@mossrc.bsky.social
Games + tech journalist/historian/documentarian Films: @terrorbytesdoc.bsky.social | FPSDOC Books: @scummdoc.bsky.social | A Tale of Two Halves | Shareware Heroes | The Secret History of Mac Gaming | Age of Empires Australian [email protected]
@mossrc.bsky.socialIn case you missed it; my new documentary project is now going to be a book instead.
@designroom.siteReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialBig new story! The best 8,000 words you'll read on Vib-Ribbon today.
@dexdigi.bsky.socialReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialread through this a bit ago. TONS of stuff i didn't know. and more info on the stuff i thought i knew. worth the read!
@scummdoc.bsky.socialReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialLet's make it official: The SCUMM documentary is on pause (indefinitely), but I'm working on a book version of our concept. It'll be based on dozens of new interviews with the people behind the LucasArts and Humongous adventures you loved, plus in-depth research. New site: scummbook.com
@mossrc.bsky.social"The prisoner rebellion is already underway. A refusenik indie culture is returning, although it may look different from the bohemian micro-cultures of the past...
And once this process starts, there’s no telling where it might end."
@mossrc.bsky.social(My own inner standard on good enough remains as high as – if not rising even higher than – it ever was.)
@mossrc.bsky.socialOne of the biggest, most-depressing things I've learnt from the rise of genAI has been that the bar for "good enough" is apparently a lot lower than I thought.
@mossrc.bsky.social"We're not even the product anymore, which is why all these companies no longer give a solitary shit about whether their stuff is good or fun to use. We're the raw material that they mine."
https://matduggan.com/you-know-gdpr-is-good-based-on-who-hates-it/
@mossrc.bsky.socialWe had a mailing list specifically for the project, on scummdoc.com, which I can't take with me for legal reasons, so I've built a new site and we'll send an email out to said list in a few days to direct people to the new site to follow my progress on the book.
@mossrc.bsky.socialNope. It was a new documentary in development at CREATORVC that I was leading, but we didn't get enough traction to be greenlit for production/crowdfunding, so I asked for (and got) the IP rights to do it as a book instead (or possibly first).
@swizzlevixen.bsky.socialReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialscummbook.com
Exciting! A book about the LucasArts SCUMM based games, forthcoming from @scummdoc.bsky.social and @mossrc.bsky.social
@scummdoc.bsky.socialReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialI built a new website for the book project: scummbook.com
Official announcement about the documentary going on hiatus will come next week, now that the paperwork's been signed. For GDPR reasons, I need a new mailing list (the new site), but we'll send a final update out on the SCUMMdoc list.
@mossrc.bsky.socialFascinating essay about Brazilian footballing culture and how the nation found, then lost, its footballing identity — both times under the spectre of European influence. medium.com/the-polis/wh...
@gmatom.bsky.socialReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialOMG. 29 years ago I put an Easter egg in Duke Nukem 3D Mac, that replaced two of the in-game posters with pictures of a couple plush animals I had. I never told anyone other than my wife about the code (DNGLENDA) and completely forgot I did this. 1/2
@bossfightbooks.comReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialThe deluxe hardcover edition of AGE OF EMPIRES by @mossrc.bsky.social is now up for preorders from our own site.
And the ebook edition is available RIGHT NOW.
@mossrc.bsky.socialI keep forgetting to mention that the remaining Shareware Heroes paperback copies are now being sold by Wilton Square Books, via all the usual sales channels, in a profit-share deal. There will be no reprint, although I may do an expanded edition in a couple years. The ebook is still on Payhip.
@damiano.bsky.socialReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialIt is often forgotten, but the origins of Bethesda Softworks were rooted in the European homecomputer demoscene, as Julian LeFay, director of Terminator and Daggerfall, grew up with the Amiga in Denmark trying to copy what his demoscene "rival" Sodan was doing.
@sensibleswos.bsky.socialReposted by @mossrc.bsky.social30 years ago, I created my own football club on Sensible Soccer
Luke United FC, with players such as my mum, dad, childhood teddy & David Beckham.
I created match day programmes, mock interviews & organised transfers with friends.
Childhood imagination is fascinating
@designroom.siteReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialWe're open for freelance pitches! Have any ideas for oral histories, roundtables, Q&As, or other stories that feel in line with what we've published so far? Feel free to DM. Rates typically range from $250-$750.
@bossfightbooks.comReposted by @mossrc.bsky.socialThe printers sent us our sample copy of the deluxe edition of AGE OF EMPIRES by @mossrc.bsky.social. I’m so happy with it.
