iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Ah friend, I just listened to some of your work, and the appreciation is mutual! Very nice tunes!

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Brilliant, welcome to the chaos!

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Dirty Rectangles @dirty-rectangles.com · 12/02/2026

We need your help! Dirty Rectangles is putting together an informal list of every game made in Toronto from 2020 to 2026 as well as the general location of its development in the city for the purposes of a fun exhibition during Toronto Games Week. Know a game? Tell us! dirty-rectangles.com/toronto

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

OH! I see myself on the second list, very cool thank you :)

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Marvelous, thanks for the list! @andyyywood.bsky.social and myself are Toronto based ( cofounders of @lithicent.bsky.social ), if there's room for 2 more!

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Oliver Franzke @p1xelcoder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

One of my favorite ways to utilize the twist warp is to align it with the cross-fade frontier. This way the shape blend happens in the coiled up region, which looks super neat. :)

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Oliver Franzke @p1xelcoder.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Keeper's morphs are authored as scene-graph or more specifically as a scene-tree, which is evaluated bottom-up. I wrote a “compiler” which turns the tree into a command list which can be executed on the GPU. The compiler does a fair amount of optimization (e.g. dead branch pruning) to minimize cost.

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Matthieu Mouthon @mattsmouth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I genuinely believe that Keeper is one of the game's industry most excellent and exciting achievements of the decade. A seemingly un-pitchable game that stands strong on its core tenets of emotional connection and teaching the player to let go of preconceived game notions. I thoroughly enjoyed it

A screenshot from Double Fine's latest game, Keeper.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It's ok, we've invented zip drives for this very problem!

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Time well spent! This looks great!💀

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Megaclap 👏 Pixels & Gamedev @megaclap.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Hey folks, haven't been very active here of late, but for good reasons! I've been using all of my free time to focus on my game and get it to a stage where I could showcase it. Here's an updated teaser, playable demo very soon! #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev #ドット絵

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Really weird to see people try to portray Bluesky as a radical website when you’ll scroll past about 10 straight posts about how great spaghetti is

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Yea for sure, some key events could have icons or highlighted rows. Minor events could have icons too, though I'd say with neutral colours only to not stand out at all. If it's not too difficult, maybe adding a new line above the seasons to cleanly separate "sections" or milestones of in the logs.

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I enjoy event logs more than I should tbh.

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Come for the hashtags, stay for the fancy Scaravan 66 clips. store.steampowered.com/app/3238240/... #indiegames #indiegame #roguelite #gamedev #carcombat #gaming #indiegamedev #gamedeveloper #indiegamedeveloper

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The types of death are a variation on things like - Which suspension breaks and by how much. This helps catch the road and force some flips or otherwise just look broken. - Which tire to eject in a fireball, if any. - Should it go airborn this time? How high? - When is the final explosion?

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

When we kill enemies in Scaravan 66 we have different types of "death animations" that are relying on physics to do most of the fun stuff, like flips. #gamedev #indiedev

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If you're asking the audience, the answer is definitely not D or A or C

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Reworked the Burning Rubber upgrade from Scoville 🔥 in the latest demo update. It's much more useful now and feels a lot better. I'm considering making it feel heavier with some screenshake or something? #Scaravan66 #GamingCommunity #IndieGames

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

New Scaravan Demo Update available! This update focuses on reworking the aiming systems, adding crunchiness to player weapons, and overall re-balancing upgrades/weapons/enemies. Read the devlog on Steam (it's got moving pictures!): store.steampowered.com/news/app/323... #indiegame #indiedev

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Scaravan 66 - Burnouts & Buffs. This Update Hits Harder. - Steam News

Demo Update v0.7a-7

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Black Voices in Gaming @bvigaming.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

BViG Recap Day 5! You're Naomi, a teen on wheels looking for a way out of a sleepy summer town. Your MP3 player? It’s more than just vibes. Every track shifts the story, so get ready to roll through this narrative adventure set in the mid-2000s. #BlackVoicesinGaming #indiedev #Recap

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robotgrapefruit @robotgrapefruit.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Long time no quack 🦆 Progress is slow, but I'm still doing important work on @awaddlefullife.bsky.social! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Oh that sneaky photographer snapped a candid on me. I was looking right at him and I didn't even notice. Well done secret picture box man.

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Oh this is a pretty slick magic girl transform, looks great Sedona!

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Andy Wood @andyyywood.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Dwarrows is such a ChillGuy™ You can build a town and have a friendship battle with a goose who becomes your buddy and go on adventures with you in the woods.

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Andy Wood @andyyywood.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Zomboyz bus is so dumb and fun

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Double Fine folks are some of the best I've ever worked with, your excitement is warranted! Congrats!

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I'm glad society has moved passed deliberately sneezing at things, allergy season must've been an absolute mess.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 15/06/2025

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

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Oliver Franzke @p1xelcoder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

My conversation with @danielalbu.bsky.social about my career and how Monkey Island and the other LucasArts adventure games were remastered airs in about 90 minutes. I'll try to jump into the chat at some point. Hope to see you there! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyPE...

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Oliver Franzke on Reviving LucasArts Classics like Full Throttle, Grim Fandango & Monkey Island!

YouTube video by Tech Talk with Daniel Albu

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The before/after (the money on the bottom right is still there, it was just cropped out of the shot in the video).

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Re-thought our HUD after some feedback, deciding to center it instead of being spread out on the corners. At least the way I play, I look at the rear-view mirror a lot anyway and it's far less distance to travel for my eyes than the ultra-wide screen corners. #indiedev #gamedev

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Lithic Entertainment @lithicent.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Scaravan 66 is heading to Steam Early access July 16th! We now have a Discord to discuss suggestions, bugs, strategies, cool moments, etc... Join the Discord discord.gg/d56vheUkR4 ** Also, wishlist on Steam! ** store.steampowered.com/app/3238240/... #indiegame #gaming 🎮

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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The game I've been leading at Double Fine got announced today! Coming in October this year!

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Andy Wood @andyyywood.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Yes but did you see how sick this boss fight is in our trailer? Ya'll need to go give Scarvan 66 a wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3238240/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame 🎮

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Andy Wood @andyyywood.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Whut up. Check us out at XP Summit! #indiedev #gamedev

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Andy Wood @andyyywood.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Hey #screenshotsaturday check out what we've been working on lately in Scaravan 66. Freaking scientists with freaking laser beams, dawg. Satellite stalkers. Radio-active skeletons. Deserts that clock so high on a Geiger counter that the moon looks green. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame 🎮

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Yea that's a good point, I'm thinking about giving them a silent stun status effect to keep them from attacking or maybe a weakening status effect to make their impacts less effective while the player is distracted. Thanks for the suggestions!

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

😮 I love that, no idea how to pull that off rn but that sounds dope.

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Hmm yea, some tension building string instruments might be nice or a little creepy tune + rumbles. I'll play around with camera ideas too, thanks :D

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Slomo's a good call, I'll try that thanks!

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Alain Bellemare @alainb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Ooo yea that's a cool idea, marking the "look" moment, thanks!

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