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gamedevjeff

@gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com

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indie dev. working on multiple games with @pixelturkey.com. C/Scheme/Haskell/Haxe. Interested in narrative design/storytelling. Learning 3D modelling and Godot. Co-creator of The Zen of Kayaking, a Z-Machine adventure game. Not interested in AI.

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 13/05/2026

New SFX repack for the 1993 DOS game Dinopark Tycoon. A business sim with some chill background music that was hard to appreciate because of the wildly loud sound samples. gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com/dinopark/SND... (DOS . exe only, runs under DOSBox after unzipping in the game's directory)

Screenshot of the title screen from the 1993 DOS game DinoPark Tycoon 0 it shows the park entrance, and the dino enclosures

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 02/04/2026

how it looked outside today

a photograph taken from ground level looking up at a blue sky with cirrus clouds, with some native Australian bush at the bottom of the frame

photo of a mature gum tree and australian bush, with a bit of blue sky

lizard hanging out on a green gumtree leaf on top of a rock on a sunny day

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 11/03/2026

Saving this 2004 smoking etiquette campaign signage as a reference for when I get around to working on a 3D environment set in a Tokyo-like city - source: www.tokyotimes.org/smoking-mann...

Signage from a Japanese smoking-etiquette sign, "The cool cowboy flicks his cigarette butt intot he street. But he lives in an old movie." It's instrumented with a diagram showing that such a practice was only in an old movie, and representing a long time ago.

Signage from a Japanese smoking-etiquette sign, "When I bumped into someone, I apologized. When my smoke hit your face, I said nothing". It's instrumented with a diagram showing walking and bumping apology, and no consequent apology for smoke bumping.

Signage from a Japanese smoking-etiquette sign,"The cigarette butts are always more noticeable when I'm walking my dog." It's instrumented with a person who is aware, walking a dog on leash, a cigarette and an ant on a street.

Signage from a Japanese smoking-etiquette sign, "I threw my cigarette butt into the drain. That is to say I hid it int he drain." It's instrumented with a diagram showing a person above-ground, the sewer below, and a rat shocked/aggrieved by the presence of the discarded cigarette butt.

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 09/03/2026

#lemonpiglet

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 01/03/2026

bsky.app/profile/alie...

a low polyish rat jumping over a gap between gold platforms surrounded by water at night, the rat is wearing glasses

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 18/02/2026

throwaway 3D render of a rectangular box

a 3D render of a rectangular box with with flaps open on one end. the box is red in parts, but otherwise has a non-descript pixelated banding pattern

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 20/10/2025

A staple.

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 09/08/2025

oh huh, he made a Windows 3.1 version of this too?

a screenshot of Touch Type Tutor for Windows 3.1, with the player winning GAME MODE. An ASCII character model is exclaiming "Weeee!""

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 19/04/2025

This is a game collection, right? 🥹

Photo of a software big box "Over 300 Education, Games and business programs for the whole family." "Save Hard Disk space with our easy-t-use de-install topion, or play direct from CD." "Learn as you play" There are road signs explaining the genre of programs set to a picture of somewhere in remote outback Australia. The shrink plastic is still on the box.

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 09/04/2025

Reminded myself of VGA overscan when testing a game build. The 1st palette index would set border colour, be that black or no. Here's Crystal Caves, early 1990s DOS game on IBM ThinkPad 1450 (Tillamook Pentium MMX 266MHz · Neomagic MagicGraph128XD) and a Trinitron E230 CRT #retrocomputing #DOSgaming

Here's Crystal Caves, an early 1990s DOS game running on my IBM ThinkPad 1450 (Tillamook Pentium MMX 266MHz · Neomagic MagicGraph128XD) and a Trinitron E230 CRT. There are 4 stitched together photos of the CRT on a desk next to the laptop. The photos show the VGA overscan border in red on game start and green in-level when all crystals are collected.

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 10/03/2025

where do you stand on the lorem ipsum issue? nostalgic throwback or the sky is falling?

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gamedevjeff @gamedevjeff.pixelturkey.com · 24/02/2025

Wanting to apply any retroarch shader to arbitrary X11 Window contents on Linux to test CRT + upscaling on test art/gamedev WIPs, I created a retroarch core called Xcompy as a quick hack to do just that. Scroll through open windows with mouse-wheel. github.com/DOSisGOOD/xc... #linux

A screenshot of a screenshot of Warrior Blade III 1992 Arcade by Taito, with a CRT shader applied using XCompy, with the original screenshot window below it. Ignore the fact that the window title says Retroarch Xcomposite, I later renamed it to XCompy to make it more unique, as while it uses XComposite, it might be confusing to just call the core that.

A screenshot of the RetroArch XCompy core rendering the contents of the DOSBox-X window running Commander Keen 6 by ID Software, with a bezel shader effect (I know DOSBox-X has shader support), and the original DOSBox-X window below it.

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