Interview: Shadowgate's Co-Creator On Returning To The NES Classic 30 Years Later. (Repost)
"I kept this massive design document in my basement for 30 years"
The excellent Rocket Jockey which inexplicably has a modern release on Steam is currently a weekly deal and if you ever wanted to play Rocket League but made for windows 98 you should definitely grab it. Since running 3d games from the 90s SUCKS this is a great release tbh.
I once got the big box of this game for cheap at a computer fair, but never made it past the first area cause everything was so darn verbose. Guess I didn't miss too much? I can totally see the 1999 games storytelling discourse praising exactly this kind of stuff as "mature" writing, though.
Not the sort of torment I was expecting, really. "I’m convinced there must be some other game called Planescape: Torment out there, because the game I cleared was one of the most misogynistic wastes of time I’ve ever experienced." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/10/08/p...
[Content warning: This article cites misogynistic dialogue in several places and also refers to in-game scenes of relationship-related abuse.] I’ve had my eye on this RPG for a long time now,…
OK bin dabei (leider nur digital weil ich zu weit weg wohne, aber immerhin...)
I've tried not to use adblock extensions for the longest time, but it's been a while now since it became absolutely unbearable and I caved in.
It's time to wrap up this month-long celebration of Dragon Slayer, and what better game to do it with than Xanadu Next, an underappreciated action RPG and dungeon-crawler gem that lets you make literal skeleton keys out of monster bones, and has an enemy that can reduce your level if it hits you.
Falcom placed Xanadu game rules on top of the kinds of dungeon-crawling, action RPGs it had inspired for 20 years, and the result is a spin-off you should play.
Lots of new followers, thanks for joining! Here's what's up: I've been developing Chantey, a pirate metal retro adventure rhythm game, to release for Chromatic & Game Boy in Q1 2025! Play the demo 👉https://gortyncode.itch.io/chantey-prologue Pre-order 👉https://modretro.com/products/chantey
The big bald head found its way into so many things! But I had never recognized the other two, I think you're right about the modified pose from Spider-Man. (The center one is also likely somewhat modified from an Arnold as Conan the Barbarian reference.)