iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Alright visual studio, calm down 😳

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seems to me if you made AI (LLM) providers liable for the crimes committed by the AI, there'd very likely be no crimes.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the other one was bit tooo fantasy for a game that starts out in a neon metropolis... so balanced out with some firearms and a hexmap in classic COMPUTER TIME GREEN. redid all my steam capsules etc. i think they are super readable now, especially on phone/deck.

two characters face off on the background of a green ascii hex grid. one in yellow wields a back-slash for a sword, and a D for a shielD (no pun detected). the other in orange is charging forward, rifle at the ready. probably dont' charge with rifles but idk it's more dynamic. thanks.

also the G in GRIST is a G shaped dollar sign because GRIST is moneybags.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

how do we feel about a new capsule??

An ascii figure wielding sword and shield stands between two cracked skulls. On either side, large torches frame the scene. Above, the word "GRIST", the title of the game. The G is also a dollar sign of sorts, for the currency GRIST.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

heads up if you're out there and you played my game grist please consider leaving a review on steam it would really help us out!

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

toying with an "interval rpg" idea where you spend a couple of minutes engaged essentially in theory-crafting, then let your adventurers run off into the big bad world and wait literally 20+ minutes real time for them to come back and tell you what happened.

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GG Studio, Indie Dev🎲 Chill Wizard Playtest is on Steam @ggstudio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Stoked to be hosting the official #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky this week! 🔥 #gamedevs and #indiedevs — show us your turn-based projects in the comments (don't forget the hashtag!). Liking what you see? Hit that ❤️/🔁 and tag a dev who needs to be here!

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echerry @echerryart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Added a selective emission channel, it's pretty subtle atm but i can add a glow effect to individual glyphs, for lasers/fire/etc. Zoomed in pic to show detail.

A zoomed in crop of an image from a game using ASCII graphics. A laser beam is mid-fire, heading towards a "warg" wolf enemy. the beam has a slight glow around it, while the other characters/graphics do not.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

little sketching this morning thinking about what i might do with the grist engine in the future. this is "billionaire bunker diving simulator", a game in which you raid dead billionaire's bunkers for clean drinking water, blood plasma, and crop seed.

a little pixel art sketch of a character wearing a breathing apparaturs and carrying a rifle, in a room with a computer on a desk and some kind of security door or sliding door. there are three flourescent downlights, and a HVAC vent visible.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On sale for 1 more day... if you like fever dream sci-fi fighting riot cops in neon rain before riding a world-spanning elevator system down to the feudal forest lands below where you can blast mecha with your laser eye implants, consider checking this out. and if you like it, please leave a review!

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i'm sorry but this is so fucking funny. remind me again of how centrist democrats did in the last general?

An australian newspaper artical headline "Democrats lurch to the left risks an epic backfiring"

it asks if democratic "populists ... will they prove too radical in the heat of a general election"

apparently does so with a straight face.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

had this negative-space pattern sitting around for so long i'm stoked to finally have it as a scrolling animation. got me to tidy up the background code too so it will be easier to make bgs built out of premade components going forward. most of them so far have just been fancy noise lookups

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just uploaded the latest mission, and conviently it's still on sale store.steampowered.com/app/2164660/... It's a crunchy sci-fi rpg with lots of mechanics and a plot that is as much William Gibson as it is Stanislaw Lem. Because _somebody_ has to make this stuff and it might as well be me.

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Save 25% on Grist on Steam

Explore the many lands of the Shell World Atropos, engaging in strategic card-based battles and TTRPG-style story choices and skill tests. Plan routes, rush bosses, and press your luck but beware: thi...

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Imo it's less about the AI being non-human and more about the AI companies being anti-human.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

i am really liking where this next mission is going

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Working up some new audio ideas, playing with a 0-coast, into the Makenoise Strega for smearing delay then the output of that into an offscreen mercury X that heavily filters the input before it hits a long reverb chain with some additional filter modulation and chorusing.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

the different shaders zoomed in. the addition of a light noise in the pixel shader really gives a nice texture imo. also screws up gif encoding lol

crt with shadowmask+chromatic aberration shader

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

just found this image of when i started development on Grist - isolating to care for a child with covid, on my old laptop with the keyboard that dies periodically, in a tiny room with no desk or table. just mucking about making little ascii people to a turn-base against each other...

a laptop propped up on a upside down toy crate, with keyboard and mouse and cushion for a chair.

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Schippj @schippj.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Reflection

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

All I want to do is fade the audio at the start and end of a clip and none of the video editing apps I've tried on my phone so far can do that. What the hell?

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I am watching the women-led games showcase and I gotta say "play pinball while experiencing the full history of western philosophy" including what might've been an aristotle (?) boss fight is a really unique pitch store.steampowered.com/app/3989550/...

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Fallosophy on Steam

Use just two buttons to climb a colossal pinball table spanning the history of western philosophy. Fallosophy is a minimalist game that turns pinball into a quiet struggle against gravity. No score. N...

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

did you know that if you take a bottle of whiskey, pour it into a large jar and add orange peel, cinnamon, sultanas, star anise, dried apricots, slices of ginger, and wait 6-12 months you will have something absolutely perfect for sipping on while you watch 40mm of rain fall on a winters afternoon.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

in another win for vibe coding and mandatory LLM targets, facebook is showing guids in the post headers.

An ad from universal audio showing a guid string where normally it would have the age of the post

Another ad showing a guid string where normally it would have the age of the post

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

it's 1:40am and i'm shipping early access in less that 12 hours. while there's only 1 main boss to start with*, i'm pleased to report that it wiped the floor with me and ended the fight at full health. As I've just spent all my free time lately trying to solo Malenia this is 100% perfect let's gooo

shows an RPG in which all the player characters have died. the enemy is a so called "nightmare slurry", and from the log the last thing it did was deal 240 damage to kill the remaining PC, then restore 1440HP. It used a move called SLURP to do this, in which it reingurgitated pools of bile it spat at the player, along with the partially digested remains of the player characters. yay!

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Sat here turning encoders trying to name a patch on a reverb pedal and wondering why this is still the most miserable part of sound design in 2026.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My silly little sci-fi hexcrawler is releasing to early access in like 9 days! Inspired by the MageKnight boardgame, it also pulls from JRPGs, visual novels, and even Monster Hunter - pick a target and track it through the Megacities, tailoring your party as you go in order to defeat the nightmare.

A hex map!!! The player is on a city block tile, adjacent to a point-of-interest highlighted in pruple. the badge on the poi indicates that it is a quest-related event. the player has no money, ha.

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Smitner @smitner.studio · 10/05/2026

A sneak peak into the development of indie games:

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The shooter prototype has turned out to be pretty entertaining. This ship uses its exhaust as a weapon, hence spinning it in circles trying to defend from the swarmers.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Been pretty quiet as i've been creating upgrade paths for nearly 40 cards in Grist. It's taken on average a day to do each card - some more, some less, depending on upgrade complexity. A lot of them have required new status effects or event hooks to be implemented. But finally I'm on the last one.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Finding it very difficult to be excited about Artemis given literally everything else that's happening.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Every screenshot I see of crimson desert is just the PC filling most of the frame and looking at the camera. It's terrible marketing.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

i burnt out slightly on working through card upgrades in grist so took a couple of days to work on this shooter instead. it's kinda fun, think survivors-like but with more emphasis on movement. And a tractor beam.

A title screen for a top-down 2D space shooter titled "ARC NEREID". The title is yellow glowing text on a blue grid background. A player selector underneath shows the currently chosen vessel, the A-shaped "Striker" class.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The old prototype this is built on had a tractor beam for picking things up and dragging them around. I found you can use it to give XP drops a little momentum, which makes them easier to pick up.

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Running on steamdeck I can get about 4500 physics entities before it starts dropping frames. A few obvious optimizations I can make in collision testing that would boost that number

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

taking a sidequest this afternoon and mucking about with this thrust x survivors idea

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

making a complex turn-based battle system has been super fun, but tbh next game i want to do something where at least half the joy is just in moving around.

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Cadence @ciirulean.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Check out my upcoming game, Pronoun Palace! It's a word-spelling roguelike where the government took your pronouns and you have to get them back! store.steampowered.com/app/3618850/...

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asciiwave.bsky.social @asciiwave.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

youtube music coming through with the paid placements lol bts, here, really?

a youtube music generated playlist.

it reads:

Survival Spheres - Sleeping Quarters - Alternate Resident Evil Save Room
Survival Spheres - Nighthawks - Silent Hill inspired ambience music
Ethel Cain - Family Tree (Intro)
Survival Spheres - Retreat - Silent Hill inspired ambience music
BTS - SWIM
Survival Spheres - Fear Zeroed Out - Alterante Resident Evil Save Room

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