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AUTOEXEC.BUN @davidxnewton.bsky.social · 15h

Major evolution in the GZDoom community tonight - the regular contributors finally had enough of the project lead, who had been very hard to work with for a long time. He dug in and told them "If you don't like it, go and make your own fork."

UZDoom is now live here.
github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom

GitHub - UZDoom/UZDoom: UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities

UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities - UZDoom/UZDoom

github.com

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 20h

bsky.app/profile/win9...

Win98 Tech Support @win98tech.bsky.social · 21h

Jesus goddamn fucking christ is there anything ai hasn't fucked up completely

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 21h

RIP GZDoom

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 21h

This is a super down-the-line thought, but I had an intriguing idea: coming up with my own palette and making a pixel art driven set in the style of Mega Man Legends / The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. I need to practice raw pixel art, and I just love how bright and bubbly those games are. 🤔

Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 8d

I need to test myself and try some vastly different themes in future packs, I think. I like working with palettes, but I'm also pretty tired of Quake's at the moment, so something much different there too...

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely psyched for Zortch 2. That demo felt like playing Serious Sam for the first time, being wowed by matcap reflections and ludicrous particle effects.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 1d

func_detail goes on, func_detail goes off

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Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for my favorite input tutorial message of all time, Zortch 2

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 2d

They say don't listen to your thoughts after 9pm or whatever, but if you're up all night what time do you start listening again 🤔

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no I stayed up until 5 am again thinking about the future, day's ruined

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-A...

Lords of Kobol

YouTube video by Bear McCreary - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Green = played (not necessarily finished)
Yellow = knew of / looked at / probably decided I could something better with my time
White = not on my radar but probably is now

Clearly been slacking. Cool list.

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Chief Smokey @chiefsmokey.bsky.social · 3d

If you're looking for something to play, here's a list of 40 abysmal shovelware FPS games from the Doom Clone era.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck sake

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about dabbling with little vector packs, I used to wrok with 'em a fair bit as a signwriter. What's the most common format game engines work with these days? SVG?

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 5d

I know an awful lot of it came from stock packs, but those packs are really deliberately designed and you often wonder just where the hell that sound comes from.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah I've thought about that a bit, and I don't quite know how to put it. Like as fidelity has gone up and things sound more real and rooted in the world, they've also started sounding less memorable. It's really good sound work, but something fanciful and deliberately designed can hit much better.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 5d

I know most devs, smartly, would never actually want to try it in a modern game, but I LOVE old game soundtracks and SFX being compressed to 96 or 128 kbps. It's like picking up audio transmissions from another plane of existence. Shit's spiritual to me.

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Possessor Fessor 🎃 Ni No Kuni @professorfessor.bsky.social · 7d

If you want to own System Shock 2 but aren’t interested in the Nightdive remake, act now because it’s about to be delisted as a standalone product.

www.rpgsite.net/news/18648-s...

System Shock 2 (1999) is being delisted on October 10 for PC for standalone purchases | RPG Site

It will be included with System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster going forward for new and existing owners.

www.rpgsite.net

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 7d

I totally missed the sale but I'm buying it full price because of these pics

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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 8d

who'd have thought that supporting the people who make your favourite music, tv shows, books, movies, videogames, jewelry, costumes, paintings, sculpture, etc ... would pay off?

who'd have thought they were valuable members of society all this time??

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 8d

That's NES yeah? I'd actually love to try something much more retro than even Quake someday.

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 8d

Honestly hate having a 'product', but a guy's gotta eat. That's why I want to keep the rules as basic as possible - just credit and don't resell my stuff. Make and sell anything you want with 'em!

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 8d

Just FYI I have updated the wording on one licensing rule on my assets based on feedback from @kenney.nl. It's the same rule, it should just worded more clearly that you can sell a product made with the help of my textures, just please don't sell the textures themselves as a product. Legalese... 🙃

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Brad (Strideh) @strideh.bsky.social · 8d

I was trying to be clear about reselling them as asset packs, you can absolutely use them in sold, commercial games. I will work on making that clearer.

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