Ste Pickford
@stepickford.bsky.social
Full time video game developer. Some time comic artist.
Not won an award since Primary School.
Not won an award since Primary School.
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Ste Pickford
@stepickford.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Did you know that Plok, star of the cult classic 1994 Super Nintendo game, has his own comic?
Written and drawn by my brother and I, the original creators of the game, the first five volumes, and a colouring book, are available now in print or ebook.
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=plok+com...
Written and drawn by my brother and I, the original creators of the game, the first five volumes, and a colouring book, are available now in print or ebook.
www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=plok+com...
The best advice I’ve ever read about cartooning. From Arthur Ferrier, in the wonderful collection of his work put together by Rian Hughes and @koreropress.bsky.social.
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The best advice I’ve ever read about cartooning. From Arthur Ferrier, in the wonderful collection of his work put together by Rian Hughes and @koreropress.bsky.social.
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HOT TAKE: modern insistence that theres a 'right' way to design games is leading to homogenised cookie cutter games.
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
HOT TAKE: modern insistence that theres a 'right' way to design games is leading to homogenised cookie cutter games.
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before.
END HOT TAKE
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Now you can touch our game! (on PS5)
EU: www.thegamecollection.net/products/int...
US: www.amazon.com/Into-Restles...
EU: www.thegamecollection.net/products/int...
US: www.amazon.com/Into-Restles...
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Now you can touch our game! (on PS5)
EU: www.thegamecollection.net/products/int...
US: www.amazon.com/Into-Restles...
EU: www.thegamecollection.net/products/int...
US: www.amazon.com/Into-Restles...
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Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.
Hear about the NES US launch 40 years ago from the people that made it happen: Gail Tilden, Bruce Lowry and Lance Barr with @frankcifaldi.bsky.social from the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social moderating! Panel recording at youtu.be/f2WDfsiLiRA
#prge #prge2025 #retrogaming #VGHF
#prge #prge2025 #retrogaming #VGHF
We Launched the NES 40 Years Ago Today - Gail Tilden, Lance Barr, Bruce Lowry - PRGE 2025 Portland
YouTube video by Portland Retro Gaming Expo
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.
And another!!
Foden! (It’s been a while)
As @stepickford.bsky.social might say...
FODEN!!
FODEN!!
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
And another!!
Foden! (It’s been a while)
As @stepickford.bsky.social might say...
FODEN!!
FODEN!!
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Foden! (It’s been a while)
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Come and say hello if you’re at Crash Live next weekend. You can even ask me some questions on Sunday morning if you like.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Crash Live 2025 is in 10 days! Here's the guest line up for the whole weekend:-
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Come and say hello if you’re at Crash Live next weekend. You can even ask me some questions on Sunday morning if you like.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Come and say hello if you’re at Crash Live next weekend. You can even ask me some questions on Sunday morning if you like.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Crash Live 2025 is in 10 days! Here's the guest line up for the whole weekend:-
November 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Come and say hello if you’re at Crash Live next weekend. You can even ask me some questions on Sunday morning if you like.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
Whether I can still remember anything from working on the ZX Spectrum nearly 40 years ago is another matter.
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I had a really vivid dream that I was designing the cover for the next Thomas Pynchon novel. I was worried it was too simple, but knew it was the right design so submitted it anyway.
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I had a really vivid dream that I was designing the cover for the next Thomas Pynchon novel. I was worried it was too simple, but knew it was the right design so submitted it anyway.
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
I had a really vivid dream that I was designing the cover for the next Thomas Pynchon novel. I was worried it was too simple, but knew it was the right design so submitted it anyway.
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I had a really vivid dream that I was designing the cover for the next Thomas Pynchon novel. I was worried it was too simple, but knew it was the right design so submitted it anyway.
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
It’s stayed in my head for days so I’ve had to make it in real life. I hope I get the gig. @tompynchon.bsky.social
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Check out my game @positrongame.com on Steam. Busy working on some updates bringing new game modes, local splitscreen, and network multiplayer too! #GameDev #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGameDev #SoloDev
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Check out my game @positrongame.com on Steam. Busy working on some updates bringing new game modes, local splitscreen, and network multiplayer too! #GameDev #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGameDev #SoloDev
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My Halloween track for this year is the "Haunted Manor" theme from Smurfs Nightmare for Game Boy. I had so much fun composing this one. soundcloud.com/joemcalby/th...
The Smurfs Nightmare - complete soundtrack (Game Boy, 1997)
My second and last soundtrack for a Smurfs game on the Game Boy, released in 1997, and re-released in 1999 for the Game Boy Color.
Some trivia:
- The main menu theme was the same I composed for the
soundcloud.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My Halloween track for this year is the "Haunted Manor" theme from Smurfs Nightmare for Game Boy. I had so much fun composing this one. soundcloud.com/joemcalby/th...
“I’ve gone for yourself” - first of the series?
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“I’ve gone for yourself” - first of the series?
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Met Office old (left) vs new (right). Information density: gone. Symbol design: worse. Unnecessary acres of white space: present.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Met Office old (left) vs new (right). Information density: gone. Symbol design: worse. Unnecessary acres of white space: present.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.
Watching four football games at once on the multiview thing, and at 9 we’re going to add a fifth screen on the iPad showing Traitors live.
Still going to spend most of the time looking at my phone screen in the group football / family chat, talking about what I’m not watching on the other 5 screens
Still going to spend most of the time looking at my phone screen in the group football / family chat, talking about what I’m not watching on the other 5 screens
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Watching four football games at once on the multiview thing, and at 9 we’re going to add a fifth screen on the iPad showing Traitors live.
Still going to spend most of the time looking at my phone screen in the group football / family chat, talking about what I’m not watching on the other 5 screens
Still going to spend most of the time looking at my phone screen in the group football / family chat, talking about what I’m not watching on the other 5 screens
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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//batman227coverremix//
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
//batman227coverremix//
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Happy ninth birthday to this lazy fella. He’s older than me in dog years.
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Happy ninth birthday to this lazy fella. He’s older than me in dog years.
Happy ninth birthday to this lazy fella. He’s older than me in dog years.
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Happy ninth birthday to this lazy fella. He’s older than me in dog years.
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Zack Polanski is looking like a very good alternative at the moment 🙂
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Zack Polanski is looking like a very good alternative at the moment 🙂
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If you ever feel like your sketchbook as an artist is not looking pretty or artistic enough: take a look at Gustav Klimt‘s sketchbook
October 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you ever feel like your sketchbook as an artist is not looking pretty or artistic enough: take a look at Gustav Klimt‘s sketchbook
City deserve to lose today, the state of that kit they’re wearing.
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
City deserve to lose today, the state of that kit they’re wearing.
All the traitors are going to win this.
October 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
All the traitors are going to win this.
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Netease just went straight to my folio to copy/paste elements of my personal work to create their official concept art for their Wakanda map.
I tried to get answers for a while but no replies from them so here we are.
You can check one of them Dm'ing me on X.
I tried to get answers for a while but no replies from them so here we are.
You can check one of them Dm'ing me on X.
October 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Netease just went straight to my folio to copy/paste elements of my personal work to create their official concept art for their Wakanda map.
I tried to get answers for a while but no replies from them so here we are.
You can check one of them Dm'ing me on X.
I tried to get answers for a while but no replies from them so here we are.
You can check one of them Dm'ing me on X.
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It‘s not the real Traitors because no one has said the words “I’m voting for yourself“ #CelebrityTraitors
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It‘s not the real Traitors because no one has said the words “I’m voting for yourself“ #CelebrityTraitors