iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1h

i will always be grateful to the people who supported me even when game journalists where mass blocking any person that ever publicly said they believe me (even if the people getting blocked never interacted with or followed them). i’m here today because of people that cared to stand up for me.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 2h

thanks for the kind words. if means a lot & makes things feels warmer when everything seems cold. yeah this week is awful. my feeds across social media are full of takes about it and it brings a lot up. i’m happy to be in a better place. i hope others find that too. love to you too if u need it ❤️

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 2h

coolsong19.wav 🎶✨⭐🌒 the sleepy stargazing song

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 9h

🚨‼️recommended reading inspirational resource alert ‼️🔔 Taschen's 1000 favourite websites archive.org/details/tasc... to understand that websites where once an emergent artform, and they still can be because the internet is bigger than just social media. keep the dream alive in your own work!

a screenshot from one of the books pages featuring websites

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

absolutely on my particular brand of shit with the readings for this week's lecture

Readings

Chapter 1 of "More Work For Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave" by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Chapter 3 ("The Fun Community") from The Well Played Game by Bernie DeKoven

"Nudel's longest death" (blog post) by Lu Wilson

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is magical 🥹

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · 30/09/2026

Last Friday, on the Konsigli segment of Radiotelevisione svizzera’s Kappa, I talked about The Zium Railway. Since 2017, @theziumsociety.itch.io has been inviting digital artists into increasingly ambitious digital galleries. Podcast online!

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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

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so let the clean up crew just come eat me alive @terrrrrible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I got my grandmother to use ICQ so I could talk to her when she couldn't leave the house... she passed back in 2003. I wish we could just shut the internet off, or go back to when everything started becoming about making money on the internet and not just sharing shit you loved with other people.

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Jonna Pedersen @jonnadraws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was about 10, I spent a whole week's allowance to get 20 mins at an internet cafe. I wrote down websites in advance that I was excited to visit from a list of "cool sites" in a kids magazine. Half the time was spent waiting for the sites to load but it was still magical. Can we ever go back?

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Zabroglexis @zabroglexis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was just thinking about this recently. There's going to be a surge of lost media soon once discs are gone, but the emulation hasn't caught up yet. I see a lot of rom hack style indie games and de-masters getting more popular soon with the disenfranchised gamers eschewing the modern industry.

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Vesa Saarinen @vesasfi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of Lindy effect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_e...

en.wikipedia.org

Lindy effect - Wikipedia

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Matt "Kupo" Roszak 🌻🍉 Wishlist Find Matt's Cats! @kupogames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flash is more viable now than it was a few years ago!

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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hell, there is still a vibrant homebrew deal for all of those, and similar engines that are designed to feel like devving for those older platforms. You can go make a gameboy game right now if you want, it'll run on gameboy emulators forever.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yes, i was impressed by the depth it’s been preserved! definitely considering going back for a future project. imo it’s still my favorite toolset ever.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i do think it’s funny that your games stand to have a longer life span if you make them in “dead” technologies, rather than using modern tools. like DOS games, Flash, gameboy, snes… all have emulation and continue on indefinitely. the lates UE games likely won’t.

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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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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

and i hope you do well and your community keeps up all the magic too! 💕

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🥹🥲 thank you. this means a lot. schrodinger's call is an incredible achievement and left me breathless. the opening was so... chilling... and it just kept getting better. i can't tell you enough... it was so inspiring. thank you so much for making it! 🙏😭 i hope it gets the attention it deserves.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

completely agree tho. it’s hard to convey exactly how huge and celebrated it was. i still think there’s nothing out there quite like it and i don’t think there ever will be. the internet is less vibrant now.

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Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

REBOUNDER. A new game developed by ThirtyThree, published by Aggro Crab. Rebounder is a hand-crafted precision platformer about a roughneck worker recruited for a hazardous job on a distant planet. Nail the run. Deliver your line. Dropping 2027.

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Danny Kodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ah, the great days of the early 2000s when software companies started going rogue with version numbering. I remember going to Macromedia's conference and everyone was asking "what does MX stand for?" and delegates would answer "it stands for an integrated suite where all the programs work together"

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

there’s still nothing like it and i don’t think there ever will be. it hit all the right notes.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

noooooo! lol that’s actually hilarious in a dark kinda way 😭

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

lol it’s worth it just so you can see how many newgrounds games are actually based off it, to some extent or another.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“tHaT lOoKs vIbE cOdED” bsky is vibe coded shut up 🙂🫠

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

getting serious about my #gamedev by bringing out the big guns. 🔥

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died" is now available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4430780/... You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. Explore brutalist ruins to collect memories of a dead world. 🥀 #GameDev #IndieGame

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Meanderware: Things I loved about cyberspace 💥 tetrageddon.com/meanderware/ 🔥 - A short playable essay and poetic breadcrumb trail of thoughts about cyberspace, the internet, and ephemeral digital worlds. - 🔥💀🔥💀🔥 #IndieGame #WebGame #BrowserGame #IndieWeb #IndieDev #GameDev #Cyberspace

a screenshot of columns towering over a wireframe landscape. errors dot the skyline. there's a skeleton in the corner talking about how the point is to leave something behind for others to find.

a giant CRT monitor sits atop a wireframe landscape with errors dotting the sky above it.

a giant skeleton towers over error signs. the sky behind it is glitching.

aninated gif fire burns the wireframe landscape. the sky above is glitching. a skeleton in the corner talks about how this is a secret corner of the internet.

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Itooh @itooh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After nearly 2 years, I'm finally updating Circuit Paint Pro! - Race in your own drawings - Randomized level every time - Save your paintings - Extra levels and New Game Plus Still a free and pretty short game. But now I think it offers a satisfying experience! itooh.itch.io/circuit-pain...

itooh.itch.io

Circuit Paint Pro by Itooh

Draw your own tracks

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farfama @farfama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've started to focus on listing less games for each curation topic. I think planting a seed, and letting it grow though community contributions via some type of per page message board or dicussion system is the approach I will be taking.

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#pico8 now has the most officially published cartridges of any console in history. Well done everyone.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

nnnnnmmmmmgg 😭 not again. all i want is an html tool that does live preview + closes tags. how is this so hard?? i guess i’ll keep looking. i thought its safe because it seemed to be around long enough but i didn’t look into the source.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“The more authoritative and influential the algorithm, the higher the stakes for influencing it. Additionally, the more data sources the algorithm relies on, the more it exposes itself as a potential target for obfuscation.” 👇👀

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is really good. thanks for sharing this.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a bit late to the party but… wishing i knew about phoenix code sooner phcode.dev/brackets-tex... i’ve been using just the simple text based ones for html stuff, and it’s really nice to go back to something that has a quick & easy live preview feature. saves a ton of time!

phcode.dev

Brackets Text Editor — Now Phoenix Code | Free Download

Brackets text editor lives on as Phoenix Code — the open-source successor with Live Preview, Git & AI. Download free for Windows, Mac & Linux, or run in your browser.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thinking about… computational propaganda 👉 navigator.oii.ox.ac.uk/what-is-comp...

navigator.oii.ox.ac.uk

What is Computational Propaganda? — DemTech Navigator.

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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 25/09/2026

Watching the video: Oh nice! Moldrise, a Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic, another Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic is being compared to Slay the Spire 2, another Godot game! Is this what world domination looks like?

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