Oh wow, nice find!

I missed the whole BBS thing, but have had a bit of a poke at them within the last year or so.

Wow, Cosmoserve sounds really interesting.

Oh hey @trouv, I'm Blueberry (or something like that) on the ALT G's Discord. The illustrator for Braid was from some forums kinda tangential to this place :) Dunno what he's doing now, but their comic A Lesson is Learned was something I liked a lot back then.

... I wonder if there's a Fringe Boardgames History Podcast

Hey intro thread.

I'm Rylie. I make games under the name Blueberry Soft.

I like little communities, knowledge sharing, wikis, DIY-whatever, tools, my garden, my cat.

If you're curious about me I have lots of websites and things you can probably find from this starting point: https://www.ryliejamesthomas.net/

I guess kids' games often start in bedrooms?

@spindleyq 'Fraid not!

But I remember the first room looking something like this, but with nice VGA colours of course.

Something else this show made me remember was I sometimes made install disks for games I never actually made. I'd make a label, a README.DOC and a little batch file to unzip an archive to somewhere :D

Though-- er-- that actually would fit the 'kinda inspired by' criteria better than the game I'm trying to remember, I guess. This one just looks really similar.

Definitely not ZZT! I'm sure I saved a screenshot of it somewhere...

@kirkjerk Yeah, it feels similar scale wise (also what's the game Emotica is kinda inspired by...?). But without the kinda neat layer of emoji repurposing / association play.

I think I only tried Bitsy last year maybe? It feels like ages ago, and looks like there's lots more now.

Also I saw you released a tool for it today @candle ?

The game was included in his RPG Maker translation iirc. That's probably why you can't find it anywhere.