Boggo

@boggo.bsky.social

Principal Programmer @ Media Molecule Part-time indie https://boggo.neocities.org/ Creation tools on Dreams (PS4) Creative Coding and Computer Shenanigans

Excited to announce that ever since games companies started using AI for everything, games still take as long as they did before to make, play exactly the same as before, developers get paid the same and get laid off more and players pay more than ever before for the games 👍 thanks Sam!

Get more frags in your next deathmatch! The Thrustmaster Frag Master: one of the attempts in 1998 and 1999 for a mouse and keyboard replacement via a hybrid joystick aimed at FPS games. In this case, something more akin to a particularly cursed looking flight or racing controller.

A scanned magazine ad for the Frag Master. It's a yoke-like controller with a molten white-ish plastic looking design that you grip with both hands with a wide rounded base at the bottom you put on your desk. And then you push it forward/pull it back to look up and down, pull push left and right etc.

Also as people have pointed out, it's been a big couple weeks for point-and-click adventures of all stripes. The Mermaid Mask, Desktop Explorer, Staffer Retro, What Awaits, Aleksey? and (on a very close tangent) The Incident At Galley House. Something for everyone these days, and then some!

our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - made on our own game engine - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities

That football was kind of hard to watch, just unbelievably unsportsmanlike, and like 30 mins of Shakira and Justin Bieber (who is now somehow like 31) in the middle to break up the fighting and kung fu moves didn't help.

I forgot to even mention it but I had the world's most condensed Develop experience basically just going to loading bar and drinking pisco elysiums, 10/10.

Who wants to help me figure out what it means and whether it’s worth it to game jam where everyone shows up to the jam and opens up Claude.