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I make games! Known for Old Skies, Expelled!, Nighthawks, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Epiphany, Shardlight, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator and more. :)
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This might be your best tweet even considering the Dune memes.
Incredible
So good.
Thank you Danielle!!
Thank you very much!!
Thank you!
A couple of people have made connections to this Serpent's Grotto scene from Kyrandia, and it is an intentional homage. Westwood game aesthetics in the Rick Parks era had so many high points, and I wanted to do something similar but with a skull instead of a stone head. :)
Haha when you were talking about Serpent’s Grotto the other week I was like just you wait….
Thank you Asher. :)
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much!
Now time to draw a giant anvil...
After spending a good number of hours finishing up the most dynamic scene I've ever painted in terms of composition & colours yesterday, this morning I'm back to drawing nice, simple item icons for this skullcave location. The change is welcome!
After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now! moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash #msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame
Amazing.
I had forgotten they were making a movie!
Yes, I remember not expecting it at all, and it surprised me in a very nice way.
That was a great book!
I'm making a point & click adventure game about unusual places and unusual ideas.
I appreciate this, thank you!
Thank you very much!
Thank you Tina!
Thanks so much Fiona!
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I have indeed done some horrible things to AGS already, honestly.
Thank you for your early enthusiasm!
Thank you Laura. :)
Thank you so much.
Thanks mate. I have agonised over the colours in this game, trying to get them right. This is lovely to hear.
Congratulations on completing your project!
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The tangent that one pole makes with the horizon line is so magical haha
I'm making a point & click adventure game about unusual places and unusual ideas.
it used to be so simple
Yes, it wears this influence very clearly on its sleeve, but so far I'd say it does a very good job of being an indie Riven. It must have been a lot of work!
This is what I mean when I say that art is more logical than coding.
Fluffy ruffs!
The way that game uses writing as part of its meat, in a method that’s so foundational to the game itself, still feels so well done, so fresh and unique. I could hardly believe it.
Those watershed moment games stay with you forever, right? I can think of all of those moments in my history.
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I understand what you mean. I remember the setting just set my imagination on fire. There's only a few game worlds that sucked me in so completely.
Yes it is! I've always loved that shot.
It's my way!
Trying out Neyyah the way you knew I would - doing all the maps and notes myself. So far the puzzles have been satisfying to solve.
NEW VIDEO! Today marks 20 years since the #PSP launched in PAL regions, and well… I couldn't help but feel like it'd be neat to dive into some of the catalogue to show off some neat examples of what made it kinda cool in that mid-2000s kind of way. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifzP...
There is a point where the sort of nebulous art theory stuff starts to make sense, but everybody who tells you that the best way is to both make a lot and also look at a lot is right - also, talk to people about art a lot (developing a vocabulary is so empowering)
is that you and oreb
cripes
I only recently got the Infocom collections, so I’ve been playing lots of them in the last year. :)
let the flesh gently caress those access cards. they will be warm and safe
IFs and butts
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Planetfall is funny because you can take off your uniform and walk around and the only consequence so far is that Floyd says that you look funny naked. But I just realised I'm carrying all this stuff around with pockets, somehow...
Yeah, it’s just nice to solve things yourself, and for me the mapping is often as much a part of the solving process as the item use. It feels much more like exploring this way.
Too tired to do anything productive tonight so I'm playing a text adventure in bed. Planetfall this time. So far I'm enjoying it, mapped out most of Kalamontee Kompleks and have started exploring Lawanda Kompleks.
That's more just a case of always having a spare ready in the case of a string break! I like to be prepared, always!
I always try to arrange the sets so that if I'm doing songs in DADGAD or something I have a whole set of that, then retune both guitars in the break, and so always have my backup guitar in whatever tuning suits the set, unless I'm only changing one string!
Lmao
Happy birthday Tippi 😊
I have definitely broken strings when putting my guitar into alternate tunings before. It’s a big risk! (But I’ve also broken D strings before, when I was a young man and very excited and nervous to be in front a crowd and would play hard)
I always stretch a new set of strings hard once I put them on and tune roughly to pitch. I saw guitar techs doing this backstage when I was young and took it as a lesson. If you give them a real good stretch then tune back up to pitch, you can be confident it will hold tune much better!
I’ve never owned a Guild, but I was in a band for some years with a guitarist who played one. It always sounded very good to me. I’m sorry to say my experience with Epiphone hasn’t been great, issues with poor components. I owned two, sold one and the other would cost more to fix than it’s worth.
Oh interesting. Do you manually stretch the strings by hand on a restring? I’m used to doing this (quite intensely!) to make sure everything holds tune on string bends and the like.
I’ve definitely had to finish sets with a string missing before! Even though I always bring a spare guitar to gigs. That’s just the nature of live music!
Yeah! Although this one was due for a change anyway. I do get plenty of mileage out of a set of strings.
I do the same! Especially when I was a young man, first gigging, and was excited and nervous to be in front of crowds. I could break 3 high e strings a night some gigs! Much better these days, though. A little experience brings a bit more control.
I always tell everybody - it’s never too late to learn!
You’re absolutely right! I always keep plenty of spares.
It’s always a good idea to get out if you can, and enjoy the beautiful planet! I don’t tend to break so many strings these days, so hopefully not too many more - but we’ll see what the rest of the year brings!
Thank you very much, I do love this big Gretsch a lot!
Oh yes, I love playing outdoors best of all! But yes, one good thing about being a guitarist and not a drummer/trumpet player/etc is that I can practice quietly, whenever I please! :D
Haha, if only!! :D
Thank you Jim! It’s such a lovely guitar, nice and resonant and very pleasant to play.
I don’t push on the tremolo when I tune, no! Not something I’ve heard of with a Bigbsy - but then I don’t know anybody around here that plays with one. So anything I do with it I figured out myself, including how to restring!
Haha, yes! They’re my favourite trem in terms of usability - so nice and subtle, such a smooth feel. But they are a pain for breakages and the like.
A beautiful evening, so I filled my oil lantern and sat out with a guitar to enjoy the sunset. It's been a lovely day even though I just broke a b string. 😌
I can’t remember who created this writer’s note but it is great.
![MORTICIA Gomez... GOME Z Querida? MORTICIA Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. Gomez moves closer, intrigued. Morticia, after a beat: MORTICIA (CONT 'D) Do it again. Somez quickly moves to her bedside. [WRITER'S NOTE: We should get the sense, as much as humanly possible, that all this couple does is fuck each other. Their only want on this earth is to fuck, and they do. I understand this is intended to be a kid's movie, but, I cannot stress enough the importance of these two consistently teeming with frankly demonic levels of horniness for one another. If we cannot agree on this, I walk. But you should know I already spent the money. ] INT. ADDAMS HOUSE - FOYER Lurch holds the kids' school lunches as they come down the stairs. The brown naver baos wrigole with activity within.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:spdpnhjisdch7ims4yua5lgw/bafkreibdhfy4z3fvvqr533wdxn2t5yhdn7wsywgzmsrjo5gty2nf26fngq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker. *My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near
Thank you so much Ray.
I live far from the city lights. Not a single street light where I live. You cannot imagine how different the night sky looks. It is vivid and majestic in a way that makes one start to understand where old stories of gods and heroes come from.
Thanks Ben! I’m using 640x360! It’s a very lovely low res middle ground that I’m quite fond of.
I feel like I only observe 5% of the earth, even right around me. Soil and plants full of bugs, life, dramas playing out in life and death every day, unknown to me as I walk by in ignorance.
cool as hell
Yes, to know one's own smallness is a wonder. Both beautiful and grounding. In the end we can only be and do so much. :)
about damn time.
Nobody should make adventure games, you know this.
Thank you so much. I feel that it's my go-to element of choice, the best way I know how to make a scene that I'm happy with.
Walked this same path today and noticed a mudlark sitting in her nest in this tree that I'd completely missed yesterday. The world is so full of things.
I wish I had taken the chance to learn Greek sayings from my beautiful Nanna before she passed! Thank you for sharing this with me.
Happy birthday my friend! ❤️
Periodically it's useful for me (and you) to share what Amberspire is – a city builder with lots of dice, and a unique science fantasy history. It will, of course, have a manual.
It’s nice to go out at midnight and look up at the Milky Way. Uncountable titans of plasma undergoing violent fusion at scales and temperatures I can’t even begin to imagine. And from where I stand it all looks so gentle and serene, so quiet all I hear are the frogs calling.
Thank you. I find a lot of the time it’s quite surprising how far you can stray from reality with value control and still get away with it. I always favour composition design over convincing lighting, because I think the design should always take precedence over ‘accuracy’. Contrast is key!
I was out walking and I stopped to look at some toadstools, and I noticed a spider wrapping up a midge, and the discarded end of a chrysalis. I realised that a lot of the things I imagine are just small, unusual things I’ve seen made large and colourful, then given a story.
This is what the content of boxed games should be imo
I've always wondered at this myself.
put a cat in it