iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 22/07/2026

Crush fruit and feed the beast in POINPY! Back on mobile...FOR FREE! 🍎 🍋 🫐 🍊

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Michael Kamm @michaelkamm.games · 26/05/2026

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

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Finite Reflection Studios @finitereflect.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We are extremely excited that Mouseward is going to be a part of the @sixoneindie.com Showcase! Tune in to see a new trailer and then head over to Steam to play the new demo launching on May 21st! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2b6...

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

After polishing the last few bits our prototype now has a full playable flow. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qup...

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Foundling - Prototype Playthrough

YouTube video by AJ and Richard

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 New Voices Puzzle Grant! grants.draknek.org

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 08/01/2026

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

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Job opening: game designer @ Hidden Folks

We're looking for a game designer in the Netherlands to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks.

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I’m getting weirdly attached to this critter

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Still early days, but this concept is exciting to explore because it includes lots of things I’ve wanted to experiment with (procedural walking, gliding physics, fur rendering, and more)

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This reads like an Onion article. Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth” 💀

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Time to #pitchyagame. Pulse is: 🏎️ high speed time trial racing 🗺️ creative route planning 🏆 competitive leaderboards Our free demo on Steam is basically our latest development build. Compete with us for the daily 🥇 🥈 🥉 store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The process behind the latest visual that I made for Pulse. Done in Affinity Designer.

A sequence of images showing the different stages of development of a promotional image for our game Pulse.

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

New key art for Pulse. Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

Colorful illustration showing a hover bike racer surrounded by some friends and fans. Some checkpoints, architecture and landscape can be seen in the background. Two other racers can be seen in the air.

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Axe Ghost. On Steam! @axeghostgame.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I wrote about what I learned making and publishing Axe Ghost. open.substack.com/pub/tomaszka...

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Our new Next Fest players are taking Pulse to the next level. This run by Cernel Josen has a few mind-bending maneuvers and a fantastic finish 🤯 store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Pulse has a trailer now! With Next Fest officially starting today, we figured we'd make a proper introduction to the game. Go play the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

After many days of playing I can still be surprised by a winning run. @richardboeser.bsky.social dominated the leaderboards yesterday with some unexpected path choices. store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The gold medal Pulse run yesterday (by @richardboeser.bsky.social) has a rare instance of going back up after going down a level. Very clever! Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're using Cinemachine in Unity don't use small position damping values. Unless you enjoy your camera stuttering

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

@richardboeser.bsky.social's gold medal run yesterday was short and slick 🚀 Try to earn your own medals with our free demo of Pulse, now available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Pulse, our in development, trackless time trial racer, now has a demo on Steam. Join our daily leaderboards in the hunt for gold, or at least a ribbon. store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

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Axe Ghost. On Steam! @axeghostgame.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

my proudest pulse moment so far 🤩

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Our prototype 'Pulse' just got a big update. We now have audio, a training program and some iconic challenges. The video shows @ajkolenc.bsky.social setting a new record for the Sightseeing course. Want to join the beta on Steam? Join my Discord and say hi: discord.gg/nfNzZ3CzeY

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Today's daily is a short one again. Only two checkpoints, but a tricky start to get right.

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Making a daily challenge system was the best and most dangerous thing we did with this game. Easy to spend too much time playing instead of working 🤪

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Dubio is part of an awesome bundle of games you can play with just one button! Along with some great @smgstudio.bsky.social titles and #OneBtnBosses. Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/55413...

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Save 7% on One Button Games on Steam

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dubio has now been out for half a year. It seems that on Steam we are a bit stuck at 40 reviews. We'd love to pass that 50 mark as some oracles say it will please the algorithm overlords. If you've played Dubio and have an opinion, we'd appreciate a review. store.steampowered.com/app/2780790/...

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Dubio on Steam

Dubio is a game of tiny puzzle parcours. It offers a challenging mix of puzzle-solving and momentum control. Jump and bounce through 100 levels that test your wits and sense of timing. Or are there mo...

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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Initial conditions: m1=33.2 m2=60.7 m3=82.4 (solar masses) v1x=6.043 v1y=5.619 v2x=2.209 v2y=1.004 v3x=-5.912 v3y=0.803 (km/s) x1=-14.0 y1=-8.0 x2=34.0 y2=16.0 x3=11.0 y3=-28.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in C Major – Bach

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Made a simple procedural building script for our warp racer prototype, Pulse

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We´re working on our next prototype called Pulse. An open world time-trial racer with randomized checkpoints.

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Searching for the right mood for our next prototype.

Sketch of a desert landscape with a city in the distance that is build against a canyon wall.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 09/05/2025

Rift Riff is OUT NOW!! Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... Buy it Try it Review it Repost the heck outa’ this!!1! … and here's a feature trailer explaining what I think is noteworthy about our tower defense game! youtu.be/ePCOuvXU-t0

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Rift Riff - Feature Trailer

YouTube video by Adriaan de Jongh

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Richard Boeser @richardboeser.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We made a demo for Bandit and put it on Steam. It's like life in the wild west: hard and unfair. Also it has a leaderboard so that you can try and beat my score. Have a go and don't forget to drink your snake oil. store.steampowered.com/app/3693670/...

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We’re onto a new prototype, and I couldn’t imagine anything more different from our last. From slow-paced 2D western shoot-em-up to warp-speed 3D sci-fi racer 🚀

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This was so fun to put together. It's pretty damn hard too

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Y'all need to check out the latest release from @kettel.bsky.social. It transforms the music from Dubio into a fantastic album experience, plus it has track names like "Peepuntpopkema". What more can you ask for? open.spotify.com/album/0ZzO3p...

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Dubio

Kettel · Album · 2025 · 12 songs

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How did every public bathroom get duped into installing this crappy motion-sensing nonsense? It had to be absurdly expensive to add all these electronics, and all it does is add a 50% fail chance to using anything. Legitimately baffled

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 12/03/2025

If you haven't switched out of US- & billionaire-ran WhatsApp, I can strongly recommend Signal. Works the same, but doesn't benefit rich assholes. It's a super straight-forward switch. If you're already on Signal, consider making a donation for the cool rocket badge. It's a really cool badge.

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I don’t understand how Loot Rascals wasn’t more successful. It has an incredible art style, a clever combat system, and a fun equipment minigame that stays fresh. @hollowponds.bsky.social did a fantastic job with this game and it deserves more attention

A still from a cinematic in the game Loot Rascals, showing the protagonist next to a friendly hologram cowering from a group enemies in the foreground

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lots of great games in here!

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This was a nice notification to wake up to @draknek.bsky.social

An iOS notification saying that LOK Digital is now available

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I've been a LINQ defender for a while, so it's a bit painful to have to go refactor it out of many places because of the garbage it generates 😩

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joey schutz @joeyschutz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

went and wrote about gameplay loops :) blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-aga...

screenshot of a paragraph from the blog, which reads: The whole premise of the core loop game is to figure out a thing you can do for hours and hours. Refine that mechanic until it’s something broad enough and bendable enough, without specificity, to be deployed in a thousand different contexts. And then you go and make a lot of stuff with it. It’s a harsh delineation between the form (the mechanics) and the content (what you do). And usually it leaves me feeling unmoved. Usually it leaves me feeling like neither has much of a purpose. The content is there to justify the mechanics, and the mechanics are there to give you something to do with the content...and we never make anything with a real purpose. What is any of this for?

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 28/12/2024

I took this interview in the second quarter of last year, but I will say I'm fairly proud I managed to get the industry mantra of "shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less" into the mainstream press. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/a...

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Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good (Gift Article)

The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?

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AJ @ajkolenc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Dubio got a nice shoutout in the latest Thinky Third Thursday, alongside some great games

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