Kaito / Katie Sinclaire @KS@is.a.qute.dog

@linaciari having worked on Neo Geo homebrew has just given me even more respect for it, really; it was definitely ahead of its time in a bunch of ways

@alex RIP freenode

@socks (ref: Davidson, Henry; A Short History of Chess)

@socks and during typing that out I looked it up; original win conditions were in fact "capture the king" or "leave a player with a bare king" (capture everything else)

the persians introduced check/mate to have a warning for a king being captured, and as a result, to prevent games ending suddenly and accidentally

and the bare king rule fell out of vogue somewhere around the 16th century, because it was considered more noble to win by checkmate

@socks given chess has a long and storied history, I wouldn't be surprised if the win condition was originally "capture the king" and it changed over time, presumably because if you were in such a situation you'd just resign anyway

gods Kit, you're precious and lovely, you know that? <3

(On itch.io: https://rosenthalcastle.itch.io/petal-crash-neo)

@elfi It already does! Most of the footage here was captured in MVS mode, even.

(Youtube version of the announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF22pxrzKZI)

(Twitter link: https://twitter.com/PetalCrash/status/1719914734391333218)

After having to work on this quietly for quite a while, I can finally share this with the world:

We're porting Petal Crash to the Neo Geo!

Aaaa Ashley deleted the Twitter post to fix the audio there and I don't have an edit functionality! TAKE FOUR

Man why are video codecs such a pain

I'll get this announcement right one of these ties

@unascribed cool, cool, I know that's what suika game does too but just wanted to check since it's not common knowledge

@unascribed out of curiosity what do two watermelon combine into

The full game came out on the 26th (well, mid-day on the 25th, because JST).

I've already beaten the story mode on the hardest difficulty, Nightmare:

@Hearth funny enough, I know a November, usually shortened to just Nova