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There's something which saddens me at some really deep level to see people happily become sloperators when it comes to crafting code, music, art or anything really. There is something inspiring about the act of creation - even if it's naff, it's YOURS, and that's a fundamental part of humanity.

Ring of Fates is a frustrating bundle of ~almosts~. Ambitious combat - Monster Hunter-like clambering is encouraged - is dragged down by dull dungeons and idiotic AI. The story is about twins, yet only one of them's allowed to speak/act: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/07/31/f...

Something a little different this week; instead of writing about someone else's game, I've made one of my own! Head this way to play my coffee-break sized interactive fiction, Terror of the Alien Mindmasters directly in your browser (phone browser, too)! ko-fi.com/post/Out-of-...

The cool kids avoid M O D R E T R O like the plague. You wanna be a cool kid right?

That thing as winding down for bed and jerkbrain just has to remind you of crappy things. In positives - managed to finish up an important bit of work on the game (a feature for tiers of challenge), also started work on logo stuff (which I need for a thing) too. Smol victories are victories. 🖤

Here's my review of Truxton Extreme, a return to the vital and influential shoot 'em up playstyle of Toaplan, contained within a game that's worthy of both the original Truxton and player expectations in 2026. This one feels both familiar and fresh; it's got the juice.

This is great to read. I never mastered the original, but I'm looking to starting fresh with this take.

It's gotta be a candidate now!

this week's Arcade Archives title: 1983's ultra-wide, triple-monitor F1 racing game TX-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHNzQAcSis this is particularly noteworthy for being the first ACA reissue (and first reissue in general, if memory serves) from the catalogue of Tatsumi

New No-Nostalgia Retro Gaming video uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/_MlZfl3GDkI

"The Famicom shouldn’t be able to display this many sprites at once. Over Obj does it anyway." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/12/05/o...

Well if that ain't a great demonstration of what happens when you piss off your userbase, then I dunno what is. Classic fuck around, find out behaviour from Unity. (Still, I lament that it happened though. It was a great engine, but the corpo bullshit, and the way it stagnated was horrible…)

Yeah, I always love Microprose included them with their sims, where others didn't seem to. Especially thoughtful here, because that bit over the function keys is preforated and can be separated for those playing on a C128 (which has the function keys in a different spot).

We need more Keyboard Overlays. There’s something kind of special about having one over your computer keyboard. A shame that we don’t have such things for modern games. But I guess controllers took care of that…

Nah, ordered direct from Apple AU. Supposedly it might be not having the absolute latest OS (because fuck Liquid Glass), ‘cause it’s a few years old. But seen a few other peeps in a similar case.

I'd have thought, but yeah, got nothing on my phone, but it sounds like I'm not alone with that, so perhaps the rollout wasn't entirely successful. Certainly curious about it all though.

It’s funny - my phone didn’t go off (unless it did, and being on silent muted it), but someone else’s phone did, and my goodness it was LOUD. (‘cause I heard it clearly from the other side of the house)

I can control the volume of my music. I cannot control the volume of the background noise of my surroundings.

It's fucked up that an arms dealer is selling retro N64 consoles and a whole bunch of YouTubers are covering the product without discussing Palmer Luckey, claiming it's not relevant. If you're lining the pockets of a war profiteer that's murdering people, gamers should know what they're financing.

Sadly I've had people (both in comments and IRL) complain at me about what I've covered - console vs. micro vs. whatever. If ditching criticism is where I have to go, then that's a pretty big change, and well, there's a lot to consider.