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Paul Nicholas
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.NET Dev by ☀️ | IndieDev by 🌃
🕹️ Made: https://bit.ly/UnDUNE2 • https://bit.ly/LowMemSky • https://bit.ly/SCUMM-8 on #Pico8
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𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 has now finished 🏁
We had 75 awesome entries! 👨‍💻
Please check them out:
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
A mix of 🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools.
All done in #Pico8 (or #Picotron), using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
Congrats everyone! 👏🤓
#Pico1k #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
September 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Less than 24 hrs left of #Pico1k jam! ⌛
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
If you're still crunching your entry - may the byte gods be with you! 😅

#Pico8 #Picotron #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
September 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
0️⃣ Scoreboard-1K 0️⃣
A #Picotron scoreboard app made in 1K of 🗜️code (for #Pico1k Jam 2025)
🕹️ liquidream.itch.io/scoreboard-1k
FEATURES:
👥 2-Player Scoring
↕️ Inc/Decrease score w/ single press
✏️ Edit Player Names
🎾 Starting Player Indicator
(e.g. who's break in cue sports)
⏱️ Game Timer (Pausable)
September 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Only 1 week left of #Pico1k jam! ⌛
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2025
So far...
👥 89 Joined
💾 38 Entries
itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
You still have 1 week left to create:
🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools
in #Pico8 (or #Picotron) using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
#GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
September 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Half-way point of #Pico1k jam!
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
So far...
👥 85 Joined
💾 15 Entries
itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
You still have until end of Sep to create
🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools
in #Pico8 (or #Picotron) using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
#GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
September 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
We're one week into #Pico1k jam!
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
So far...
👥 76 Joined
💾 8 Entries
itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
You still have until end of Sep to create
🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools
in #Pico8 (or #Picotron) using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
#GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
September 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
The 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 has now started! 🥳
🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-...
You have until end of Sep to create:
🕹️ Games
📺 Demos
🛠️ Tools
...in #Pico8 (or #Picotron) using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code
( #Tweetcart, see code in ALT tag)
#Pico1k #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
September 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Any of my mutuals going to @developconference.com next week?
I plan to be there Thu 10th July (Free Pass)
If you fancy chatting #Pico8, #Picotron or other #GameDev, drop me a msg
(NOTE: I'm NOT currently looking for work, just nerdy IRL catch-ups, preferably with folks I already know) 🤓
#DevelopConf
Banner for Meet@Develop, taking place at Develop@Brighton from 8th to 10th July 2025 (I'll only be there on Thurs 10th)
July 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Today is the 34th anniversary of #Terminator2: Judgement Day. A perfect time to grab the latest @retrogamermag.bsky.social magazine, featuring this highly anticipated arcade action & #pixelart fest from @bitmapbureau.com! 🤩
#Retrogaming
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... 🤔😉
July 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Woah, just realised that the #Severance 1k demake I made 3 years ago for #Pico1k jam is doing some numbers (unsurprising via search hits for new season) 😅
Praise Kier! 🙌

Click to join Macrodata Refinement:
liquidream.itch.io/lumon8-1k
🔢⤵️🗑️
#Pico8
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.
January 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
liquidream.bsky.social
2024 Movie Summary 🎬
I watched 44 "new" (to me) films last year.
My fav film was probably The Hunt.
Close 2nd prob Alien: Romulus.
Honourable mention to Don't Worry Darling.
(Don't pay too much attention to my reviews, as I tend to give most 3.5/5 anyway 😅)
#MovieNight #Letterboxd
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
January 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
It ain't Xmas until the #Christmas Fire Engine comes around! 🎄🚒
This tradition has been going ever since I was a child and I'll never NOT get excited when I hear it coming down the street, with Xmas tunes blaring! 🎅
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.
December 21, 2024 at 7:51 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Tis the season for saying "Yes" to whipped cream and marshmallows on your hot chocolate! 😇☃️
Tis the season for saying "Yes" to whipped cream and marshmallows on your hot chocolate! 😇☃️
December 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." 🎄
A decorated Christmas tree in the corner of a room, with warm white lights and a bookcase behind it
December 7, 2024 at 4:56 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Was not expecting Mike from @bitmapbureau.com to be a centrefold in my new copy of @retrogamermag.bsky.social 😅
But, just like chatting to him down the pub, it's an informative & nostalgic journey... 😜🕹️
#RetroGaming #UnsolicitedXenoCrisisPic
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
November 16, 2024 at 12:03 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Time for some escapism... 😎🕹️🥚
#MovieNight
Blu-ray cover of Ready Player One, featuring a young man with a VR-like headset
November 9, 2024 at 9:34 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Tonight I finally saw my first live production of #RENT and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a local group called #ThePortsmouthPlayers, who set up the stage in a converted barn where they rehearse! It really lent itself to the show - small, intimate, but not lacking in quality 😀
#Musical #Theatre
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
November 2, 2024 at 11:33 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
It's that time of year, where I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare, huh? 😉

🎃 H A L L O W EƎ N 🔪
A #Pico8 #PointAndClick Adventure
Loosely based on the classic movie 😱

Play free on @itchio.bsky.social
🕹️ liquidream.itch.io/hallowe3n

(Don't spoil the ending! 🤫)
#IndieDev #SCUMM8 #Halloween
October 31, 2024 at 7:52 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Better late than never... 🔥🖕

Courtesy of tweetXer:
github.com/lucahammer/t...
(Alas, Redact free only does last 7 days or some crap)
#EffYouMusk
#ProbStillGonnaAITrainMyDataAnyway
October 26, 2024 at 5:20 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Here's my birthday present to myself 🎈
Another classic for my collection 🫡🚀
#Elite #Retrogaming #BigBox
Cover of the original game "Elite" for the BBC Micro - depicting a spaceship heading towards a geodesic space station Text from the back cover of Elite: "Acornsoft Elite is the first in a new generation of 3-D space games featuring interstellar travel in a distant cluster of galaxies in the outer universe, Command your Cobra space ship in a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, a supreme test of your combat, navigational and entrepreneurial skills. Trade between countless planets„ using the proceeds to equip your ship with heat-seeking missiles, beams and other weapons — corporate states can be approached without risk; but unruly anarchies may be swarming with space pirates. Black market trading can be lucrative but could resulting in skirmishes with local police and a price on your head! However you make your money, by fair means or foul, you must blast onwards through space annihilating pirate ships and hostile aliens as you strive to earn your reputation as one of the Elite!" Contents of the original boxed copy of Elite, featuring: ship identification poster, space trader's flight training manual, The Dark Wheel novel, function key overlay and game cassette tape
October 25, 2024 at 3:34 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
Ok, I *really* need to pull my finger out and get #SAGEngine (my web/mobile Simple Adventure Game Engine) finished already - ideally before the 3yr mark in May! 😅
(Did I mention SAGE is a browser-based, mobile-friendly PWA w/ Ink scripting? 😉📲)
#GameDev #PointAndClick #SendMoreFreeTimeCreditsPlease
October 20, 2024 at 6:06 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
(From Aug 2017/Jan 2019)
🌔 "Another World: SURVIVAL" 🌑
Finally updated my #Pico8 entry for #LOWREZJAM(2017!) with:
- 🎵 Music!
- 🔊 SFX!
- 💾 Auto-save!
Play it for FREE on @itchio.bsky.social:
🕹️ liquidream.itch.io/another-worl...
October 20, 2024 at 4:43 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
(From Dec 21, 2018)
❄️🎅 "SECRET SANTA" 🎅❄️

My game is the 21st entry for the #PICO8Advent calendar! 😊
🔊 Music+SFX by @Gruber_Music
🕹️ (@itch.io): liquidream.itch.io/secret-santa
🕹️ (BBS): lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=32314
October 20, 2024 at 4:42 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
(From Aug/Dec, 2018)
🚀 "Low Mem Sky" 🌌
My #Pico8 attempt for #DemakeJam
🔊 Music+SFX by Gruber 🎵

Experience the *LAST* update, on @itchio.bsky.social:
liquidream.itch.io/low-mem-sky-...

New in #LowMemSky LAST:
🚀 FIVE Ship Classes
👾 Alien Species & 🤖's
💰 Trading & Upgrades
💾 Auto-Save
🕹️ New Controls
October 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
liquidream.bsky.social
(From May 19, 2018)
🚀 "CODE-8" 👽
A #Pico8 #PointAndClick adventure!
My entry for #AdvJam2018 is here:
gamejolt.com/games/code-8...
🔊 Music by @Gruber_Music 🎵
October 20, 2024 at 4:37 PM