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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt

@spacemoguls.bsky.social

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Game Developer, Maker of retro games both new and old! And Paradox Interactive during normal business hours. https://linktr.ee/spacemoguls SpaceMoguls.com/Games Alta/RBS^TSL

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 25

By request from the community I've fixed a bug in Space Moguls (#C64 4 player strategy, 2018). On planet Alia Terra a cell could seem to produce a full amount of items when it actually produced none under certain circumstances.

Protovision will provide a digital update for buyers when it is ready.

Planet 46C visual update for the upcoming fixed version of Space Moguls. A global event of Space Bees are causing increased food production and reduced energy production during this turn.

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · 7d

Tiger Heli was fun to work on! Lately though I’ve been confusing it with Ports of Call graphics due to the early harbour stage…

Martin Lindell @martinlindell.bsky.social · 7d

Tiger Heli celebrates its 40th anniversary today. Released in arcades on October 28, 1985 by Toaplan. 🚁

Celebration deal!
Less than $1 on GOG and Steam:
www.gog.com/en/game/tige...
store.steampowered.com/app/2022970/...

Tiger Heli

FLY THE ULTIMATE STEALTH JETCOPTER! Tiger-Heli marked a revolutionary moment in 1985 as T

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · 20d

And here is the optimization post, wrote some stuff about what I work on on the team!

Crusader Kings @crusaderkings.com · 20d

Dev Diary #187 - Performance & Optimization 📊

In today's dev diary, our tech and programming teams detail the technical challenges of adding East Asia to Crusader Kings III and the work they've done to minimize the impact it has on the performance of the game.

► pdxint.at/4hbuNpV

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · 20d

Posting a picture of some cows before the internet reacts to my work post ;)

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · 21d

I've implemented collision in my current #Commodore64 game project and now I have to decide if hitting something kills you or if you lose "energy" and I need to push the player vessel out of collision.

It is quite fun to do some fairly trivial math in 6502 assembler, when it all works of course....

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · 21d

I have written some stuff, revealing my pdt project, included some profiling graphs and some fun stories together with a few other coders on the team..

Crusader Kings @crusaderkings.com · 21d

Join us tomorrow at 2PM CEST for our next All Under Heaven dev diary! We'll be giving a detailed look into how expanding Crusader Kings III to include all of Asia affects performance, and what we've done to address it.

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Clear River Games @clearrivergames.com · 25d

Pre-orders for Earthion by Ancient are live!

Strap in and deploy a devastating arsenal as you fight your way through eight chaotic levels, each with unique environments, enemies and boss fights.

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thank you! And may you have a pleasant path ahead :)

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 26

It feels just like when they were flooding all the cities with electric scooters but at the same time more annoying.

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 25

I am sorry, but I felt I had to get those old Toaplan games redone. But fear not Luke, from now on I promise many *new* Commodore 64 and Mega Drive games! Earthion was new at least :)

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 24

Hmm.. ”fa”?

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 23

My temporary #Commodore64 game project is looking surprisingly good. Looking forward to wrapping it up!
(still need to get started on collision though....)

I'll get back to Island Adventure soon enough :)

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · Sep 21

This study should itself force companies amd govt to cease planning use of these models in any critical or meaningful way.

And yet.

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · Sep 21

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 20

Poor leadership is rampant in the game industry though, where failure is sometimes even celebrated as success because it met certain financial or timeline goals at the cost of the true talents' livelyhoods.

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 20

What a hateful approach to people who's only fault was working in companies with poor leadership. Imagine if the same sentiment applied to fintech where consequences of incompetence are massive. I'm glad I've never encountered this person. Everyone has something positive to offer.

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 17

Nice screen layout!
It has been a lot of fun working together on this and I’m sure we will cross paths again in the future :)

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 17

That’s an opportunity for a cartridge tape turbo loader!

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 17

That is a perfect example of a botched hardware product leading to software opportunity :)

I also want one because I want to see how playable my own games are, but I guess it is the same thing as TheC64mini which has no functional keyboard but also suspiciously no cassette port!

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 17

The C64GS is probably my vote for terriblest retro hardware.

C64GS an attempt to turn a full computer into a game console by removing the keyboard and the tape connector so you were forced to buy cartridges.

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Sep 9

If you’re making a … game … please turn off the motion blur!!!!

Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congrats on the success so far! Still hoping for 16 bit console support :)

If it helps, the new Mega Drive game I ported to modern consoles has "been doing extremely well" according to the US publisher CEO!

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Clear River Games @clearrivergames.com · Aug 15

Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 & 2! Is available now! Take an explosive journey back in time to the neon-lit arcades of the past! With added leader boards so you can immortalise your victories for all time!

Get your copy now!

shop.clearrivergames.com/collections/...

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Aug 14

The beep preorder bonus for the Super Deluxe version is tempting though..

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Aug 11

I worked on the orig Pac-Man World 2 and I'm really excited to see how the game was modernized in action!

My fondest memory was working on the Pookas jumping around! I also had some fun making a rope bridge, the bdoings. I did a water sim but that didn't make it so I made a fun wake effect instead.

Time Extension @timeextension.com · Aug 11

"When I Was Kid There Was Nothing Bigger Than Pac-Man" - Pac-Man Voice Actor Confirms Return To Role After Almost 20 Years Away. (Repost)

"When I Was Kid There Was Nothing Bigger Than Pac-Man" - Pac-Man Voice Actor Confirms Return To Role After Almost 20 Years Away

Pac-Man World 3's Martin Sherman confirms his involvement

www.timeextension.com

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Aug 11

It was a fun to assist Ancient with the modern console ports, including building a Mega Drive emulator from scratch! (I previously did the Toaplan collection for Steam/GoG)

It is almost finished now, just a few reported issues then console version release and the physical modern platform release :)

Time Extension @timeextension.com · Aug 11

The Making Of: Earthion - "Working On It Again Reminded Me Just How Incredible The Mega Drive Really Is".

The Making Of: Earthion - "Working On It Again Reminded Me Just How Incredible The Mega Drive Really Is"

"The Mega Drive is my favourite console of all time"

www.timeextension.com

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Carl-Henrik Skårstedt @spacemoguls.bsky.social · Aug 6

Looking into what caused that ASAP!

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