Games

The LOST BUILDS file list: every build on drive L: with its status, genre, target platform and year. Pick one, read its info card, then run it or follow it to its new home.

• Cosmic Impact 1999 LB-COSMIC-1999 · playable · Arcade / Orbital Physics
  A small orbital destruction game presented as a late-1990s personal homepage.
• Durango 360 Studio LB-DURANGO-360 · prototype · Vehicle Viewer / Arcade Driving
  An interactive 3D study of a 2000 Dodge Durango with a small arcade driving mode on a closed high desert circuit, chase camera, and procedural western-inspired audio.
• Endless Rail LB-ENDLESS-RAIL · graduated · Railway Exploration / Simulation
  A quiet first-person railway exploration game: an endless, procedurally generated railroad through an empty world that is there to be explored, not conquered.
• NOSEVIEW CITY 1997 LB-NCV-1997 · graduated · Flight / Exploration
  A first-person retro flight and navigation game set above a procedurally generated neon-green city.
• BOING! Legacy Edition LB-BOING-LEGACY · graduated · Tech Demo / Browser Graphics
  A cross-generation browser graphics experiment inspired by the 1984 Amiga Boing Ball demo.
• A.C.R.E. LB-ACRE · playable · Strategy / Settlement Sim
  Automated Colony Reconstruction Engine: a post-apocalyptic economic strategy game in mid-90s top-down pixel art.
• C.R.A.D.L.E. LB-CRADLE · playable · Strategy / Settlement Sim
  Civil Reconstruction And Development Logistics Engine: a post-apocalyptic settlement economy sim in the spirit of SimPark, drawn like Warcraft II and Command & Conquer.
• IRON ASH 2031 LB-IRON-ASH-2031 · prototype · First-Person Shooter
  A first-person shooter prototype with a PlayStation 1-style renderer, wrapped in a mid-90s web page.
• Helicopter in the Notebook LB-ZOSHYT-VERTOLIT · playable · Arcade / Shoot 'em up
  A top-down arcade shooter that looks like a ballpoint pen doodle on a squared school notebook page.
• Stalowa Wola: The Last Shift LB-STALOWA-WOLA · playable · Adventure / Slice of Life
  A short black comedy about a very long walk for bread. Poland, autumn 1994: Zbyszek ends his factory shift with 1.20 zloty in his pocket and one task, to buy bread and get home.
• The Last Frame LB-LAST-FRAME · playable · Adventure / Point-and-Click
  A short point-and-click mystery in autumnal Wyoming, October 1991. Freelance photographer Max Reed comes to Dry Creek to find his missing colleague Eddie's last roll of film.
• Voxel World Engine LB-VOXEL-WORLD · experiment · Tech Demo / Procedural Terrain
  Not a game yet: a tech demo and visualization draft for generating a voxel world. An island grows from seeded Perlin noise and is cut into 2 to 48 height levels.
• A.C.R.E. 2 LB-ACRE-2 · playable · Strategy / Settlement Sim
  Year 31 after the Flash. A.C.R.E. wakes up again in a dead school bus with five survivors, on a far bigger procedural wasteland.
• OSCILIFE // VX-99 LB-OSCILIFE · archived · Demoscene / PC Demo
  A two-minute wireframe demo on the screen of a vector oscilloscope.
• RIDGE/64 LB-RIDGE-64 · archived · Demoscene / PC Intro
  A one-minute flight over a procedural landscape drawn on an 80×25 text screen in 64 colours, with half-block characters and no bitmaps at all.
• BLACK VECTOR LB-BLACK-VECTOR · prototype · Action / Combat Flight
  The year is 2187 and the Directorate holds the frontier colonies with machines.
• GRIMWATER: Night at the Lake LB-GRIMWATER · playable · First-Person Shooter / Horror
  Grimwater, West Virginia, on a rainy Friday night. Ghouls wade out of the lake, bats dive out of the storm and the neighbours dig themselves out of the cemetery.
• Rust Highway LB-RUST-HIGHWAY · playable · Racing / Vehicular Combat
  Twenty years after the Sixty-Minute War, fuel is the only currency and the last road across the continent belongs to whoever survives The Run.
• UNDERCOVER LB-UNDERCOVER · playable · Arcade / Beat 'em up
  Macau, November 1993. A harbor exchange goes wrong and a blue diplomatic suitcase disappears.