Aarni Gratseff

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Game programmer, musician, vintage-PC enthusiast, synthesizer collector, caffeinemaxxing
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Setting up another DOS Game Jam starting next month. Again, two months of jam, this time focusing on VGA graphics and Adlib sound.
https://itch.io/jam/dos-vgaopl-game-jam-2026
DOS VGA+Adlib Game Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-04-02 to 2026-05-31 hosted by TheLobdegg. About In the early 1990's it seemed the gold standard for gaming was to use IBM's VGA graphics card standard combined with the immortal Adlib Sound Ca...

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DOS game jam release: https://aarnig.itch.io/asg
Ended up with this kind of cockpit design. Not a direct copy of Privateer anymore. Need to start populating the displays: shield status, target info, cargo manifest, weapon selection etc.
First test how the graphics look in game. Still quite empty, but getting there.
Modelling cockpit graphics for my space game jam project. Pretty much straight copy of Privateer’s Tarsus 🤭
Maybe I'll just directly ripoff Wing Commander reticle 🤭 Tried to edit it, but looked wrong.
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