iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly right. 🎯

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Talarian @talarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey Canadian GameDevs, SGI is hiring game programmers of every level from junior to lead! C++ primarily, with some C#/Unity is preferred. Come work with me and my team! Hybrid and remote both available, but British Columbia residence required. smokingguninc.com/careers/#JOBS

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Careers - Smoking Gun Interactive Inc.

Join Smoking Gun's tight-knit team of passionate, talented professionals who love their craft, and build great things together.

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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 29/09/2026

NEW: Pro-Israel voices have suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and “anti-Israel” policies were responsible for causing the Belleville attack. There is no public evidence to support any of these claims. www.readthemaple.com/how-pro-isra...

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How Pro-Israel Voices Warped The Belleville Shooting Narrative

Pro-Israel voices suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and “anti-Israel” policies were responsible for causing the attack.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 29/09/2026

Once I saw a screenshot for Gears 2 and mistook one of the new guys for a big burly butch woman. I thought it was super cool to have a lady that could be as big as the guys. But when the game was released I realized my mistake and ever since I've been sort of disappointed in those games.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 28/09/2026

If I showed my game in its current state to myself when I first started making it I'd be like "What the fuck?! How it turn in to THAT?!" And it wouldn't be a bad reaction. It would just be confusion.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 28/09/2026

I have a curious problem in my game's environment damage. Fire Damage - You have a second to get out of it before you take damage Void Damage - You fall in to a void, take damage and then warped to a checkpoint Spike Damage - You fall on spikes take damage and must get out before it damages again

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been messing around with Doom Builder

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 28/09/2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation started 39 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 28/09/2026

Only an utter tool would write something so wildly ridiculous. Cultural appropriation? Get bent.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just can’t get my head around how they had all that money for so many cancled games produce nothing and still keep going. Studios struggling after publishing successful titles yet duke had infinite money glitch.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 27/09/2026

Control Resonant is everything I love about video games. There's some real bold decisions made in this one and I am here for it. Remedy knows how to make a god damned video game.

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Newbie Star Trek @newbiestartrek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Proper Way to End a Star Trek Episode

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 26/09/2026

At Full Indie when I brought up that most of my professional gamedev experience is in QA someone mentioned that out of all the games he had seen at the event mine was the one that didn't have have any showstopper bugs.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 26/09/2026

Humans have always made art. It's like as soon as we had the capacity to do it, it was manifested in to reality.

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Bigg @bpbigg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Being a modern-day fan of Star Wars is like well the most mainstream movie stuff sucks total dick but there's a wealth of awesome side shows and games and comics Being a modern-day fan of Star Trek is like "what if the pain box from Dune hit everything below the neck"

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 25/09/2026

Control Resonant takes a little bit to get rolling, but when it does it shines. It's a very different game than the first Control, not just with being melee over shooting, but in vibes and style - which is super cool in my books! I always appreciate it when a sequel has the guts to change it up.

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Ralph Horsley @ralphhorsley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spaceport Epsilon 13 32" x 36"/ 82cm x 92cm. Acrylic on mounted watercolour paper. Full image and accompanying detail crops. ©Ralph Horsley It was a lot of fun playing with SciFi tropes, and throwing in quite a number of fan references. I wonder which ones you can spot!

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Ralph Horsley @ralphhorsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I talk through my process for painting Spaceport Epsilon 13.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 24/09/2026

I had a dream I was watching a French animated movie about a guy who got isekai'd into a wacky cartoon world that was obsessed with a massive race that covered much of the continent. The guy entered the race after being told he could return home if he won it.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 24/09/2026

I have to write a business plan for reasons, and so far I've started three different drafts. The only thing that's stuck for each draft is the header "Never Give Up. Trust Your Instincts." Which is about as much of a business plan as I actually have.

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 23/09/2026

I have a lot of discussions with people who just don't believe individual action can have much of an impact even though world history is full of examples proving otherwise. By the way the two women who spearheaded this were Mary Manning and Karen Gearon. Nimrod Sejake was in Ireland in exile.

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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please watch the whole thing

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 23/09/2026

hm this seems fine

console window showing a fatal runtime has occurred but the message, file, function, and line number are all gibberish

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/09/2026

The only part of game development I don't care about is the shareholders

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 21/09/2026

Got the second most wishlists for my game besides the day the day it was put up on Steam. It was nice meeting so many people who seemed really excited for TLATEOT. Now I sleep.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 20/09/2026

Super Mario World is etched in to my DNA.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 20/09/2026

Going to a fancy party tonight and I managed to tie a bowtie with the least number of failed attempts yet, and barely had to look up instructions at all. Lookin' pretty good. I do regret not picking up suspenders though.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 19/09/2026

People upset with Resonant replacing Jesse with Dylan confuse me. "Jesse was so cool and Dylan is so boring." We literally have no idea who Dylan is! Last we spoke to him he was possessed by the Hiss. Anything we know about him before that was him being raised isolated in a fucked up building.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 19/09/2026

Build for @fullindie.bsky.social is ready to go. Not a whole lot has changed from previous shows. Pause screen now has an option to look at the controls, so that's nice for folks. Some new sounds. NPCs will also appear in most levels too, so you can get a taste for the writing.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 19/09/2026

Some of you are forcing my hand on this. I'm going in as clean as I possibly can. I don't want to know anything. Including easter eggs thankyouverymuch

Your muted words

jesse faden
dylan faden
control
control resonant

expires in 7 days

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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 18/09/2026

The divisive view on the new Control game only makes me want to play it even more. You know they're cooking something special when it doesn't appeal to everyone's taste.

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Lindsey Wailes (looking for work!) @linwail.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My two @streetsofzine.bsky.social entries from a while back. Dystopia and Sunset. I don't think I ever posted them here. I am pretty proud of them, especially the sunset.

evil red pillars behind a weird city on a lake. the air is bad to breathe

a red sunset with a field of flowers and trees on the horizon

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it would be helpful to mention japanese labor laws re: layoffs as a factor in these types of stories

Quiet Restructuring vs. U.S.-Style Layoffs

In Japan, U.S.-style sudden mass layoffs are rare by law and custom. Instead, firms practice a "quiet change". They curb hiring, redeploy staff internally, and expand early-retirement schemes. For example, Tokyo Shoko Research reports that 46 listed companies in FY2025 offered early retirement to over 20,000 workers. Notably, many announcements emphasized retraining and redeployment over firing. A consultant's study notes that Japanese companies are focusing on "eliminating redundant tasks" to boost productivity, rather than simply cutting headcount.

What, if any, additional considerations apply if large numbers of dismissals (redundancies) are planned? How many employees need to be affected for the additional considerations to apply?
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In cases of layoffs, courts tend to determine the validity of the dismissal by comprehensively considering the specific circumstances related to the following four elements (Tokyo District Court Decision, January 21, 2000; Osaka High Court Judgment, March 24, 2016, etc.).Since restructuring dismissals are dismissals based on the employer’s circumstances, stricter standards are applied in determining their validity than for dismissals attributable to the employee’s fault. These standards apply regardless of the number of employees targeted for dismissal.

(i) Necessity of Personnel Reduction: The implementation of personnel reduction must be based on sufficient necessity arising from corporate management issues such as recession, decline, or poor business performance, or be recognised as an unavoidable measure.

(ii) Efforts to Avoid Dismissal (Necessity of Selecting Layoffs as a Means of Workforce Reduction) : Measures to avoid layoffs must have been implemented, such as reducing expenses (including cutting overtime pay by stopping overtime work), reducing temporary workers, reducing or eliminating executive compensation and employee bonuses, not renewing fixed-term contracts, halting new hires, suspending pay raises, reassigning employees, or offering voluntary retirement programs.

(iii) Rationality of Selection: Objective and reasonable criteria must be established for selecting employees subject to dismissal, and these criteria must be applied fairly.

(iv) Fairness of the termination process: Conducting labour-management negotiations, individual interviews, and other procedures to provide explanations, disclose information, and engage in consultation with workers.

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Figglewatts @figglewatts.materiality.link · 18/09/2026

2000s gamers exploring out of bounds: wow, this is so cool and mysterious, we weren't meant to see this 2020s gamers: look at all this stuff that was supposed to be in the game and the lazy devs didn't include it because the game was rushed

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 17/09/2026

I think it's important that we talk not just how much crunch time impacts one's personal life, but the impact it also has on one's health. Sitting at a desk for 10+ hours a day 5-7 days a week with very little to no physical activity is incredibly harmful to the human body.

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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stop what you're doing, y'all, new Murder Mittens just dropped

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 17/09/2026

Impressed by some aspects of it sure, but by and large probably disappointed. "It's cool you're making your own game, but why did it take so long to start doing that?" Too much of the wrong drugs, and not enough of the right ones.

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Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Migrating hordes of Creepy Capsules work to build a tower of their own bodies... who knows their motivations. (This started as a physics test and was pretty entertaining.)

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 17/09/2026

I just made the goofiest goof in my game, and I can't share it because it's at the very end but I hope at least one person sees it.

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Alex M @alex.debonairbear.ca · 17/09/2026

I feel like every time I see a post by one of the people who run this site I have another reason not be here.

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DevteamLife @devteamlife.com · 16/09/2026

NOOOOOOOOOOO I'M BEGGING YOU! #gamedev

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Sinnoware 🔶 Immersive Sim @sinnoware.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cat people, unite! 🐱 The Citadel Project, a dark fantasy stealth game, had to release early due to a massive €6,000 vet bill. A red-light runner fucker hit their cat, Snoopy, and fled. Miraculously, Snoopy survived thanks to his incredible strength and will to live.

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Xavier @xavierck.com · 16/09/2026

The acceleration through the cloud layer is one of the coolest damn things I've seen in sci-fi in years

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