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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:19:11 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   Did you release a game for a retro platform in 2023?

   DOS? GBA? Mega Drive? C64? NES? PS1? Wii? Speccy?

   Or do you know of one that you really like as a player?

   Can you tell me about it within the next 14 hours?

   I'm writing a very fast turn-around article for a retro book that I'm handing over first thing tomorrow morning and I want to finish it up by name checking some modern retro games, including those that aren't necessarily on my radar.

   I obviously know about notable stuff like The Aching, Briley Witch 2, GoodBoy Galaxy, and Barren Planet, but there's just so much cool software coming out on "dead" platforms and I'd like to know about anything amazing that I might have missed.

   It's currently about 15:30 UTC on the 10th of January 2024. That means your cut-off is around 5:30 UTC on the 11th of January. The sooner the better, though.

   #GameDev #RetroGaming

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     Cyningstan (cyningstan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:51:54 JST Cyningstan

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     @HauntedOwlbear I released Barren Planet, a turn-based strategy game for minimal DOS systems (8088, CGA graphics), in April 2023, and an expansion for it later in the year. http://dos.cyningstan.org.uk/downloads/7/barren-planet

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:51:54 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Cyningstan

     @cyningstan I already mentioned Barren Planet as a notable example, which it certainly is! :lila_heart_black:

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:52:41 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • theLobdegg

     @MichaelKlamerus @theLobdegg Already on the list of notable examples (and my draft feature!)

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     Michael (michaelklamerus@dosgame.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:52:43 JST Michael

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     • theLobdegg

     @HauntedOwlbear @theLobdegg released The Aching
     https://store.steampowered.com/app/2295210/The_Aching/

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:56:52 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Alexander Boden

     @boden Actually, I'd been so distracted by Ghosts of Blackwood Manor that I'd not realised Curse also came out last year.

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     Alexander Boden (boden@hci.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:56:53 JST Alexander Boden

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     @HauntedOwlbear Curse of Rabenstein was one I enjoyed playing ... But you probably know that one :)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:58:39 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • jnpegay, emphasis on the “gay”

     @jepyang OMG, I had somehow missed this (at least the fact that you could play on it on an actual GBC or emu). Thank you!

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     jnpegay, emphasis on the “gay” (jepyang@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:58:40 JST jnpegay, emphasis on the “gay”

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     @HauntedOwlbear Not mine obviously, but mfing McDonalds released that Grimace game for Game Boy Color last year

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     Alexander Boden (boden@hci.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:20:50 JST Alexander Boden

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     @HauntedOwlbear oh I just realized it came out in 2022... Sorry the Corona years destroyed my sense of time 😁

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:20:50 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Alexander Boden

     @boden Well, I'll count the Spanish language release in Feb '22 as a side-note :D

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:21:08 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Lunar 🛸 ♾

     @lunarloony Yes, I am here for this!

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     Lunar 🛸 ♾ (lunarloony@dosgame.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:21:09 JST Lunar 🛸 ♾

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     @HauntedOwlbear Came across a game earlier which runs on Windows XP, if that counts? https://mutantleg.itch.io/zortch
     I haven't played it yet, but it has Overwhemingly Positive reviews on Steam.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:24:27 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Damon L. Wakes

     @DamonWakes Ooh, you're right, the SNES, N64 and GC versions were all last year!

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     Damon L. Wakes (damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:24:28 JST Damon L. Wakes

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     @HauntedOwlbear I haven't personally, but I'd highly recommend checking out Bitmap Bureau: they've ported Xeno Crisis to a bunch of old consoles. https://bitmapbureau.com/

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 01:47:50 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Lunar 🛸 ♾

     @lunarloony OMG, this is amazing and I am absolutely buying myself a copy, but this book's latest covered home computer generation is Win 98. (I got us all the way up to Wii emulation for consoles, though!)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:05:54 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • ggn

     @ggn Thank you very much, I'd love to try it. That looks like it's packed for Windows, though, and I don't currently have any Windows PCs (from this century), so I've grabbed the Atari 800 image, which should be easier for me!

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     ggn (ggn@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:05:57 JST ggn

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     @HauntedOwlbear Here's a version bundled with an emulator if you want to try it out: https://d-bug.me/various/Adam_win.zip

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     ggn (ggn@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:05:58 JST ggn

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     @HauntedOwlbear Adam is Me (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94605) is a game inspired by Baba is You, originally on Atari 800 (http://aim.atariscene.pl). I released a port for the Atari ST in July 2023 (with the final still pending) and I am also preparing ports for Amiga, Megadrive, Neogeo and Jaguar. LMK if you need more details!

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:18:28 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Lunar 🛸 ♾

     @lunarloony I mean, we update this this every couple of years, and I spend the intervening time writing more stuff, so it's not that bad. :blob_reach:I have a Win XP pitch pencilled in for later this year. But you can't fit everything into one place.

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     Lunar 🛸 ♾ (lunarloony@dosgame.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:18:30 JST Lunar 🛸 ♾

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     @HauntedOwlbear Oh, that's a bit tragic. I am tempted to give it a whirl on my Pentium II, but I doubt I'll have chance to do that before your deadline.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:35:57 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Renalia

     @Nine 2015, I'm afraid, but thanks for the reminder. I'm very fond of the prince of the Yolkfolk (who does make an appearance in the book via Mystery World Dizzy).

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     Renalia (nine@chitter.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 02:35:59 JST Renalia

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     @HauntedOwlbear I dunno if it counts or if it's one you're already aware of, and also not sure it was this year, but does Wonderland Dizzy for the NES count? It was thought lost entirely as it was intended to come out for the Aladdin Deck Enhancer for the NES but with the deck failing at market, and it having to be an unlicensed title, it got cancelled, and the source code was only just discovered by the Oliver Twins very recently, and you can download the ROM from their own site

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:17:58 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • asie

     @asie This is amazing and wonderful, and entirely the kind of development inside info that'll work here. (The general theme of this too-short editorial is "look at all these people making cool stuff for retro platforms... and here's where to start looking if you want to do the same.)

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     asie (asie@mk.asie.pl)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:18:00 JST asie

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     @HauntedOwlbear@eldritch.cafe We're releasing new DOS games made for the ZZT game engine from 1991, if that counts?
     
     https://museumofzzt.com/file/search/?title=&author=&filename=&contents=&company=&genre=&board_min=&board_max=&year=2023&rating_min=&rating_max=&lang=any&details=15&details=13&details=18&details=37&sort=title
     
     I think the two highlights are WiL's releases for the platform, though, which use a version of the engine modified so much they might as well count as new DOS games:
     
     https://stale-meme.itch.io/zoz
     https://stale-meme.itch.io/gfs

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:30:45 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Juan

     @reidrac Super briefly, what development tools did you use? (And/or how would you recommend that someone get started?)

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     Juan (reidrac@social.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:30:46 JST Juan

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     @HauntedOwlbear I released two DOS games I'm 2023!

     https://www.usebox.net/jjm/return-of-traxtor-dos/

     https://www.usebox.net/jjm/gold-mine-run/

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:32:10 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • nivs

     @nivrig Awesome, tysm. Very briefly, what tools did you use and/or where would you recommend that budding Amiga/MD devs start?

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     nivs (nivrig@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:32:11 JST nivs

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     @HauntedOwlbear Just saw this post in timew!

     I released ROGUE DECLAN on Amiga in 2023, and it went on to win the AmiGameJam. I have since released a large update and I am currently working on further updates for the upcoming boxed releases in February. 2024 might see a MegaDrive port.

     HMU if you need more information :)

     https://nivrig.itch.io/rogue-declan-zero

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     Cyningstan (cyningstan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:40:23 JST Cyningstan

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     @HauntedOwlbear Oh I missed that from the original post! In which case, I'd also like to mention another couple of 2023 DOS game that I really enjoyed as a player: Cara Grabs Anitmatter (https://voxel.itch.io/cara-grabs-antimatter) and Demografx (https://coconutpizza.itch.io/demografx).

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:40:23 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Cyningstan

     @cyningstan Good shouts, thank you! I see that your libraries have had a few shout-outs. Super briefly (because I have already hit my word count and am editing viciously), do you have any other recommended tools or tips for would-be DOS developers?

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     nivs (nivrig@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 18:35:39 JST nivs

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     @HauntedOwlbear Cool. What book is this for?

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 18:35:39 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • nivs

     @nivrig The forthcoming third edition of Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi.

     I'm afraid that, reasons of not wanting my editor to kill me over my word count, I ended up focusing on MS-DOS development for this feature.

     However, I've got a series of development pitches lined up for the same publisher, so I'll be mining this thread for those.

     I try to remember to let people know when their mentions are due to be published.