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.

Me and my brothers made games together, so this was fun to hear about. Actually maybe we just worked on one adventure game that didn't o far, but had some really laborious graphics! There was a very well rendered lampshade.

Seemed like a natural continuation of little bands and some we'd make with relatives and the kids across the road and stuff.