iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

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Piemations @piemations.com · 27/10/2025

my pumkin he is everything

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

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Laurie Raye @alraye.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

Asexual flag made from photos of galaxies

Non-binary flag made from photos of galaxies

New Pride flag made from photos of galaxies

Transgender flag made from photos of galaxies

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Finally updated my website after letting it die when I killed my adobe subscription. Kind of regret deciding to do it myself on neocities. The whole make my own site idea seemed great when I was unemployed, less so these days, but, hey, it's done. I exist on the world wide web once more.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? me, a writer: yes. in the trade we call that a line break

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I wish I could do text formatting on here. Maybe I should go back to tumblr lol

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

What if you arrived home and found a stranger had commandeered your house? This is Not Your House is a super neat little VN. Great concept, wacky branches. Third person prose with second person choices is jarring but beyond that this is fun and scary. store.steampowered.com/app/3139140/...

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Rolled credits on Blue Prince last night! An absolute bonkers set of runs saved at the last minute by a dining room I forgot about. Not sure if I'm happy to leave it here, or if I want to go after the rest of the puzzles...

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 09/05/2025

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I know a lot of games folk pan it, but I loved Bandersnatch and am really sad to see it go. Wish I could buy it on DVD or something.

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Ruthanne Reid (A.K.A. Trin) @ruthannereid.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This is everything to me

A screenshot from Tumblr user omnybus, saying, I think what I love most about mythology is that the "Trickster God/Spirit" is an archetypical character found in almost every body of folklore. It's like "Oh, here's our God of the Sun, our God of the Sea, our God of Fertility, and our God of Being A Wretched Little Gremlin Who Causes Problems On Purpose".

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I kinda went silent on here after I asked a "how do you deal with this narrative design thing" question and got a whole load of "well I'm simply good at my job so this isn't a problem" replies. Gonna try and be less sensitive and post again 😅

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm looking for beta testers for my latest twine game! A boyfriend was all you ever wanted, or thought you wanted, at least. But when your love spell goes wrong, you find yourself face-to-face with soulless husks, perfect parasites and jellyfish that grow teeth. Shoot me a dm if interested ❤️

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Jabi Sanz @jabisanzphotography.com · 26/03/2025

A full aurora ring over a bay in Iceland #bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #light #travel

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Yarn Spinner Tool @yarnspinner.dev · 01/04/2025

You've been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner Co: 🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner 🚀 Access everything about everything that players have done in the most important game of all time, straight from Yarn. yarnspinner.dev/mesaves

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 27/02/2025

We need art right now, more than ever! Art counters misinformation, builds empathy, and can strike at the heart of apathy. Art is a threat to fascism. It always has been. Losing creative voices in games, TV, publishing - that’s going to leave a cultural void.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Game writers / ND's, do you have any techniques for avoiding "gamey" sounding dialogue? The sort of thing where self-talk, objectives etc. sound out-of-character and too clearly directed towards the player.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Finally cancelled my adobe subscription! Moved to Affinity. Dunno if that means my website is going to go dark, but it was outdated anyway.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just played Sweetpea by @sophiades.bsky.social. Beautiful stuff. The claustrophobic atmosphere is so perfectly gothic, and text effects are used masterfully to make the game feel like a living text. sophiades.itch.io/sweetpea

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Sweetpea by sophiades

A choice based, narrative, lightly gothic horror romp. Previously released in SpringThing 2022.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Recent reads! Continued my South American horror phase, took a detour via Brighton and Spain, then picked up something totally different. Thoughts in 🧵.

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Mike Rousseau @mikerousseau.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Avoid the part of any writing advice that includes "never" or "always." Sometimes you want a filter word, or an adverb, or passive voice. They're tools, and specific in their use. Be conscious of what you're doing, strive to improve and make elegant, but keep the tool for later. You WILL need it.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Tried this on some lunch break writing and got two sentences in before I'd forgotten what I'd already written 😂. I think this is a really interesting technique, I'd encourage writers with a better memory than me to give it a shot!

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Replaced a light fixture today. Unreasonably proud of myself. Maybe I'll retrain as an electrician when the whole games industry collapses.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Going ghost hunting in an abandoned masonic lodge tomorrow night. Absolutely no idea what I'm going to make of it...inspiration for horror writing, maybe?

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I wish twine had spell check. I put words in the right order, I don't know how to spell them that's like a whole different discipline.

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It's been a solid 2.5 years now that text and image generators have been a problem and despite near constant claims of 'unlocked potential and democratized creative expression', there hasn't been *one* hit novel, undeniable piece of art, an example of work that people establish a fandom over.

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𝖘𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖆 𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉 @sievish.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I think celebrating a layoff because you dislike the games a studio made is weird

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

What are people using for streaming music these days? I want to listen to albums more than playlists and be able to see my collection of music over being recommended new stuff. I briefly left Spotify for CDs + Winamp but ended up back on it because I did like the variety and ease of streaming.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sunday morning writing time 😊 finished the outline for this feature so onto actual writing!

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I did the first of my "12 next experiences" new year's resolution today by going to a Win Chun class. It was great and some of the philosophy the instructor explained is going straight into the screenplay I'm writing, but it got me thinking about memory and recording as a writer.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Writing is really hard, actually.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Sunday mornings ❤️☀️

A laptop with a screenplay displayed, next to a blue and gold teacup full of tea, a notebook and a croissant.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I had pasta cooked in a wheel of parmesan cheese at the market today. 2025 is peaking early for me I fear.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Just finished Jane Eyre! Not sure how this was my first time reading it given I appear to have written this story about ten times. Something inspired by it must have lodged in my head, but I couldn't quite tell you what that is.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm very pro games as theatre (I moonlight as a playwright!) but also this, so much. I feel like every time there's a big topic on here this is the conclusion I come to--yes, if it works for your game!

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I've read through the other comments here, which are good, and I'd add that playwrights already understand "writing for someone who needs to be motivated to do something" -- audience as participant.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

All I want to do tonight is play Mass Effect and eat cheesecake, alas I must go to the pool and EXERCISE.

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Keano Raubun @keano.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

the only video game engine that truly matters

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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

lots of devastation and negativity on the feed today. i know this won’t solve anything, but maybe it’ll make someone smile and just forget for a small moment. the beauty of the cosmos 🌌

Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas tower in the image, interspersed with a few pink stars.

A spiral galaxy with a wide, oval-shaped disk. It has a shining spot at the center from which two curving, pale red spiral arms emerge, wrapping once each around the galaxy. They’re surrounded by a whirl of bright threads and patches of dust, with spots of star formation scattered throughout. The glow of the disk fades smoothly into the background where some patches of dust can be seen, as well as foreground stars.

The Orion Nebula is an expansive and cloudy cosmic landscape. Sweeping clouds that shine in pink, yellow, orange, and other colors are bright against the black backdrop of space. Big stars are forming and glowing within the nebula.

$Hundreds of stars and galaxies in varying shapes, sizes and colors on a black background. Two of the largest, most prominent stars can be found in the top left quadrant and near the bottom right edge, respectively. They are tinged with blue and have an eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Near the center of this image is the ZS7 system, made up of a merger between two galaxies and their black holes. The ZS7 system is not easily seen by the naked eye in this image, as it looks like very small red dots.$

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

My cat could really do with not making a ton of noise upstairs while I'm reading the Nosferatu script. Well, I presume it's her and not Count Orlock just chillin up there.

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

💯! Last year I kind of just hunkered down in my office to write. This year one of my goals is to do 12 things I've never done before. So far I've got a Win Chun class, a ghost hunting expedition, a visit to an observatory and a trip to the Beltane festival in Edinburgh planned. 😀

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Amy Stevens @amesyflo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Really interesting thread about memories and horror here. Got to give Public Access a go now, sounds right up my street.

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