@richardjdare
Programmer and writer. created indie games STARBLASTER and ANTIGEN. Long ago I wrote 'Games and the Imagination'. Currently working on 2 desktop apps: SLIDE and PROJECT RED HOOK. Likes books, ideas, dreams. Amiga, Common Lisp, Personal Computing
World book day, innit, so here's mine.
"This book chronicles a lot of the games we grew up with, right through to some modern classics. It is beautifully presented and written with the knowledge and passion you'd expect from the author." Lee C.
www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/...
The top one. The text looks sharper. The bottom text has a kind of blurry quality to it. Although, if you don't click on the image to expand it, the bottom one looks better because it looks bolder.
Apidya' Special - An authentic, 24-bit pixel remake of a classic Shoot 'em up is coming to Consoles/PC (2026), and boy does it look good! www.indieretronews.com/2025/08/apid... #retrogaming #amiga #pcgaming
A NEW unseen trailer for the banned 1995 title Forbidden Solitaire has surfaced...
Forbidden Solitaire is in the @yogscast.games #tinyteams2025 event, which starts today. If you encounter streamers in possession of a short demo build, exercise extreme caution.
#tinyteams2025 #TurnbasedThursday
Wait.. what?😮
Roguecraft won an award for best modern #Amiga game at the Amiga/040 in Silicon Valley, yesterday!🥳🏆
From the live steam: youtube.com/live/GzfpEDI...
🎯Get it here: thalamusdigital.itch.io/roguecraft
#screenshotsaturday #roguelike #indiedev #gamedev
VR is amazing, but one of the problems with it is its being developed and pushed by Web giants who see users as statistics. VR design requires empathy, humanism and a sense of software authorship that has sadly declined in this era of giantism and mass computing.
Indie Retro News: Razing Core for the Sega Master System by Badcomputer looks very decent! (Alpha Demo) www.indieretronews.com/2025/07/razi... #retrogaming #gaming #games #sega
I wonder if British ISPs will start bundling with VPN providers now? Or would that be too on-the-nose? The online safety act has effectively added maybe a fiver a month to every savvy user's internet bill.
Our game Roguecraft is an award-winning dungeon crawler turn-based roguelike with retro roots and pixel-perfect turn-based action. Now coming to #steam 🎉
🎯Wishlist on Steam: thalamus.link/roguecraft
#turnbasedthursday #roguelike #indiedev #indiegamedev
Yeah, I did. I just loved everything about computers and was a huge information addict. Would probably have had more money to spend on my computer if I hadn't bought so many! I was just so hungry for knowledge. Sometimes I bought mags for computers I didn't own out of curiosity.
Awesome. Yknow when younger people tell me how cool the 90s was, I have to tell em, many of us 90s youths only saw the cool stuff on TV and in magazines just like they're doing now.
I have just published a new GitHub repository entitled 'ExileArchives'. This contains 9 pre-release versions of the BBC Mico game Exile. I recently re-archived these from the original disks that were sent to Superior Software BITD. Read more about their history here:-
github.com/KevEdwards/E...
A snapshot from one of the prods with blueish chrome gradient rendered text "Assembly '95 The Invitation."
ATLANTIS! A rendered, Lightwave 3Diey moonscape beneatha blue sky with the text like white monoliths towering above.
A lion and lioness/cheetah-like big cat roar in pixel art
A snap of one of the DiskMags, Channel Mag issue 1.
Yo, this is pretty neat stuff recently released: EXO DEMOSCENE 2.0. A collection of over 2000 DOS demoscene prods and musicdisks from 1987 to 1998, all pre-organised in a Launchbox with emulators pre-configured for click-and-enjoy.
www.retro-exo.com/demoscene.html
After years of hard work, our retro-inspired shooter Earthion finally has its own home online.
Dive into the world, watch the new trailer, and hear a track made entirely with the Megadrive’s YM2612 sound chip.
Now viewable in English and Portuguese:
earthiongame.com
FAT TRACKS Vol. 10 from ARTSTATE is out
now for Amiga.
Grab it here... mega.nz/file/mzRREDA...
#Amiga
OOO EEE AHHH OOH 🍌
Go bananas and play as Monkey in the upcoming FREE demo for Ultimate Sheep Raccoon, May 8-11!
🐒 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2923350/Ultimate_Sheep_Raccoon/
If you prefer screenshots to logos, then here is one from my next game, appropriately called Ridiculous Space Battles. You can read all about it (and even wishlist it) here: www.positech.co.uk/ridiculoussp...
You know what is probably rarer than indies who have made hit games? Indies surviving 20 years and NOT having a hit game.
I just finished this talk btw.
Commander Makara from Star Fleet! Lol
Maybe I should try and make it. By the time it's done, people will be saying 'remember Atomfall? I wish someone would make another post apocalypse game' lol
I lived that horror :) As a small boy I genuinely believed ww3 would kick off in my lifetime. I'd worry if I was strong enough to carry a GPMG, or put on an NBC suit quick enough. I can also see such a game being read as a metaphor for the scary and brutal average genX childhood lol
I want to play Atomfall, but the British Post-apocalypse game in my head looks more like Protect and Survive, Threads, where the wind blows and public information film horror than it looks like fallout. I'd probably set it in 1979-80 and make the protagonists a group of children
One of the hardest things in programming is when you've been working on something original for a long time, then someone else releases something similar, but not quite as good. And the other guy was so much better placed than you to ship it. Now you look like an also-ran copycat with your own idea.
Happy Friday!
We wanted to show some behind the scenes stuff on how we created a few of the background screens in Roguecraft.
It was 3D modelled in 3DS Max before pixellated in Photoshop palette.
This might be fun to see, and also debunk doubts about this being AI, which we strongly oppose :-)
How I optimised the Forbidden Solitaire FMV code.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4gg...
This is a pretty nerdy video in which I explain how I made some code 3x faster with a bunch of old skool tricks.
Eight years old this autumn, the video by Motion of Artstate to remember 25 years since the end of the Amiga demoteam ANARCHY, and publication of the story of the group in Fusion's 'Amiga in Pixels' book.
Music by 4MAT. Logo by Kingfisher of Bitfellas.
youtu.be/df9wfdSyIQw?...
Indie Retro News: OutRun Arcade - A vastly superior version of a classic racer is coming to an Amiga near you via Reassembler www.indieretronews.com/2025/02/outr... #retrogaming #gaming #amiga #commodoreamiga (Full Video in link)
Banner saying "NSPCC Game Safe Sale" and also showing Grey Alien Games, Regency Solitaire, Ancient Enemy, Regency Solitaire II, Shadowhand Solitaire, Spooky Bonus.
We're pleased to be supporting the NSPCC as part of this special sale on Steam. Please take a look at the games and have a great weekend!
store.steampowered.com/publisher/sk...
Urgh, I often get the urge to take a Unix kernel and build my own highly integrated desktop and user land on top of it. Must resist...
