matt sephton
@gingerbeardman
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Games for @Playdate . GOTY 2023 list. 1-bit Art. System 7 on iPad. Macintosh Magazine Media. Hanafuda. Retro Games. Previously: @Apple
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@patrickklepek
My game YOYOZO
- "Best Games of 2023"
@arstechnica
- "Best Arcade Game"
@Playdate
Community Awards 2023
And it's only 39 KB in size!
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I've been playing an old (1990, KOEI Co Ltd) Japanese PC-9801 game バンドくん [Band-kun; Mr. Band] where you start a band and have to recruit members, make some recordings and live a life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
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OMG. Tom Salvo is porting wipeout-rewrite (yes, that's WipeOut the PlayStation game!) to
@Playdate
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New blog post! "Emoji history: the missing years"
In January I bought a long-forgotten personal organiser from Japan and stumbled across a set of emoji that shouldn't have existed. Then I found some more lost emoji, so decided to redraw them all. Enjoy!
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How I turned an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh
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What if... Japanese woodblock artist Kawase Hasui had travelled as far as some of his contemporaries? How would he have seen the world?
I took the "world tour" route from the video game Pang, added a few locations of my own, and made some images.
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Here's a quick GIF showing the new smoother car rotations, currently using 90 sprites per rotation (990 sprites each for car and shadow, so 1980 total per car)
#smoothfm
#gamedev
#playdate
#playdatedev
#screenshotsaturday
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Panic Playdate vs Aquaplus P/ECE: the hottest handheld of 2021 goes up against a forgotten Japanese classic from 2001.
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Mitchell Corp's long lost (unemulated & hard to find) gallery shooter arcade game "Gamshara" (Daredevil) from 2002 is finally available to play using MAME!
The same team would later produce a handful of classics on Nintendo DS: Pang, Polarium, Sujin Taisen, Wakugumi & Puzz Loop.
lunatic obscurity: Gamshara (Arcade) - one of the most eagerly-awaited additions to mame ever~!
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HUGE CONGRATS to
@playdate
for a great first update video! Here's a
#DailyDriver
Teaser Trailer to celebrate
#playdatedev
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A-Train (by Artdink, 1992 Macintosh monochrome version)
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JapanEase: two volumes of HyperCard stacks for Macintosh to help with self-learning of the Japanese language.
Created in 1993 by Ayumi Software/Qualitas Trading Co.
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#timstwitterlisteningparty
constantly updated shared calendar is here: iPhone/Mac click the link to add to your Calendar (notifications optional). For Android/other enter the URL on the Google Calendar website ✌️
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You actually perform the music using mouse gestures, so it's possible to ad-lib and receive better/worse results a little like playing a musical instrument. After recording you need mixing the song, then your friend Bob Marley sells your CDs on the street, or play it on the radio
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AsistantPickle was a desktop toy by
@thoruman
released for Macintosh in Sept 2000, featuring a suite of tiny applications:
- Memo
- Sketch
- Piano
- Watch
- Schedule
- Email
- Contacts
- Clipboard
- Timer
- Audio CD player
- Calculator
- Printer
- Launcher
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Some things you probably didn’t realise about the design of the original PlayStation:
- it was inspired by the Macintosh Plus
- the colour is grey with a hint of violet to counteract ageing/yellowing
- Sony acquired the PlayStation name from Yamaha
- it led to the VAIO range
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Interview: Kenta Cho (Japanese indie game developer)
@abagames
He talks about early computers, golden age arcade games, his first published game, top 5 video games, and his philosophy for game design and development.
First in a series of interviews.
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I made the news in Japan!
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最初期の絵文字セットが1988年のシャープ製電子手帳から発見される
(The earliest emoji set was discovered in Sharp's electronic notebook in 1988.)
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If you'd have told me this was a modern game in PS1 style I'd have believed you.
lunatic obscurity: Fox Junction (Playstation) - an intersting game that's fascinated me for years!
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Stuff I text my friends about:
@ryuichisakamoto
in
He finds a sample "the tsunami piano", switches to a doc "The First 1,000 Primes"—why!?—and then types 3-0-Enter. The camera pans out to show 31 instances of the sample. Math in music! Love this so much.🤓
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Beautiful pixel artwork by Barbara Nessim in the September 1984 (Vol 9, No 10) issue of BYTE magazine. Drawn using Norpak videotex (NAPLPS) system, running on a PDP-11/03. This offered 6 drawing modes (arc, rectangle, circle, line, dot and polygon) and 12 colours + black & white.
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You need to work dead-end jobs to pay your way, and repeat the recording/gigging process to work your way up to a big arena gig, and eventually die from all the excess partying. It's originally B&W so would look great on Playdate, so I made a little proof of concept
#playdatedev
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My game
#YOYOZO
for Playdate has received a GOTY (Game of the Year) accolade from long-standing technology publication Ars Technica! 🤯
Listed alongside Nintendo! And compared to Super Hexagon and Geometry Wars! I think I've got something in my eye... 🥺
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@iamharaldur
I took it twice, they put me up in the airport hotel, then they offered a third time(!) but I had to get home for a friend's wedding so I declined. But part of me wanted to see how many times they'd offer.
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Just updated my guide to building the BasiliskII Macintosh emulator onto an iPad Pro, using latest Xcode, macOS and iPadOS.
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@dukope
I appreciate the lovely graphic!
Apple mouse pointer shape is a little older, as it was used on the Lisa.
PS: the Xerox mouse pointer was similarly angled but had a longer shaft that they used to show cursor modes.
Bonus video:
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Casio Poptone LDF-50-9EF (~2009) in the rare!!1! yellow colourway. The bezel is black all the way around the chrome inner. Lettering on the buttons are recessed in white. Has Date, Alarm, Stopwatch, Dual Time, hourly chime, and the funky circles counting every 10 seconds.
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I'm getting Big in Japan ! ✨🔰✨
matt sephton
@gingerbeardman
はPlaydate ゲーム開発者として数多くのゲームを生み出しています✨
自分はPlaydateを持っていませんが、いつか手に入れて彼のゲームをプレイしたいと思います😊
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#YOYOZO
is OUT NOW for Playdate!
I also created a manual for the game which contains detailed information about the game, hints and tips, and a page for your high scores (old school!)
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Nintendo's first USA trademark, dated 4 Oct 1955:
The first use of the word
@Nintendo
in US press is a description of this trademark in the 8 Oct 1955 issue of
@nytimes
(see quoted tweet)
thanks to
@suryongchan
for digging digging this up!
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@playdate
I'm working on Daily Driver - a fast and furious arcade driving game with a sense of humour and lots of tiny vehicles 🚗💨
#crankturismo
#trackminia
#dailydriver
HUGE CONGRATS to
@playdate
for a great first update video! Here's a
#DailyDriver
Teaser Trailer to celebrate
#playdatedev
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Check out my new
#Patreon
where I recover lost and forgotten games from for the sake of preservation.
Recovered: Forgotten SEGA Exclusives on Palm OS!
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Band-kun required a MIDI-capable sound card PLUS an external MIDI sound module - a very expensive 30,000JPY piece of equipment back in 1990. So it wasn't a success and was forgotten about. But it eventually led to Guitaroo Man and the birth of the music game genre on PlayStation.
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Just updated my guide to building the BasiliskII Macintosh emulator onto an iPad Pro, using latest Xcode, macOS and iPadOS.
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Gridrunner++ (2002, Llamasoft)
(this is the Windows version, running under Wine/CrossOver on an M1 MacBook Pro, with a rotated/portrait external display at a resolution of 1200x1920)
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Anyway! I'd love to licence Band-kun and re-release it on a modern device that can do the original concept justice. The Playdate crank and accelerometer could be used to perform the music!
Does anybody know KOEI founder Youichi Erikawa (aka "Kou Shibusawa")? Hook a brother up!
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How about the first colour Playdate game? This is how my latest game looks when playing using the Playdate SDK Simulator. You ca also hear my sound effects in this clip and see some early experiments with sand and water hazards.
#screenshotsaturday
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What's this? Why it's a mouse-controlled Super Mario Kart clone for Classic Macintosh!
At the time of writing there were only 2 google search results and 1 image result for this game.
Another discovery from my collection of Japanese Macintosh magazine CDs
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Today a bit of a special
#screenshotsaturday
for me in that I'm launching a Patreon for my game
#DailyDriver
as well as seemingly being the first
@Playdate
game on both
@TIGSource
Forums and
@IndieDB
! Your support and RTs are appreciated.
#playdatedev
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IntelligentPad (1989) is a drag-and-drop software creator based on the concept of reusable components. It has things in common with Interface Builder, HyperCard, Squeak, etc.
I found an old Mac version, did some digging, and even did a screen recording:
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"Duplicating the selection using a drag with modifier key" is a brilliant interaction we've lost over time.
Copy and paste using shortcut keys or menus is not a good substitute: too much cognitive load, even if you think you're doing it "automatically" by muscle memory. Tiring.
i could watch Susan Kare draw in MacPaint for HOURS
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@halkyardo
@mwichary
Every time my friends and I play Nintendo WiiU/Wii/3DS games we see a lot of our old Mii avatars. Some are 10 years old and of a time. Amongst them is a friend who passed away a few years back. It's always so good to see him. It's as if he's still playing the games with us. 😢
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Good news, everyone! Kuniake Watanabe has begun making games for
@playdate
😻
He's the creator of MaBoShi (the greatest video game ever made), Panekit (the first PS1 open world game) and many games for Aquaplus P/ECE (a distant Japanese cousin to Playdate)
やっと届いたplaydate、触りついでに作ってみました。
・グラフ描画と上下動でボールを画面内にとどめるゲームの予定が、難しくて無理。四方を塞いで避けゲーに。
・クランクで回す円筒をイメージしてみたものの、変に歪んでいるだけに見えてしまう。
そんな感じに要修正。どうしますかね。
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My latest game is out now on
@playdate
!
Fore! Track... it's golf... in a tank!
This game features customisable difficulty, dynamic music and sfx, online score boards, deep scoring system, a built-in player's guide and a downloadable a manual.
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I spent a few hours last night unbinding The BeOS Bible (1999,
@ScotHacker
) using a hairdryer and putting it through a feed scanner, making light work of 994 pages!
The resulting 100MB Searchable PDF is now on
@InternetArchive
&
@OpenLibrary
#preservation
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Recently added a disk image containing a collection of over 250(!) sets of user created graphics for the classic MaciGame (SameGame). Sourced from Vector software archive and extracted from all manner of esoteric vintage archives.
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最近、1994年(Sharp PI-4000)、1990年(NEC PI-ET1)、1988年(Sharp PA-8500)の古い絵文字セットを見つけました。以前の絵文字を知っていますか？絵文字の使用がイラストからコミュニケーションに変わったのはいつですか？何卒よろしくお願いします。
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More mind-blowing crazy bad design coming to macOS soon
"Why macOS Ventura Share menu is bad"
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Working on a custom pattern library for my Playdate games!
(Finally a use for my collection of 100+ "MacPaint" patterns. I recently added a bunch of new ones from BluePaint)
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There's more than a little Honda Motocompo (pictured) in the Icoma electric bike (quoted)!
The Icoma electric bike transforms from suitcase-sized square to bike in seconds and was created by a former employee of the toy company that brought “Transformers” to the world
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Here's a set of 120 "famous" faces from PC-9801 Band-kun #バンドクン
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Good news, everyone!
For over a decade I've wondered if there was a 1-bit Hanafuda game for Macintosh made by somebody in Japan back in the day. It turns out there is!
It's called 花札スタック (Hanafuda Stack) and was created by Kenji Chihara in 1992/3 using HyperCard. YES!✨🎴✨
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Follow along as I make Daily Driver for
@Playdate
🚗💨
Twitter Moment:
Dev Blog (+RSS):
Patreon (+notifications):
#gamedev
#indiegame
#PlaydateDev
#DailyDriver
#pixelart
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Hide's X'mas Cookie icons (1998 by Hide Itoh)
...found in my Macintosh Magazine Media collection
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Episode 8 of "16bit Sensation: Another Layer" was one of the best yet! Set in 1985.
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Now available! Reprint of this classic HUDSON SOFT "Hachisuke" t-shirt $25/€23/£20
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@cdisalvo
Don't forget Excel
Meet Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 77-Year-Old artist who ‘paints’ Japanese landscapes with Microsoft Excel:
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One of the
@playdate
community traditions is the awarding of CAKE to the first player who completes a lofty goal in a game. 🍰
Over the course of 6 months in 2023
@tavi_birb
worked relentlessly to complete all 200+ puzzles in Sparrow Solitaire! 💯🌊🀄️
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Today is my Birthday! 🥳
I've been working on a big blog post - my annual treat to myself. 💝
Previous blog posts from the last 2 years:
Tomoya Ikeda - Macintosh Artist
Band-kun (PC-9801 game)
...see you later for the next one!
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The colours and vibe of the graphics in early Japanese text adventure games: ✨fabulous✨
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JINZO Paint is a drawing app for PocketPC/WinCE. Comes in versions with either 4-grey-shades or 16-colours, both support drawing with dither patterns.
I run it on a Sharp BRAIN PW-SH1 whose screen can fold back-to-back with the keyboard to make a tablet!
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Just found this amazing old video of my eldest daughter aged 2y2m building a block tower. Still blows my mind. 🤯
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BluePaint (2001, by 小野塚 俊吾 Shungo Onozuka) for Macintosh/PPC is a beautifully designed paint app.
Delightful interface design such as a water droplet opacity slider when active, and its approach to previewing brush & font in a little window, make it stand out even today. ✨
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I just released two custom fonts for use in Playdate games/apps:
• ST-DIN
• Supermini
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@lazerwalker
@Apple
Back in 2017 I had to submit an update for an app that worked just fine. The reason at that time was pretty much the same as now. I found a fairly easy workaround:
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現在、
@PlaydateJP
で割引価格で販売されているのは、私のゲーム
#YOYOZO
です。ゴムバンドでヨーヨーをコントロールし、星を集めようとするACTゲームです。あなたのスキルを向上させ、ハイスコアのために行く!
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Quick reminder: I run a website collecting appearances of Moai in video games 🗿
• total so far: 542
• earliest moai: 1983 (3 games)
• most: Konami (108)
• 2nd most: Nintendo (28)
• best year: 2016 (23)
• most wanted: Tower of Moai (MSX)
@gimmemoai
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Pickle's Pocket (1998, Macintosh) is a precursor to PalmPickle (2000, Palm OS) and AsistantPickle (2000, Macintosh), all created by Japanese artist Thoru Yamamoto
@thoruman
Rediscovered thanks to DiscMaster contents search!
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OMG I've received a custom portrait from Thoru Yamamoto! How cool is that!? 💝
Merry Christmas !!
久しぶりにHyperCardで描いたでござる。
やっぱ、HyperCardは手にしっくりくるです。
気軽に使えていいでござる！
Playdate 版 "See the sky"
Playdate
Playdate Sumulator
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1982 Pulsar (Seiko) Alarm Chrono Game Digital LCD Watch
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Back In Time: Akihabara (1983–2001)
Multiple historic maps of Akiba for your delight and download!
Thanks to my patrons. You can become a patron today!
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#SparrowSolitaire
is a tile-matching puzzle game similar to Shanghai that
@vogelscript
and I made!
We’ve just released update 1.1 with a few small fixes and a bunch of new content (we couldn’t help ourselves).
#screenshotsaturday
Here’s what’s in the update!
#thread
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Woman Combing her Hair (Portrait of Kodaira Tomi) original by Hashiguchi Goyô, 1920.
This work-in-progress by me, 2020–date.
#marchintosh
#screenshotsaturday
#ultrapaint
#denebasystems
#woodblockprint
#stevejobs
#susankare
#billatkinson
#andyhertzfeld
#macintosh
#68kmla
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📢NEW GAME!
Sparrow Solitaire takes the classic mahjong tile-matching puzzle game, and reimagines it from the ground-up for Playdate
Buy it now!
Catalog:
itch:
Trailer:
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The complete 35+5 run of UK fanzine/magazine "PC Engine Fanatics" aka "Console Ma'zine" aka "Electric Brain" aka "Games Amusement Pleasure" has now been preserved!
Read more:
All issues:
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Had an idea last night and had to quickly prototype it. As much as I love me some Playdate SDK, my tool of choice for rapid prototyping is usually LÖVE/Love2D.
"Cloudy Meet Balls" is ...a kind of weird billiards.
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I'm looking for a pixel artist to take charge of 1-bit artwork on
#DailyDriver
#PaidWork
#PlaydateDev
#1bit
#PixelArt
if you know anybody please pass this on, RT, or get in touch!
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