https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142680/Kiki/
Hmm, do I really want this free game? :P
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142680/Kiki/
Hmm, do I really want this free game? :P
On 1/24/2026 4:17 PM, Ant wrote:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142680/Kiki/
Hmm, do I really want this free game? :P
Lost me at "A vibrant platformer".
On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:16:23 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 1/24/2026 4:17 PM, Ant wrote:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142680/Kiki/
Hmm, do I really want this free game? :P
Lost me at "A vibrant platformer".
It was the 'catchy chiptune soundtrack' that did it for me. Look, I've
a certain fondness for the old games with their primitive music-forms,
but that /despite/ how terrible the technology was. I was ever so
happy to move away from square-wave and noise-generators to proper
digitized music. It's not that I still can't find beauty in the chirpy
sounds of 8-bits... but it's not something I want to go back to. And
if that's one of the biggest features of your new game, it's not a
game I'm interested in getting.
On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:22:31 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:16:23 -0800, Dimensional Traveler ><dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 1/24/2026 4:17 PM, Ant wrote:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142680/Kiki/
Hmm, do I really want this free game? :P
Lost me at "A vibrant platformer".
It was the 'catchy chiptune soundtrack' that did it for me. Look, I've
a certain fondness for the old games with their primitive music-forms,
but that /despite/ how terrible the technology was. I was ever so
happy to move away from square-wave and noise-generators to proper >digitized music. It's not that I still can't find beauty in the chirpy >sounds of 8-bits... but it's not something I want to go back to. And
if that's one of the biggest features of your new game, it's not a
game I'm interested in getting.
Like Dimensional Traveler, I was lost at 'A Vibrant Platformer' but
unlike you, the game got my attention back with the mention of a
catchy chiptune soundtrack. I love those! Probably due to growing up
with the SID chip on the C-64. :-P
I want to hear it without running the game. :p
On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:03:36 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:
I want to hear it without running the game. :p
Ok, fair enough, but when I was a kid, I used to sometimes run games
just to listen to the opening tune. :-P
On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:22:31 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:16:23 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 1/24/2026 4:17 PM, Ant wrote:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142680/Kiki/
Hmm, do I really want this free game? :P
Lost me at "A vibrant platformer".
It was the 'catchy chiptune soundtrack' that did it for me. Look, I've
a certain fondness for the old games with their primitive music-forms,
but that /despite/ how terrible the technology was. I was ever so
happy to move away from square-wave and noise-generators to proper
digitized music. It's not that I still can't find beauty in the chirpy
sounds of 8-bits... but it's not something I want to go back to. And
if that's one of the biggest features of your new game, it's not a
game I'm interested in getting.
Like Dimensional Traveler, I was lost at 'A Vibrant Platformer' but
unlike you, the game got my attention back with the mention of a
catchy chiptune soundtrack. I love those! Probably due to growing up
with the SID chip on the C-64. :-P
On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:49:55 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:03:36 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:
I want to hear it without running the game. :p
Ok, fair enough, but when I was a kid, I used to sometimes run games
just to listen to the opening tune. :-P
Forget 'back when we were kids'; I still do that!
<fires up "Lemmings" and listens to the MIDI sweetness>
Actually, these days I'm more likely to listen to the music ripped to
MP3 or something... but sometimes I do still do it the 'old school'
way. But that's more because I like the... I dunno, the ambience of
playing the game in situ more than I prefer the chirpiness of the old
school synths. There's something magical about realizing a game is
providing such a robust and pleasing experience despite being designed
for a processor that ran 1/1000th the speed of current CPUs and where
its total RAM would be a rounding error for modern PCs ;-)
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:49:55 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:03:36 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:
I want to hear it without running the game. :p
Ok, fair enough, but when I was a kid, I used to sometimes run games
just to listen to the opening tune. :-P
Forget 'back when we were kids'; I still do that!
<fires up "Lemmings" and listens to the MIDI sweetness>
Actually, these days I'm more likely to listen to the music ripped to
MP3 or something... but sometimes I do still do it the 'old school'
way. But that's more because I like the... I dunno, the ambience of
playing the game in situ more than I prefer the chirpiness of the old school synths. There's something magical about realizing a game is providing such a robust and pleasing experience despite being designed
for a processor that ran 1/1000th the speed of current CPUs and where
its total RAM would be a rounding error for modern PCs ;-)
Got to love those old tunes. I had nostaglia feels when I heard my
favorite old retro game music from Video Games Live's orchestra in
person like Gauntlet 1, Frogger, Tetris, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw0pVXT0pco for an old cammed video as
an example. :D
Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:22:31 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:16:23 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 1/24/2026 4:17 PM, Ant wrote:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142680/Kiki/
Hmm, do I really want this free game? :P
Lost me at "A vibrant platformer".
It was the 'catchy chiptune soundtrack' that did it for me. Look, I've
a certain fondness for the old games with their primitive music-forms,
but that /despite/ how terrible the technology was. I was ever so
happy to move away from square-wave and noise-generators to proper
digitized music. It's not that I still can't find beauty in the chirpy
sounds of 8-bits... but it's not something I want to go back to. And
if that's one of the biggest features of your new game, it's not a
game I'm interested in getting.
Like Dimensional Traveler, I was lost at 'A Vibrant Platformer' but
unlike you, the game got my attention back with the mention of a
catchy chiptune soundtrack. I love those! Probably due to growing up
with the SID chip on the C-64. :-P
I want to hear it without running the game. :p
Youtube is pretty good for that.
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