Paul Nicholas

@liquidream.bsky.social

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.NET Dev by ☀️ | IndieDev by 🌃 🕹️ Made: tinyurl.com/UnDUNE2 • tinyurl.com/LowMemSky • tinyurl.com/SCUMM-8 on #Pico8 🏠 Liquidream.co.uk | He/Him ❤️ https://ko-fi.com/liquidream | 📅 Liquidream.omg.lol/Now 🦣 mastodon.gamedev.place/@Liquidream

Screenshot of my first PICO-8 related Twitter post, from exactly 10 years ago today, which says: "Loving my new "fantasy" console. Takes me back to the good ol' days #pico8 @lexaloffle #retro #8bit"
A collage of all the entries from the jam
A collage of all the jam entries from Week 4
Retro "red/blue" style scoreboard for use in various sports games. Demonstrating the ability to rename players, change scores, "starting/breaking" player indicator alternating, and see the game timer incrementing at the bottom.
A collage of all the jam entries from Week 3
A collage of all the 2nd week's entries to PICO-1K Jam 2025
A collage of all the first week's entries to PICO-1K Jam 2025
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Banner for Meet@Develop, taking place at Develop@Brighton from 8th to 10th July 2025 (I'll only be there on Thurs 10th)
A white man wearing dark sunglasses and a grey t-shirt, holding a retro computer magazine (which features "Terminator 2D: No Fate", the upcoming game from the Bitmap Bureau team), while also giving a thumb-up. Wonder what the references could be... 🤔😉
Screenshot of a game, which simulates an old school computer terminal, which is a "demake" of the fictional Macrodata Refinement program used in the TV show Severance.
A mosaic of the "new" movies (to me) that I watched in 2024, in reverse chronological order of watching: Wicked Happiest Season The Holdovers The 4:30 Movie Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Wolfs Empire Falls Speak No Evil Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Strange Darling Deadpool & Wolverine Dredd Hush Trap Jackpot! Alien: Romulus Twisters Don’t Worry Darling A Quiet Place: Day One Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 Bad Boys: Ride or Die The Last Stop in Yuma County Anyone But You Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Midsommar BRATS Hit Man The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare The Fall Guy Civil War Suspiria (2018) Leave the World Behind Come from Away Road House (2024) Spaceman Werewolves Within Argylle Mrs. Miniver Inside Llewyn Davis Poor Things The End We Start From The Hunt
Photo at night with a red fire engine, decorated with Christmas lights and ornaments, parked at the end of a road. In the front seat is Santa, waving out the window. There are several families and kids standing around looking at it.
Tis the season for saying "Yes" to whipped cream and marshmallows on your hot chocolate! 😇☃️
A decorated Christmas tree in the corner of a room, with warm white lights and a bookcase behind it
An open magazine with a man's face (Mike Tucker from Bitmap Bureau) on the right-side, with a copy of Xeno Crisis on the Mega Drive casually holding the page open
Blu-ray cover of Ready Player One, featuring a young man with a VR-like headset
View from sitting in an audience, with hand holding a souvenir programme with "RENT" title logo on the cover, with the stage in background depicting a New York graffitied scene
Split-screen 4-way recordings of gameplay from Halloween-like point and click adventure game (which was made for a jam that only let you use 3 colours!)
Progress bar of deleting over 33,000 tweets from Twitter...
Cover of the original game "Elite" for the BBC Micro - depicting a spaceship heading towards a geodesic space station