Carl-Henrik Skårstedt
@spacemoguls.bsky.social
Game Developer, Maker of retro games both new and old! And Paradox Interactive during normal business hours. https://linktr.ee/spacemoguls SpaceMoguls.com/Games Alta/RBS^TSL
Decided to update latest releases of x65 (65xx assembler) and IceBro Lite (#C64 VICE debugger) after some fixes and a long time since last release: github.com/Sakrac/IceBr... github.com/Sakrac/x65/r...
Release CMake builds, Sokol Backend · Sakrac/IceBroLite
IceBro Lite release notes Here’s a polished GitHub-style release summary you can paste into a release post: Highlights This release focuses on modernization, platform support, and a smoother debugg...
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I've written a lot of dialogue for Island Adventure with the goal of having silly adventures on each island as each is discovered. I recentlyreplayed Link to the Past and Link's awakening and realizing how inspired I have been by those titles. Maybe there is room to be sillier still!
Turns out Earthion is fully verified for Steam Machine (store.steampowered.com/app/3597580/..., click on steam deck and click the second tab). Not that I expected anything else given the Steam Deck verification but still cool that the port I worked on is verified on Steam Machine :)
Earthion on Steam
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
store.steampowered.com
"Following this date, new games will be available on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only, it said." Note: PS5 discs are already a digital format. I think the intended wording would be online formats only.
I worked on a game called True Crime NYC featuring Times Square in New York City. I am working on a game called Crusader Kings 3 featured in Times Square in New York City.
I wrote a bit about how I got my previous job (writing arcade emulators, and a MegaDrive emulator): spacemoguls.com/2026/06/08/f...
From Retro Dev Hobby to Published Games: A 20-Year Journey
This post covers about 20 years of starting a hobby project with friends to fully licensed and published games released on consoles and home computers. Shoot’em-up arcade games were much more…
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I've had a bit of a struggle making progress on one of my commodore 64 games. When I took a step back and looked at the design, I realized I was trying to make a character give a clue about how to locate the character itself... Fixing that design should unblock me :)
This is certainly surprising as I recently worked at a company called Bitwave (renamed from Retroid due to the handheld brand confusion): share.google/2c0mfDNvutS6...
AYANEO Could Announce New ‘BITWAVE’ Handhelds Tomorrow Morning | Retro Handhelds
AYANEO’s May 21 event could reveal more than the Pocket Block, with leaked BITWAVE images pointing to two new handhelds with flagship ambitions.
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BATSUGUN! This legendary shmup is currently 40% off on GOG! What are you waiting for!? Join the Skull Hornets! Pick it up today! www.gog.com/en/game/bats...
Got the latest Retro Gamer Magazine, containing a God of War special, an uncharted mention AND an article about Rocket on Wheels by Sucker Punch that later created Sly Cooper. This must be building up to a big Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale celebration ;)
DmC meets Gravity Rush you say? polygon.com/control-reso... Sounds like we need to add Control Resonant to Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale!
Control Resonant sounds so cool even Control haters might like it
Remedy Entertainment shows off more from its Control sequel
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Super 8. i walked out within the first fifteen minutes, but because it was a work event at Superbot I sat off the time in the lobby feeling lucky I at least didn't have to suffer the remainder of that movie.
woke stifler@yelix.bsky.social · 6mo agofun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
I just integrated the 100th puzzle into the Island Adventure story! Island Adventure is a puzzle+adventure game for the #Commodore64 that I'm working on. I'm taking a little break from making more art and code to get all the design in place. I still have more than half the puzzles left to hook up.
Game development - it is a lot of work, isn't it?
Still working on Island Adventure for the Commodore 64. At this point I am not programming anything new, just hooking up puzzles to the gameplay in script. Making a little progress each day before I can start on bug fixing and polish :)
Unsurprisingly not a stand-up arcade cabinet but the game service named "Arcade" :(
There is a valid point there though, AI Slop is a poor abbreviation of Artificially Simulated Shit Slop. We should drop the AI part.
Ravi Hiranand@ravi64.com · 7mo agoNadella wanting everyone to stop talking about AI slop seems like a really good reason for everyone to keep talking about AI slop www.theverge.com/news/852630/...
I excitedly noticed in one of the #Commodore64 #Ultimate reviews that Space Moguls is featured on the back of the box🎉 Personal Big Deal! I have only had one previous game featured on a console/computer packaging - Shrek 2 (+Lego Indiana Jones) was featured on the holiday packaging of the XBox 360📦
I just spent way too much time trying to get MAME to accept my Mega Drive ROM I'm working on and fiddling with bytes in the header to get it to work. Turns out -genesis will not run a ROM with SEGA MEGA DRIVE in the header, you must use -megadriv. (no error message either...) But now I can debug!
Seems like it has been announced! Space Moguls comes with the new ultimate C64 on a USB drive! spacemoguls.com/game-page-fo... www.commodore.net/pressplay?ta...
Game Page for Space Moguls
You’ve won the trials, now you’re eligible for the off-world finals, will your settlement be the winner among the four finalists? Four Player Competetive Strategy Game Taking inspiratio…
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Looking at a Truxton video and the boss music comes up. Live Caption suddently kicks in and... (youtu.be/9_fX0yXVDh0?...)
Best cynical name for Steam Machine I seen so far: Twouya (Ouya 2)
Tiger Heli was fun to work on! Lately though I’ve been confusing it with Ports of Call graphics due to the early harbour stage…
Martin Lindell@martinlindell.bsky.social · 9mo agoTiger Heli celebrates its 40th anniversary today. Released in arcades on October 28, 1985 by Toaplan. 🚁 Celebration deal! Less than $1 on GOG and Steam: www.gog.com/en/game/tige... store.steampowered.com/app/2022970/...
And here is the optimization post, wrote some stuff about what I work on on the team!
Crusader Kings@crusaderkings.com · 10mo agoDev Diary #187 - Performance & Optimization 📊 In today's dev diary, our tech and programming teams detail the technical challenges of adding East Asia to Crusader Kings III and the work they've done to minimize the impact it has on the performance of the game. ► pdxint.at/4hbuNpV
Posting a picture of some cows before the internet reacts to my work post ;)
