Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 22

@gbraad That's called cornering the market, I guess. It took Myst almost a year and a half to crack a million sales. The same took Riven just a few months.

@gbraad Overrated or not, but a FOUR year old game coming in #2 best selling in the mid 90s is quite an achievement.

@anji It's called cornering the market. It's absolutely insane that a 4 year old game is in the #2 spot.

Sierra put out like a dozen titles in 1997, and their fishing game from 2 years prior outsold every single one of them. 🤷♂️

I thought Deer Hunter was the most profitable 1997 release, as far as investment vs return went, but it's very clearly this:

("The Total Number of Units Sold" is the total *for the year* only, not all time.)

PC Data's best selling computer games of 1997 (in the United States).
Source: PC Gamer, April 98.

@eviltrout I'm almost certain that training their own dataset would place it outside of Steam's AI requirements.

This is very much the case of some "AI" tools being involved in making this. I know some of this was talked about while the game was in production, relating to generating character animations. It would be nice to know what exactly it was used for.

Broken Sword: Reforged came out today.
All graphics and animation from the original have been completely redone.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged/

A new release of the open source Carmageddon implementation is here. Now with fully functioning software renderer!
https://github.com/dethrace-labs/dethrace/releases/tag/v0.8.0

RIP Mikey. Miss ya, bud.

@DrMcCoy @mcc The star of original Darkseed is now a professor and an author

@mcc The real horror of Darkseed is its design.

@mcc If you say so

Nerdly Pleasures: Sound Blaster Live! Primer
https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2024/09/sound-blaster-live-primer.html

Almost 3 months on Prozac, and I gotta say - it works. I'm definitely a lot calmer these days. However, I think it's affecting my already short attention span.

@Viss I'm alright. I think I've got so much shit happen to me so fast I'm just incapable of being more upset than I already am, and I already learned to handle that particular situation, so 🤷.

Almost 44 minutes to beat the "Black Tower" map playing "Master Levels for Doom II" for the first time ever. Jesus Christ.

@aaronsgiles Huh. I did always wonder how SIMCGA actually worked. Neat.