iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

4.8 will be the strongest godot release in a while texture streaming, contact shadows, multi-bounce AO, lightmap specular, 3d trails, mesh buffers on gpu, visual shader groups, label text fitting, symbol renaming, more flexible editor layout and a lot of ui improvements what are you still missing?

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 29/09/2026

PSA for Godot users soon upgrading to 4.8 (still in development): The built-in Script editor has become a regular dock and to pop it out, use the context menu (opened by right mouse click) on the Script tab and select 'Make Floating'. The previously dedicated button has been removed. #godotengine

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 28/09/2026

today i asked a peer to compile the godot engine to better debug their crash and they did it in a heartbeat! it was very exciting and it also made all their crashes go away lol. yay open source

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I heard the term ‘meat proxy’ recently, meaning someone who places themself as a human middleman between an employer and genAI, and it is simultaneously a perfect term for the practice, and existentially depressing when you realise how many want to nominate themselves for the role.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 28/09/2026

i’ll beat this drum over & over again: game devs obsessing over Steam as if it’s the only viable platform is self-sabotaging and potentially the death of their business. case in point: rift riff was designed for Steam with $30k marketing spent. yet it makes 6X on the App Store with $0 on marketing

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 27/09/2026

i know a thing or two about game dev. i know a tiny bit about 3d stuff. but what @passivestar.bsky.social is doing & talking about here is lightyears out from what i understand about 3D. like those good but very complicated math videos on youtube, its rabbit hole p*rn, and oh boy is this dirty talk

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 25/09/2026

iterated on my proposal to improve Godot's FileSystem header. give it a thumbs up on GitHub if you too want to get rid of the file path field that is utterly useless! github.com/godotengine/...

before and after images of the filesystem header according to the proposal

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 22/09/2026

hey game marketing folks; are you using any software to cross post to TikTok / Instagram / YouTube Shorts? anything you can recommend? #gamedev

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 18/09/2026

Official Hidden Folks bsky account just dropped!!! Follow @hiddenfolks.com if you want a once-per-month update on the games we are releasing – starting with Hidden Folks 2, of course.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 18/09/2026

Folk animations in Hidden Folks 2; how we make 'em in Godot #gamedev #godotengine

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 17/09/2026

Godot contributors and Godot Foundation people are really good people, ya’ll. There’s so much goodwill and best effort action, many of their efforts unpaid, under-appreciated, and invisible. Please continue to send them kindness. And donate a bit of what you can spare. fund.godotengine.org

fund.godotengine.org

Godot Development Fund

Join the Development Fund and support the Godot Foundation to work on Godot Engine.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

We optimized draw calls by 99% (lol) in Hidden Folks 2 by writing some tools to find all textures used in a level, generate a level-specific atlas, and replace individual texture references with atlas textures. Thread below 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Two side-by-side screenshots showing before and after we applied a texture atlas optimization to our game Hidden Folks two, the before showing 13318 draw calls and the after showing 113 draw calls

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/09/2026

For the game devs coming out of @gamediscoverco.bsky.social's latest newsletter all depressed, keep in mind that the article's conclusion is based on data that only looks at Steam, and puts ALL games on one pile including AI slop & games with completely different genres / audiences than yours.

Is the game biz.. sustainable for the average indie?

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 12/09/2026

an absolute truth in game design

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 10/09/2026

We've held off bundling Hidden Folks on Steam, mostly declining games featuring lousy copies of our design looking for credibility. But over the last few years, a few Hidden Folks-inspired games did stand on their own, and so we've relaxed our policy to bundle with them. Steam bundles 🧵👇🏼

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Point-and-Click Showcase @pointclickshowcase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📣 Announcing the Point-and-Click Showcase 🎉 Together @amanita-design.net and @rustylake.com are hosting a showcase packed with new game trailers, a dedicated Steam sale, and much more to be revealed. 👀 🔗 Apply NOW: forms.gle/z6e1QQFP9xwT... Follow us for future updates! 🖱️

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 08/09/2026

this feed is a great way to see what’s up in the Godot community: bsky.app/profile/did:... and you can participate too! by adding #godotengine to your posts (if they are showing stuff in / with / about Godot, of course).

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 07/09/2026

People keep asking us if they should buy Future? No Thanks! or pre-order GTA VI so we made a quick guide:

GTA VI vs Future? No Thanks! comparison chart

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 08/09/2026

great thread with lots of good iphone game recommendations!

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 07/09/2026

to really understand the absurdity of metacritic, imagine rating all foods in a similar way. or what about a metacritic for clothes? sports and exercise? language? who do we as game devs tolerate that place.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 07/09/2026

metacritic is “ratingslop”. it is an indicator of nothing, a nothing burger of random ratings by random people. it treats games unlike the Art (conceptual) they can be. it disregards personal experiences. it insults our interactive medium. and it holds way too much power. 😞

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 07/09/2026

if this article was written as rage bait, it worked! it’s so disconnected from the games industry in a) ignoring nearly all the phenomenal releases by other game devs that are not Rockstar, and b) taking metacritic as an indicator for anything lol. i guess forming opinions for yourself is hard, yes.

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 04/09/2026

Once in a while I remember that Japanese VTuber Inugami Korone (associated with HoloLive) played Hidden Folks for 9 hours imitating basically every sound, just laughing for the entire time. It was clipped a trillion times because it was sooooooo good. Here's one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_2d...

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Korone Laughs Herself Silly at the SFX in Hidden Folks (Inugami Korone/Hololive) [ENG SUB]

YouTube video by osakaki

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 04/09/2026

Our gamescom had two incidents this year which I think are good to talk about in public. The first incident: While I was speaking to a business contact that's very important to me, a representative of an Indie Arena Booth sponsor came up to me yelling and in anger. 1/9

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 04/09/2026

wurdweb's launch screen has a fake newspaper with some absolute banger dad-joke headline + subtitles: Next Week's Weather Report Still no weather. Local Hippie Learns About Words "Everything is connected, man!" Voting For Best Vowel Opens Today U expected to finally overtake i.

A screenshot of the opening screen of the word game wurdweb, showing a fake newspaper with the headline "Flat as a pancake" and the subtitle "New research suggests there are only 2 dimensions."

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Shout-out to @adriaan.games's Rift Riff for being the platonic ideal of a tower defense game! No grinding here – just six hours of hand-crafted puzzle-like levels, with plenty of pew-pew action to sate my baser instincts.

riftriff.com

Rift Riff

Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. Rift Riff is a strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, varied monster behaviors, and forgiving mechanics.

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Sokpop Collective @sokpop.co · 01/09/2026

Grail, our autobattler deckbuilder is OUT NOW!!!

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 31/08/2026

my gamescom was 💜. - spoke with platform contacts & formed a plan. - spoke with marketing folks that helped me refocus. - spoke with long time friends again. - met dozens of hidden folks fans. they are the best!! - saw people fall in love with the game. - had a very good time with the HF team.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 29/08/2026

our hf2 @ gamescom banner is awesome, if i may say so 😏

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 28/08/2026

Hidden Folks 2 demo @ gamescom!

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Sim Kaart @simkaart.co · 24/08/2026

Demo out for CASTLE AWAY! In which you build and command your own flying fortress to battle monsters and slay demons. 🏰 Castle Builder ⛳️ Run-based, quick to pick up! 🧠 Strategic Auto-battler 🖐️ Hand-drawn, hand-made in Godot #roguelite #autobattler #godotengine #gamedev

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 21/08/2026

Godot being Open Source is empowering for game studios, but there are nuances. Thread 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 19/08/2026

wurdweb just re-released on iPhones & iPads!! (It left Apple Arcade last month.) Word puzzles with Sunday morning vibes. With different game modes, daily / weekly / monthly puzzles, and much more. Made by @aran.sokpop.co & I. Get it on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/wurdw...

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 17/08/2026

talk to me how’s your game coming along? what are you working on now?

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 17/08/2026

A Very Enjoyable Game™ just landed on mobile! One of few games of the last year that I actually finished 🫣 iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/slots... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 17/08/2026

I just helped pinpoint an editor bug using the excellent "Godot Editor Debugger" plugin. It shows all the live Godot editor nodes & lets me inspect and modify them – all in real time 🫣🫣🫣 also great for when you want to mod the editor with a plugin. github.com/Zylann/godot... #godotengine

screenshot of the Godot editor with the EditorDebugger dock open. the EditorRunBar is both highlighted in it's place in the screenshot as well as in the editor tree hierarchy.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/08/2026

I spend a LOT of time reviewing pull requests for the Godot game engine as a usability contributor. It is very satisfying to see how my reviews move features and improvements forward. 🙏🏼 Here's a thread with everything I reviewed & contributed to just over the last 2 days 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 16/08/2026

Feels good to save €2k per year for software I only use once per year just for maintenance! I might have to do a bit of an update marathon though 😅

Confirmation that my Unity Pro's cancelation was scheduled

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 14/08/2026

I love Godot’s GDScript. Thoughts 🧵👇🏼 Rift Riff and Hidden Folks 2 use it. Most professional game devs making games in Godot I know love it - often after trying C# thinking it would ease the transition from Unity. Instead, they love the ease and speed of GDScript more than their habits from C#.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 14/08/2026

Here’s 14 indie game studio directors that inspire me to put people over profits: go.bsky.app/EiynAqU (obviously not an exhaustive list, just the ones who keep showing me the way!)

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 14/08/2026

my 30 favorite indie game designers on bsky, all no-brainer follows: go.bsky.app/D4QViNs

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 14/08/2026

ICYMI i made docontract.com - a plain english agreement generator for and between game devs. i’ve used it for nearly all agreements since 2015: for Hidden Folks, wurdweb, Rift Riff, etc make sure to read the FAQ at the bottom of the page! i’m not a lawyer, but that doesn’t mean ‘no bueno’

docontract.com

contract( )

contract( ) (pronounced 'do contract') generates free, plain language agreements for and between game developers.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 12/08/2026

absolute classic gets a sequel made in godot!

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 12/08/2026

game design is old and boring; play and playfulness is where it’s at.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 06/08/2026

Played Big Walk with the Hidden Folks team today and it was excellent!! @househouse.com known what they're doing <3 The lengths we'd go to keep the radio with music with us so we could regularly pause and dance 😂 It's playfulness I wish every game would facilitate.

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