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Ian Malcolm
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Melbourne-based writer, editor and proofreader for books, publications and web.

Game designer from Star Wars on NES to Need For Speed: Shift on iOS, with dozens of titles in between.

Bass, uke and low whistle player. Unrepentant folkie.
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Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · May 11
May 4th was a week ago, but as I've just joined Bluesky here's a little #StarWars gaming history for the three people possibly interested - an interview I did with Jack Yarwood at @timeextension.com last year, about developing #NES Star Wars for Lucasfilm.

www.timeextension.com/features/fla...
Flashback: How An Australian Developer Helped Lucasfilm Make Its First Star Wars Game
"It was pre-Special Editions. Pre-prequels." - When people talk about the history of Star Wars games, Star Wars (1991) for the Nintendo Entertainment System ...
www.timeextension.com
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Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day to all who celebrate!
Panel from the Watchmen graphic novel by Alan Moore. Text reads "It's November 10th now. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen." and the artwork (by Dave Gibbons) depicts this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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I watched an old movie last night ('The Bat', starring Agnes Moorhead and Vincent Price) and since it's miserable weather out today have written some mostly-rambling words about it.

(Warning: spoilers aplenty, but it is about a film from 1959, so...)
#film #movies #Letterboxd
A ★★½ review of The Bat (1959)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
letterboxd.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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People of Bluesky! Let's get to know each other better. What is your all time favourite TV show?
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Slimmer pickings at the op shop today, but found a Ross Noble double-DVD and a hardcover Bryson I hadn't seen before -in excellent condition - coincidentally both published in 2010.

#books #dvd #comedy #PhysicalMedia
Boxed Ross Noble DVD for 'things' tour, and a hardcover of Bill Bryson's 'At Home'.
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Chilling in an op shop when “Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine…” comes over the sound system and I am instantly transported back (too many) decades to jamming in a literal underground garage on our own interpretation of this - Patti Smith’s (no pun intended) glorious cover of ‘Gloria’. 🎵😎
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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#Last4Albums

(Apart from The Cure I've been on a bit of a 90s female singer/band kick.)
Cover of Jack Off Jill's 'Sexless Demons and Scars' debut album. Image shows three Barbie-type dolls without any clothing, with the three band members' heads superimposed on top of them. Cover of "The Head on the Door' album by The Cure. The image is a manipulated photo of Porl Thompson’s then-girlfriend Janet Smith – who is also younger sister of The Cure’s leader Robert Smith. Cover of Veruca Salt's 'American Thighs' album. Image shows a pale frock-type dress with a vertical row of red love hearts, on a clothes hangar. Cover of 'Fontanelle' by Babes in Toyland. Images shows a child's baby doll held up to a mirror.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A few days ago I finished 'Amongst Our Weapons' by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social. I love how every successive entry in the Rivers of London series evolves - characters, world building and the mechanics of magic in-universe are always changing and building on previous outings. Highly recommended! 💙📚
Cover of 'Amongst Our Weapons' (yes, a Python reference) by Ben Aaronovitch. Image is a monochrome drawing of London buildings clustered together, with the Thames depicted in blood red flowing through. Also pictured are a lane, interlinked rings and a canal boat - all pertinent to the story.
November 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Woke up, fell off my legs
Dragged a sneer across my shattered visage
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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My name is Ozymandias, Queen of Queens: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Album cover for Queen's 'The Works', featuring the four members of the band sitting on the floor casting shadows on he wall behind them.
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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CastleVCS, a project to reproduce the first level of Castlevania on #Atari2600 forums.atariage.com/topic/385486... #atari
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Moomintroll=Moominblocked

#WhyBrainWhy
October 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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#Last4Albums
Cover of Derelicts, by Carbon Based Lifeforms, showing rusted/decayed industrial infrastructure. Cover of Iron Maiden's first, self-titled album, with an early version of band mascot Eddie (a skinny corpse-like creature with a shock of grey-red hair) drawn in a nighttime street. Cover of Jurassic Shift by Ozric Tentacles, showing a man with long hair dressed in robe and hat walking on bubbles suspended in mid-air. Cover of the CD edition of The Goon Show Compendium, Volume One, Series Five, with black and white images of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
October 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Last night wound up doing a double-feature for #spooktober; the OG 'House on Haunted Hill' along with... 'Carry On Screaming'... 🤪

So now the two have now become a gestalt entity in my mind, wherein Vincent Price and Kenneth Williams are having a sort of arch camp-off, and it's oddly glorious.
Poster for House on Haunted Hill (1959) with Vincent Price holding a severed woman's head by the hair and I skeleton holds a hanged woman with a house (nothing like the house in the movie) in the background. Poster for "Carry On Screaming' (1966) with a vaguely Frankenstein's monster-like creature carrying a blonde woman, with another dark-haired woman in the foreground. Also there's a kind of cauldron with green liquid and green steam coming out of it, which doesn't appear in the film.
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Quote with a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
A de Havilland Vampire jet fighter, in Royal Australian Air Force markings.
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Signed and shared. We have a choice to get in the water. Sharks don’t, and this netting is killing other fish and sealife. A humpback 🐋 was drowned in the netting today.
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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With the digital release of Heart of Neon now in the hands of the Kickstarter backers, it only felt fitting to unveil the film’s soundtrack. And here it is available exclusively on Bandcamp:

🎧 tonylongworth.bandcamp.com/album/heart-...

#HeartOfNeon #JeffMinter #Llamasoft #OriginalSoundtrack
Heart of Neon (Original Soundtrack), by Tony Longworth / d0kk
40 track album
tonylongworth.bandcamp.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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impossibl3blue.bsky.social
I love the #BOM so much that if it was the only reason for the internet to exist, it would be worth it. But I’m struggling with these changes and struggling with my struggle to adapt to the changes! We are so used to the maps that we describe storm severity as red or black rain.
#bureauofmeteorology
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Out walking the dog this afternoon when we heard the rumble of thunder and looked up to see this. Now back at home as it absolutely buckets down.
#melbourne #weather
Dark blue-grey clouds over the local cricket/footy club and oval, ahead of an oncoming thunderstorm.
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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PS Looking forward to checking out the bonus features over what is now a most excellent weekend! 😎

Shoutout also to @tonylongworth.bsky.social for the wonderful soundtrack! 🎵🏆
ianmalcolm.bsky.social Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 16d
Just finished watching #HeartOfNeon - the brilliant doco about legendary game dev pioneer and legend Jeff Minter, by @d0kk.bsky.social and I'm blown away by it.

Even as a fan since C64 days there was no shortage of elements I was not aware of, and the overall arc and storytelling was so satisfying.
October 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Just finished watching #HeartOfNeon - the brilliant doco about legendary game dev pioneer and legend Jeff Minter, by @d0kk.bsky.social and I'm blown away by it.

Even as a fan since C64 days there was no shortage of elements I was not aware of, and the overall arc and storytelling was so satisfying.
October 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Just added a comment (as 'CivilMadman', comment #26) to this mini-review of Lumo 2, an absolutely lovely bit of retro-flavoured gaming goodness courtesy of @korruptor.bsky.social.
#games #retrogaming
Review: Lumo 2 (Switch) - A Delightful Celebration Of British Retro Gaming
An Impossible Mission?
www.nintendolife.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Popped into the local op shop at lunch today on a whim and my finds were distinctly timey-wimey flavoured.

#DoctorWho #books 💙📚
Three paperback books:'Doctor Who and the Three Doctors', by Terrance Dicks (1984 reprint); 'Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection', aka '11 Doctors, 11 Stories' (compilation of 11 single books), and 'Doctor who Heroes and Monsters Collection'.
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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My supermodel at sunset in Murrumbeena #Victoria #dogsofbluesky
The goldenest of Golden Retrievers with palm trees and pink clouds at sunset in Murrumbeena.
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM