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Game Developer (Adeline, Heliovision, Eden, Funcom), Retro Enthusiast (Oric, Atari, Audio), YouTuber (https://nitter.cf/t.co/pwPJVEmVRO) https://nitter.cf/t.co/Exuv4jjvBl

Norway
Joined September 2014
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Encounter is clearly not a game for everybody, but the Steam algorithm links the visibility of a game to the number of whish lists it has received, so if you feel like wish-listing the game on your Steam account that would be very appreciated! 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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A couple persons ask me how I built the staff for my costume, so let's do a quick explanation. The staff itself is a fallen branch I found in the local forest, had to remove the bark, file the pointy bits, sand it, oil it, drill a hole for the top section, etc...⤵️
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A set of 3D printed bits are used to secure the battery in position and ensure a proper contact between the 18650 battery and the "led bundle" ⤵️
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This single battery can keep the light on for about 23 hours when fully charged. Worked very nicely in the dark!
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Nice Halloween party yesterday in the office :) My glowing staff worked surprisingly well!
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Encounter is now at a 100% price increase for the Halloween sales on Itch.io. 😱 Also I'm put a $9999 sales goal, I wanted to put 1 million dollar but an error message told me that $10000 was the maximum... and apparently they are doing a off by one check! 😉
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So we finally tested these ChatGPT generated Spectrum 128k ports of our Oric games, and the results are a mixed bag: Basically the games are functionally working, the code run, the game logic works, sounds and music are working as well, monochrome graphics and fonts are ok ⤵️
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But there are two massive issues: The loading times are very bad, and the Spectrum is vertically challenged (192 vs 224 on the Oric) which results in 4 lines of text missing... and that's something a coding assistant is not going to solve for you.⤵️
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If someone was to port Encounter to the Atari ST, the easiest way would be to open the bottom border, but on the Spectrum you need to actually rethink the entire user interface, the entire presentation so it looks and plays good, that's where the human in the loop matters.
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Well, I was wondering if anyone would try to use AI to port Oric games to other systems, I guess that's now a thing. Apparently a 128K Spectrum is needed to run a 64K Oric game 😅 I've not tried them, no idea how they compare to our originals. outsoftware.it/games/#sincla…
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I guess to balance the craziness of last week, the only logical thing was that the first game I worked on 31 years ago finally got remastered.🤪 store.steampowered.com/news/… I've not tried it yet, but analog controls should be a nice fix!
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Upload access has been disabled on the Defence Force apache server which means posting messages is now impossible. This will be restored after the php update has been successfully been done and validated.
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For the ones wondering why there's been no updates on the Oric Dungeon Master these few last weeks: Let's just say that there's been a number of "curveballs" and events that took precedence and had to be handled. And now there's a critical php exploit. *sigh*
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I was not expecting somebody to manage to get a decent texture mapping on the Oric, it's slow as hell but it works :) Well done!
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3D printing is not magic, but it's very handy! Now the control monitor fits under the screen and follows the angle and shape of the Stream Deck. The sticking HDMI and power cables are not ideal, but good enough for now!
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Dedicated dashboard on a 7" screen I had laying around. 😅 It was supposed to be a control monitor for when recording my youtube videos but ended up not using it because it was too cumbersome to move it around.
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Much easier to understand with something that looks like a graph bar.
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In an ideal world I would have bought a new SSD for the server, but with the insane prices I'm just going to reuse my old 250 GB 860 EVO to replace the even older 120 GB 840 EVO.
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That should help.
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We are living in a very exhausting time-line, we somehow took the wrong turn at some point, but there's no easy way to rewind and go back to a saner one.
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