Mar 21
retro rewind fave rooms
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Italy
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Italy
retro rewind fave rooms
Media is meant to be Shared. and tonight that is what we do. it's MEDIASHARE NITE and we got a lot on the docket.... we got a P.O BOX OPENING, we got RETRO REWIND GAMING, we got PAX EAST/BOSTON SHOW & TELL, and of course, once the clock strikes midnight.... its time for marbles... join up listen to some good tunez & enjoy..
MEDIASHARE NITE
6PM EST @ https://www.twitch.tv/socpens
One of the game demos I played on Next Fest was one called Retro Rewind, where you're running an independent video rental place in the 90s. It was pretty boring, one of those games where I immediately start thinking "okay, please let me automate this gameplay", but the reason I'd given it a shot is that I've wanted a video rental game ever since playing Tiny Bookshop.
One of the big issues is that in Retro Rewind, all the video titles are made up for the game, which means that there's none of the cultural weight that exists in real life. This was one of the things that I liked about Tiny Bookshop, and it seems relatively simple to implement, because all you have to do is add a mammoth number of tags to a whole bunch of movies, then write some conditional dialogue.
So someone says "Can you recommend a movie for me? I'm a big fan of SNL" and then it's up to your knowledge of your catalog to pick 1) a comedy and ideally 2) that has an SNL cast member in it or 3) is a movie that originated from SNL, though few of those are good movies. The idea is that you're rewarded for pop culture knowledge and being conversant in film.
I'm reasonably sure that you don't need to have all the movies be public domain, though you might run into issues if you wanted to display images for the covers ... not sure how IMDB handles it, though it's pretty obviously fair use in that case.
Alas, making my own game would be enormously time consuming and outside my wheelhouse, but I can feel the pull of it, and that traitorous voice that says "how hard could this be" is whispering in my ear.
Ranboo is live streaming Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator
[title: Ive replaced every single movie in here with different Ranboo streams. I have made 3 dollars]
Don't even ask me what i'm up to tonight yall already damn well know!
bought retro rewind. made the mistake of putting the entirety of shrek (2001) on the tv. now i cannot stop getting distracted by shrek (2001). help me.
Anxiety is so high I dont think I can sleep rn cause the paranoia is at insane levels, so I'm binge watching Game grumps 10 minutes of power hour and playing retro rewind to hopefully feel better
Retro Rewind is great, but its even better if you shove some old movies into it and I can help with that
putting this here in case i need it again but oh man. oh man. that link to VHS rips on the internet archive... there are almost too many possibilities.