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Version 1.3.0: The Big One

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:08:50 GMT

Français à la suite, Norsk til slutt English So, version 1.3.0 is out, and it’s kind of a big one. Actually, scratch that — it’s the biggest update since the game launched back in December...

Version 1.2.6: Fixes!

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:20:08 GMT

(Francais plus bas) English I got feedback from a few players who suggested some quality of life improvements as well as found a few bugs, so I spent a bit of time testing and fixing, the main change...

Version 1.2.5: Better Controller Support!

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:34:27 GMT

(Francais plus bas) English The main change in this version is an update to the emulator (Oricutron), which now provides much better support for modern controllers with analog sticks and additional bu...

One Year Anniversary!

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:29:44 GMT

(En Francais plus bas) English Encounter was released on December 20th 2024. That was my first 100% indie launch, and there were quite many things to learn, not only about making a game, but also how...

Version 1.2.4: Quality of life fixes

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:23:17 GMT

En Francais a la fin English Encounter is mostly “finished”. There are plenty of things I wish I could add, but the floppy disk is full, and despite all of my efforts I can’t win against the law...

Physical Edition

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:59:50 GMT

(En Francais plus bas) English The long-promised Physical Edition of Encounter is almost ready. Since each copy is 100% handmade and requires hard to find 3” floppy disks, I’ve limited it to just...

Linux and Mac

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:22:43 GMT

(en Francais a la fin) English The version on the game currently available for download is a native Windows application. It has been validated as running just fine on the Steamdeck device from Valve t...

Version 1.2.3: New Demo!

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:57:51 GMT

(En Francais plus bas) English Last Friday I attended an Oslo Gamedev Meetup and some of the people there tried my game, and it quickly became obvious there were two big issues! The first one was prob...

Version 1.2.2: We have Clafoutis!

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:01:15 GMT

(En Francais plus bas) English This version 1.2.2 was not originally planned, but during the summer holidays, I observed family members playing the game and noted a few minor issues. Not all are resol...

Strategy tips for new adventurers

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:29:22 GMT

(Version en Francais en bas de page) English When I presented the game to people who had never played a classic adventure game before, it quickly became clear that they were unsure how to proceed. The...

CAAD review

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:37:48 GMT

Version Française plus bas English Encounter was reviewed in the issue 68 of the spanish magazine CAAD (“Magazine for adventurers”). This issue dives deep into Encounter, first with an interview...

Version 1.2.1: Final version?

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 18:26:34 GMT

(Version en Francais en bas de page) English We are reaching the end of the project! Encounter was released in December 2024, and since then, there has been a steady stream of improvements and tweaks...

Version 1.2.0: Minigame!

Sat, 31 May 2025 09:34:46 GMT

English First, I have to point out that when the game was released in December, I totally forgot to change the game status from “In Development” to “Released”… so the last six months the gam...

BrewOtaku review

Sun, 25 May 2025 16:53:27 GMT

English Encounter was reviewed in the issue #006 of BrewOtaku (“The Homebrew Gaming Magazine” covering new games for old consoles, handhelds and computers). The game received a 85% “BrewScore”...

Version 1.1.2: BASIC!

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:01:48 GMT

English As you can see, the development of the game is not yet finished! I only had a few bytes remaining on disk, so many of the things I wanted to add were unfortunately impossible to do… but then...

Version 1.1.1: Ergonomics

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:20:32 GMT

English We are soon reaching the end of the project: Most of the issues have been fixed, and truth be told, there’s not much free room on either the disk on in memory for much improvements! Here is...

Demo updated!

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:54:58 GMT

English Since the game was updated to version 1.1.0 with the new control scheme, I pushed a new version of the demo with these updates as well. French Vu que le jeu a été mis à jour dans sa version...

Version 1.1: Joysticks !

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:53:39 GMT

English This is a relatively big update, the game itself has not changed but a new alternative control scheme has been added which should make it easier to play (assuming you have a compatible control...

Version 1.0.6

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 10:23:49 GMT

English Fix: Added a missing “r” on the credits page with the game URL Fix: Using the small key should now display the proper message instead of “it’s too dark” Fix: Trying to open the safe...

Demo

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:12:17 GMT

English Tomorrow will mark the one-month anniversary of the launch of Encounter. Most of the rough edges have been fixed, so I thought it was time to make a demo! In the full game, you have access to...

Version 1.0.5

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:19:25 GMT

English The only significant change in this version is that the parser will no longer accept additional keywords if they are not relevant to the command. For example, instructions like PAUSE or QUIT d...

Version 1.0.4

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:39:21 GMT

English Watching a Twitch streamer last week I realized there were a couple of things that could be improved. I’ve a few more updates to come, but here is a new version with a first batch of improve...

Version 1.0.3

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:18:17 GMT

English Not many changes in this version 1.0.3, mostly some quality of life improvement to let players have more time to read long texts or examine pixel art details: Fixed an accent error introduced...

Version 1.0.2

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:24:57 GMT

It’s been 11 days since the game launched, and the feedback has been great, with quite a few of you actually playing on their real Oric which is quite awesome! On this last day of 2024 I decided to...

Merry Christmas!

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:10:17 GMT

If you are celebrating Christmas, then have a very Merry Christmas! And if you are not, have a very non Christmas time! Si vous célébrez Noël, alors passez un très joyeux Noël ! Et si vous ne le...

Version 1.0.1

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:47:51 GMT

Encounter Version 1.0.1 English Hello everybody, and thank you if you bought the game, much appreciated! I got some feedback regarding some typos, some sentences that could be worded differently, some...

Launch day!

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:02:04 GMT

English Version 1.0 and what comes after that This is launch day! A day which is both exciting and full of unknowns ! After working on this game for so long, it feels like a scary milestone, but hey,...

Vidéo Interview "Génération Micros"

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:55:42 GMT

Ce soir (Jeudi 12 décembre) à 21:00 une vidéo interview technique a propos de Encounter sur la chaîne YouTube Génération Micros! C’est en mode “première”, donc avec chat disponible, et je...

Less than two weeks to go!

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:48:05 GMT

We are now less than two weeks before the game launches, so the current focus is to optimize the performance, fix eventual typos and missed translations, but also to make the launcher easier to use an...

October 2024 video

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:20:38 GMT

Too much talk, not enough action. Without any comment, here is what the game looks like as of today, capture on a real 1984 Oric Atmos using the LOCI device and an OSSC video converter. Here is what t...

The remaining 80%

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:25:53 GMT

My team of tester friends have been reporting issues for the last few weeks, and I’ve been busy fixing them. They did not find any game-breaking bug, but they found quite a few issues in these depar...

Playtesting has started

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 06:33:19 GMT

Play testing has started! The process is simple: I build a new version of the game, I play it through while recording, then the recording is reviewed for glitches, typos, missing information, etc. all...

Milestone!

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:10:07 GMT

Today was a significant milestone: For the first time the game has been completely playable (without any cheat command or having to bypass anything) from start to finish, including the splash sequence...

Hardware performance testing

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:55:23 GMT

My game is designed to run on vintage (1984) systems with some hard constraints in term of memory size and performance. The development is done on a modern PC using an emulator, which is reliable enou...

September project status update

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:45:16 GMT

A number of people have asked me when the game will be released. Today is September 5th, and my plan is to try to get the game read for Christmas (this year!), which basically leaves me a little bit l...

Better item management

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:59:02 GMT

I updated the way the list of items are handled, instead of one item per line (which can easily overflow the screen)… …now items are comma separated to better use screen space. Also pressing SHIFT...

Graphic update

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:50:40 GMT

Just a quick update with some graphics improvements, in this case mostly filling the “white” backgrounds with something more interesting like hills or forest And while I was at it, I also gave som...

Iteration times

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 10:01:35 GMT

Nothing impacts more a project than wasted time , and nothing impacts more the quality of the work than the iteration time between when something is changed and when you finally see it in the final ga...

The virtues of Simplicity

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:49:20 GMT

Text adventure games The earlier text adventure games were very primitive and had a very limited vocabulary, generally limited to moving in various directions (NORTH, SOUTH, WEST, EAST), item manageme...

Why building another Adventure Engine?

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 09:19:44 GMT

When I started playing adventure games back in the 80ies, there were basically two types of game implementations: Games written as actual programs Games using some portable virtual machine or database...

Pixel art tutorial

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:33:39 GMT

A couple people asked me what was the process I used to make the images for the game, if it was hand made, AI generated, based on photos, etc… so I guess it’s time to give a few more details about...

New location: The Study Room

Wed, 29 May 2024 19:04:30 GMT

When looking at the floor plant of the mansion, it became obvious that a room was missing at the south-east corner of the building, so I added a room accessed through the library, with a comfortable s...

Baiting the dog

Sun, 26 May 2024 09:37:57 GMT

Since I’m doing everything on the game (excepted the music), I need to switch hat between “programmer”, “designer” and “artist”. Today I’ve put my artist/designer hat and added some gr...