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matt sephton
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matt sephton
@gingerbeardman
๐Ÿ’พ FITS ON A FLOPPY ๐Ÿค“ Indie Dev since 1990 ๐ŸŸจ YOYOZO (GOTY 2023) ๐Ÿ•น๏ธ Retro Games ๐Ÿ—ฟMoai ๐Ÿ’ฟ Macintosh Magazine Media ๐ŸŽ ex-Apple
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    Jun 23
    Hereโ€™s a quick video of my work-in-progress "Tatebanko" app, for building traditional paper dioramasโ€ฆdigitally! Here I plot an outline, add a fold, push part out of the sheet, and position it on the 3D scene. A longer video sowing more features is at: youtu.be/oDthRooNULA
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    Jun 12
    My latest project, โ€œTatebankoโ€ (Mac, iPad, iPhone) to create interactive paper dioramas. Shown is a Hokusai tatebanko from @MFABoston Author shapes and folds, then build! Trace-to-cut, pinch-to-fold, and drag-to-position in an adjustable 3D scene. Sugoi!
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    Apr 26, 2025
    NEON HAWK, work in progress for Vectrex, by Finnish maestro Mikko Huovinen (The Reap, Boarder Zone, Max Payne 2, Alan Wake, Quantum Break)
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    Dec 16, 2020
    I've been playing an old (1990, KOEI Co Ltd) Japanese PC-9801 game ใƒใƒณใƒ‰ใใ‚“ [Band-kun; Mr. Band] where you start a band and have to recruit members, make some recordings and live a life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
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    May 10, 2024
    New blog post! "Emoji history: the missing years" blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoโ€ฆ In January I bought a long-forgotten personal organiser from Japan and stumbled across a set of emoji that shouldn't have existed. Then I found some more lost emoji, so decided to redraw them all. Enjoy!
    Emoji present on the Sharp PI-4000 (1994)
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    Aug 14, 2024
    Dug out some old photos from the Y2K dot com boom recently. I was working in London at a digital agency called Blueberry. Check out the peak translucent plastic aesthetic! You can see me on the left of the first photo, hand-coding HTML/JS/CSS and table layouts in HomeSite.
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    Apr 17, 2021
    How I turned an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turโ€ฆ
    Classic Macintosh System 7 running on an iPad Pro 12.9" using the Mini vMac emulator
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    Mar 29, 2025
    I found a sweet little point and click adventure game for Classic Macintosh called โ€œStationโ€ by Mitsuo Isaka about taking train rides in the summer on Gokuraku 1994 CD2 archive.org/details/gokuraโ€ฆ
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    Dec 30, 2022
    What if... Japanese woodblock artist Kawase Hasui had travelled as far as some of his contemporaries? How would he have seen the world? I took the "world tour" route from the video game Pang, added a few locations of my own, and made some images. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2022/12/29/kawโ€ฆ
    Guillin, China
    Uluru, Australia
    Chichรฉn Itzรก, Mexico
    Moai, Easter Island
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    Aug 14, 2021
    Here's a quick GIF showing the new smoother car rotations, currently using 90 sprites per rotation (990 sprites each for car and shadow, so 1980 total per car) #smoothfm #gamedev #playdate #playdatedev #screenshotsaturday
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    Aug 22, 2021
    Panic Playdate vs Aquaplus P/ECE: the hottest handheld of 2021 goes up against a forgotten Japanese classic from 2001. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/08/19/aquโ€ฆ
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    May 27, 2023
    Mitchell Corp's long lost (unemulated & hard to find) gallery shooter arcade game "Gamshara" (Daredevil) from 2002 is finally available to play using MAME! The same team would later produce a handful of classics on Nintendo DS: Pang, Polarium, Sujin Taisen, Wakugumi & Puzz Loop.
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    May 27, 2023
    lunatic obscurity: Gamshara (Arcade) - one of the most eagerly-awaited additions to mame ever~! lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2023/05/gamshaโ€ฆ
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    Jun 8, 2021
    HUGE CONGRATS to @playdate for a great first update video! Here's a #DailyDriver Teaser Trailer to celebrate #playdatedev
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    Oct 26, 2025
    Replying to @Safety
    Hopefully retiring the twitter domain name won't break all those legacy links to content that had been created over the last 20 years. That would be a crime.
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    Jan 12, 2024
    New @playdate Prototype: Rocket Man
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