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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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Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 1h

They’re an acquired taste, and it helps if you like the idea of “songs” that are just the first eight bars of the intros of Beatles and Cure songs. It’s very conceptual. 😜

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Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 2h

Mash up bands.

The The

(Not the already existing band. Mine combines the “The” from “The Beatles” and the “The” from “The Cure”. 😉)

Robyn D @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 3h

Mash up bands

Pink Purple

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 3h

Mash up bands:

Fleetwood Floyd

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Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 3h

No-one commissioning an actual human artist considers themself to be the “artist” of the final work, no matter how much detail they might include in the brief.

Claiming to be “the artist” when it’s machine-generated prompt-slop is no different.

You’re not the artist, you’re the client.

Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 3h

I really should get back into No Man’s Sky again - I think I last played four or five updates ago.

Stopped mostly through lack of free time, rather than lack of desire.

Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 4h

Just blocked The Hollywood Reporter because fuck then all.

Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 20h

Yes! 👍

Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 20h

I’d rather be a hippogriff than a hypocrite.

Partly because I think it’s important to be sincere and consistent about one’s moral beliefs, but mainly because that huge beak would be handy.for opening tins.

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Ian Malcolm @ianmalcolm.bsky.social · 23h

I really enjoyed it - four star film. Just bring snacks, as it runs 3 hours and 9 minutes…. 😳

And yeah, some criticise it as slow, which is valid, but to me that felt baked-in as a feature. The pace rarely hurries, and the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous, like being in a series of paintings.