MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker

Filmmaker, writer, videogame dev veteran and uncle to PAC-MAN's mobile adventures amongst other dubious accomplishments.

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

Here's that same model converted into the format of a very short-lived 3D package called 3D Workshop, and employed on a cover concept I did for the late Morph's Outpost magazine (which I wrote for).

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The Excelsior ship in this very short Cyber Studio animation was a mesh I built from the construction plans for a small miniature of said ship built by Ed Mirecki and Tom Hudson for #StarTrek VI, and which appeared only (as far as I know) on a Klingon targeting display.
#AtariST

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

@BobSnz Since 2021 at least 13 people I knew have died, some I was very close to. It's a sad inevitability, but I try to focus not so much on the less as much as how lucky I was to have those people in my life at all. You keep them alive in your thoughts.

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

@erikbraa Thanks Braa!

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@pacster_mh @DailyPacMan Sorry, didn't see this before. Yeah, I produced it and worked with the legal team on the logo and trademarks. The coding and look was done at our studio in Bucharest.

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

The end of an era. The team I built at Namco—& our contractors—were the ones who got Pac-Man onto a zillion US feature phones 2004–2007 + also launched it on smartphones & the iPod! The to-be de-listed game is a direct descendant of the version I produced in 2013.

@DailyPacMan

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

@ThePACNATIC @DailyPacMan I missed this back in May. If you mean the Google Android tie-in on mobile, yeah I handled that.

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@audacitygames https://t.co/4TXcR2re9Y 😀

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

Learnt the sad news about @burgerbecky. We never worked together in games, but we did know each other a bit through the biz. Condolences to her family and friends during these difficult times. Treasure the memories of when she was here, as those make loss a bit easier to bear.

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

Nice video about the Internet Archive from CNN. You can briefly glimpse me walking in a shot at 2:37 (-1:20 from the end.

https://t.co/pEt722SKtM

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Have you played @Atari today? How about back in the 14th century?

That was in York, UK, about a month ago, outside Gert & Henry's at 2 Jubbergate (aka 4 Jubbergate).

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

@KirkThatcher was a pussycat… until he wasn't!

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

@Missingno123311 @DailyPacMan The game we developed for 2013 was originally called Pac-Man+Tournaments, and the team built a maze editor that allowed me to generate who-knows-how-many mazes. That evolved into just Pac-Man & I'm pretty sure the just de-listed game is the direct descendant of that.
#PACMAN

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

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@DailyPacMan Thank you for doing this. 🥰

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

45 years ago, Pac-Man was first unleashed to gobble up yen in Japan. He'd arrive in the US in the fall. We always had a great working relationship … don't believe the lies in Blinky's tell-all memoir; it was a melon, not a grenade!
#pacmanbirthday #pacman45th #pacman @lapetino

[MAURICE MOLYNEAUX, Writer/Filmmaker @8bit_Maurice]

My teeny contribution to #supermanday is that I may have been the first person on the internet to map the confusing screen layout of the 1979 Superman game for the #Atari2600.

#retrogaming #superman #atari

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@lapetino @supercade71 I have the original.

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@TheBillyWest Way to go, Billy. Love ya!

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Glad to put #2023 in the rearview mirror. A half dozen people I knew died, another four dealt with serious medical issues, a feature I wrote died on the vine, and contract writing work dried up due to falling ad rates. Bye 2023, and please let the door hit you on the way out.