Robb Sherwin

@icecreamjonsey

Text adventure / CRPG creator. 🕹️ WISHLIST Cyberganked on Steam!

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Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· 3d

I grabbed a Supra #eurorack module by Jonah Senzel, who is making modules with unique ideas. I'm 2 seconds into the manual and I see time-released Odyssey poem words in Morse Code as control voltage by it. Yes! #synthsky

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· 5d

Michael Bywater, a writer & IF creator I admired from afar (Jinxter, Bureaucracy), passed away last year. I wrote up some thoughts from the perspective of a text adventure fan. intfiction.org/t/michael-by...

I keep some game boxes around for inspiration and because I just like them, Jinxter is one of them.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Jun 17

Rando takes: - Backrooms: A+ - One of my life's little joys is that I get a fresh couple of bags of coffee from Old Bisbee Roasters most months and he puts my name on tlmy bags. Or all the bags? - Dreadbox Typhon preset B-14 "Mover" is my favorite bass preset.

Bag of whole bean coffee from Old Bisbee Roasters

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· May 31

Dr. Manhattan meme lamenting Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Jeff Hoffman pitching poorly.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· May 8

There's 3 Rockstar games I can't play on Steam because I don't have access to the email address I used for the Rockstar middleware launcher. Every once in a while I ask Valve for a refund to make sure their support is still worthless. CEO's got yachts, but they need to steal my $15.

This is how the formatting in email looks for the refund request for the game I can no longer play, because Rockstar and Valve have colluded to ensure that I can't logon through the Rockstar Launcher to play it with Steam. Maybe they can use some of the new gamepad money to hire someone to look at this slop they are sending before it goes out into the world.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Apr 15

I threw together a program to play tones on my #PCjr. I took the audio out from the Jr, amplified it and brought it through my Eurorack where I could give the sound some delay and reverb. Here is the PCjr and a drone from a Vhikk-X, happily living together. www.joltcountry.com/downloads/Mr...

A little "use your keyboard to play sounds" .exe file.

Setup showing the PCjr's audio output going into an Auris module to up the levels of the audio. #SynthSky

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Apr 6

Still working on this and will probably keep tweaking but here is a work in progress song. Using my WaveBoy to drive the "vocals". Plague of Demons is insanely versatile so I'm just using it a bit here. tinyurl.com/mruk8n3m

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Mar 27

#synthsky The Vhikk X should be back in stock after 8 weeks or so, according to the creator. I have found it incredible for ambient music for the game I'm working on. I'll try to link to examples soon. It is one of my favorites on my rack.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Mar 10

#9games

Zork, Robotron 2084, X-COM Knight Orc, Duke Nukem 3D, Bard's Tale, Civ II, Lode Runner, I Didn't Ask For This

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Mar 3

Resident Evil Requiem. They put a person with severe social anxiety in a RE game. That Olympics joke about how they should have a regular person do the event first? They did it here. Need for Speed and the protagonist is blind. It's Zork IV and you have to play a guy who can't read. Incredible.

I have never been more on the side of a protagonist for a game than what we have here. She's doing a better job than I would with these slavering abominations flying out of every corner. If my job tried to send me on-site to where my father died, the rest of the game would be "Jonsey hires an Employment Attorney" and my dad died peacefully in his sleep at a hospital. Leon Kennedy is one of the 10 best video game protagonists and Grace immediately leaves her mark on the series anyway. This is great.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Feb 24

I've also been taking piano lessons for six weeks. I bought a copy of "Nevermore" by Queen and had a paper copy shipped. I feel I am gaining the skills to play it. It's 70 seconds and Freddie didn't have to go as hard as he did, but I've always loved it and it makes for a good goal.

Sheet music for Nevermore by Queen. I don't have a printer, so I used a service to do it and, honestly, that was fine. It is fun to get things in the mail.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Feb 24

Received my Cosmic Instruments VCO today! Now if my garbage electric co-op could get around to restoring power on a 60 degree day with a mild breeze, I'll be off to make a song with it. I also feel that Robot Face on the front should be running the electric utility. Some day! #SynthSky

A Eurorack module, a VCO from Cosmic Instruments.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Feb 18

Got mine last week and I love it, great to hear you got a win here with that one! It is such a fun module!

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Feb 18

First review in AP I (re)found of his was Out Run. "In the beginning, animation was done with toys. Toys like the zoetrope[...]" JFC, that is how this project STARTS. And he was right! That's what Out Run for Amiga looks like. I'll link to a video of this slop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOeC...

This is a screenshot of Jonathan Nash's review (5%) of Out Run for the Amiga 500/600/1200. I've played Out Run on many systems and yes, looking at recordings of gameplay, it's a bad game with a bad framework and the music sucks. How do you screw up the music with Out Run? But the larger point is that the review is the best thing about the game. I am inspired by him to do my job with as much care and professionalism. This is day 1, review 1, hour 1 and lost in all this is the balls of giving a game a 5% score.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Feb 6

It's a no-fees day on Bandcamp! Here is a link to a small recording I released last month. Hitting the "follow" button would be greatly appreciated by me. I am taking weekly piano lessons to improve at all this. crouch-echlineffect.bandcamp.com/album/death-...

A picture of the current status of my Eurorack.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Feb 6

Today I received the Atari Punk Console Eurorack module. In the next year, if you hear a new song that sounds like "Short-Fuze" from G.I. Joe put a 2600 in his mortar and fired it at your car's stereo, that's just me. Bzzzzzt!!!

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Jan 1

My dear friend Pinback got a little into Pac-Man the last month. Well, the madman created a free-to-download, arcade-accurate version of Pac that he calls "Booze Elroy," after the characteristic of Blinky pursuing Pac (named "Cruise Elroy" in this mode.) It's out today. pinback.itch.io/booze-elroy

He went crazy with it. You can pick the number of ghosts, if you want fast Pac, new mazes, random mazes... and when Blinky is in Cruise Mode, his eyes get bloodshot and he's carrying a little martini glass. I don't know how to describe this other than one man, who had an appreciation for Pac-Man all his life, sure, suddenly went off the deep end and created something that only can be characterized only through obsession. I wrote a teeny bit of code for this to make sure joysticks and gamepads were in. Please indulge Benjamin "Pinback" Parrish with this insanity by trying this out on itch.io!

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Nov 28

I'm getting my DOS computer ready to work again, which means I saw this CH Products Gamecard III. It provided for two joysticks with two buttons. Thus was the height of technology for me in 1990. As in, the moon landings had a good solid 21 years at #1 but this was the new king.

A picture of an ISA Gamecard for DOS that allows 2 joysticks to be easily connected and used.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Nov 18

Encouraging children to write Santa to ask to not get it was something.

Rise of the Robots getting a 5% in Amiga Power

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Sep 24

I uploaded Dinosaur Jr. vs the 1960s by Devi Ever to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/dinojr

Screenshot of Dinosaur Jr. vs the 1960s, a 10 second game where you are a dinosaur and you are stomping and eating concert goers!

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Sep 22

Game 28: Banished (Shining Rock Software, 2014) While well-reviewed, Banished made more reviewers angry than I would have expected. I went in on the easiest level, clicked around my little forest and enjoyed my time. The world created anger, Banished didn't. www.joltcountry.com/index.php/fe...

Screenshot of the game Banished, available on Steam.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Sep 13

Likewise! Your game looks freaking great, and the sort of thing I love playing 😀

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Aug 26

Game 27: Shadows Over Riva (attic Entertainment Software GmbH, 1996) Possibly the worst UI decision in computer game history has me unable to engage in combat tactics, this is one of the best looking games of its time. Everything else about it is perfect! www.joltcountry.com/index.php/fe...

Screenshot from Shadows Over Riva, where we see the party wandering around town in daylight.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Aug 19

Game 26: Dino Pop (Primetime Amusements, 2012) Every redemption arc starts with a quality redemption game, what kind of reputation does Chuck E. Cheese have in your town, BlueSky? www.joltcountry.com/index.php/fe...

Picture of Dino Pop, an arcade redemption game taken for blog and educational purposes at a Chuck E. Cheese.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Aug 16

Baseball Reference's feature for the next start for a pitcher hasn't worked in a bit - here it is saying that the deGrom is going back to back today - but I do hope at some point that a pitcher was out carousing all night only to shockingly see that he's supposed to start that day OH SHIIIIII

A screenshot from baseball-reference.com that shows that Jacob deGrom started yesterday, but his "Next Game" to start is today, where typically pitchers have four or five days of rest before the next start.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Aug 14

I didn't blog about a game this week, but I wanted to note the CRPG called Jettatura. If you liked the original Wizardry and want to play a game in the same style, this the game for you! Fun, while understanding that hey, someone else, ahhh, did the design. store.steampowered.com/app/2023440/...

Screenshot of Jettatura, a Wizardry-inspired retro CRPG. Here we see the main view when going through a dungeon - character info down below, dungeon depicted above it, with a list of commands at the bottom as well.

Screenshot of Jettatura showing the "bare bones" navigation system on land, very inspired from Wizardry. But hey... it works, you gotta give it credit for that. Unlike Starflight, where it takes literally 15 seconds to move a little dude around a space station to access various options, the rate limiter for Jettatura is your own personal WPM in typing.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Aug 6

Game 25: Paper Sorcerer (Ultra Runaway Games, 2013) Paper Sorcerer has really sweet art direction & music and captures the vibe of a #CRPG perfectly. www.joltcountry.com/index.php/fe...

Screenshot of Paper Sorcerer showing off the nice shadow and one-bit art.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Jul 22

Game 24: Meteor! (Edward T. Ordman, Andrew Fluegelman and Nancy Miller, 1981) Meteor! is a BASIC DOS game that I played as a child when I was just happy to be playing anything for our home PC. I often wonder about similar games for the C64, Atari and such. www.joltcountry.com/index.php/fe...

Screenshot of "Meteor!", a very simple DOS BASIC game, taken via DOSBox.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Jul 15

Game 23: Forbidden Forest (Paul Norman, 1983). Released by Cosmi for the #Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit, it still plays great and sounds wonderful. It's flawless on a MiSTer, and it'd be the first game I get if I buy one of those new C64s being developed. www.joltcountry.com/index.php/fe...

Title screen for Forbidden Forest on a Commodore 64.

Robb Sherwin@icecreamjonsey· Jun 25

Paperboy has definitely tried to tame a little red love machine