The creative benefits of technical limitation ;)

Guess I'm in good in company 😁 Hope I'll get there at some point as well. Really need to learn how to pin down core game loops first though...

Oh man, I love Olof Gustafsson/Blaizer, never played Pinball Illusions but was playing Pinball Dreams constantly because his tunes just rocked!

Never got anywhere with this as a child, but I distinctly remember the weird (and dynamic?) ambient sounds and that heart beat, which both gave this a strangely primordial and foreboding atmosphere, better than any music ever could.

Remember playing a demo of this from some cover CD on the Amiga 4000 and having no idea what the heck I was doing and what the actual goal was 😂 Felt very grim and cynical though.

I just finished Teatro Grottesco again after a few years, and it made me laugh out loud in so many places with its sheer grotesque descriptions and strange non-persons, while managing to be deeply depressing and weirdly uplifting at the same time. Definitely some of his best stories!

If you have to go through all kinds of hoops trying to get a technology to accomplish a simple task that a random person could do without even using their brain consciously, that technology is fundamentally broken or nothing more than a mental projection of what you'd like it to be.

So you literally just poke around in it randomly (excuse me, "prompt engineering") for long enough until it comes up with with the right answer by accident after like 10 wrong ones.

With that approach you could also get a dog or a newborn baby to solve complex problems 😂

Ah, that's the version we had, memories 🤩 And I just love that tune.

That track was so damn thrilling back then! Heightened by the fact I wasn't allowed to play C&C as I was like 10 or so 😂

Not a fan of these weird remixes though (even if they are made by Klepacki himself, I suppose). The rougher mono originals on the game CD are just perfect imho.