iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joe @joegamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm making a #blender add-on that lets you sculpt directly onto low poly models via the manipulation of object space surface normals under the hood

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Vibe coding? Oh you mean technical-debtmaxxing?

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kukyuk @kukyuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I coudn't resist and drew one of my favorite Palico outfits ( + added little frog shoes) #monsterhunter #fanart #palico #frog #art #artist #doodle #digitalart #procreate

Palico frog outfit fanart ~ Monster Hunter Rise

Original Palico frog outfit ~ Monster Hunter Rise

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wrote a chip8 emulator over a few evenings Im designing a little automation toy project that chain i/o of tiny machine I understood the gist of how they work, but never sat down to write one. Have a good base to go on from here Also somehow the windows term cant keep up printing a 64x32 display??

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wrote a trivial to serialise append only open address hashmap last night. landed on a pow2 sparse indirection table that indexes into flat arrays of KVPs All the buffers use relative pointers so loads in a single mmap. Im surprised at how little code was required for the implementation.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have a buncha senior positions open, we have very exciting projects coming down the line, I promise you won't be disappointed, we also have pizza fridays: careers.castirongames.com#jobs

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Games Industry Careers with Cast Iron Games

Discover the range of games industry roles available with Cast Iron Games. Based in Wakefield, it's an exciting time to join the Cast Iron Games team.

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Froyo☆Tam @froyotam.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

you can use my released fonts, free or commercial, for video games!! i allow it. links are in alt text!!

TROD: https://itemlabel.com/products/trod-
font

ferrite core dx: https://github.com/froyotam/
ferrite-core/
(free)

baudotpunch, included in TROD purchase https://itemlabel.com/products/trod-font
baudot encoder and dot punch font

ultra hi-gloss, my first commercial and most popular font.
https://itemlabel.com/products/ultra-hi-gloss-font

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Alcohol is the cause of injuries at work", Soviet work safety poster, 1987.

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garth marenghi's darkcayce @cayce.zone · 24/10/2024

1973 Ferves Ranger...beep beep

Red Ferves Ranger, it's basically a real life Richard Scarry car

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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been racking my brain over linear space dithering. Adding noise sounds simple but how much, exactly? Finally, I found a trick: scale the dither down near zero. Found from Timothy Lottes 2016 slide deck. Attached is an exaggarated example.

A two-pane comparison of Floyd-Steinberg dithering with threshold noise. Left: linear space noise is added with constant magnitude. Right: linear space noise but magnitude is scaled down near zero.

A slide from "Advanced Techniques
and Optimization of
VDR Color Pipelines" by
Timothy Lottes (2016)

https://gpuopen.com/download/GdcVdrLottes.pdf

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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Distorting space with sine functions #math

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

there's a pretty simple connection here 1. humans become good at what they practice doing 2. outsourcing to an AI or even other people, means you have stopped doing the thing 3. if you stop doing the thing, you will stop improving, and, long term, get worse at it (cont.)

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The UI library I started working on is shaping up well All base UI elements are a single struct with traits and depending on the function it’s passed into it does different layouting/behaviour These base elements are used for both hierarchy and immediate mode ui w/ theming using callback per state

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

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I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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alicia 🍳 @acorviart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a murder [ #art ]

Illustration of a crow on a branch, surrounded by the old windows XP ghosting error screens, all duplicating the crow's face so it looks like there's a murder of crows.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 30/08/2026

rich fuckers and corporations not respecting the social contract is behind a lot of society's ills, and now it's also destroying the internet people.kernel.org/monsieuricon...

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Creepy crawlies

You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thanks.

A rat sits with a small piece of cheese. Text reads: "leave me alone with my cheese".

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anikeru.bsky.social @anikeru.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Frogs in cups

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Royam @appletablepenne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

up to no good

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Fuji @notfuji.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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MORGUES @mxmorgan.com · 15/08/2026

tangle pen on cold press paper, 6x6 inches prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo... original for sale: ko-fi.com/s/847222d71e

a stylized black wolf leaping, carrying a red thorny vine that is wrapped around its body

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Boggo @boggo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A new tapestry

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Destroying things to make a minority richer at the expense of everyone else really is en vogue lately.

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Brie @briechindeyerle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

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I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Been thinking more about trivial serialisation for my more complex data structures (single mem map no fix up) I’ve landed on adding a “relative pointer” to my core data structures. This way when composing more complex data structures the data sections are N bytes after the headers

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Fuck! Denshattack! is really good, my brain loves the moment to moment gameplay loop! I’m multiple hours in and they are still dropping mechanics on me and every time it’s like oh this makes combos flow even better!! I do wish restarts were faster on steam deck for when I mess up a starting combo

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

God superluminal may just be the best piece of software I have used in years, just absolutely amazing. Buttery smooth, amazing tooling for timings, finding duplicate calls, distribution, histograms & amazingly a in text code breakdown of how long func took. Makes me want to profile everything.

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Aurora @auroraplz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

penguin

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

So started writing a cursor based immediate mode gui for my home engine based on a prototype I made in raylib. Was absolutely losing my mind that my gylphs were blurry no matter what I did, eventually I found it was window dpi awareness being off causing my rects to render at a different size . . .

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Oliver @dubiousdevil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Me, a wizard: Where hast my scrying orb gone? I cannot seem to find it anywhere in the tower... perhaps this is a cruel trick from my dark warlock rival! My Capricious and Gluttonous Familiar:

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

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Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features nee...

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Absolutely brilliant, a really approachable algorithm I loved that a bunch of difficult problems for fonts are precomputed away, every step is like yeah obviously we should be doing that! And huge fan of it calculating the coverage even if this means that post effects will need an additional step

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Kingsley Hopking @beardyking.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Decided now it’s time for me to continue my 90s console/PC thing. (As if I don’t have enough going on) Been designing a mode 13h vga display adapter that double buffers pallet indices. I want that second esp32 core doing some fucked up deferred software rendering instead of just vga emulation.

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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 21/06/2026

They're right. Stealing chickens is really hard from this perspective though.

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N a i t e l v e n i @naitelveni.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Quake is such a cozy game ^^ Screenshots from my upcoming 1024 units map jam entry.

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Havra Art @havraart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hello! Fan art time Excited about the new upcoming House House game 🥺 @househouse.com I too, like to big walk. #househouse #bigwalk

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Death & Milk @deathandmilk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Dithered, limited colour version of my most recent piece 🩸

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gil lawson @gil-lawson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

goblinAmerica releases in Early Access on Steam in 2 days

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Larry MacDougall @larry-macdougall.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Mouse Archer in the Weeds - Watercolour. Work continues on the third book in the Gwelf trilogy. More soon. Tally Ho!

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Antonio Caggiano @antoniocaggiano.eu · 12/06/2026

For anyone who couldn't make it to GodotCon, the recording of my talk "Integrating Vulkan Ray Tracing in Godot" is now up on YouTube! #Godot #Vulkan #RayTracing

youtube.com

Integrating Vulkan Ray Tracing in Godot – Antonio Caggiano – GodotCon 2026

YouTube video by Godot Engine

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Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Really love this project and article - a handmade early-mid-90s-ish FPS. The procedural pixel art "gibbing" and particle effects are pretty cool, among other stuff staniks.github.io/articles/cat...

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Catlantean 3D - Making Graphics Like It's 1993

A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.

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Harlequin Diver @harlequindiver.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Dreams in the Peacock House is out now on Steam! Wake up from a never-ending slumber and find your lost dreams in the shadows of the Peacock House. store.steampowered.com/app/4693460/... #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #solodev

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Save 10% on The Dreams in the Peacock House on Steam

Wake up from a never-ending slumber and find your lost dreams in the shadows of the Peacock House.

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Dimitris @modernvintagegamer.com · 07/06/2026

You guys are insane. Another step closer to NeoGeo Doom :) github.com/sabino/DoomG...

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Lukke @upvector.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#art #artsky #sketch #mouse On the run

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Ignacio Castano @icastano.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today I'm releasing Spark for Unity, a Unity package that brings the Spark texture codecs to the Unity engine and it's free for projects with lifetime revenue under $100K. t.co/RaUwMH90rK #unity #spark

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https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/06/spark-for-unity/

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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

the possum jar 😱

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