Mastodawn

Jul 31, 2025

@lastofavari That was a fun play-through and review, nice one 👍
Thx for giving my #SCUMM8 engine a shout-out also! 😊
(P.S. - I totally missed talking to the 🐿️ when I played it, so that was cool)

Paul Nicholas

Jul 22, 2025

Everyone, stop what ur doing and check out this wonderful #Pico8 game that redplanetcat.itch.io created for the #StopKillingGames jam 💾
They created it using my #SCUMM8 engine, it looks and sounds absolutely gorgeous, plus the dialog and puzzles are on point too! 🤩
I won't lie, seeing this pop into my notifications completely unannounced absolutely made my day 😊
(..and has inspired me to progress with the #Picotron successor 😅)

Play it on @itchio here:
🕹️ https://redplanetcat.itch.io/dead-service

#PointAndClick

Paul Nicholas

Oct 31, 2024

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 for free on @itchio
🕹️ https://liquidream.itch.io/hallowe3n

(Don't spoil the ending! 🤫)
#IndieDev #SCUMM8 #Halloween

HALLOWE3N by Paul Nicholas (Liquidream)

A spooky adventure #3CJam entry (created using SCUMM-8, the point & click adventure game engine for #pico8)

itch.io

Paul Nicholas

Sep 14, 2024

Congrats to @qristy's "Perfectly Normal Apartment" game getting a mention in this month's RetroGamer magazine! 🤓
Play it on @itchio here:
🕹️ https://nextlevelbanana.itch.io/perfectly-normal-apartment
#SCUMM8 #Pico8 #PointAndClick

Perfectly Normal Apartment by nextlevelbanana

a spoopy retro point and click

itch.io

Paul Nicholas

Apr 2, 2024

First mock-up/design of #SCUMMTron, a planned evolution of #SCUMM8, which was my 1st attempt to create a #PointAndClick adventure game engine. 🗺️🏗️
This time tho, #Picotron should enable me to add the built-in editor that I never had room to complete in the #Pico8 version.
All concept art at this point (+all subject to change, of course).
Next step is to actually start coding some of this! 😅
(Oh, and I have that other adv game engine to finish also... 😇)
#ScreenshotTuesday #GameDev

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Paul Nicholas

Mar 31, 2024

@darennkeller Hey, thanks. 😊

Well, it's still very early days with Picotron (very alpha, only just been released), but I've have been waiting for it's release for a few years now, so very happy it's arrived (+more functionality will come in later versions).

The plan I've had for Picotron ever since it was rumoured/announced is to create a propoer successor to my #SCUMM8 point+click adventure game engine. It's gonna be a pretty big project, but hopefullly will be fun 😅

How about you? 😉

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Paul Nicholas

Mar 16, 2024

@pandora_parrot Nice! 👌
Text adventures FTW 🤓

(Hoping to start my port/evolution of my #SCUMM8 point+click game engine soon 😅)

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Paul Nicholas

May 25, 2023

@ConvosCurtis @danielalbu Ooh cool, hope to catch this.
Aric's treasure trove website of Lucasfilm Games design docs were invaluable to me when I was trying to make #SCUMM8 as close (in spirit) to the orig API as I could.
Hope we get to hear more about the SCUMM days on Sunday - either way, I'm sure it'll be fun 🤓

Paul Nicholas

Dec 10, 2022

My name is Paul Nicholas - I'm a Software Engineer by day (mostly C# #DotNet) and enjoy doing #GameDev by night 👨‍💻

My main hobby of late has been creating #demake's with #Pico8 - inc. #LowMemSky & #SCUMM8

Most recently, I released #UnDUNE2 - The Demaking of a Dynasty:
🏗️ https://bit.ly/UnDUNE2

Currently, I'm working on:
🗺️ #SAGEngine - my Simple Adventure Game Engine

Support me here:
☕ https://ko-fi.com/Liquidream

For everything else:
🏠 https://www.Liquidream.co.uk

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