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Vector boost #2 - March 2026 TOTM
March TOTM will be the second installment of the recurring series of SVG icon contests. As before, there's no prescribed theme of the month. Your set can follow any theme you choose (fantasy, modern U...Leet Tradeguru
So, the first real adventure is in, let's call it an "early access" period. I'm still not sure about the balance. Feel free to suggest changes or discuss best strategies to win.A text adventure?
I've just published a new text adventure, the first serious one after the earlier test project. You can play it here. This is not your typical "pick up lantern, fight troll" kind of adventure. It's a space cargo hauling and trading game built on top ...
Emotion - February 2026 TOTM
February's contest theme is Emotion. Create thematic sets of icons, cursors, or icon assemblers exploring moods, expressions, and feeling in visual form. This theme is intentionally broad, it may be a...So, I looked at the files and they are using the 32bit RGBA bitmap format, but have the alpha channel of all pixels set to 0 = completely transparent. This is incorrect. Now, it appears that Windows has a workaround for this problem and detect this invalid state and ignores the alpha channel for images that would appear completely transparent. I have checked this by m...
Right now, there is no editor and considering that making the framework plus a test adventure took me more than two months, it will take some time to get it ready. So, right now, there is a scary long incomplete adventure format specification and a sample adventure with a offline version of the framework. It is probabl...
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Fat Pixels - January 2026 TOTM
For January, the contest theme will be Pixelart. Participants are invited to submit thematic sets of pixel-style graphics, focusing on sharp edges, consistent grids, and deliberate use of limited reso...
Avoiding AI brainrot
In this follow-up post to my holiday special, I wanted to explore the human side of AI slop and a related topic that I call AI brainrot. Here is my opinion on why low-effort AI content feels repetitiv...Vlasta modified the Play text adventures online page on January 1st.
Assemblage - December 2025 TOTM
This month, creators will have full freedom: the theme is entirely open, but your submission must be an icon assembler, which is a structured set of PNG or SVG parts arranged into groups (layers) that...
Holiday special - creativity, AI, and slop
One of my college professors liked to frame originality in a way that stayed with me long after graduation. Paraphrased, his point was this: if a master’s thesis merely retraces the path of another, i...what account?
Possible addition to the Arcade
Just a quick blog... I am considering adding an old style text adventure game to the Relax section. While this probably happens - eventually, I want to know what the community thinks about this idea and that will affect my priorities and possibly the...You can create any cursors in RWCE, you just need to know what VB6 supports. Older cursors used to only have 32x32 pixels images, although different sizes were allowed in the .cur format. Also, color depths used to be limited, so you may want to limit your cursor color depth if the default causes problems in vb6.
Flag assembler
This assembler allows you to create simple flags of many existing and non-existing countries. The colors may not always be 100% correct for all countries, but I am not including 20 shades of red for e...go to your portfolio and there is a link above the sets called "Individual icons and cursors"
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What to improve next?
There are so many areas to be improved and only a limited time to do it. What should be given priority? There are already some changes being made to the Gallery section, but there is still a lot that can be improved. Should I focus on making the Gall...Icon assembler update - part 2
The icon assembler section of the Gallery has received another update. This time, it's not just visual tweaks; it's something more fundamental, something that has been requested for longer than some of you have been alive. After 13 years, it is final...