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New blog post! I wrote about the weird history of Photo CD games - a format for family photos and photographers' portfolios that was *not* intended for complex games, but people went for it anyway. I love how people will find a way to make games no matter what. https://cdrom.ca/games/2023/01/02/photocd.html

Like 3 Jan 2023 at 20:39 | Open on digipres.club

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Darius Kazemi

@misty oh wow I had no idea about Photo CD as a format! This is so completely of a piece with my beloved Gadget (1993), I wonder if the creators had played a bunch of Photo CD games

3 Jan 2023 at 20:43 | Open on friend.camp

Misty

@darius I suspect it might be convergent evolution! Gadget takes a lot structurally from Alice (1991) and Over-Ring-Under (1992). They had access to a real programming language, but I guess it was still early enough in creating art for these kinds of games that it was still easier to end up with mostly still images.

3 Jan 2023 at 21:19 | Open on digipres.club

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