You Should Play This - Monster Mash

This is a short browser based game made by Satchmo1991 that I found through a Mastadon post two weeks ago. It’s a short puzzle game with lovely monster pixel art. In this game, your movements affect every monster on the screen, both yours and the enemy’s. Each monster has a number below them, essentially hit points. If you combine your monsters by having them run into each other, the numbers add together for the newly…

If you’ll turn your attention to the upper right corner of the main page, you’ll notice there’s now a music player there! Hooray! So I’m pretty happy with this particular one, both in terms of look and function. It’s from loveberry, which is an amazing site you should check out for fun snippets of things. So when trying to decide what songs to include in the playlist, I was a little conflicted. I decided that…

It looks like I haven’t been very good with keeping the monthly ‘what I’ve been playing’ post going! I’m really bad at logging what I’m playing. But I guess the long and short of it has been more Pokopia, especially now that the DLC has been released, UFO 50 for Switch, which my wife got me for my birthday (the physical special edition with the guide!), and Super Mariomon, a romhack of Pokemon Emerald. I’ve…

I decided to take the plunge recently get a new pocket retro gaming device. For the past several years, I’ve been using a Pocket Go S30. I’ve had it for probably six years or so, and while it wasn’t the best, it was just good enough to be what I wanted out of one of these things. It was cheap, around $65, it was small and portable, and it had an okay screen. It could…

It’s been a while since I’ve tried making a game. I write little ideas down in my notebook here and there, snippets or ideas that I think might be fun to do something with, but it’s been I think two years since I’ve made a finished game, my last one being Monarch’s Flight for the NES. So I was pretty excited when a while back I got an idea in my head, and started playing…

A lot has been said of Atari’s E.T. game, over the years. It’s a game that really strove to offer the player a more in-depth experience than what other licensed games were doing at the time. Aliens was made into an Atari game, and it’s essentially a Pac-Man clone, for instance, and while developer Howard Scott Warshaw’s vision proved too lofty for his five week time limit to create E.T., there’s some good ideas in…