iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by chris brady

Guide The Player @guidetheplayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Level design isnot just a state of mind anymore

Reposted by chris brady

suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 02/10/2026

Psst. Skin Deep is 40% off for the next week. Sneeze, crawl on your belly, argue with severed heads, mishandle firearms, commit digital mischief. store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

store.steampowered.com

Save 40% on Skin Deep on Steam

Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...

110352

Reposted by chris brady

Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

522566957

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 29/09/2026

new deadlock art looks crazy, really stoked to check it out

011

Reposted by chris brady

Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

6925357

Reposted by chris brady

Quake Map of the Day @motd.cataclysmal.org · 25/09/2026

Author(s): dublinsk Title: Shambler Home The homewrecker has arrived... www.slipseer.com/index.php?resource… #copper #dub #shambler-home #slipseer #quake

062

Reposted by chris brady

Coyote vs. LinkedIn @knabewolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September, but I lost my 45 adapter

15668702540

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 21/09/2026

got to help write one of the blighted blogposts about our game's world structure store.steampowered.com/news/app/297...

store.steampowered.com

Blighted - Devlog 4: Release Timing Update + Game & World Structure - Steam News

How the World Works

231

Reposted by chris brady

Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

3132171096

Reposted by chris brady

suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 17/09/2026

at some point in my CS:Source map collecting days I extracted a map into my game folder which reskinned the default flatscreen television model with this frame from Batman V Superman on it. I'm not 100% sure how to revert it so he's been popping up everywhere for years at this point. hello batman.

Counter-Strike Source screenshot. The player is ignoring a match to consult a flatscreen television with a glowy-eyed Batman on it.

1616

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 17/09/2026

roman sands rebuild good. at least one of the sound effects sounds like my cat. keep losing my money on the cows

053

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 15/09/2026

always been curious about thief with ssao. missions with brighter ambient lights sort of just had their shaded areas look like an ugly darkened fullbright

030

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 13/09/2026

playing NOLF and the music broke in this club level

121

Reposted by chris brady

Princess Space Catt 💙 @spacecatt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Roman Sands RE:Build, our plucky lil jumped up video game comes out in 6 days.

65726

Reposted by chris brady

Foos @borzoi.photography · 02/09/2026

crazy that america won't adopt transit systems like this

a jpeg of morrowind's various transit systems and how they interact/intersect.

19968316

Reposted by chris brady

Etienne Jacob @bleuje.com · 01/09/2026

A little “Brick Territories” experiment. → bleuje.com/js_sketches/...

1127954

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 28/08/2026

the daily shame of joining the morning meeting with my toronto coworkers during the american century of humiliation is going to be a little more specific tomorrow huh

040

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 27/08/2026

eagerly competing high scores on vholume with my friends. this is the life

010

Reposted by chris brady

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026

back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry

2967061541

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 22/08/2026

I got so used to the way straftat looked that vholume simply having nice lighting and volumetric fog has me on an "ooh, aah" loop

140

Reposted by chris brady

Zachary Reese @zreese.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I was an unofficial artist-in-residence at the phila zoo when I was unemployed ~2010-2011. Smoked weed every day and just watched the orangutans from a lawn chair while I doodled in a notebook. It was incredible.

01363

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 12/08/2026

the TES naming scheme (or lack thereof) is so amusing to me. not a single mainline entry follows the same standard despite most of them being place names. in this case, they'd be naming it after an in-world city.

130

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 11/08/2026

looking at Iron Nest and wondering if there's yet a label for these sort of Papers Please style games seeing as there's quite a few now? Choose your own adventure job sims?

100

Reposted by chris brady

Rain @orbitaldot.com · 10/08/2026

Make evil game design choices for the sole purpose of being funny

16627174

Reposted by chris brady

Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 02/08/2026

WAD, wontfix, ticket closed

146495

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 02/08/2026

just did a desert bus from toronto to cincy. canada has better maintained highways but I like the non commercialized ohio rest stops better than ontario's. they have a previously unappreciated amount of Soul

000

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 24/07/2026

I have no interest in playing the new halo ce for a lot of reasons but I am nonetheless curious as to how you even overhaul a game who's only real issue is that the level design is a copy-paste mess for a third of the playtime

120

Reposted by chris brady

Serenity Forge @serenityforge.com · 16/07/2026

The resort never closed. You were simply early. Today, we’re excited to share that Roman Sands RE:Build and Paratopic: Overdub will launch on September 16th. Thank you for your patience and support, see you there! ❤️ serenityforge.com/games/roman-... serenityforge.com/games/parato...

618481

Reposted by chris brady

yoyogames archive @yygarchive.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

First Person Pooper (jakebak24, 2011-09-18) COD nazi zombies

111

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 13/07/2026

hairy boots spotted by ohio river

000

Reposted by chris brady

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 07/07/2026

xbox firing all the id engineers might be the single funniest evil decision made by a games executive ever thats could potentially somehow be stupider than the 1 billion users a day quote

212011327

Reposted by chris brady

Guide The Player @guidetheplayer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Level designers keep in mind the following “principles” from/for your approach to developing your level in your game: -are tber alternate play spaces? Try hiding a “gift” or an “treasurer or something else equally delighting the player -claimable surfaces -can you play as a frog

0236

Reposted by chris brady

nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the second you get into making and showing games at booths, you realise Marathon Steve is all around us.

115210

Reposted by chris brady

erysdren @erysdren.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

hi me and my partner are severely broke after i lost my job in May. we could both really use some help for groceries and food delivery (as i don't have my own transportation) any little bit helps, thank you. www.paypal.me/JaycieErysdren www.venmo.com/u/erysdren cash.app/$erysdren

02442

Reposted by chris brady

erysdren @erysdren.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

sorry to everyone who suggested genuinely good name ideas, but i think i've decided on the new name for SourceRadiant

85413

Reposted by chris brady

Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tomorrow I'll be doing a live stream with Warren Spector chatting about immersive sims and being decades into our game dev careers (lol modding counts) while we check out Thick as Thieves with some extra-cool-lovely members of that game's dev team. More detail soon but it'll happen here at 8pm CEST:

youtube.com

Megabit Publishing

Megabit was created to deliver stunningly creative and exciting games to players around the world through world-class publishing. Subscribe to our channel to stay ahead of the game!

1223443

chris brady @1600frogs.itch.io · 18/06/2026

my DMs here got raptured last year when ohio enacted an age verification law but I guess they're just back now

120

Reposted by chris brady

gil lawson @gil-lawson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ready, set, be of use. goblinAmerica is out in Early Access on Steam now. store.steampowered.com/app/1944040/...

322377

Reposted by chris brady

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

There's a level of AI usage in game development where, if you read between the lines, the developers are saying "we're only using it to placate the failson seagull so he'll get off our case and we can get back to work" but they can't say they're just jangling keys for a bloviating manager.

static.klipy.com

Choopo Jingle: Keys Swinging

ALT: Choopo Jingle: Keys Swinging

191140266

Reposted by chris brady

RetroSpace // immersive discopunk space horror @retrospacegame.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

DEMO IS OUT NOW! Play around with it, experiment with playstyles, try to break it, and above all, send us your feedback! We're proud to finally show you the game we've poured our everything into. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2067820/...

716054