TPW proudly presents the Digital Museum!

The Works of Crash-Stop: Playing with Hydra

Featuring 5 "Rooms" showing works of Crash-Stop, a Glitch-Artist from Ireland. His works are great: Amalgams of various styles and ideas, postmodern, political, but always somewhat ambivalent. Saying more would be saying to much, check it out yourself!

Enter here: https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/DigitalMuseum/

The whole thing is fully in the spirit of OpenCulture. Crash-Stop is using free licenses, and the sites HTML is public domain.

The Digital Museum is an attempt to make good on one of the original promises of the Internet: To create digital spaces open to everyone, where culture and art can thrive unaffiliated by commercial interests and governmental control.

The post count for some threads seems to be off, and there seems to be a problem with notifications for other instances.

Is the latter is a result of the recent increase of traffic on Lemmy.ml or a problem of the other instance?

Crashes instantly after startup :/. Safe-Mode doesn't help.

I suspect it could have something to do with MESA; my gfx card is a bit oldish and had some trouble with newer applications. But SuperTuxKart and most games still do run, so this assumption is a bit shallow to go out and start to kick around my gfx-drivers.

Do you guys have any idea how to fix it? Using Chromium feels bad ;/. Setting up SeaMonkey right now, it works - at least for now.

For around a half year, I try to locate games that don’t fit within the “market” and - if I find them to be good - review them on my Blog.

I came to believe that there are many interesting works that struggle from a lack of attention. It is my believe that it would be worth to attempt to unite the different non commercial gaming communities and the various “lone wolfs” into a (at least loosely) connected, defined scene to allow mutual feedback, help, and allow us to detect each other among the zero-effort-projects and commercial players.

My idea is to establish the term Underground Game for such non-commercial games; the corresponding scene should be close to the free software/open source movement, and - so my idea - be open towards leftist politics but shut out right wing bigots for various reasons.

Here you’ll find a manifesto I created, if you want to dive in further (no ads, no tracking, no placed content - the blog is strictly uncommercial, so i hope this is okay - putting the whole wall of text here wouldn’t be practical): https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/arcane_cache/2023/06/08/underground-games/

Right now, I’m druming in various smaller game dev communities and on mastodon. Would you have interest in partaking in such a community? What would be the right medium for a common channel in your opinion?

A identical topic was created for /gaming/. A few extra words here: Linux Gaming was changed a lot by Valves involvement. Many seem to be positive about this. But you should consider that a certain dependence comes with Valves heavy activity in the Linux Gaming-Landscape - this could backfire one day.

For around a half year, I try to locate games that don't fit within the "market" and - if I find them to be good - review them on my Blog.

I came to believe that there are many interesting works that struggle from a lack of attention. It is my believe that it would be worth to attempt to unite the different non commercial gaming communities and the various "lone wolfs" into a (at least loosely) connected, defined scene to allow mutual feedback, help, and allow us to detect each other among the zero-effort-projects and commercial players.

My idea is to establish the term Underground Game for such non-commercial games; the corresponding scene should be close to the free software/open source movement, and - so my idea - be open towards leftist politics but shut out right wing bigots for various reasons.

Here you'll find a manifesto I created, if you want to dive in further (no ads, no tracking, no placed content - the blog is strictly uncommercial, so i hope this is okay - putting the whole wall of text here wouldn't be practical): https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/arcane_cache/2023/06/08/underground-games/

Right now, I'm druming in various smaller game dev communities and on mastodon. Would you have interest in partaking in such a community? What would be the right medium for a common channel in your opinion?

Greetings Valentin

Today we put our first game, "Meditation 5" under a GPL. With this, all our games are "liberated"; the source codes are all available and put under GPL3; for "Acid Flight" and "Meditation 5" this also goes for the assets except of the fonts (that we don't own).

Our games: The Vaults of Minos is a roguelite precision platformer with very fluid controls and an refined level generation. Assets are non-free, but you might download the demo and place the binary you can build from the source there; the resulting game will have all features available.

http://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/VaultsOfMinos/index.html

Acid Flight is a version of "Icy Towers" put on steroids. You might experience a texture glitch when starting it, in this case just restart the game (might require a few attempts).

http://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/AcidFlight/

Meditation 5 is an minimal, abstract light gun game designed around taoist philosophy that should be played with a controller.

http://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/Med5/index.html

Check them out!

The Arcane Cache reviews games that fly beyond the radar of the big gaming sites and blogs. I focus on amateur games and niche productions.

Since I play exclusive with Linux, all games I review run native or with wine.