Leon's Microblog – October 2024

https://fairysvoice.net/games/ – Now YOU can play crinkly old 24-hour-game-jam Leongames like "U-Bend" or "Saucer Sandy's Moon Escape" (depicted below) on YOUR line, with all the dubiously-balanced audio volume they always deserved.
Good news!! I finally fixed the goddamn bug that caused basically every webgame I'd made before 2013 to lose sound after playing sound effects 128 times. It took poring through compiled minified code, but I found which bit of webkitAudioContext circa 2013 was no longer working.
The UFO 50 soundtrack was released, so now you can enjoy my personal late-night talk show guest entrance theme https://phlogiston.bandcamp.com/track/mini-max-book
*reads the new CSS features in Firefox patchnotes* RIP Cohost you would've loved whatever the hell this does
Miracle Ropit's Adventure In 2100 is fully enshrined in my personal pantheon of games that I will always cherish regardless of their actual quality or ability to even be played, right next to Story Of Eastern Wonderland
For the record, Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100 (Micronics, 1987) would absolutely definitely be a UFO 50 game, if it ran at 60FPS instead of 10, and if most of the reasons for losing a life were good instead of highly dubious
Not sure how to describe this, but Planet Zoldath in UFO 50 has "Micronics energy"
Barbuta should have been worse. It should have gone full Mario Maker troll level. Fake floor over spikes. Ladder that grows upward when you climb so you can't get off. Shop that exits to a fake copy of the room you were in. Invisible teleporter to the same fake floor over spikes.
I should really get back to looking for secrets in Void Stranger… I think I got pretty close to finding them all *Void Stranger shows me this screen* Shut the hell up Void Stranger
Now that Cohost Dot Org is shut, it's time to grab all the posts from the Void Stranger tag that I didn't read because I hadn't found all the secrets yet, save them to my HD, and then continue to not read them because I still haven'
"It's my newest invention, the Right-Wrong Detector! When you point the jabby end at a morally good post, it plays the 'You Are Dead' song from Total Distortion, and when you point it at a morally evil post, it plays the baby sound from Mario Paint. Don't mix them up!!"
Remembering the feuding title screens in the Short Order + Eggsplode multi-cart… real Famicom Disk System start screen vibes. Imagine this with all fifty UFO 50 title screens
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