iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am learning to be more and more concise in my responses

Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe the #godot hivemind might have an idea for me? I have a 2d atlas with dozens of individual sprites I want to use as decoration in a scene. What's the easiest way to handle that? I thought about tilemaps, but that doesn't feel amazing and leaves me with not being able to place things offgrid

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s called “regulatory capture” They want to be able to regulate low cost, open source, open weight models out of existence so that only their own are allowed on the market. I hate gen AI, but even I know that this shit is heinous

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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 21/09/2026

We have achieved Godot 5 internally at the Godot Foundation, but it is too powerful to be released. We need a bajillion dollars. Thanks 💸

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No wonder I’m making the game I’m making 😂 lotsa RPGs on this list #my9games my9games.net/en

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm tired boss and this video sums it up pretty succinctly I really wish I had the luxury to be able to just quit my job and give my indie game dev dreams a shot. But bills gotta get paid youtu.be/H0HwFqBG9KE?...

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Threatening we'll "get left behind" doesn't work when the destination is somewhere we don't want to go Like brother if the place you're going is a hellscape where everything sucks, I insist on being left behind. My ideal outcome is being left behind. Sign me up for never following you anywhere

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demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

simply adore coding to me it’s like poetry, and as intimately personal and creative as any other form of writing

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh man, lead singer for my favorite band supports indies in a big way? Hell yes 😌

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I found JK Rowlings most hated function in godot Anyway, #transrights are human rights

A line of code in gdscript that reads:

tween dot set trans open parentheses tween dot trans elastic close parentheses

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Martha Snoward (Allianz der Kolkrabenfreund*innen bsky eV) @marthasnoward.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Es besteht keine Gefahr" ist genau das, was ich sagen würde, wenn ich die Gefahr wäre

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Shovelware has never been easier to produce. I'm tired boss...

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tip for newer gamedevs; Always put in the time to make it so that you can test a minimal version of a level in your game. Just an empty room and the thing you need to test. I see so many devs running through half their level to test something every time!

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don’t think I’m autistic, but damn does this sum up how I feel about the current day and age

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I may be slow with prototyping, but the "gray box" prototype is slowly taking shape 😂 Quest system? Check Inventory? Check Save System? Check Scene switching? Check Up next, combat #gamedev #indiedev #godot #rpg #crpg

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You see it in other industries as well. No one wants this shit. Especially not in fields where the _whole point_ is the creativity

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I sometimes wish I’d had a career of game development instead of your bog standard software development 😅 Sure, my career is a bit more stable, but damn do I wish I was using my creative energy on games and not… *reads notes* tax information collection

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

After watching all the stuff coming out of Gamescom, the majority of which seems to be Unreal Engine games with that same Unreal Engine realistic lighting/rendering approach, I realize I've really slid entirely over to "I'd rather play random 6 dollar illustrative indie games on Steam".

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I just spent nearly 3 hours trying to figure out why the camera in my game would stick to the player no matter what I did to reparent it to another node… Only to realize that I had an additional camera attached to the player #gamedevfail #godot

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tell me about something that's part of the mental compost 💩🪰 (as Le Guin would put it) that fertilises your creativity. Something that is -not- the same kind of thing as what you're making.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why is it, that when tech bros talk about this kind of tech, they assume that people will use it "to learn" rather than use it as the thing it's been marketed as: a replacement for your own thoughts and creativity. I swear I feel like I'm screaming into the void sometimes lol

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've said this before, but Godot just lets me get things done. It's lightweight, agile, and you can *really* customize the editor/workflow with your own scripts. Plus open source means you're not tied to a shitty corporation. You can take the code and leave.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I mean yes? But also no? Yes, let’s stop giving money to games that aren’t much more than “do everything for me” But also, to lump games like VS, FFXII, and Factorio into the same category is pretty baffling. I know it’s bait, but I ain’t paying 6£ just to see what else is in this article.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Finally got a pic of all of mine When did I become a collector of handheld gaming devices? 😅

Various handheld game consoles on a table

Left column, top to bottom: psp go, ps vita, Nintendo switch, Nintendo switch 2

Middle column, top to bottom: Analogue pocket, Gameboy advance sp with a custom shell, Nintendo ds lite

Right colum, top to bottom: new 3ds xl, Gameboy advance with a custom shell, Nintendo 2ds xl

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Final Fantasy XIV So long as I don’t go in a dungeon, I think I’m good.

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tante @tante.cc · 17/08/2026

"Claude watermarks your code now." Dude. It's not yours, you didn't write it.

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The PC/retro game decompile scene was to me the most exciting thing happening in gaming. Until AI slopsters over ran it.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

GDScript really is great Seriously, my only complaint about this language are all syntax related Gimme back my brackets and my fat arrow lambdas 🥲

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So uh… folks coming to Cologne for #gamescom. Good luck 🙃

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I feel like if I were to write on here every time Deutsch Bahn screwed something up, my entire feed would be dedicated to it What happened this time you ask? Oh we’re now at 30 minutes late, stuck in Wesel, because they can’t keep the track maintained

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Sheldon Cooper: I Give Up!

Alt: Sheldon Cooper: I Give Up! Sheldon standing in his living room across from Leonard, throwing a stack of paper into the air for it to fall back to the floor like leaves.

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I never re-post Instagram reels but this sums up how I feel this morning FUCK EY i

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So fun fact regarding DB. They don’t seem to coordinate with _anyone_ when deciding when to do construction. A friend lives in Wuppertal. She has had to drive her car to work every single day because there is no viable with with a train to get out of Wuppertal. It’s been that way for months.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Making a big-ish 'proper' game as your first real game. "Start small" is very good advice for most people starting out. But personally I went into this already 32 years old, with past experience spending ten years on something before I got anywhere, and I was willing to do that again.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m in Amsterdam for the week and to start it off we went to the #NEMO Science museum They have a super cool game history exhibit and this really cool “build your own platformer” exhibit where you literally build your own platformer with a peg board! #gamedev

A touch screen showing a platformer video game. The game is based on the pieces attached to a peg board shown behind the screen. The peg board has various pieces which make up the game.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I had the desire to make a little scrolling notification box for #godot for the RPG I'm making. I think it turned out pretty nice 😁 And the experiment code for it here: gist.github.com/CarsonMcKins... Very rough, obviously, and missing pieces, but it works!

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My retro handheld collection says otherwise

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

TIL Scale Theory is why I have such mental block when designing towns and cities for my game. youtu.be/YIri661D2GQ?... #gamedev

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Why is everything in Runescape ˢᵒ ˢᵐᵃˡˡ ?

YouTube video by Skeldoor

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