* ATASCII 6th edition announced More info on logiker's website : logiker.com/ATASCII #demoscene #demoparty #atari #atari8bit #a8b #atascii #asciiart #ansi
RetroHomebrew
@retrohomebrew.bsky.social
Next creative hyperfixation: absurdist YouTube reviews of video games, from first- to fourth-generation consoles and 70s/80s/90s microcomputers. Includes legacy games/ROM hacks, modern homebrew, and jam entries. Author. ND. Vancouverite in Toronto.
my project for last month was to get more specifically Vancouver subjects enshrined in ANSI blocks:
Thanks to everyone who worked on this: @sarahkwalsh.bsky.social, Rebecca Ross, Hannah Montgomery, Hanting Chen and @prmurcia.bsky.social, and thanks to @ukri.org's FluTrailMAPOneHealth consortium for funding the work.
The Newsbytes archive now has the complete corpus!! 157,444 tech news articles, completely filling out the gaps in 1996-2002. www.savetz.com/newsbytes/
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The Worm King has awakened. A new noir horror adventure for the original Game Boy. Explore. Investigate. Survive. Launch price: €2.99 — normally €3.99 oniric-factor.itch.io/the-worm-king #GameBoy #GameBoyHomebrew #IndieGames
I haven't tried playing NetHack yet, but every six months I eagerly settle in for the Nethackathon, streamed live on Twitch. Begins tomorrow (Fri 11 Sept) at 2pm ET, and continues non-stop for 48+ hours. nethackathon.org
NetHackathon
Twice a year, Twitch content creators stream NetHack continuously for over 48 hours!
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Demoscene Report 4 September 2026 youtu.be/lKo1AO30xZk
Demoscene Report 4 September 2026
YouTube video by psenough
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🗓️The official FREE DEMO for Last Days of Tsufana will be hitting both Steam and ITCH on SEPTEMBER 16th! ✨Mark those calendars and GET WISHLISTING!✨
PachiPals Demo (GBC) [Free] [Role Playing] PachiPals blends monster-catching adventure with fast, satisfying pinball action. Published: Aug 26, 2026 at 11:43 AM https://rebusmind.itch.io/pachipals-demo-gbc #GameBoy
RIP Harvey deKleine, a fellow Ontarian who contributed so much to the homebrew communities of several systems. youtu.be/zCyQbTUs924
Remembering Harvey deKleine - 5-11 Under Productions - Papa Pete's Community Minute
YouTube video by Papa Pete
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croplike is an ASCII / lo-fi pixel art browser game. Fly out. Take what you find. Hold the landing pad long enough to leave with it. Lose a run and you still keep the farm, which carries on growing. In development. More ways out, and more to find, coming. croplike.com
Randy Eric Crihfield has passed away. He was well known in the Atari community as one of the pioneers of #Atari2600 homebrew scene, producing some of the earliest games through his company, Hozer Video Games. Among them was Edtris 2600 (1995). www.morningjournalnews.com/obituaries/2... #atari
A couple of chaps in Sydney (one of whom worked on Good Game and Spawn Point) are trying to get a documentary series off the ground about Aussie games history, told by the people who were there, and they need your support. You can back the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Region Locked: A Documentary Series on Aussie Video Games
Far from Silicon Valley, the Australian video game industry was forged by risk-takers, innovators and visionaries. This is their story.
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Thanks to everyone who pledged to Region Locked today! We are doing this to have the Australian gaming community involved in the project and cannot wait to create it for you! We still have a long way to go - so please pledge, follow and share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/reg...
Region Locked: A Documentary Series on Aussie Video Games seeks to uncover the pivotal stories in how Australia's game development scene came to life, and creative director Michael Refalo tells us how they're going to do it. @regionlocked-doco.bsky.social
Isabella the red dragon starts her first day at Dragon Camp in Dragon's Puzzle Challenge (2026) by BMO Studios for NES. Ten maze-like levels, 10 coins each, box pushing, switch flipping and key hunting await.🐉🔑 💸 bmo-studios.itch.io/dragons-puzz... #homebrew #nes #game #dragonspuzzlechallenge
Curiously missing from the Anthropic "watermark" is any trace of the work of countless writers, victims of Anthropic's bold theft of our work, without our permission or knowledge.
Anthropic explains the watermarking that will be part of future Claude models (and is generating angst among slopists) www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
bitsy is turning 10! to celebrate i've created an archive of every released version of bitsy, and i'm hosting an extra-special, extra-long 100th #bitsyjam :D blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-0...
10 years of bitsy: announcing the bitsy archive and #bitsyjam 100!
every version of bitsy is now online + the last #bitsyjam
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I’m making a browser extension called Safe Badge to let you know which Twitch streamers have disabled Gen AI training. This is an honor system as there’s no way to verify it. But it’s better than nothing. The extension isn’t finished yet but you can give yourself the badge here: safebadge.ori.mx
Demoscene Report 13 August 2026 youtu.be/Ob0xuGdbhPA all of the latest news, links and releases from the active demoscene. This week we will finish coverage from Assembly Summer 2026 and also cover a few highlights from Silly Venture 2026 Summer Edition.
And with today's Twitch Android app update, I can receive push notifications for Twitch on my phone again for the first time in months.