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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A new demo program running on BITBAS v0.9 - inspired by the spirit of the demoscene - with colour pallet cycling a melodic techno soundtrack, including fade, plasma, shake, and stars commands that were recently added to the BITBAS programming lexicon kierannolan.com/bitbas

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 09/10/2026

ICYMI Google also released a slop game making thing. Their ad literally portrays the Knitting Stage of Cultural Production* www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxvr...

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Introducing Playground: If you can think it, you can play it.

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⚠️🔊Beware! Loud Noises!🔊⚠️ A new demo for the BITBAS Creative Coding Platform for the 1983 8-bit Nintendo Famicom console. This demo uses 1-bit voice samples that can be scratched live or pre-programmed with a special turntablism notation ➡️ kierannolan.com/bitbas

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Amen 180, a Drum N Bass chiptune demo, running on the BITBAS Creative Coding Platform for the Nintendo Famicom kierannolan.com/bitbas

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Clouds demo running on the BITBAS Creative Coding Cartridge for the 8-Bit Nintendo Famicom, a homage to Cory Archangel's game art masterwork. BITBAS is influenced by Basic, @p5xjs, and Csound. Includes a detailed manual with code listings in English and Japanese. ➡️ kierannolan.com/bitbas

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BITBAS development with Claude continues, working on v0.9 of this Creative Coding Cartridge for the 8-Bit Nintendo Famicom kierannolan.com/bitbas

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

BITBAS v0.8 running the random circles demo code on real Famicom / NES hardware (04/09/2026). The BITBAS code listing uses commands similar to how these would be drawn in p5.js, but merged with styles from the Basic programming language. kierannolan.com/bitbas

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

First test of BITBAS on real Nintendo hardware, this is the title screen and attract sequence (04/09/2026). kierannolan.com/bitbas

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

v0.8 preview of BITBAS, a creative coding cartridge for the Nintendo Famicom / NES

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Micro Episode 2 - Seinfeld x Video Games That Don't Exist

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Seinfeld x Video Games That Don't Exist. Sora is gone, Minimax is here.

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My p5 and Basic inspired creative coding environment for the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom / NES is nearing completion, with a new name - BITBAS. Bit for 8-bit, low-bitrate and bitmap, and Bas for Basic. Parallel to the ROM itself I've been generating a user manual - this is from the cover page.

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm really glad to be able to share that I've been selected to join the Royal Irish Academy (RIA)'s Multidisciplinary Committees, as part of the Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication Committee for the 2026 to 2030 term. www.ria.ie/committee-me...

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Dr Kieran Nolan - Royal Irish Academy

Kieran Nolan is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working across interactive art, games, and creative technologies, and a lecturer in Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology.His pra...

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

many thanks for your interest in the project!

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The upgraded PCB for my VR SuperGun project is done and on it's way in the post from China. Here is the render from JLPCB. I chose a white PCB though, and will solder the JAMMA connector and headers for the Pi Pico kierannolan.com/vrsupergun

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 15/07/2026

old media are the new cool—-

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The app is now called PBNES. So P for the p5.js influence, and B for its BASIC programming language influence - also to disambiguate from the official p5 project, this is just a homage to p5, and the NES. The image here is a partial screen grab from the user manual

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's shockingly good, I wasn't expecting much - and it does everyone on it's server, once there's an existing javascript or python development toolchain available for that console or system

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I seems to just click for some people, but I'm sure takes a lot of work to learn too. I have been trying to wrangle assembly language out of older versions of GPT with varying success, but Claude is really good at it and for retro platform coding

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It is very like Basic, certainly not pure processing / p5js structure, but has versions of p5's graphics commands. The NES uses 6502 assembly language, I have much respect for anyone who can program assembly, it looks (to me) so abstract. There's Famicom Basic, I have yet to test it though

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

An update of this work in progress p5js inspired creative coding app for the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom / NES - demoing sine wave animation, randomised colour, size and XY positioning, vertexes, and rotation #processing #nesdev

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’m working on a loose adaptation / demake of p5js for the 8-bit Nintendo NES / Famicom. Here's a few demo shots. Instead of MouseX MouseY etc it can use DPAD1X DPAD1Y. It's compatible with the Famicom keyboard. Think of it as a simple Basic and Processing hybrid within the constraints of the NES

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Aksioma @aksiomaorg.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

🔵 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆 @ Slovenian Cinematheque | 12 May, 5 PM | Part of #V-F-XFestival Full programme > aksioma.org/becomingimage/screenings/ 𝑀𝑦 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙 𝐺𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝐷𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟 by #ErikoMiyata + 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 by #NinaDavies + 𝑉𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝐸𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 by #KieranNolan

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I've updated my portfolio with recent and upcoming talks, exhibitions, publications, and ongoing creative research projects: kierannolan.com

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History of Games Conference @historyofgames.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hi everyone! Last hours to submit your proposal. You have about 11 hours to do it, if you haven't already 🙂 Hope to see you in Hong Kong! historyofgames.site

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I highly recommend @vthewanderer.bsky.social’s great book Zen and Slow Games, out now on @mitpress.bsky.social !

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Urban Spin Off AI anime preview and animated documentary snippet (2026) ➡️ vimeo.com/1167523533

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Playing about with Sora 2 for anime creation vimeo.com/1166963086?f...

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History of Games Conference @historyofgames.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

And our CfP is out! History of Games 2026: The Ages of Games. Epochs and Periodisations 25-27th June, City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-ko... Please share and hope to see you there!

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2026: Hong Kong – History of Games

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A huge thank you to the Matricule Bis Festival for having 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 as part of the 2026 edition, more info at➡️ www.matriculebis3d.esadorleans.fr For more on 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 please see➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...

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History of Games Conference @historyofgames.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞! 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝟮𝟱-𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 The call for papers will go live in January 2026! Keep an eye here and also on www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-ko... for news and updates!

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Dr Kieran Nolan @kierannolan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 AI machinima movie will screen in Orléans, France at 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐬 𝟑𝐃, 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐮 𝐣𝐞𝐮 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞́𝐨 𝐞𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞́𝐫𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬, 23-24/01/2026. Full festival programme ➡️https://matriculebis3d.esadorleans.fr 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕 ➡️ kierannolan.com/videogamesth...

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