“Zippy the Porcupine”: a homebrew, legally-different-enough Sonic game on the ATARI 2600 which, apparently, is a machine that had 128 bytes of RAM. There’s no “k” in there, it actually had just ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT BYTES OF RAM
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
There’s a tree in the park nearby that is OBVIOUSLY some sort of ancient giant feathered serpent monster that was frozen and turned into a tree long ago. I mean, LOOK AT IT. It comes out slithering from deep inside the bushes, and goes up like a snake about to attack!
You can tell nostalgia fucks up people’s ability to reason because… well, we all know the original Saint Seiya theme song absolutely rocks, right? And yet, in France, people my age (me included) will happily & loudly sing along to the total shit-stain that is the French version. BEHOLD.
I started slowly skimming through my GURPS Traveller books, and it was only today that I realized Alien Races 3 has a page of “Droyne Coyns”, usable for the Droynes’ particular brand of mystic divination! Amazing.
Hahaha Unity just announced a feature where you make up slop games with friends in a genAI group chat. There’s going to another wave of devs going to Godot, isn’t there? Also, have fun in the comments section everyone!
UE Gameplay Cameras Revived
I hinted at it last time I talked about my camera system for Unreal Engine: it might come back.
Well, now it sort-of has, and if you have some use for it, you can help by sponsoring its development and getting technical support for it! All the information can be found at my company’s website. And yes, my company is called “Brutal Baguette”1.
Obviously, if you were following my Gameplay Cameras articles here, you might want to start following the Brutal Baguette blog from now on. It will be fairly low frequency.
- Bonus points if you catch the reference. ↩︎
The collector’s conundrum: I have a punched version of White Bear & Red Moon that I can play, but my copy of Dragon Pass is unpunched… should I punch it to play with the newer rules and colour board, or should I leave it and stick to its predecessor?
Last week KamCon started with a bang: a concert of by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, with local band Tayos opening for them. Too bad the acoustics were bad… I’ll have to try and catch both bands in other venues whenever possible!
After looking at several options for a website featuring payments and subscriptions, I understand why everybody’s raving about Ghost despite it lacking a whole bunch of basic features: it’s the cheapest option, and it has 0% transaction fees.
It’s amazing to see the amount of time, resources, and energy game-devs pour into CRPGs to get even a fraction of the immersive, reactive worlds we achieve in TTRPGs with, like, a handful of dice and a few bullet points in a notebook…
