Over-the-top, videogame-style survival horror for your theater of the mind. The post Stay Frosty Remastered (2025) appeared first on Vintage RPG.

I began work on Project Questa on the 27th of September, because I couldn’t get Khazad Voice TTS to work on my PC. Since then I’ve spent several days a week working on my AI narrator utility and have…

Why Mario Kart 64 and a stolen Sonic 2 prototype almost made it

https://kenney.nl/starter-kits Generous contribution of 6 game skeletons in Godot. Impressive what one person can accomplish these days! I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for…

The mad lads and lasses in Rekjavik went and did it. While some studios shied away from launching titles into the meatgrinder World of Warcraft Forever and Grand Theft Auto VI have made this…

Seeing Bistro right-way up, and improving depth buffer precision.

This is the sequel to the excellent Magical Vacation on the GBA. Magical Starsign was developed by Brownie Brown and published by Nintendo, exclusively for the Nintendo DS, in 2006. Unlike its…

Can simple rules make a world worth exploring, one small change at a time? Up.

I suspect Luke Muscat isn’t the kind of dev who’d be content to spend the next few years churning out course add-ons, but I for one would be glad if he did. Normal Golf Game has an…

My Last Poll Vote: Bratwurst. Most of these are my favourite kinds of sausage, but a few of them I haven't tried. Never have I ever had Blood Sausage or Kielbasa (or penis), but have been wanting to…

The world is still sad and annoying, let's talk about classic video games instead! Previously: SNES Games I finished ~30 years ago!, 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid, my list of completed…

Everyone has probably heard of Wordle, which is a fun game itself, but I think I prefer this one to it. It really makes me think a lot more, and I usually can't get all the categories. There always…

Believe it or not it's a video game

Decompilation turned games into raw material. Xbox is leaning in, Navok wants a moat, and the fans want Batman.

I apologise for being absent so long, the day job has kept me busy for a lot longer than originally expected – with a little luck next year should be a lot better for the project. That said a…

Recently, I've been hearing about people wanting to make an SMW Central alternative. As far as I can tell, the individuals who desire this the most are also the individuals most open to using GenAi.…

Robert Yang made a web-based clicker game called Up the Vote in response to news about dismal voter registration rates among young people in New Zealand, where he lives. I enjoyed both reading about…

One week of Inselnova development in numbers: 66 AI sessions, 154 tickets, two releases, and the development lifecycle I use as a solo indie developer with a day job.

I played the database game TR-49 , by Jon Ingold et al, during a micro-convalescence brought about through my annual double-jab of flu and covid vaccine boosters. After putting close to ten hours…

Tasting History with Max Miller is must-watch YouTube for me. Miller is a wonderful storyteller, and his show melds interesting history lessons with period-appropriate recipes. As it turns out, he’s…

My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones (play it here). Unlike my previous experiments, this one is actually fun to…

I've spent the last few days playing an open beta of a uh... a website... a game that is a website... called Dog Online. It is extraordinarily good at replicating the exact impact that Neopets had on…

MASSIVE Content Warning. This is an adult visual novel with gruesome imagery, and mature and unsettling themes, including sexual violence and suicide. (Also, this review does not contain any major…

From native driving controls and road guidance to Turbo preservation and weapon combat: the experiments, references and repeated adjustments behind NullG’s learning pilots.

The world needs Wordle on GameBoy Color. I'm going to bring it to the world.

I recently set up a new desktop and named it rotanev. Let's see why... Skies of Arcadia shows up in this journal a couple times already in artifacts and music in games. This entry makes three. If you…

Take that, generic cola vending machine! Dr Pepper rules! This screenshot is from Dr Pepper: Speedway Rush, a Flash advergame[...]

I didn’t get a full victory during this run and there were quite a few audio glitches in this one and also one strange moment of darkness that I think was probably related to a memory…

Games and temporary worlds

As the title says: Of course I also beat Radahn after a few more attempts. My Wretch is now on level 89 and 121 hours and 54 minutes into game. I keep exploring, have an invitation from the Dung…

Most military shooters make you feel powerful. They give you a weapon, point you toward an objective, and encourage you to turn everything between you and victory into a pile of bodies. Gallipoli…

Magical Vacation is a GBA RPG, developed by Brownie Brown and published by Nintendo, in Japan only, in 2001. An English fan translation is available for the game, but it's unfortunately not yet…

In high school I spent an unreasonable number of nights staring at a hex editor. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was the big one. I’d open the game files, change a value, load the game and see…

Can art fail? As a whole or momentarily, can art fail?It seems to me flatly that the answer to this is yes. Ask many people and at least they can agree that sometimes there is something that doesn’t…

Today I learned about resource packs in Godot, and how you can use them for patches, DLC releases, or other interesting things once your game is already released. Read more here !

TheoryWise passionately defended Azeroth's artistic integrity, but what happened when I asked him to apply those same principles to Blizzard's removal of Male and Female? A revealing debate about the…

Let's talk about game simulations. Today I bring up a slightly more advanced topic and talk about OS scheduler latency and its impact on multi-threaded tick design.

The 20 principles of game feel, from coyote time to hit stop and i-frames, each shown with a side-by-side WITHOUT vs. WITH animation and practical Godot 4 examples.

UFO is a great game from 1994. Possibly the first, great turn-based tactics game.

Two spooky PlayStation classics, recompiled to run natively on PC with widescreen and higher resolutions. Early alphas of MediEvil II and Jersey Devil are out now.

After filing on time for the first time in 6 years in 2025, Cloud Imperium has returned to its old ways and has not yet filed the 2025 financial accounts for Cloud Imperium UK Ltd yet. CIG is not yet…

Team Nemesis needed a deciding map to get past Nuclear TigeRES for the second time in four days at the PGL Bucharest closed qualifier.

I started playing Proverbs a little over a year ago, when things were getting quiet at work just before I got laid off. So in a way it's fitting that a year later, and having recently been re-hired…

you won't find me talking about games seriously ever

This month I'm very busy preparing my first commercial game for the v1.0 release in December. Additionally, I will also speak at GodotFest26 and SFSCON in November. For that reason this month's blog…

I’ve not posted here for a while. Some of that is because I was moving cross country, some of it is because this is usually just an extra space for ideas that I’m not pitching to…

Three Japanese Game Boy cartridges did more than hold a game: infrared eyes, a running clock, even an alarm. The Hudson chips that taught the DMG-01 new tricks.

THEMELESS MONDAY: [ ACROSS LITE][ PDF][ FULLSCREEN] PROGRAMS: [Across Lite] [Adobe Reader] This week’s Themeless Monday was inspired by the October 11 vowelless puzzle by Evan Kalish in the New…

Fallout: London is an ambitious semi-official total conversion of Fallout 4 that takes Bethesda’s post-nuclear apocalypse across the pond. In[...]

There is a particular kind of frustration that only a great puzzle game can produce. You stare at the screen, convinced that the solution must be obvious. You move a block, undo the move, try…