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  1. Playing #SIGNALIS and also thinking about #RemedyControl, I think the best merchandise a game developer could make for such games is a roll of all the posters that appear in their game. #LastCallBBS having "official" PC stickers you can buy is so nice geekenspiel.com/products/last-

  2. Me: So #tired! 🫩

    Them: Poor guy, #DaylightSavingTime is taking its toll. Take care. 🤗

    Me: Ummm. Yes. Daylight saving time. That must be it. I was definitely not playing #20thCenturyFoodCourt until 3 am. Oh, no. 🫣

    #LastCallBBS #gamingonlinux

  3. Me: So #tired! 🫩

    Them: Poor guy, #DaylightSavingTime is taking its toll. Take care. 🤗

    Me: Ummm. Yes. Daylight saving time. That must be it. I was definitely not playing #20thCenturyFoodCourt until 3 am. Oh, no. 🫣

    #LastCallBBS #gamingonlinux

  4. Me: So #tired! 🫩

    Them: Poor guy, #DaylightSavingTime is taking its toll. Take care. 🤗

    Me: Ummm. Yes. Daylight saving time. That must be it. I was definitely not playing #20thCenturyFoodCourt until 3 am. Oh, no. 🫣

    #LastCallBBS #gamingonlinux

  5. Me: So #tired! 🫩

    Them: Poor guy, #DaylightSavingTime is taking its toll. Take care. 🤗

    Me: Ummm. Yes. Daylight saving time. That must be it. I was definitely not playing #20thCenturyFoodCourt until 3 am. Oh, no. 🫣

    #LastCallBBS #gamingonlinux

  6. Why is building gunpla in #lastcallbbs almost as fun as building actual gunpla?

  7. Why is building gunpla in almost as fun as building actual gunpla?

  8. Why is building gunpla in #lastcallbbs almost as fun as building actual gunpla?

  9. Why is building gunpla in #lastcallbbs almost as fun as building actual gunpla?

  10. Last Call BBS: Puzzle Games for the Retro-Inclined

    The last game from the makers of TIS-100, SpaceChem, Exapunks and many other puzzle games feels like a Greatest Hits collection.

    chasingdings.com/2024/10/26/la

    #PuzzleGames #SteamGames #LastCallBbs #zachtronics

  11. Last Call BBS: Puzzle Games for the Retro-Inclined

    The last game from the makers of TIS-100, SpaceChem, Exapunks and many other puzzle games feels like a Greatest Hits collection.

    chasingdings.com/2024/10/26/la

    #PuzzleGames #SteamGames #LastCallBbs #zachtronics

  12. Last Call BBS: Puzzle Games for the Retro-Inclined

    The last game from the makers of TIS-100, SpaceChem, Exapunks and many other puzzle games feels like a Greatest Hits collection.

    chasingdings.com/2024/10/26/la

    #PuzzleGames #SteamGames #LastCallBbs #zachtronics

  13. Last Call BBS: Puzzle Games for the Retro-Inclined

    The last game from the makers of TIS-100, SpaceChem, Exapunks and many other puzzle games feels like a Greatest Hits collection.

    chasingdings.com/2024/10/26/la

    #PuzzleGames #SteamGames #LastCallBbs #zachtronics

  14. Last Call BBS: Puzzle Games for the Retro-Inclined

    The last game from the makers of TIS-100, SpaceChem, Exapunks and many other puzzle games feels like a Greatest Hits collection.

    chasingdings.com/2024/10/26/la

    #PuzzleGames #SteamGames #LastCallBbs #zachtronics

  15. #Zachtronics catalogue sale now through 10/17, everything 50% off! I love their open-ended engineering puzzle games, and there are a few other genres thrown in there too. Now's a good time to pick up any of their games if you've been on the fence. store.steampowered.com/sale/za

    #IndieGames #GamingDeals #Solitaire #PuzzleGames #SpaceChem #Infinifactory #OpusMagnum #LastCallBBS #BBS #Exapunks #ShenzhenIO #TIS100 #IroncladTactics

  16. #Zachtronics catalogue sale now through 10/17, everything 50% off! I love their open-ended engineering puzzle games, and there are a few other genres thrown in there too. Now's a good time to pick up any of their games if you've been on the fence. store.steampowered.com/sale/za

    #IndieGames #GamingDeals #Solitaire #PuzzleGames #SpaceChem #Infinifactory #OpusMagnum #LastCallBBS #BBS #Exapunks #ShenzhenIO #TIS100 #IroncladTactics

  17. #Zachtronics catalogue sale now through 10/17, everything 50% off! I love their open-ended engineering puzzle games, and there are a few other genres thrown in there too. Now's a good time to pick up any of their games if you've been on the fence. store.steampowered.com/sale/za

    #IndieGames #GamingDeals #Solitaire #PuzzleGames #SpaceChem #Infinifactory #OpusMagnum #LastCallBBS #BBS #Exapunks #ShenzhenIO #TIS100 #IroncladTactics

  18. #Zachtronics catalogue sale now through 10/17, everything 50% off! I love their open-ended engineering puzzle games, and there are a few other genres thrown in there too. Now's a good time to pick up any of their games if you've been on the fence. store.steampowered.com/sale/za

    #IndieGames #GamingDeals #Solitaire #PuzzleGames #SpaceChem #Infinifactory #OpusMagnum #LastCallBBS #BBS #Exapunks #ShenzhenIO #TIS100 #IroncladTactics

  19. #Zachtronics catalogue sale now through 10/17, everything 50% off! I love their open-ended engineering puzzle games, and there are a few other genres thrown in there too. Now's a good time to pick up any of their games if you've been on the fence. store.steampowered.com/sale/za

    #IndieGames #GamingDeals #Solitaire #PuzzleGames #SpaceChem #Infinifactory #OpusMagnum #LastCallBBS #BBS #Exapunks #ShenzhenIO #TIS100 #IroncladTactics

  20. My post #EMFCamp lie-in was spent hacking on #LastCallBBS (which I bought after enjoying it in EMF's excellent Arcade) and creating a new Bulletin Board to dial into… www.byjp.me/notes/2024-0...

  21. My post #EMFCamp lie-in was spent hacking on #LastCallBBS (which I bought after enjoying it in EMF's excellent Arcade) and creating a new Bulletin Board to dial into…

    (You should definitely play Last Call BBS: zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/)

    byjp.me/notes/2024-06-04/last-

  22. My post #EMFCamp lie-in was spent hacking on #LastCallBBS (which I bought after enjoying it in EMF's excellent Arcade) and creating a new Bulletin Board to dial into…

    (You should definitely play Last Call BBS: zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/)

    byjp.me/notes/2024-06-04/last-

  23. My post lie-in was spent hacking on (which I bought after enjoying it in EMF's excellent Arcade) and creating a new Bulletin Board to dial into…

    (You should definitely play Last Call BBS: zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/)

    byjp.me/notes/2024-06-04/last-

  24. My post #EMFCamp lie-in was spent hacking on #LastCallBBS (which I bought after enjoying it in EMF's excellent Arcade) and creating a new Bulletin Board to dial into…

    (You should definitely play Last Call BBS: zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/)

    byjp.me/notes/2024-06-04/last-

  25. My post #EMFCamp lie-in was spent hacking on #LastCallBBS (which I bought after enjoying it in EMF's excellent Arcade) and creating a new Bulletin Board to dial into…

    (You should definitely play Last Call BBS: zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/)

    byjp.me/notes/2024-06-04/last-

  26. Cable management is slipping into mayhem on "The Walrus" cocktail level, but overall satisfied with how this one came out.

    Of note here is the multi-purpose "D" sequence, which advances all platters at the same time (since there is no consequence if the tray isn't there), and dispenses ice if the tray is in the right place for the sequence trigger.

    I feel very clever for this solution.

    #zachtronics #lastcallbbs #programming #puzzle #gaming

  27. December 14, 2023 - Day 348 - RePlay Review
    Total RePlays: 11

    Game: Last Call BBS

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Aug 4, 2022
    Library Date: Aug 14, 2023

    Playtime: 30m (2h48m)

    Last Call BBS is a Zachtronics game, and is the seventh game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and the final bundle game this month.

    I'm going to broadly group the folks reading this into folks who saw "Zachtronics" and went "huh?" and folks who saw it and went "ohhhh".

    Most (but not all) of the Zachtronics games are variants of programming games.

    Last Call BBS however, is a final labour of love for Zachtronics fans. The name is a double entendre, for this was also the last game by Zachtronics before Zach Barth closed the studio, and left programming (at least temporarily).

    It's difficult for me to describe Last Call BBS, because it's a callback to an earlier time, before the web, before the internet was everywhere.

    It's a pixel-art simulation of a computer from the late 80's-early 90's, that comes with its own simulation of a PDA ("Kids, when we were younger, we didn't have fandangled smartphones, we had "Personal Digital Assistants" with monochrome pressure-sensitive screens, and we had to learn a whole new way to write the alphabet, and we LIKED it! Well... we accepted it."

    The game sets you up with a modem, allowing you dial into a BBS (Bulletin Board System), modem screeches and all, and download 8 different "pirated" 'warez'. Last Call BBS even simulates the download process, making you wait for up to 15 minutes for the "download" to complete, and then forcibly logging you off, in much the style of real world BBSes of the time.

    There's almost a sense in which Last Call BBS feels like a Roman à clef, and that some of the stories in the game are Zach taking an introspective stock how how he "got here".

    For all of the pixel art games I encountered (and complained about) this year, Last Call BBS is the one game that actually DID give me a sense of nostalgia for that era. It feels... earned, I guess.

    As for the "mini-games" themselves, they appear to be inspired by many of Zachtronics hit games. In keeping with tradition for Zachtronics games, Last Call BBS contains two different solitaire variants.

    I don't know how old Zach is, but I get the feeling that we lived at opposite ends of a particular era in computing that all but disappeared in the wake of the internet becoming omni-present.

    There's a layer to Last Call BBS that may only be appreciated by those of us who lived through that period of time, yet still provides the kind of challenges that lead to an entire subgenre named for Zach Barth: "Zachlikes".

    Last Call BBS is:

    5: Excellent

    #LastCallBBS #PixelArt #Narrative #Programming #Zachlikes #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #RePlay

  28. December 14, 2023 - Day 348 - RePlay Review
    Total RePlays: 11

    Game: Last Call BBS

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Aug 4, 2022
    Library Date: Aug 14, 2023

    Playtime: 30m (2h48m)

    Last Call BBS is a Zachtronics game, and is the seventh game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and the final bundle game this month.

    I'm going to broadly group the folks reading this into folks who saw "Zachtronics" and went "huh?" and folks who saw it and went "ohhhh".

    Most (but not all) of the Zachtronics games are variants of programming games.

    Last Call BBS however, is a final labour of love for Zachtronics fans. The name is a double entendre, for this was also the last game by Zachtronics before Zach Barth closed the studio, and left programming (at least temporarily).

    It's difficult for me to describe Last Call BBS, because it's a callback to an earlier time, before the web, before the internet was everywhere.

    It's a pixel-art simulation of a computer from the late 80's-early 90's, that comes with its own simulation of a PDA ("Kids, when we were younger, we didn't have fandangled smartphones, we had "Personal Digital Assistants" with monochrome pressure-sensitive screens, and we had to learn a whole new way to write the alphabet, and we LIKED it! Well... we accepted it."

    The game sets you up with a modem, allowing you dial into a BBS (Bulletin Board System), modem screeches and all, and download 8 different "pirated" 'warez'. Last Call BBS even simulates the download process, making you wait for up to 15 minutes for the "download" to complete, and then forcibly logging you off, in much the style of real world BBSes of the time.

    There's almost a sense in which Last Call BBS feels like a Roman à clef, and that some of the stories in the game are Zach taking an introspective stock how how he "got here".

    For all of the pixel art games I encountered (and complained about) this year, Last Call BBS is the one game that actually DID give me a sense of nostalgia for that era. It feels... earned, I guess.

    As for the "mini-games" themselves, they appear to be inspired by many of Zachtronics hit games. In keeping with tradition for Zachtronics games, Last Call BBS contains two different solitaire variants.

    I don't know how old Zach is, but I get the feeling that we lived at opposite ends of a particular era in computing that all but disappeared in the wake of the internet becoming omni-present.

    There's a layer to Last Call BBS that may only be appreciated by those of us who lived through that period of time, yet still provides the kind of challenges that lead to an entire subgenre named for Zach Barth: "Zachlikes".

    Last Call BBS is:

    5: Excellent

    #LastCallBBS #PixelArt #Narrative #Programming #Zachlikes #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #RePlay

  29. December 14, 2023 - Day 348 - RePlay Review
    Total RePlays: 11

    Game: Last Call BBS

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Aug 4, 2022
    Library Date: Aug 14, 2023

    Playtime: 30m (2h48m)

    Last Call BBS is a Zachtronics game, and is the seventh game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and the final bundle game this month.

    I'm going to broadly group the folks reading this into folks who saw "Zachtronics" and went "huh?" and folks who saw it and went "ohhhh".

    Most (but not all) of the Zachtronics games are variants of programming games.

    Last Call BBS however, is a final labour of love for Zachtronics fans. The name is a double entendre, for this was also the last game by Zachtronics before Zach Barth closed the studio, and left programming (at least temporarily).

    It's difficult for me to describe Last Call BBS, because it's a callback to an earlier time, before the web, before the internet was everywhere.

    It's a pixel-art simulation of a computer from the late 80's-early 90's, that comes with its own simulation of a PDA ("Kids, when we were younger, we didn't have fandangled smartphones, we had "Personal Digital Assistants" with monochrome pressure-sensitive screens, and we had to learn a whole new way to write the alphabet, and we LIKED it! Well... we accepted it."

    The game sets you up with a modem, allowing you dial into a BBS (Bulletin Board System), modem screeches and all, and download 8 different "pirated" 'warez'. Last Call BBS even simulates the download process, making you wait for up to 15 minutes for the "download" to complete, and then forcibly logging you off, in much the style of real world BBSes of the time.

    There's almost a sense in which Last Call BBS feels like a Roman à clef, and that some of the stories in the game are Zach taking an introspective stock how how he "got here".

    For all of the pixel art games I encountered (and complained about) this year, Last Call BBS is the one game that actually DID give me a sense of nostalgia for that era. It feels... earned, I guess.

    As for the "mini-games" themselves, they appear to be inspired by many of Zachtronics hit games. In keeping with tradition for Zachtronics games, Last Call BBS contains two different solitaire variants.

    I don't know how old Zach is, but I get the feeling that we lived at opposite ends of a particular era in computing that all but disappeared in the wake of the internet becoming omni-present.

    There's a layer to Last Call BBS that may only be appreciated by those of us who lived through that period of time, yet still provides the kind of challenges that lead to an entire subgenre named for Zach Barth: "Zachlikes".

    Last Call BBS is:

    5: Excellent

    #LastCallBBS #PixelArt #Narrative #Programming #Zachlikes #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #RePlay

  30. December 14, 2023 - Day 348 - RePlay Review
    Total RePlays: 11

    Game: Last Call BBS

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Aug 4, 2022
    Library Date: Aug 14, 2023

    Playtime: 30m (2h48m)

    Last Call BBS is a Zachtronics game, and is the seventh game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and the final bundle game this month.

    I'm going to broadly group the folks reading this into folks who saw "Zachtronics" and went "huh?" and folks who saw it and went "ohhhh".

    Most (but not all) of the Zachtronics games are variants of programming games.

    Last Call BBS however, is a final labour of love for Zachtronics fans. The name is a double entendre, for this was also the last game by Zachtronics before Zach Barth closed the studio, and left programming (at least temporarily).

    It's difficult for me to describe Last Call BBS, because it's a callback to an earlier time, before the web, before the internet was everywhere.

    It's a pixel-art simulation of a computer from the late 80's-early 90's, that comes with its own simulation of a PDA ("Kids, when we were younger, we didn't have fandangled smartphones, we had "Personal Digital Assistants" with monochrome pressure-sensitive screens, and we had to learn a whole new way to write the alphabet, and we LIKED it! Well... we accepted it."

    The game sets you up with a modem, allowing you dial into a BBS (Bulletin Board System), modem screeches and all, and download 8 different "pirated" 'warez'. Last Call BBS even simulates the download process, making you wait for up to 15 minutes for the "download" to complete, and then forcibly logging you off, in much the style of real world BBSes of the time.

    There's almost a sense in which Last Call BBS feels like a Roman à clef, and that some of the stories in the game are Zach taking an introspective stock how how he "got here".

    For all of the pixel art games I encountered (and complained about) this year, Last Call BBS is the one game that actually DID give me a sense of nostalgia for that era. It feels... earned, I guess.

    As for the "mini-games" themselves, they appear to be inspired by many of Zachtronics hit games. In keeping with tradition for Zachtronics games, Last Call BBS contains two different solitaire variants.

    I don't know how old Zach is, but I get the feeling that we lived at opposite ends of a particular era in computing that all but disappeared in the wake of the internet becoming omni-present.

    There's a layer to Last Call BBS that may only be appreciated by those of us who lived through that period of time, yet still provides the kind of challenges that lead to an entire subgenre named for Zach Barth: "Zachlikes".

    Last Call BBS is:

    5: Excellent

    #LastCallBBS #PixelArt #Narrative #Programming #Zachlikes #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #RePlay

  31. December 14, 2023 - Day 348 - RePlay Review
    Total RePlays: 11

    Game: Last Call BBS

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Aug 4, 2022
    Library Date: Aug 14, 2023

    Playtime: 30m (2h48m)

    Last Call BBS is a Zachtronics game, and is the seventh game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and the final bundle game this month.

    I'm going to broadly group the folks reading this into folks who saw "Zachtronics" and went "huh?" and folks who saw it and went "ohhhh".

    Most (but not all) of the Zachtronics games are variants of programming games.

    Last Call BBS however, is a final labour of love for Zachtronics fans. The name is a double entendre, for this was also the last game by Zachtronics before Zach Barth closed the studio, and left programming (at least temporarily).

    It's difficult for me to describe Last Call BBS, because it's a callback to an earlier time, before the web, before the internet was everywhere.

    It's a pixel-art simulation of a computer from the late 80's-early 90's, that comes with its own simulation of a PDA ("Kids, when we were younger, we didn't have fandangled smartphones, we had "Personal Digital Assistants" with monochrome pressure-sensitive screens, and we had to learn a whole new way to write the alphabet, and we LIKED it! Well... we accepted it."

    The game sets you up with a modem, allowing you dial into a BBS (Bulletin Board System), modem screeches and all, and download 8 different "pirated" 'warez'. Last Call BBS even simulates the download process, making you wait for up to 15 minutes for the "download" to complete, and then forcibly logging you off, in much the style of real world BBSes of the time.

    There's almost a sense in which Last Call BBS feels like a Roman à clef, and that some of the stories in the game are Zach taking an introspective stock how how he "got here".

    For all of the pixel art games I encountered (and complained about) this year, Last Call BBS is the one game that actually DID give me a sense of nostalgia for that era. It feels... earned, I guess.

    As for the "mini-games" themselves, they appear to be inspired by many of Zachtronics hit games. In keeping with tradition for Zachtronics games, Last Call BBS contains two different solitaire variants.

    I don't know how old Zach is, but I get the feeling that we lived at opposite ends of a particular era in computing that all but disappeared in the wake of the internet becoming omni-present.

    There's a layer to Last Call BBS that may only be appreciated by those of us who lived through that period of time, yet still provides the kind of challenges that lead to an entire subgenre named for Zach Barth: "Zachlikes".

    Last Call BBS is:

    5: Excellent

    #LastCallBBS #PixelArt #Narrative #Programming #Zachlikes #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #RePlay

  32. #LastCallBBS is a lot of fun, especially 20th Century Food Court. I was stuck on a few levels, but now I'm kind of getting the groove

  33. #LastCallBBS is a lot of fun, especially 20th Century Food Court. I was stuck on a few levels, but now I'm kind of getting the groove

  34. #LastCallBBS is a lot of fun, especially 20th Century Food Court. I was stuck on a few levels, but now I'm kind of getting the groove

  35. #LastCallBBS is a lot of fun, especially 20th Century Food Court. I was stuck on a few levels, but now I'm kind of getting the groove

  36. #LastCallBBS is a lot of fun, especially 20th Century Food Court. I was stuck on a few levels, but now I'm kind of getting the groove

  37. Ok. I'am official back in my teen times.
    #Zachtronics #LastCallBBS is amazing and a perfect throwback in time.

  38. Ok. I'am official back in my teen times.
    #Zachtronics #LastCallBBS is amazing and a perfect throwback in time.