Just tried out #GNOME #Highscore by @alice, and it's really quite incredible. Just drop a ROM in a folder, Highscore picks it up, and you're good to go! No fiddling about trying to find the right emulator or anything, just drop it and play! Games seem to get frozen in the background, and resume right where you left off, and the touch controls are great!

Highly recommend giving it a try (you can find a download in the build artifacts): https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/highscore

Wishlist (not sure if these are possible):
- Customizable on screen controls: I'd love to be able to move around or enlarge buttons.
- Generic desktop launching: It'd be great to be able to drop a .desktop file into the library folder and have it launch with onscreen controls. This would open up the possibility of easily emulating many simple steam games, like platformers.

Thanks for making this, Alice, you've done a wonderful job!

BREAKING: Boston Globe discovers *wife* plays Tetris! Billy Baker takes a road trip to the 1980s, where his significant other must prove her pixel-shifting prowess in New Hampshire. Next week: Can she beat his high score at Pong?
https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/08/19/bizarro_world/ #Tetris #NewHampshire #VideoGames #RetroGaming #HighScore #HackerNews #ngated

Tried out Highscore (formerly GNOME Games) on my OnePlus 6T via the Flatpak developer builds under GNOME Mobile — and wow, it runs beautifully on a touch-based mobile form factor!

Without a physical gamepad, it shows a virtual one on screen. But as soon as I connect my 8BitDo Micro controller, it switches seamlessly — virtual gamepad disappears and I'm playing with real controls. Just works™.

Code: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/highscore
Maintainer: @alice
#GNOME #Highscore #RetroGaming

...trying to explain reality to an #NPC is an exercise in pointlessness that leads to circular debates and limited preprogrammed responses.

...if we waste time with "correcting" all these NPCs, ...only #designed to bog us down, tire us out, keep us compliant or silenced, or recondition us back into #slavery... we never going to beat this enforced simulation and get on with freedom.

#fuckthat #highscore , #endgame now !!! #fucknpcs #capturethekings
#iamnotyourtoby

Someone, please, take over the next 8 hours on the @snake bot #game. I'm going to bed now. We're 2 points away from beating the #highscore. Let's do this.
https://mastodon.world/@snake/114310223330862381

Hey some one finally beat level 3! Congrats, whoever you are, on being the first!

And I thought I might have made it too hard

(Dave and Bagel on the high scores are me, the dev, so don’t count) #indiegame #pixelart #highscore

Spent the entire day working on audio mixing for Lilypad Library, so now that all of the audio is in place I gave myself some time to play some virtual #Pinball Finally achieved the Lost in the Zone wizard mode on Twilight Zone! Feels good :)

Wow, 18 people bought #Pixelix yesterday! That's a new high score for a single day!
Thank you all for the support!

So #Runescape isn't the only game that uses the term #hiscore instead of #highscore?

Anyway look at #AlbionOnline player names here! There are plenty with the name #mastodon. Unlike in osrs/rs where there are exactly 0 players with that name:

https://albiondb.net/search/mastodon/

Ich habe mir die aktuelle Ausgabe 1/25 des #Retro-Gamer Magazins geholt. Darin ein Steam-Aktivierungscode für #ASTROSMASH 1981 im Wert von €4.99. Das Magazin hat eine #Highscore-Challenge ausgelobt – auf geht’s #retrogaming

Nota sobre mi experiencia y record personal con el clásico #1942 de #Capcom

#gaming #retrogaming #videojuegos #arcade #shootemup #highscore #avatares99

https://avatares99.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/high-score-1942/

That's FART-ASTIC!

From Fartmania's launch, you gathered over 2 815 000 points!

If you want to add to this number, check out the game on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2883610/Tales_From_The_Arcade_Fartmania/utm_source=mastodon

Random Old Comic: Gamer https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2017/05/30/gamer/ Gamer #Bisk #HighScore #Transformers https://www.facebook.com/815217756713386/posts/1196938171874674?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Congratulations to all the winners in our high score competition @PAXAus!
Well done to those who flew the highest or were lucky enough to have been selected in the 2nd chance draw.
Each earnt a Steam key for Super BAWK BAWK Chicken!
Special shoutout to Roy who achieved the very best over the weekend with a score of 5808!
We hope to see you all on the global leaderboards!

Fartmania Demo is out!

You're not on the leaderboards? Don't worry! Hop into the game and fight for the first place of the highscores to have a chance of becoming one of the Fartmania's characters!

Don't wait and FART TO THE TOP:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3041970/Tales_From_The_Arcade_Fartmania_Demo/utm_source=mastodon

Fartmania Highscores Contest starts now!

Fartmania is about to be released, and YOU can become its character! All you have to do is find Fartmania on Steam and download the demo version, which is, of course, free! You need to achieve the highest possible score and stay at the top of the highscores for two weeks. And that's it! 

Download the demo here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3041970/Tales_From_The_Arcade_Fartmania_Demo/

#SHORT - I just #beat my #highscore at the #water fountain!
https://youtu.be/9IIklCC2l48