iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kinda sad I missed full indie summit but I found this really cool rock instead, so it all worked out

Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

why do they keep using folding tech to make even bigger phones? so your thumb can't even reach when it's folded?? smaller plz, normal phone get tiny for pocket

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Proper lighting makes the placeholder art look so legit #gamedev #godot

screenshot of a game window with a 3D scene of a small critter in a forest clearing

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I am drawing so many bears and I LOVE IT. #gameart

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm revisiting some concept illustrations of the minigames for The Basics. Love this squirrely lil guy #gamedev

A digital illustration of a squirrel with a magic cloud tail in a forest clearing

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've been really enjoying making explodely lil guys for this game jam

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

when #gamedev has you googling "common explosives in bombs"

The Pikachu face from the "Surprised Pikachu" meme is poorly photoshopped into a stock image. Pikachu has replaced the head of a man in a surveillance van pointing at a screen.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've had the mvp plan for which mini games will go in The Basics for ages, but I finally made a draft for a more exhaustive flow! This'd give novice gamers a bunch of games to try as they smoothly build their skills #gamedev

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I love how different artistic media overlap in their thought processes. Vector and Pixel art share a similar block-in vibe, despite being shaped by opposite technologies. Still, the limited palette in Pixel art feels more like watercolor, while Vector color feels more like Goache, or Papercut.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hey, small businesses, maybe don't have people apply for a job by sending a "short" video answering 20+ questions about their experience. Especially not increasingly redundant and open-ended questions, including everyone's fav "tell me about a time when you..." #jobsearch

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

my roadtrip was too long, now that i'm back i've forgotten everything i've ever known it was really pretty tho

The Grand Canyon on a bright, clear day. The sky is blue and swirled with clouds. Red and orange rock make up most of the canyon, which is cut through by a chaotically winding river in the distance. In the foreground, there is underbrush and small desert plants.

Canyonlands National Park just after sunset. The sky is turning from blue to vivid orange, and the clouds are neon orange and glowing. The foreground is dark, silhouetted against the sky, and includes small trees and bushes.

The Mesa Arch, a natural rock formation shaped like a curved bridge, at golden hour. The red rock is especially orange from the golden light of the setting sun, and through the arch, the deep canyon is visible.

A rainbow curves down from storm clouds over green grassland. The grass itself has a horizontal blur, due to the photo being taken from a moving car.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

as a game developer, watching @gameygame.com keeps me humble. and laughing

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

sometimes someone'll text and ask me what I'm up to, and I won't have the words to explain. instead I'll draw some nonsense on my phone

a wiggly digital drawing of a green starfish laying gelatinously on a yellow bed

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

brain's still mush from gdc so I'm modeling this fella instead of learning more godot it's cool to be able to flow in blender after stubbornly avoiding it for so long #gamedev

Screenshot of an in-progress 3D model of a cute stylized person with a flat white shader applied.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

okay okay okay, godot things are happening

a screenshot with a window of a game project open in Godot in front of a window with the same game project open in Unreal Engine

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I think San Francisco is trying to trap me here

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ahaha my flight got canceled, I guess GDC continues for me

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

game dev is cool and all, but talking this much made me wake up as a tenor now I'm just vibing in my hotel room singing low notes #gdc

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I've overheard (and been in) 5+ conversations of people wishing AAA would make smaller/more interesting games #GDC

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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A GDC-relevant PSA: Kiki’s Delivery Service is screening in 4K on the IMAX screen in Metreon next door on Thursday and Friday, and that TMNT II is also playing there on Friday. Go forth.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Sprained my ankle on a hike yesterday, gonna be an interesting GDC next week 😅 Was v pretty tho 💚

Photograph of a forest with a clear blue rocky river and golden light

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I have some room in my schedule so I'm looking for new soundtrack projects! I've been making music for games professionally for 15 years now. I'm open to almost any kind of game, but I'm looking for something more narrative or horror focused. Check out my work at www.benpruntymusic.com

An image showing the titles of nine games that I've worked on. Includes Subnautica: Below Zero, Dead Secret, FTL, The Darkside Detective, Subnautica 2, Gravity Ghost, Into the Breach, Photographs, and Generation Exile.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I didn't know DARE was also preparing me to "just say no" to cold plunges. The peer pressure is intense. 🥶❌

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I was poking my colorblind partner about how distinguishable two swatches were, and they noticed the swatches looked kinda like cats. So I made them cats! #doodle

A digital drawing of two silly cartoony cats hugging. The left one is bright red, the right one is bright green.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The screenwriter of my fav star wars movie once tweeted that he liked the soundtrack to my game (full credit to @visager.bsky.social for being an incredible musician) and I never took a screenshot before the site exploded because I am a fool. #gamedev

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

What if every rapture has been legit and just nobody has been eligible?

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

it took me less than an hour to add randomized spawning because of this. I gotta keep it up with the comments

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

omg, I was dreading revisiting some code I did ages ago, and I finally did it and it's FULLY COMMENTED. thank you so much, past me. #gamedev

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I'm probably a weirdo because I'm taking an intro interior design class, and each time they assign a documentary I'm like "no, please, just make me read a 20 page essay, pleeeeaaase 🫠"

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

just refreshed my personal logo, pretty hyped about it

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

pebble says it's time to stop pattern drafting and to pet her instead

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I was told switching from Maya would free me of this curse 🙃 #gamedev

Screenshot of Blender window with a "Not Responding" notification

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Did a lil watercoloring on my flight to Boston btw friends, I'm lurking in Boston this week, say hey if you're around

An airplane tray table with a half complete watercolor painting of a park, a messy watercolor kit, and a cup of green water.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

why do the Internet algorithms know everything about me except that I really don't wanna see mother's day ads? mother's day is my birthday, lemme be motherless and childless in peace.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I'm like "All my friends are game devs, I wanna diversify my friend group," so I go to a gym event and make a new friend. Turns out they're a game dev, haha.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I literally finished a craft project last night and already I've thought of another craft I haven't tried that I wanna give a go. I want to make a wire flower lantern, but I want to make a huge one and put it above my living room area

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The capybara plush is all done! It was really fun drafting my own pattern for a stuffed animal, I've never done that before Now the hard part is waiting for the recipient's bday so I can give it to them! I always want to give gifts as soon as they're ready, I get so excited. 😁

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Side view: perfect, front view... maybe a liiiiittle wide

a side view of a very cute capybara plushie

a front view of a very cute and very wide capybara plushie

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

for this week's random craft I'm making a plush capybara! Left is the first prototype, right is the second. I'm pretty happy with the new shape, some minor tweaks and I can make it in the final fabric.

A lumpy rectangular prism of a plushie made from yellow quilted fabric. It does not resemble a capybara at all

A stylized capybara plushie made from light blue fabric. It has ears but no arms or legs.

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I've been using React for a week now and I've pretty much figured out all the frontend stuff I need to do today I started trying to figure out database stuff and my brain is goop again

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I have now done the setup for making a React app 10 separate times while trying to find a good tutorial so it's p much nbd anymore

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

it's such a bother to have finite time and energy when the best ways to get me fired up are Huge Idealistic Projects and Learning New Skills

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I thought my HTML+CSS knowledge would've prepared me somewhat for figuring out how to make a React app, but doing so much setup in Command Prompt is making me miss the unbuild-an-fps setup of Unreal projects. #gamedev #webdev?

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

thinking about how da Vinci would have been a great game dev #gamedev

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

For today's feature of "Ally, are you addicted to charts?": I made a Venn diagram to help contrast how certain types of interaction appear in video games If you have any interesting examples, let me know! #gamedev

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Based on my (non-exhaustive) list of Things in Games, game devs are doing too much. It's okay, take a break. Stretch your spine. Have a snack. #gamedev #spreadsheet

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

update: I accidentally spent all day working on my flowchart. Mysteriously, my spreadsheet has doubled in size and I think my brain is trying to escape through my ears pretty sure I'm gonna sleep great

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Ally Avalon @allyavalon.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'm home from GDC, trying to rest and recover, and I couldn't sleep last night because I was thinking too hard about a flowchart

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Jimothy Trashpanda Chi, PAX West 🔜 @tenaciouschi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

GDC is a reminder that all my peers are some combination of hot smart creative unhinged neurodiverse theater kid goblins creating magic and fantasy using tools made from duct tape and dollar store staples.

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