iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kind of highlights the absurdity of the entire fucking thing that you can ritualistically try to kill a person, fail at it, then send them to the hospital for life-saving medical care. What a cruel fucking joke.

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julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · 01/10/2026

i believe in rehabilitation and redemption and change but i also believe in the victims in my life and have to put them first. that's really all it is.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 20/08/2026

Sometimes it's hard to gauge how much a game will remain (and remain, and remain) important immediately after playing it. I'm confident now — 1000xRESIST remains.

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The hypocrisy is at once comical and frightening. We like it when athletes say good things, and we don't it like when athletes say bad things. what are we doing here

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Khao Mortadios @khaomortadios.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Everyone hates it when their opponent just leaves the game before it's over, so I've been trying to find ways to soften the blow a little bit. #fightinggame #gamemaker #indiedev

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 30/06/2026

This is such a good point that I had never really thought about, w/r/t AI use in open source projects.

AI contributions have the added pain of being demoralizing. Reviewing PRs is already tedious work, but it is rewarding because reviewers generally feel that their efforts are contributing to educating a new contributor (who may become a future maintainer/reviewer). If your feedback on PRs is just being absorbed by a machine and not going towards mentoring a potential future maintainer, it becomes much harder to justify spending your free time on PR review.

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Del @del.art · 15/06/2026

Because every time a game studio has to move resources over to making a trailer, it causes the game to lose about 4 months of actual dedicated development iteration time.

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Once you notice bisexual lighting being used, you can not unsee it. This is intentional. I will not be gaslit.

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Hss @bigeepy.me · 01/06/2026

Happy pride

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 22/04/2026

"Disco Elysium depicts these men not solely as individuals making bad choices, but also as products of their environments: imperialist violence, the drug trade, and economic plight." - from @madisyn-writes.bsky.social 's first for the site www.mothership.blog/disco-elysiu...

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Disco Elysium and the myth of the male loneliness epidemic

Despite Disco Elysium predating this reckoning, its story and characters offer useful ways to interpret this modern myth

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It's remarkable that this is a real thing because it sounds so much like a narrative device used to increase the stakes of the most precarious moment of the entry. Why do we have 8 minutes of tense silence? Y'know, hot plasma! It blocks the signals!

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I can already tell i'm gonna be so annoying about this game hell yeah

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

i think it is good and fulfilling to sometimes do difficult, challenging, frustrating things with the goal of making something worthy, or bettering yourself. some people, it seems, believe that we should strive for a future where nothing is ever hard for anyone they consider people.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

the tennessee titans were dissolved in 2006

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/03/2026

Notes towards a "Woke 2" aftermath.site/woke-2-wokenes...

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Excited to wake up in a cold sweat remembering what crucial game to my DNA I forgot to add here

A Grid of 9 games:
Outer Wilds
Portal
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Shadow of the Colossus
Celeste
Hollow Knight: Silksong
1000xResist
Citizen Sleeper
Bastion

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 15/12/2025

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

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Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/01/2026

I am still thinking about how Alex Pretti was out there directing traffic, waving cars through. A instinctive, quintessentially Dad Response to any kind of commotion happening on the block—to go out and help a little, in a small way. To make sure no one gets unnecessarily hurt.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This is not in fact the definition of the “working class.”

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump." (cheers) "Fuck AI!" (big cheers) "Free Palestine. Protect trans kids." (cheers) "...and go New England Patriots!" (boos) www.youtube.com/live/ZqTFIms...

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I WILL throw up at some point during this game.

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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

"average british person hates 3 trans people a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person hates 0 trans people per year. JK Rowling, who lives in cave & hates over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Trying to defeat the Manbreaker in Baby Steps, a story in 3 parts

Nate standing at the last stretch of the Manbreaker, the end in sight

Nate hurtling to the ground from an enormous height

Nate lying in an awkward posture in the ground, face-up

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Masked agents that your taxes pay for just shot someone in the head — someone who was specifically there simply to observe, and make sure they wouldn't do exactly that

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

BALvsPIT? yeah I liked that game too

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

if I told you the core gameplay of this game revolved around finding ways to make enemies sneeze, I would be exaggerating but just barely. go play it!

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Time for the end of year wrap-up! My favorite games of 2025:

1. Hollow Knight Silksong
2. Blue Prince
3. Despelote
4. Consume Me
5. Hades 2
6. The Seance of Blake Manor
7. Öoo
8. Rhythm Doctor
9. Skin Deep
10. BALL x PIT
Honorable Mention: REMATCH, Wheel World, qualia
Favorite Game from another year: Prey (2018)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/12/2025

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

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kali @kalibration.website · 10/12/2025

"video game mechanics?" Actually, they're called developers.

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 08/12/2025

✨ new video! ✨ silksong is a game obsessed with faith. abstractions, literal depictions, corruptions of faith — it's all there. most important though is silksong's faith in its players, and the lengths it goes through to help us find strength within ourselves. youtu.be/G8MB434ddTk

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The Unwavering Faith of Silksong

YouTube video by Wavelengths

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I will not engage in Discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer.

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 26/11/2025

Typing “I have a soul” in Word and printing it out and getting scared

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

getting some music guy to explain music theory to me and then i say "in english four-eyes" like they do with physics guys in the sci-fi movies

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 19/11/2025

Silksong’s fascination with religion is obvious from the beginning. But only in examining the game’s conclusion(s) does its perspective become clear — this is a story about the apocalyptic finish line, a story about the end of stories. And it is also about what comes after. youtu.be/Rp-gPD_-RM4

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Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

anyway for my fellow devs I recommend filling out the state of the industry survey, it's imperfect but about as good as we get in trying to get a yearly pulse of the industry gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

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2026 State of the Game Industry

The gaming industry's most comprehensive annual survey is back, and we're casting a wider net than ever before. Whether you're a developer, executive, investor, marketer, educator, or any other profes...

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

congratulations to the winner of Game 7: Emergent Narrative

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A fundamental belief of mine that has been massively reinforced by living in Los Angeles for the past 4 years is that driving is a fundamentally dehumanizing activity.

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