iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

cain @cmddx.itch.io · 24/09/2026

so far i haven't written a single line of dialogue for my narrative game. i have, however, spent almost an hour on Memphis_Ruler.fbx

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 18/09/2026

no freakon tickets no parallels tickets.... if u wanna see me this games fest you'll have to find me at the pub 🫡

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/09/2026

sick of wanting a goth gf. i will become the goth gf instead

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 01/09/2026

making my own dither matrixes. suck my arse bayer

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 27/08/2026

the best thing about game development is getting to read lovely reviews about your work 💖

Positive steam review: Finished the game under two hours, issues a refund because even if it was a banger, I want my money back for more games. Uhh.... yeah. cool game, buy it.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 25/08/2026

i have such a stupid resistance to using third-party tools and always end up eating my hat when i finally get around to trying them. cinemachine is good, i guess

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Saxxon Fox @saxxon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

River said the airlock malfunction loop was kind of a bop so I turned it into a jam in about 90 minutes (also go check the game out) #proximate bsky.app/profile/cmdd...

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 27/07/2026

in absolute awe of this one

negative review on my game. all it says is "pattern recognition"

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 17/07/2026

you are only ever a roll of aliexpress vinyl wrap and a whiteboard marker away from the luxury appliances of your dreams 😊

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Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au · 15/07/2026

🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 Asymptotes is running in 3 days. 🟠 🟠 🟠 🟠 🟠 You can check out the schedule and the games that will be on display now. 🟣 🟣 🟣 🟣 🟣 👉 asymptotes.au

A picture of the Asymptotes schedule and games.

The photo reads Asymptotes at the top.

Beneath that is a section labelled Games. The games are:
DIRTLOVE PARABLE by Siobhan Dent
BART WORLD NO MERCY (rev 1) by giwake
Beyond the Lens by Koder
Graceless by Duncan Corrigan
Poly Playground by Zac
There's a monster in my childhood home by Jake Berry

Underneath is a section labelled Schedule. It reads:
6:00pm - Event starts!
6:40pm - Introduction - The Asympteam
6:50pm - DIRTLOVE'S PARABLE - Siobhan Dent
7:10pm - modding panel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - brandonhare, giwake
7:30pm - Break - Chat and play some games!
8:15pm - Live Action Role-Panel - Will K, Zali, Nellie Seale
8:40pm - the writerrrrrs - Cain, Cécile Richard, Mads
9:00pm - No more talks! Chat and play some more games!
9:30pm - Event ends!

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Did you know that I've been spending years producing and distributing DIY physical releases for indie games? Because I have! And continue to! It's also a thing most anyone can easily do. (and I've been slowly building my own collection of others' games) pizzapranks.com/tapemarket/

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 01/07/2026

oh no i'm sick... guess i have no choice but to sit in bed and play rift wizard 3 all day

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 26/06/2026

i love it when people get it

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 26/06/2026

proximate is 20% off this season sale, the same amount off it has been every other season sale. if you would like to buy it for 20% off you can do that now, or you can wait for the next season sale, when it will be 20% off again. store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/...

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Save 20% on PROXIMATE on Steam

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% acc...

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🚨 cool link alert 🔔 just f***ing send it jfsendit.com “Files go straight from your browser to theirs. No upload, no server, no account.”

jfsendit.com

just f***ing send it

Peer-to-peer file transfer. Files go straight from one browser to the other — never through a server.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 22/06/2026

New blog post (and sliding into email subscribers' inboxes too, I have not forgotten about you). About "that talk" at Narrascope; the application of choice mechanics in games; trying to rescue some context. azhdarchid.com/you-must-fre...

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YOU MUST FREE YOURSELF FROM THE TYRANNY OF "MEANINGFUL CHOICES"

Not really a response to a Narrascope talk so much as the talk is an alarm letting me know it's time to have this conversation again.

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may 👑 @fawndly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

evergreen ass message

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Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au · 18/06/2026

Announcing... Asymptotes. Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection. On Saturday July 18th, we're running a showcase of abandoned games, with talks and panels on non-commercial and difficult to commercialise game-making. 👉 asymptotes.au

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

June's entry in the PIZZA PRANKS Video Game Tape Club is now out and it's PROXIMATE by @cmddx.itch.io! With only your image recognition visor, piece together the events that lead to the research team’s demise in this minimalist horror narrative. Available at pizzapranks.com/tapeclub/

photo of the physical edition of the game PROXIMATE inside cassette case

screenshot from the game proximate showing a call screen

screenshot from the game proximate with a text display showing that the player is looking at an airlock

screenshot from the game proximate showing a distorted screen and the word mouth

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 14/06/2026

ok last one i'll post for a while... no idea yet what kind of fungus this'll be or why it does this. just wanted to maximise player hostility

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 12/06/2026

petting the dog kills you instantly. 🖕

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 12/06/2026

relationship with shader graph ended... now geometry nodes are my best friend

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

a manifesto for manifesto jam 2026. for everyone who's got that dog in them. haraiva.itch.io/against-grat... #manifestojam2026

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Against Gratitude by haraiva

Bite the Hand that feeds you!

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I have manifested a manifesto for #manifestojam! CAN WE PLEASE HAVE BETTER VIDEOGAMES YET? trasevol-dog.itch.io/better-video...

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CAN WE PLEASE HAVE BETTER VIDEOGAMES YET? by Lorraine 🍬 Devaux

A manifesto for better games

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/06/2026

too many fungus-enjoyers ignore molds... not me though. i'm cool

desiccated body sitting on a bus. it's covered in pink slime mold, with some bright yellow pustules.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11/06/2026

alright, here's my thing for manifesto jam cmddx.itch.io/i-hate-your-...

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I Hate Your Cozy Game by cain

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isyourguy @isyourguy.com · 10/06/2026

text is the only thing in videogames that matters isyourguy.itch.io/text-fetishi...

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TEXT FETISHIST: AN AUTOPSY by isyourguy

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freya @spdrcstl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

made a tiny flow of consciousness thing for manifesto jam communistsister.itch.io/the-artists-...

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the artist's intent to enjoy it by communistsister

manifesto jam 2026

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 05/06/2026

discovering blender's sculpting mode. doing normal things with it

fucked up looking guy sitting at a bus driver seat. his face is gaunt, eye sockets hollow and mouth agape

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 02/06/2026

it's not an australian landscape until there's a coles shopping trolley on a highway

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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/04/2026

indie game marketing is untenable right now, bro allegedly took a shot at the president and it got him 22 concurrents

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

DAWN CHORUS -- demo out now! an interactive fiction story about two losers trying to make music and stay friends as the world is ending around them. after years of secrecy/procrastination i am proud to reveal the demo for my esoteric pre-apocalypse story :) PLAY → haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...

DAWN CHORUS key art: two characters facing away from each other. the title is overlaid on top of them.

a central column with text in it. on each sides, placed diagonally from each other, lines of dialogue. there's a portrait of one of the characters on top of a background that shows a view of skyscrapers from street level.

a screen that has a lot of minimalistic browser-like interface windows open in a lot of different colours and writing styles.

a screen that looks like a screenplay with multiple dialogue choices. there's an image of the setting the scene is in, a river under two merging overpasses

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

images not loading on here making the "i just released the demo to the game i've been quietly working on" a little difficult... ah well i'm in no rush. anyway DAWN CHORUS demo out now. long live the pre-apocalypse → haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...

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DAWN CHORUS [DEMO] by haraiva, isyourguy

a demo of a pre-apocalypse interactive fiction game

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 18/04/2026

bought this dress months ago and finally had an occasion to wear it tonight

me, standing in front of a mirror with some graffiti in green markers. i'm wearing a green mesh dress

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Elissa @elissablack.com · 15/04/2026

DUNGEONS OF FREEPORT IS OUT! An Extraction Roguelike Dungeon-Crawler for Linux, macOS and Windows - you and every other player get the same procedurally generated dungeons to delve into each day! Have you gone delving yet today? www.dungeonsoffreeport.com #Roguelike #GameDev #IndieDev

Dungeons of Freeport - a classic roguelike with ANSI style codepage 437 graphics and pixel-art frame around it.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 03/04/2026

Basically you have to understand that you’re here as a sort of parasite on someone else’s grift where they make vcs pay for their hobby. You’re black mold in the wall of an adult daycare. Embrace it but know it is transient.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

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StormCat - Play WIZARD PUNKS!!! @eyeofstormcat.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

WIZARD PUNKS!!! is OUT RIGHT NOW! Go play it! store.steampowered.com/app/3332770/... #wizardpunks #indiedev #gamedev

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I love this site so much youraislopbores.me

Me interacting with what is definitely an "aye eye" and it drew me a wonderful birb

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