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I recently gave a makeover to the project page for the first video game I ever made: https://fietkau.media/revelation_mentis

The game itself is a small adventure/exploration game for DOS. It's not much to look at. But I touched up the game itself and the web-based player to make it a lot more approachable:

- Full English translation
- Nicer menu navigation
- Touch controls on mobile! 🤯
- A cute little optional CRT filter
- Updated #DOSBox and #emscripten, it no longer hangs the page on load for a second

A screenshot of a green top-down game landscape, showing bushes and dark pits in ASCII graphics. There is a smiley face as the protagonist and a red symbol as the goal. It's very simple DOS text mode visuals, but rendered through a CRT filter showing screen curvature and scanlines.

Julian Fietkau

@julian@fietkau.social replied · 2 weeks ago

I know you all will be too polite to be like, “that game sucks, why did you even bother to put that online?” I'll answer the question anyway.

It's true that the game is, in a nutshell, crap. It's not my first *good* game, so it's not even a real portfolio piece. It is, in fact, my first *ever* game. 😀

The only reason to play it, or to read the page, is if you want to learn a bit about my life or the kinds of things I like to make.

This is one reason (of many) why I have a personal website. 🙂

Julian Fietkau

@julian@fietkau.social replied · 2 weeks ago

Speaking of interesting, a decade ago when I first put this game on my website, I wrote down how I did it: https://fietkau.blog/2015/dosbox_emscripten_old_games

I think the process should still mostly work the same, if anyone wants to replicate it.

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