One of the best space combat sims of all time. Super smooth. Incredibly stylish. Can't recommend it enough.

Mike Tipul@tipul.bsky.social · 7h ago

Superconductor carapace flushed with condensed superfluid helium. Quantum stasis system. One occupant. Permanent seal. House of the Dying Sun is 70% off this week! store.steampowered.com/app/283160/H...

Look at this dude!

i love posting images on this site

I'm going through the old Ace Combat 6 promotional website on the web archive and saving all the images because it's a great website with a ton of screenshots, and it's a very photogenic game. This screenshot in particular I remember being absolutely amazed at the time that it was a screenshot.

I'm very sure that nobody can be bothered, but I wonder what it would take to bring back or re-release the Jane's games. The whole Jane's Combat Simulations brand must have been a weird and probably(?) expensive license for EA to maintain.

Praying for a fire sale on the insane depth of properties that EA is sitting on. Even in just my little corner of niche interests, it's wild how much they created, bought, and then destroyed.

My monitor seems to have been so thoroughly knackered by dithering that it doesn't even look like dithering anymore. It's just this weird cloth-like noise pattern instead of ordered pixels.

Wow Bluesky ate those native 640x480 screenshots for breakfast. I wonder if you scale them up to modern sizes, they look better.

Finished(?) nophenia, which I would describe as an interactive porfolio for environment art. Absolute master class in a very specific kind of surreal and dreamy ultra-low fidelity environments that pulls out all the classical tricks, especially for distant "skybox" scenery. Gorgeous game.

New video game review metric: Time Until Gameplay. How long it takes from launching a game, to being given control of the core gameplay.

Played through Star Fox 64 for the first time in like, probably 20 years or something. I still think it suffers from all the problems that made me dislike back in the day, but I can appreciate the cool stuff it does way more now. It's a very focused game, and surprisingly cinematic.

I want to see more flying games brave enough to have my favorite anti-fun mechanic of fuel and fuel management. I know it's almost unanimously hated. I know it creates a lot of design problems. I love it.

I know this would be very legally "Not Okay" but I think it would be so much fun to have game jams themed around using specific SFX packs from specific popular games. Half-Life is the first game that comes to mind for this sort of thing, but you could apply it so many games.

The 2026 Godot Community Poll is here: Takes about ten minutes to complete, and it's one of the more direct ways to influence where things head next. We want to hear from you! 📝 godotengine.org/article/godo...

Godot Community Poll 2026 – Godot Engine

We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.

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I am in love with Diesel Railcar Simulator. What a charmingly straightforward and easy to play game that is also barely even a game by the modern definition, but I don't care because I just really like driving the trains.

The worst thing that ever happened to Jedi Knight is that Half-Life came out a year later.

Holy crap I was trying to remember the name of this game, but couldn't the other day. I still think about it occasionally because of the "dinosaurs can smell you, so you don't want to be upwind of a T-Rex" thing. This is SUCH A late 90s game.

Videogame Beaches🏳️‍⚧️@videogamebeach.bsky.social · last wk.

Delphaeus Hills Shore (Carnivores 2, PC, Action Forms, 1999)

Photoshopped some brown and bloom out of curiosity.

It's hard to overstate how formative an experience Massassi Temple was for me. It was the first time I ever played with mods for a game. The majority of my time with that game was browsing the site, downloading levels for Jedi Knight and running through them. It colored my view of games for life.

Rick Lane@ricklane.bsky.social · 2w ago

So here's a piece about a long-running Jedi Knight fansite that's also kinda about the Internet as a whole, charting the boom and bust of the dotcom era, and mourning a web that doesn't really exist any more. www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Something both Derail Valley and Diesel Railcar Sim both have is a great sense of speed. 60 mph feels like you're flying in those games. Something about the scale of the world around you, plus good camera movement, and audio cues that change in frequency depending on speed I think.

Oh, look at that! Gorgeous! ✨

Unrelated to my last post, but I did some proper AMRAAM slinging BVR for the first time in a very long time and uh, yeah it's as boring as I remember it being. If everybody does it right, we all go home with no kills and no missiles. People only die when there's mistakes, and you never see anything.

It is so funny and sad how scared DCS server owners are of the MiG-29 when it is so much worse, and so much more dangerous to fly, than every 4th generation fighter, and in some ways, even most 3rd generation fighters in DCS. I love the plane and all its oddities, but man it is an uphill battle.

youtu.be/eGYOi8d9csM I have made a new trailer showcasing UH-1H. #flightsim #gamedev

Low Level Hunters - UH-1H trailer

YouTube video by hijong park

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Look at this really cool muzzle flash from Halo CE.

I've finished updating my good old GunsAndBullets2 code that I'm constantly referencing and reusing. The main new features are Rigidbody bullets and draggy bullets, but there's a ton of other little fixes, improvements, and optimizations.

By the way, Diesel Railcar Simulator is on sale right now. It's Densha de Go but very British and a bit more realistic and to British grading standards. Minutes instead of seconds. Meters instead of Centimeters. You are there to do a perfectly adequate job.

Why485@why485.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not a flight sim, but this 100% applies to Diesel Railcar Simulator which has fantastic cameras and is an absolute gem.

Derail Valley's B100 patch finally has some news! The patch won't come out until at least 2027, possibly 2028, but Derail Valley is already a complete game and honestly they really really should sell B100 and its DLC as Derail Valley 2 because of how much bigger it is and the development time.

Derail Valley - B100 Progress Update 1 - Steam News

First Look Into The Electrics, Rail Crane, Traffic, Improved Graphics, Soundtrack & More

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Important skeet, and also a part of why I try to be so very vocal about the games and such out there that I love and enjoy and think are worth people's time.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.