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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · 28d

An in-depth review of the legendary Deluxe Paint posted a few days ago: stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-...
#pixelart

Back when EA was cool, they packaged their software in album-style sleeves and promoted their developers like rock stars. I was a Dan Silva groupie.

stonetools.ghost.io

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Monsta, one of the first games I worked on together with other people over 20 years ago has just been officially ported to the iPhone and iPad. It was originally designed for the PalmPilot if you remember those 🙂
apps.apple.com/rs/app/monst...

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Grant Kirkhope @grantkirkhope.bsky.social · Jul 31

There’s a new plaque on the wall of a small building in Ashby de la Zouch …. Legendary

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Jul 1

World’s Narrowest Fiat Panda... because why not.
www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/w...

World’s Narrowest Fiat Panda is one anorexic 19-inch-wide EV destined for the record books - Yanko Design

Classic cars often become platforms for bold customization, but few reimaginings are as visually striking (or ugly, I have to admit) as this one. Italian mechanic Andrea Marazzi has transformed a 1993...

www.yankodesign.com

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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · Apr 25

We made a Nintendo 64 demo for Revision 2025!

📺 youtu.be/v3wYV6gxJII

It has baked lighting with normal mapping, specular shading (at the end), and of course bloom. The beautiful song was made by @prismbeings.com with guitar performed by soundcloud.com/sou_andrade

Some development notes below.

A screenshot of a graphics demo with an arched outdoor hallway made of rock walls with the sky seen behind, with the out-of-frame sun casting its light to the cobblestone floor and walls.

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_lemon @andylemon.bsky.social · Apr 25

big ups Moby for doing something incredibly nice, especially for students + as a teaching tool (let alone as a lovely resource for musicians) <3
#education #music #nonprofits
mobygratis.com

mobygratis - Free Moby music to empower your creative projects

Free music resource designed to empower creative projects by students, non-profits, indie filmmakers, musicians and more.

mobygratis.com

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Mar 28

Download on Demozoo: demozoo.org/productions/...

Cracking On

Cracktro by Adam Gilmore + Exocet + Tom, released 16 March 2025

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Mar 28

It was really fun creating the graphics and animations for this little Atari ST production presented at Buxton Bytes. Code by Tom, music by Adam Gilmore.
youtu.be/T_naN3-AglI?...
#demoscene #atari

Cracking On by Tom, Exocet and Adam Gilmore (Atari ST fantasy cracktro)

YouTube video by evldhs

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Mar 27

Un bon article sur l'histoire et les nombreux déboires de Thomson : www.usine-digitale.fr/article/tech...

Technicolor, un fleuron français à l'héritage plus que centenaire

Technicolor Creative Studios, spécialiste tricolore des effets visuels et de l'animation, a demandé fin février son placement en...-Entertainment

www.usine-digitale.fr

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Mar 26

100% of the 'top of the month' on pouet.net is now made of Atari ST releases. I don't think that has ever happened before! 💪
#demoscene

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Mar 26

Vintage ! :D
Très sympa visuellement, en particulier les arrières-plans.

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Planet-D @planetdnews.bsky.social · Mar 20

Atari City by Exocet (@hervepiton.bsky.social) / Checkpoint

🔗 demozoo.org/graphics/128...

🗓 Released in 2014 at Silly Venture 🇵🇱

#demoscene #creative #atari #2d #graphics #pixels #drawing #painting #pictures #pixelart #digitalart #computerart #art #picoftheday #pictureoftheday 😍

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Dec 21

486_DX2.ICO (1995)

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Dec 7

I don't often finish games, but I felt I had to make an exception for Stray.
Lovely game - looks great, plays well, and just the right length for me (8 hours with plenty of time to goof around).

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cure @curepixel.bsky.social · Nov 22

Cluster? I hardly know her! #pixelart

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thank you, that means a lot ❤️

Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Jul 11

Everything you see here is only achieved by switching the background colour for each individual line at the exact right time.

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Jul 11

Here's the Atari ST demo we've released at Sommarhack with SMFX.
Includes some crazy technical achievements from Tom and Spkr as the demo had to run without writing any data to the screen memory.
#demoscene #atari
youtu.be/z2Ke-Irp7U8?...

A Series of Raster Effects by SMFX (Zero Bitplane Atari ST demo)

Atari ST demo without using pixel graphics, entirely made from background colour raster splits. Released at Sommarhack 2024 Zero Bitplane Compo. Demozoo: https://demozoo.org/productions/352741/

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Jul 3

An 8-bit duck who's too cool for school
Thomson TO8 specs - 320×200 16 colours, max 2 colours per 8×1 block
#pixelart

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · May 22

Little things in #pixelart...
320x200, 16 colours

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Apr 22

Interesting read about the open ecosystem philosophy behind the 3DO business model.
tedium.co/2024/04/20/3...

3DO History: Trip Hawkins’ Big Bet On The Model

Why 3DO’s true innovation wasn’t its early 3D hardware, but its business model—a model that perfectly matches its founder’s philosophy.

tedium.co

Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Feb 26

My entry for the tiny pixel art graphics competition at Lovebyte 2024.
21×24 pixels in 16 colours (EGA palette)
@lovebyteparty.bsky.social

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Dma-Sc @dma-sc.bsky.social · Dec 25

The Atari STe roguelike aventure game "nano Cave", for which I've done the music, has been released.
electric-dreams.itch.io/nano-cave

Nano Cave by Electric Dreams

electric-dreams.itch.io

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Dec 18

"The Commodore Amiga and its Undying Adoration by Anarchist Creatives" - interesting read about the (mostly Amiga, but not only) demoscene:
marincomics.com/amiga-demosc...

I liked the quote below about seeing technical limitations as a motivation.

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Hervé Piton @hervepiton.bsky.social · Dec 17

Prosperity, decline, and return of Adobe Flash

"When you separate the animation from the code, you are pushing away the art from the technique, and this is a problem. Flash provided the bridge: code that can work beautifully and art that can be functional."

Multiplatform

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