15212&split=0&spn=0.008588,0.01693&t=h&z=16
"8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania 15212 - Google Maps"
#funny #gaming #larps #maps #via:stlhood
archive.org #11932

Unreality - Ten of the Most Devastating Weapons from NES Games |

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/12/ten-of-the-most-devastating-weapons-from-nes-games
"Obtaining a new, more powerful weapon during the course on an old-school NES game was always a rush. Tough enemies were suddenly wusses, and an upgraded or new weapon leveled the playing field tremendously. It was tough not to take pleasure in the increased body count of your foes. For this article, I’m not writing about standard or default weapons - like, say, Pit’s bow in Kid Icarus - no matter how cool they may be. Instead, here’s a look at ten of the most devastating weapons that one can acquire in games for the original NES."
#gaming #nes #oldschool #retro
archive.org #11869

Retro/grade Game Website

http://www.retrogradegame.com
"Retro/Grade is an innovative game that fuses the white knuckle thrills and over the top visuals of a shooter with the broad appeal of a rhythm game. Players are forced to dodge enemy projectiles while positioning the ship to be in the correct place to fire their lasers when their shots come back to them. "
#gaming #rhythm #shmups #shooters #time
archive.org #11856

95 Old School Games You Can Play Online | AMOG - Alpha Males of the Group

http://amog.com/tech/gaming/oldschool-videogames
"Remember the classic video games? The 8-bit masterpieces of our sweaty-palmed youth. Inviting some friends over for a Maniac Mansion all-nighter, huffing asthmatically into a cartridge to clear out the dust, or the thrill and crushing disappointment of rescuing a princess, only to discover you’ve really just saved a fungus. ... These games aren’t lost forever. You can still play many of them online. If you love the old classics, this list should have you busy for months. Below is a list of 95 old school video games that you can play online. Click on each title to link directly to the game. Also, we’ve reviewed and rated each game for you, our loyal AMOG readers."
#arcade #gaming #nintendo #oldschool #retro #videogames
archive.org #11800

The Video Game Systems of the 1983 Sears Wishbook - The Retroist

http://www.retroist.com/2008/12/17/the-video-game-systems-of-the-1983-sears-wishbook
At the age of 8, I can clearly remember staring for hours at every page of this wishbook, and I wanted everything in it. "1983 was the year of the video game crash and that year’s Sears Wishbook was chock full of the detritus of a bloated dying industry. You got the handhelds, Vectrex, Gemini, Colecovision, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 in this issue. Along with some great games and accessories. My favorite is the Handsome Hassock storage system on Page 9. I would love one of those now."
#1983 #80s #awesome #gaming #nostalgia #oldschool #retro #sears #videogames
archive.org #11796

Compile (software company) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile_(software_company)
"Compile was a Japanese video game company founded in 1983, originally named Programmers-3. Founded by Masamitsu Niitani (otherwise simply known as 'Moo'), they were responsible for developing some of the most colourful and popular action and puzzle games ever made, including their signature franchise, Puyo Puyo. Although they created games for many systems, they were noted for particularly strong support of the MSX and PC Engine, as well as a number of notable games on the NES and Sega Master System."
#compile #gaming #shmups
archive.org #11778

RANDAR.png (PNG Image, 165x152 pixels)

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/aleste/RANDAR.png
Wow, finally I know this thing's name. Friends and I were semi-obsessed with various Compile games in high school, and we'd doodle this thing from time to time. "Randar/Lander: Known by various different translation, Randar is this smiling blue thing with huge eyes. He's pretty much Compile's mascot, and appears in nearly every title. He heals you in Golvellius, sells you things in The Guardian Legend, and acts as nifty power-ups in many of the shooter titles. He even starred in a few small little RPGs."
#compile #for:we3bus #gaming #lander #nintendo #randar #shmups
archive.org #11777

Blizzard opens up old instances to soloers, changes quest items - WoW Insider

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/12/blizzard-opens-up-old-instances-to-soloers-changes-quest-items
Huh. WoW is starting to call to me again with stuff like this. I missed 90% of the dungeons in the game, and never joined a raid doing anything but harassing a city. "Blizzard has made a few changes to the way keys and unlocks work in the old dungeons, so that you no longer need keys or multiple people to get to the good stuff"
#blizzaard #gaming #mmo #warcraft #wow
archive.org #11773

Pocket Gnome - WoW Bot for Mac

http://www.savorydeviate.com/pocketgnome
The real question, though, is will it play Progress Quest for me? "Pocket Gnome is a "bot" for World of Warcraft. Its goal is to make it easier to automate repetitive activities within the game; activities like moving around, killing monsters, looting, mining/herbing, skinning, and generally wasting your life waiting for your mana bar to refill. Pocket Gnome designed to do all of these things for you."
#bots #gaming #gnomes #mac #osx #worldofwarcraft #wow
archive.org #11767

Marshall Alexander

http://marshallalexander.net
"Growing up in the seventies and eighties, my childhood memories basically consist of videogames, bright plastic toys and TV cartoons. Any time that was left I spent drawing and programming games for my Commodore 64. At a later age a few of my childhood dreams became a reality when I temporarily moved to Melbourne, where I worked as a videogame programmer, did oil-painting in a studio and had my work displayed in one of the local galleries. After a course in Graphic Design I made a career-switch and became a graphic designer/illustrator. Currently back in The Netherlands I work at a small design company and spend my spare time illustrating my childhood memories and designing papertoys. I specialize in one-piece papertoys that consist of a single flat piece of paper, which by intricate folding is transformed into a 3-dimensional model."
#diy #gaming #oldschool #papercraft #retro #toys
archive.org #11728

Acekard 2 Review - GBAtemp.net

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=79368
"the acekard 2 is an acekard RPG - without the built-in memory or open-source firmware. The interface is by far the best of any cart available. Fast, responsive, 25 image skinning, many settings tweak able through "glabalsettings.ini", after using it for a couple minutes you'd think it was the winner of this flashcart race hands down. Thats not necessarily the case. Its still lacking quite a few features touted by its competition, such as real-time save, in-game guide, slow-motion, and integrated expansion cart support. However, if those features aren't a requisite in your purchase, the acekard 2 is definitely a winner."
#acekard #ds #gaming #hardware #homebrew #ninendo #reviews #wishlist
archive.org #11703

Bad Hacks

http://www.badhacks.net
"If you came here hoping to find a well executed difficulty hack for Super Mario World, a lovingly crafted graphics hack of Zelda 3 or maybe an accurate translation of a Japanese RPG, prepare to be disappointed. This site solely caters for crass mutilations that nobody else wants to deal with. Expect foul language, warped logic, and crude 8-bit nudity. Prepare to journey into worlds crafted by the mentally disturbed and chronically lazy. You have been warned."
#emulation #funny #gaming #hacks #nes #nintendo #pr0n #retro #roms
archive.org #11701

The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings

http://trixter.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/the-diskette-that-blew-trixters-mind
"The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple — until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD — very strange usage."
#badsectors #c64 #commodore #disks #filesystems #gaming #geek #hacks #ibm #pc #retro #vintage
archive.org #11624

Frotzophone

http://itp.nyu.edu/~ap1607/frotzophone
"The Frotzophone is an interface for making music with interactive fiction. The topography simulated in the game is used to generate sound, as is the player's path through the game. A Frotzophone "performance" looks just like playing a text adventure; but in addition to playing a game, you're also playing music."
#art #frotz #frotzophone #gaming #if #ifiction #music
archive.org #11536

MTV Multiplayer » J.J. Abrams Would Love To Make His Very Own ‘Zork’

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/10/08/jj-abrams-would-love-to-make-his-very-own-zork
"“Lost” creator J.J. Abrams may not have have felt like explaining the smoke monster to MTV News movies reporter Josh Horowitz during an interview taped a few feet from my desk last week. But he both offered to adopt Horowitz and answered one question about his interest in making video games."
#gaming #ifiction #jjabrams #zork
archive.org #11508

ASCII by Jason Scott: The Pain of the Field Major

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000723.html
"I spend a lot of my time doing what might be called generous work for many folks online, but experiences like this make me consider how few of my audience I might actually like in extended conversation, how little they would have to offer me as associates, how better off I am that I haven't met them. Given the choice, I would make no effort to hold the elevator door open for them, or stop the subway car from closing up and moving on, leaving them in the rain."
#assholes #gamers #gaming #halo3
archive.org #11490

The Ur-Quan Masters - News

http://sc2.sourceforge.net
"The project started in August 2002, when Toys For Bob released the partially ported sources of Star Control 2 3DO version to the fan community. Our goal is to port this wonderful game to current personal computers and operating systems. It is and will remain 100% free of charge, and anyone can contribute to the project and thus help make it even better. For more information, look at our info page."
#games #gaming #nifty #sc2 #scifi #ur-quan
archive.org #11476

Mythic's Awful Mac Gaming Mistake - Opinions by ExtremeTech

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2331142,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
Oh for crying out loud, put on your big girl panties on and use Boot Camp to play your Windows games. It's like a 20 second reboot these days, plus another 2-3 minutes before I'm connecting to a server in Team Fortress 2 (for example). "There's just one problem with Warhammer Online though...there's no Mac version! Yep, that's right. Somewhere along the way in its development Mythic Entertainment—the company who makes WAR—decided that they simply couldn't be bothered doing a Mac version. Unlike Blizzard or Maxis who both released Mac versions of World of Warcraft and Spore—Mythic stupidly did not. "
#gaming #mythic #online #war #warhammer #wow
archive.org #11452

Bejeweled add-on coming to World of Warcraft - Joystiq

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/20/bejeweled-add-on-coming-to-world-of-warcraft
Seems somewhat sad when the game needs a game within the game to keep things fun, but kudos to PopCap for not firing the lawyer guns. "Fromwiller developed the add-on as a method of killing time during long raids and farming sessions, but it wasn't too long before PopCap caught wind of the MMO mini-game. Instead of issuing a timely cease and desist, the casual gaming colossus hired Fromwiller to create a more polished version of the application."
#addons #bejeweled #gaming #popcap #wow
archive.org #11424

TheBBPS.com (Bits, Bytes, Pixels & Sprites) » Review: Multiwinia (PC/Mac/Linux)

http://www.thebbps.com/blog/2008/09/18/review-multiwinia-pcmaclinux
"If you’re like me and have always had trouble getting in to RTS games but you like the genre anyway (is that specific enough?) then I think Multiwinia is a great place to start. The game mechanics are very easy to understand, there’s not a lot of rules and commands to memorize and there’s not an overbearing amount of micromanagement. RTS vets might scoff at some of what Multiwinia is “missing” but if they were to give the game a shot they’d find that it’s as complex and deep as any game out there. Whether you’re on a PC, Mac or Linux machine Multiwinia is worth your time even in this crowded fall season."
#darwinia #gaming #nifty #rts #want
archive.org #11413

Atari 2700 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2700
"The Atari 2700 (also referred to as the Atari Remote Control VCS) was an unreleased console by Atari. Intended for release in 1981, its main standout features were wireless controllers that featured a combination of a joystick and paddle. The fire button was touch-sensitive, as were the buttons on the console. The Reset and Select buttons were relocated to the controllers themselves. The 2700 also featured a storage bin at the top of the console to store the controllers. Focus groups used to test the system noted that the controllers were comfortable, sleek, responsive, and very easy to use."
#atari #atari2700 #gaming #oldschool #retro
archive.org #11406

The Stupid Gamer » Extremely rare Atari 2700 prototype sells on eBay

http://stupidgamer.com/2008/09/11/extremely-rare-atari-2700-prototype-sells-on-ebay
"It’s pretty awesome seeing ultra rare and collectable stuff show up for sale, and this one is a true gem. Earlier today, an Atari 2700 prototype sold on eBay for over $5,000. It sounds crazy that someone would bid that much, but the winning bidder is definitely going to be in possession of something they don’t have to worry about finding over at their buddy’s house any time soon. The seller apparently was a game developer from Atari and was given the 2700 as a gift from Leonard Tramiel himself. "
#atari #atari2700 #ebay #gaming #oldschool #retro
archive.org #11405

Get Continuum-wine

http://wine.getcontinuum.com
"The objective of this website is to provide SubSpace/ Continuum players with recommended options for getting Continuum to run smoothly on Linux without having to download, patch, and compile wine source, in as small of a package as possible, with as little setup as possible."
#continuum #gaming #linux #shmups #subspace #wine
archive.org #11397

Legend of the Red Dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Green_Dragon
"Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) is a text-based role-playing game written in Pascal and run on Bulletin board systems as a third party door game. It was created by Seth Robinson of Robinson Technologies and is currently maintained by Michael Preslar. The player's goal is to improve his or her skills in order to defeat the Red Dragon which has been attacking the village"
#bbs #gaming #oldschool
archive.org #11360

Shred Nebula Review (Xbox 360)

http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1561/Shred-Nebula/p1
"At first glance, Shred Nebula looks like a quick cash-in on the current Geometry Wars craze. However, its unique control scheme—more akin to classic Asteroids—proves it has little in common with the popular dual-stick-controlled series. In fact, despite resembling an arcade shooter you would’ve controlled with a joystick and single button back in the day, its mechanics are fairly complex. Direction is steered with the left stick, but forward and reverse thrusters are powered with the left trigger and bumper, respectively. Toss in a variety of weapons, shields, and other spacecraft-enhancing abilities mapped to the rest of the gamepad’s bevy of buttons and triggers, and you’ve got a cockpit full of controls that’d make Buck Roger’s head spin. "
#gaming #shmups #shrednebula #xbla #xbox360
archive.org #11358

B3TA : INTERVIEWS : WES CHERRY

http://b3ta.com/interview/solitaire
"Wes Cherry. Never heard of him? Well, he's only the creator of possibly the most played computer game ever written. Nope, it's not Space Invaders, but humble Solitaire for Windows, installed on hundreds of millions of machines World wide. Sadly, a compensation or royalty package was never discussed, so he's never benefited financially."
#gaming #solitaire #windows
archive.org #11348

Raptr Blog » Raptr Public Beta Launch!

http://blog.raptr.com/2008/09/03/raptr-public-beta-launch
"No more secret handshakes, no more private invites; we’re proud to open the doors to Raptr and share the service in an open public beta! ... Raptr was born out of a stellar team of people who are passionate about playing and discovering games. ... In every case, each game or system seemed to require a separate login before we could even begin to see whether our friends were playing. There was no single place to go to see what your friends were playing - until now. ... Know when your friends are playing ... See how your friends are doing in their games ... Discover new games you might like ... One thing we think is pretty cool about Raptr is that we intelligently recommend games to you that you didn’t even know existed or that you didn’t even know were out yet."
#gaming #launches #raptr #social #web20
archive.org #11329

DOOM for Intellivision

http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/intv/doom
"I finally got around to porting the freely available DOOM source code to the Intellivision. I will be posting the source code for the Intellivision version soon. The ROM image, weighing in at 32K words, is probably the largest cartridge ROM image out there. So for now, enjoy these screen shots and the game binary below! "
#doom #gaming #hacks #intellivision #nifty
archive.org #11317

Nerds race across Azeroth IRL, nearly die from shame - Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/26/nerds-race-across-azeroth-irl-nearly-die-from-shame
"Here are the facts: two dweebs thought it would be a good idea to hook up treadmills to their PCs, don brightly-colored wigs and cardboard swords, and race their avatars across about a mile of virtual turf by jogging in place with only a modicum of coordination and zero athletic ability."
#exercise #fitness #funny #gaming #nerds #via:stlhood #warcraft #wow
archive.org #11288

Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software

http://infovore.org/talks/playing-together-what-games-can-learn-from-social-software
"MMO servers are currently limited by technological sizes. But what does a server where you know everybody (even a little) look like? What if we limited group sizes for social, not technological reasons? ... We wouldn’t have these servers that resemble sprawling cities; we’d build villages, and hamlets, and travelling camps. And as they grew too big, or small groups within the community grew, they’d break off and move to places where there’s more space for them. In one sense, that’s a more natural metaphor for our users, and it’s a scale that makes sense for them. ... I like this idea that everything, fundamentally, happens at a group level."
#design #gaming #mmo #rpg #social #socialmedia #socialsoftware
archive.org #11278

Atari: The Golden Years -- A History, 1978-1981

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3766/atari_the_golden_years__a_.php?print=1
"This four-year period -- from 1977 to 1981 -- contains some of the most exciting developments the company ever saw in its history: the rise of the 2600, the development of some of the company's most enduringly popular games (Centipede, Asteroids) and the development and release of its first home computing platforms."
#atari #gaming #history #retro #via:joshua
archive.org #11268

Warcraft ElF Tram Sex

http://www.se7en-x.com/yarhump
"Out of sheer boredom and the need to do a little PvP research, I recently found myself exploring the Deeprun Tram on a local roleplaying server. With exploration under way, I trekked deep within the confines of the tram and found something rather unusual. What was this standing before me? Two naked night elves of course."
#cybersex #funny #gaming #nightelves #roleplaying #rp #wow
archive.org #11257

The Tombs of Asciiroth

http://www.icculus.org/asciiroth
"The Tombs of Asciiroth is a free, open source game you can play right now in your browser. It has arcade, puzzle and exploration-style game play in an extensive world of font-based abstraction. If it looks a little old school, it's only because I've been trying to make this game since 1980. But other things kept getting in the way. Hope you have some fun with it. "
#asciiroth #browser #gaming #gears #google #roguelike #webdev
archive.org #11191

Digital Journal - New Game Parodies Internet Stereotypes, But It's Not For Those Easily Offended

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/250340/New_Game_Parodies_Internet_Stereotypes_But_It_s_Not_For_Those_Easily_Offended
"A new role-playing game (RPG) mocking Internet culture is staking its own piece of the gaming pie. Forumwarz satirizes the flamewars, comment trolls and gibberish phraseology you’re bound to see in every corner of the Web. "
#for:we3bus #forumwarz #gaming #rpg #web
archive.org #10427

Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in 'Halo 3'

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2007/11/gamesfrontiers_1105
"I have (I think) a strong intellectual grasp of the roots of suicide terrorism, something about playing the game gave me an "aha" moment that I'd never had before: an ability to feel, in whatever tiny fashion, the strategic logic and emotional calculus b
#gaming #halo #halo3 #terrorism
archive.org #9903

MTV Multiplayer » Harmonix on ‘Guitar Hero III’ — Bittersweet, Like Seeing Kids Off to College

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2007/10/26/harmonix-on-guitar-hero-iii-bittersweet-like-seeing-kids-off-to-college
"For those who aren’t up to speed, Harmonix created and developed the first two iterations of the game, but was bought by MTV Networks last year; they immediately began working on “Rock Band.”"
#gaming #guitarhero #guitarhero3 #harmonix #redoctane
archive.org #9877

The Asshole Physics Manifesto

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/asshole-physics-manifesto.php
"We want people to be assholes, not in real life, but in video games. Asshole Physics has the ability to change the world, allow people to take out their assholish tendencies in a controlled environment, and make going to grocery stores, banks, and dogfig
#assholes #gaming #goons #physics
archive.org #9651

Wii T-shirt

http://www.wireandtwine.com/store/products/tiishirt.html
"This isometric exploded view was handcrafted and placed on a soft American Apparel shirt with a few hits of teal ink. Game with style."
#clothing #gaming #tshirts
archive.org #9397

Clickable Culture - Gnomes Rain From Azeroth’s Skies

http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/gnomes_rain_from_azeroths_skies/=
"The gnomes left behind corpses arranged to spell out the name of a web site dealing in virtual gold sales--an effective means of advertising third-party services Blizzard (creator of the Azeroth setting) is firmly against, allegedly carried out using cli
#for:jm3 #for:joshua #for:jwhiting #for:osunick #for:snipersock #for:stlhood #for:we3bus #gaming #gnomes #spam #wow
archive.org #9294

Know Your Lore Special: The Caverns of Time Southshore Easter egg hunt - WOW Insider

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/04/08/know-your-lore-special-the-caverns-of-time-southshore-easter-eg
"The point of the Caverns of Time: Durnholde instance is to go into Durnholde Keep, free Thrall, and fight off some dragons. You can get some pretty nice mid-60s items there. But for those of a more explorative mindset, the real gem of this instance is Ol
#burningcrusade #eastereggs #gaming #southshore #wow
archive.org #8845

Toribash

http://www.toribash.com
"Toribash is a turn-based fighting game. ... Focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood."
#fighting #gaming #nifty
archive.org #8660

Rosemarie fiore - "Tempest 1"

http://www.rosemariefiore.com/pages.php?activeType=&content=galleryBig.php&imageID=6&navGallID=12&navGallIDquer=12&view=big
Long exposure photograph of Tempest. Disappointingly, it seems to be from an emulator's raster display rather than an original vector display.
#art #gaming #photos #tempest
archive.org #8602

Main Page - Wiili

http://www.wiili.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
"WiiLi is a live Linux CD that makes the Nintendo Wii boot into a full Linux Desktop without the need of a mod chip or hardware modification.."
#gaming #linux #wii
archive.org #8049

IGN: Big Castlevania Bonus

http://ds.ign.com/articles/741/741139p1.html
"In anticipation of the December release of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS, as well as in celebration of Castlevania's 20th anniversary this year, Konami's sending this dual-screen sequel off in style with one of the coolest pre-orderin
#castlevania #ds #gaming #nintendo
archive.org #7954

game girl advance: File Under Mad Skillz

http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2006/08/30/file_under_mad_skillz.html
"I can't decide what I'm most blown away by: the tricks, or the Matrix style editing/AfterFX/music. I'm almost hoping this is done through frame-by-frame emulation, because I'm not sure I want to live in a world where someone can be this much better at Qu
#gaming #machinima #quake3
archive.org #7726

Free Play - Zelda Wall Hanging

http://freeplaygaming.blogspot.com/2006/08/zelda-wall-hanging-this-is-wall.html
"It's based on this Wind Waker promotional desktop wallpaper with some modifications for material and sanity (Link's shield is obviously more detailed in the drawn version.)"
#art #gaming #zelda
archive.org #7717

Video Game Blog & Video Game Forums @ Destructoid ‽ Blog Archive ‽ Zelda: The Lost Found beta Wind Waker levels - Video Games PC Games PlayStation 3 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PS2 Xbox 360 PlayStation 2

http://www.destructoid.com/beta-maps-in-zelda-lost-worlds-in-wink-waker-wind-waker-cheat-codes-unlock-maps.htm
"coders discovered ActionReplay codes that ulock trippy MonkeyBall-looking worlds that look completely like any Zelda experience you’ve ever played."
#gaming #hacks #nintendo #zelda
archive.org #7440

Connection Support

http://www.nintendowifi.com/consumerservice/showTopic.do?catId=Connecting_Home&topicId=WiFi_general_all
"If your router uses 802.11g, it may default to only the "g" band. This setting will not work with the DS."
#ds #gaming #nintendo #wifi
archive.org #7193

Nobilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobilis
"Nobilis is a role-playing game created by R. Sean Borgstrom in which the player characters are "Sovereign Powers" called Nobilis; each Nobilis is the personification of an abstract concept or class of things such as time, death, cars or communication."
#gaming #rpg
archive.org #7111

1st Church of Pac-Man

http://www.flamingmayo.com/firstchurchofpacman/index2.htm
"Anyway, let me state this again for the record...THIS IS NOT A RELIGIOUS PAGE, OR AN ANTI-RELIGIOUS PAGE, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. It's a JOKE. And in all honesty, if that wasn't immediately obvious to you, you should do some deep soul-searching and consid
#funny #gaming #oldschool #pacman
archive.org #6954

www.netrek.org

http://www.netrek.org
"One of our developers ported the Netrek Server to OpenWrt, the open source router firmware platform, placing a test server on this Asus WL-HDD wireless hard drive box."
#gaming #netrek
archive.org #6949

..:: Ragdoll Masters ::..

http://www.ragdollsoft.com/ragdollmasters
"In this game you control a stylized martial arts master, making his way through stronger and stronger opponents with spectacular moves and impressive blows."
#gaming #nifty
archive.org #6153

Zombies

http://codenautics.com/zombies
One of the best things about this page is the zombie head that follows you when you scroll. "Welcome to Zombies, a turn-based game where the only goal is to outlast and destroy the zombies before they do the same to you."
#gaming #mac #osx
archive.org #6148

Boycott Starforce

http://www.glop.org/starforce
"I will provide a list of games that install the Starforce device drivers, as well as a list of publishers that incorporate Starforce. "
#gaming
archive.org #5665

Advance Wars By Web v2.0

http://www.amarriner.com/awbw
"This website enables people to play Advance Wars online over the web. There is nothing you have to download. Everything happens within the browser and is mostly point and click."
#gaming #nintendo
archive.org #5332

IGN: GBA Micro

http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/645/645774p1.html
"At first glance, you're not sure if this system is just a gimmick by Nintendo to sell more GBAs, or if it really is a well-intentioned game machine delivered in the smallest of packages."
#gameboy #gaming #nintendo
archive.org #5323

Internet Archive: Details: xoc - SMW

http://www.archive.org/details/xoc_SMW
"The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo."
#funny #gaming #music #nifty
archive.org #5256

Werewolf

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.html
"Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, secon
#gaming #groups #parties #rpg
archive.org #5238

The Elite Club

http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/faq.html
"This site was created with the intention of it becoming the hub for various projects based around the Elite series of games, particularly Frontier and First Encounters - including the release of the source code of the latter two games."
#gaming #oldschool
archive.org #5099

Penny Arcade! - Doldrums

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-07-25
"I can't relax knowing that doo-dads exist out there, under some log, and even when I find one that doesn't relax me, because it makes me think that there's some other thing out there I'm not determined enough to find, which makes me catalog my deficits a
#gaming
archive.org #5035

Go Siege

http://gosiege.sourceforge.net
"Go Siege is a transformation of the ancient Chinese game of Go into a massively multiplayer online game in which hundreds of players can compete simultaneously."
#gaming #python #twisted
archive.org #4958

GamePal - Internet Gaming Services

http://gamepal.com/rentals
"GamePal allows you to rent MMORPG accounts for 14 games. Renting accounts means you have the option to go from game to game, server to server, class to class. Now you can experience MMORPGs in an entirely new way."
#gaming #mmorpg
archive.org #4854

Plastic: Will There Be GTA: Vatican City Soon?

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=05/05/02/06432152
"The Christian gamers' position is that, while you may fight the Devil and lose, you may not fight as the Devil." Yeah, but I bet play-as-Devil patches hit the net one week following release. Also, nude Mary Magdalene, ala Lara Croft.
#gaming #religion
archive.org #4594

BOOOOOONG GA!

http://www.sixsixfive.com/229.html
"And on the right, we have mascots for the game - one with a giant hand for a head and one who appears to be dressed with a fecal motif."
#gaming #japan #odd
archive.org #4188

Terra Nova: Pay (Not) to Play

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2003/09/fun_fame_fortun.html
"One might hypothesize that the trade in virtual assets amounts to a game design flaw." This is why I never got hooked on EverQuest
#gaming
archive.org #3525

PAX | The Penny Arcade Exposition

http://www.penny-arcade.com/pax/contest.htm
"In order to win the OMEGA COLLECTION you must first win the OMEGATHON!" Whomever wins this contest will instantly expire in an epileptic fit of gaming overload.
#gaming
archive.org #3195

MapQuest: 324 S Main St Ann Arbor, MI

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?mapdata=OehTi+kPVgRJE6hPlmdAbP6vl/Jt8Oqn85F/AthMDRqnMbu/xTAhYPXhaPiOoMc8vxRmm30CMviP3+W6Ehby/K0dkXmOxEBRhK19D9hL5BqUShC7trGIgZDrhZH6Ck+fkPP8km70Xvfqt7ccOxGElK0HD+jpR6t5z7R9agwuvC2YTH0leVZvaYvjNDqbnXx4CcAdj8xFpxyrbod6WVhLPgJSQmjz0O4I0IvHK1cGxc+cnjeZeqfRX+5LRv5/dhxtBEnKzwVNt2p7sjLuy88s8N4aMPAGS1YlhP3Qus6Fyy4054GwI33+SQ1z6RhQGNrjmrsm/j7+5WVy8CMJqg5PuxvD+ABt6kjdmoVL4pN2ceNmisBxfJ/M+8CgpDzfpkb87RKW/lp7Mi5zbH/EBn9Ps+OoO+pAflTsSWZrcl0HKjuHppag4c0Ay+tK2evbaPq2nZtR/yuaUJg=&ovi=1&zoom=9
Coordinates closest to me. Anyone going to be there in a day and 6 hours? (Aug 23 7:59PM PDT, I think)
#gaming #odd
archive.org #3147

John Carmack: "This sucks."

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040728-4048.html
"Claiming patent rights not just on a specific piece of code, but on an algorithm is hardly different from claiming to hold a patent on the quadratic equation."
#gaming #patents
archive.org #3011

Buy Gradius V - Play-Asia.com

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-r-70-2qk-15-Gradius.html
"The Vic Viper returns in Gradius V - Konami's classic space-shooter series that has been specifically designed for Sony PlayStation 2."
#gaming
archive.org #2936

Enjoy the Good Life, on GameCube

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,63619,00.html
"Milk the cow, find something edible for the dog, scrub down the horse, bring your sweetheart some fresh flowers. Go fishing. Water your crops. Make dinner. Sleep. Repeat."
#gaming
archive.org #2667

Fish

http://oriol.mine.nu/fish
"Fish is an aquarium simulator. It allows you to add fish to an underwater environment and customize them."
#gaming #osx
archive.org #2650

Nintendo e-Reader

http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gba/e-reader/index.htm
"The impossible has been finally made possible! Please find below the first custom created dot code ready to be printed and scanned on the Nintendo e-Reader. Enjoy"
#gaming
archive.org #2292

Orn

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~tjh8300/Orn
"Orn is my "Capstone Project" for the Masters in Multidisciplinary Studies degree offered at RIT. It is side-scrolling action game demo for the Game Boy Advance, unofficially based on the first area (Brinstar) of the original NES Metroid released by Nin
#gaming #gba #nifty #oldschool
archive.org #2279

Soul Calimeter

http://homepage.mac.com/mschrag/SoulCalimeter
"We tossed around a couple ideas but decided to try out a system based on video capture to see if it would be able to analyze the video feed from the GameCube and look for certain key events to occur..."
#gaming #nifty
archive.org #2208

Woo exploring 'Metroid' film

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000480930
"Woo will produce the sci-fi movie and has the option to direct." Hmm. If anyone could do this game justice in a live-action film, it's Woo.
#gaming #movies
archive.org #2199

Uematsu's Music

http://www.square-enix-usa.com/uematsu/black_mages/index.html
"It all started in February 2003. Uematsu produced "The Black Mages," an album composed of FINAL FANTASY battle music arranged in rock style. He formed a group called The Black Mages and performed as the keyboardist himself."
#gaming #music
archive.org #2149

Penny Arcade!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-03-10#1873
'Earlier that night ... his mom chastised him, saying "Clint, I think your mother deserves better than to be killed by the translocator."'
#funny #gaming
archive.org #2030

feelies.org

http://www.feelies.org
"Feelies have been a long-standing tradition in the days of text adventures, but sadly, there haven't been many games with toys and trinkets to impress your friends with in the years since Infocom's decline."
#gaming #ifiction
archive.org #1903

Ninja Golf!

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/ninjagolf
"But no game, and I mean no game could possibly compete with the allure of a title such as Ninja Golf."
#gaming
archive.org #1892

Allegiance - Home

http://research.microsoft.com/research/allegiance
"We’re astounded at the progress that has been made at creating new factions, hosting new servers, replacing authentication, etc. It seems that Allegiance hasn’t really died."
#MSFT #gaming
archive.org #1709

Penny Arcade!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-02-02
"We finally got four cubes together in one place, and if there is a word to describe the experience of sixteen player Mario Kart, I don't know it."
#gaming
archive.org #1637