Gold Skull Games
@goldskullgames.bsky.social
Long time educator teaching programming, computer science, and game development. Check out youtube.com/@goldskullgames for how to make cool retro games!
created August 7, 2023
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Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
Imagine turning on the new TikTok after the update and it just starts up with a bald eagle video and an explosion and every video on your FYP is eating hot dogs, the military, and influencers doing the "new pledge of alligence trend" lol
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Unimaginable is unfortunately one of those words that can mean a lot lol, but I agree with the positive context and I'm glad to see it on my skyline!
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Billy Joel probably? Lol
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Be a museum! I'll come look at your shrimps! Lol
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Update: It doesn't.
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Inauthentic fundraising emails from political parties are buckets of cold water on any passion a person feels for the organization. It's a shame the geriatrics at the top still think this is a viable tactic.
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It's a shame a library organization failed to do the research on substack and the types of creators it supports, either that or they know and picked it anyway
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Rest In Pizza, little panzerotti coffins and all the soda comes in tasteful urns
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
I've played Magic the Gathering since the 90s and I don't think I've seen a worse setting then Omenpaths. Aetherdrift was pretty close. This is Homelands tier. I hope it plays better than it looks.
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Dang that's me, I use that one for everything lol
Megan Fox (@glassbottommeg.bsky.social) reposted
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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I'm out here updating my Steam profile like a weirdo in hopes of whoever makes the choice to let people into the All Will Fall beta will see it and be like "that dude's super cool, he gets in" lol I will never stop being an absolute dork ๐
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My rapture outfit
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Does heaven have wifi? Anyone hanging with the lord yet? Lol
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
Hey is the rapture time zone dependent? Like a rolling rapture or will it be all at once? What should I set my alarm for? Lol
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Buffalo Wild Wings
~/Mr Abandonware (@mrabandonware.bsky.social) reposted
Are you interested in MS-DOS gaming? Want to play old games on modern computers? Not sure which emulator to use? I'm putting together a small, but growing, collection of abandonware games ready to play on the latest Windows OSs. You can get them here: archive.org/details/@mr_...
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You're not the only one, trust me! Lol
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ALL of my games are in the Fellow Traveller sale! ๐ Build a crew in Citizen Sleeper 2 (25% Off) ๐ซ Find a home in Citizen Sleeper (70% Off) ๐ Study an Alien Ocean in In Other Waters (75% Off) + grab another one of my publishers excellent narrative games: store.steampowered.com/sale/fellowt...
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I was incorporating games in Comp Sci in 2014, now I put together a whole shop to teach kids how to make games, administrators really need to open up and start supporting games more, they're incredible tools for education
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I have a tower I picked up recently, but the 32x Doom only shows one layer on the TV, I replaced all the cords not sure what it is yet
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Dang ya'll I'm old as dirt and I just found out a Bruin (Like the Boston Bruins) is a type of bear apparently. That's all, just wanted to share lol
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Have you had a chance to try Ken's? That stuff's pretty close I think
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So I agree, my thought would be: You can make anything a false hydra. A person, a monster, a whole town, an organization, a building. It's like that old joke, you black out drunk and lose money that's normal, it's when you have more money you get worried lol
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My favorite implementations of this is the False Hydra (stop looking and you forget it's there), Doctor Who's The Silence, and the Weeping Angels
HVBโdamifortune (@samplemance.rs) reposted
have YOU ever wanted to make SNES music? songs that could play on a real console?? well guess what - you can!! and you can even do it from the comfort of your favorite DAW. version 2.0 of my SNES Chiptune Guide is out now, updated and fully overhauled on its own website: samplemance.rs/snesguide/
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Reading the Workers and Resources in game help guide and it just hit me with "this is hard you should do some research first" lol
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Someone needs to put Primus on this video lol
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The greatest hat of all times?
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I'm already on my fourth hour of playing a city building game, I need this hat lol
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There's a code under every lid for a secret Roblox game where they cook cottage cheese recipes for TT fitness influencers lol
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With all this Silksong talk I've been thinking about Metroidvania designs and I'd love to make something similar that mashes it up with Tecmo's Deception where you beat rooms, then own the rooms and customize them and use them to prevent someone from getting through
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Lol look at that vectrex, still working!
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Hey wanted to share what @amysmithart.bsky.social is up to, we need more events like this bringing people together to just relax and create: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S9GjSD/
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I don't want to downplay personal responsibility, but we've swung the pendulum so far towards blaming that and away from putting any responsibility on the broken systems that absolutely ruin people and never get fixed it's maddening
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Yeah I was hoping the PlayDate would be a solution for this, but $230 is a big ask for a lot of people
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The fact gaming is becoming a hobby for older and richer people is a symptom of a mismanaged industry. We absolutely need free or cheap games, smaller games, shorter, more innovative experiences, and most companies are trying to put out the exact opposite
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I don't want to keep harping about Blockbuster, but we rented most NES games. It was $3 to $5 for a weekend, play, beat, return, anything we actually bought we did because we'd trade it to others, unbeatable value and variety that's completely non-existent now
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
People lamenting kids not growing up the way they did with traditional consoles and games need to understand that the teens are being priced out of the hobby, they pick free games like Fortnite and Roblox because it offers the same low cost, high variety experience video games used to do
Podouken Arcade Podcast (@podouken.bsky.social) reposted
Arthur from Ghosts 'n Goblins was the original Dungeon Crawler Carl. Happy 40th! #arcade #capcom
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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I dont know why this isn't a Netflix animated series like wtf
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I called my brother and sister and cried because I thought I'd never get a job in education again. Three days later I got called to be a full time teacher, worked there for 8 years and been teaching for 13 total now. It'll get better, I promise.
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I was substituting for the only sub company in my area in a school district so small the principal and superintendent were the same person. They took all the clocks out of the classrooms and when I took my phone out to check the time they fired me. The company said they had no work for me after that
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
Hey you want to play 150 of the best games ever made? Go to webrcade.com and put in this feed URL: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xf8j7... (I don't think I can shorten it and have it still work, sorry) and play some in browser retro games!
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
Ya'll really out here still watching television? You know scifi novels, and indie games, and local theatre, and weird tabletop rpgs, and museums, and art shows exist right? Lol
Kevin Edwards ( Retro Videogame development ) (@kevedwardsretro.bsky.social) reposted
Tatung Einstein host development system for creating ZX Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad CPC games. Originally developed by Mike Webb and re-created from scratch by @breakintoprogram.co.uk. Software Creations and other North West based companies used this system to develop their titles during the mid-80s.
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I think overall you're right, but as a counterpoint if people want "shorter games with worse graphics", etc episodic may be a way of accomplishing that. An hour seems..light, it might be a while before people dial in to a working version of the strategy
GamesIndustry.biz (@gibiz.bsky.social) reposted
From December, Fortnite creators will be able to sell items directly from their Fortnite islands. www.gamesindustry.biz/epic-games-t...
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
Hey if you're in the LA area and have some free time, there's a cool event happening where you drink and do art! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Sa5Sr1/
๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (@nova42069.bsky.social) reposted
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-zm... The second part of my Dead Or Alive Retrospective
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Town to City is pretty adorable
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MรRK CY_BORG (@morkborg.com) reposted
If youโre at PAX Unplugged this year, make MB related things, and want to join the CORPSE RUN, let us know. Weโre collecting lost souls.
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I need Zach to write my bio lol
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Haven't done a #promosky in a while, I only need 4 more to hit the magical 1000! If you like.. ๐ฎ Retro/Vintage Games ๐ TTRPGS ๐ Worldbuilding/Writing โ๏ธ Education ๐ป Technology ๐ Cooking ๐ Skulls โ๏ธ Vanquishing Foes ๐ถ Cute Dogs ๐ Me Awkwardly Commenting On Your Posts At 2am ..throw me a follow!
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So I'm not crazy here, pokemon was never on the mega drive right lol
Nathan D. Paoletta ๐ช ndpdesign ๐ฆ Unwritten Earths Symposium (@ndpdesign.com) reposted
Over the halfway mark already, and closing in on 100 backers today - amazing! Thanks so much, friends and fans. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
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Subnautica! The ocean and a monster?? Crazytown
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I want to play video games, not live video games lol
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Me in 60 years lol
Tokyo Game Life (@tokyogamelife.bsky.social) reposted
I found this Switch 2 release calendar on Reddit and there are about a dozen titles I want to check out this year alone. Iโm planning to cut out both eating and sleeping to fit them all in.
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Update: After building for about 6 hours real time and 2 years in game, I'm finally ready to start construction on a residential building lol this game is...a lot lol
Nathan D. Paoletta ๐ช ndpdesign ๐ฆ Unwritten Earths Symposium (@ndpdesign.com) reposted
We're going to ring the bell this Sunday, September 14th, for the World Wide Wrestling reprint + hardcover campaign! We're close, but can we get to 250 followers by then? Please share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
If you want to know who I am as a gamer, everyone is playing Silksong and checking out Borderlands 4 and I am playing Workers and Resources trying to figure out how to distribute clean water to my city lol
Erika Ishii (@erikaishii.bsky.social) reposted
382 lovely indie games for $8! All proceeds support UNRWA USAโs humanitarian aid in Palestine. โฅ๏ธ๐ค๐ค๐
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We're so close to the putting mecha armor on animals future that the 80s promised lol
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This idea is genius lol
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That app looks awesome!
Tokyo Game Life (@tokyogamelife.bsky.social) reposted
Did you know that in the first 100 episodes of Tokyo Game Life, there have been over 60 different guests? WOW! Hereโs a list of the ones on BlueSky, and they all deserve a follow. Check them out! go.bsky.app/6qwRaKq
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
How do I ethically collate people's work without costing them the clicks and views that generate them income?
em (@bestofaloy.bsky.social) reposted
TODAY IS NATIONAL VIDEO GAMES DAY! ๐ฎ video games are a HUGE part of my life, my main hobby, and one of my biggest joys! theyโve gotten me through my worst and best moments. iโm going to be a gamer til the day i physically canโt any longer! ๐๐๐ป what do video games mean to YOU?! ๐พ๐
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KOEI games back in the day were notoriously crunchy system based games, should be interesting!
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Dragon Quest VII Reimagined looks dopppppeeee ๐ฅ
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
I love that Yoshi's first instinct upon meeting a new creature is to eat it lol
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That's a cool challenge idea, I might have to try that!
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I appreciate that! Donkey Kong Country's score is absolutely fire and I will have to look into Silent Hill 2, I enjoy atmospheric stuff
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We're all overwhelmed these days, no problems! I really love Nintendo, but they are constantly pulling this legal stuff and it's super frustrating
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
1. New Switch 2 games announced 2. Nintendo Online - Dreamcast 3. Nintendo forfeits their new patents on game mechanics they should've never been granted to begin with
Gold Skull Games (@goldskullgames.bsky.social)
Just finished(?) with a post on GSG about the best game soundtracks. It includes music from all of them (and links to where you can get more) and hopefully can serve as a nice resource for people going forward. Check it out! www.goldskullgames.com/2025/09/09/v...
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๐คฃ There's just so many! I'm going to wait until I retire, and then start playing them in the old folks home lol
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I've never tried eating effort, I've only done food before, is it more effective? ๐
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I legit just opened Epic and I have 369 games on there, and I probably have given time to maybe 4 of them lol
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Hey man, Q's brother here, good to see ya on the socials, hope everything is going well!
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Beautiful!
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What does one do in a "sun room"? Is it like a glass ceiling observatory for the day times?
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The Scavengers Reign game would need to be an augmented reality game that has you walking through a real forest being horrified at everything its showing you and at the end it unlocks a wiki that shows you they took the ideas for the grossest stuff from actual nature.
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Nintendo should release a realistic Super Mario Bros for his 40th birthday lol Every time he jumps his knees crack, slamming down on an enemy hurts his back, and at the end of the last level the boss is just Dr. Bowser telling him he needs to lower his blood pressure and his LDL levels are too high
VGC (@videogameschronicle.com) reposted
Nintendo has confirmed that its next Nintendo Direct will take place this Friday, the day before Super Mario Bros' 40th anniversary. vgc.news/news/nintend...
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My most vivid memory was at Christmas my cousin bringing in a brand new Dreamcast with the light gun and us jamming on it and him saying that it was going to be the next cool thing lol
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One of the freshmen was describing a game he wanted to make and stopped and looked at me and changed it to "Bullet Heck" lolol
Gematsu (@gematsu.com) reposted
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC; first details and screenshots Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake will be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam and GOG for $24.99 when it launches,โฆ
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You left your puppy shaped dirt bike running lol
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Number 1 on the @remapradio.bsky.social Pick Em, probably won't last long but it's a great start!
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That's amazing, great find! ๐
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I think if you're making a survival game what happens on death should be unknown to the player. Like there should be a percentage of runs that just end in permanent lose everything death, not all of them, but enough that the obstacles you create are taken seriously enough