iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

cain @cmddx.itch.io · 03/10/2026

okay i DID score freakon tix... for anyone keeping an eye out for me, do not look for the green haired bearded man! thats old news! watch out for this quirked up bitch instead

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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 · 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 · 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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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 26/06/2026

i love it when people get it

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 14/06/2026

wow that's an incredible compliment thank you. the buildings i modeled myself, cars are from an asset pack, the fungus i'm mostly doing with geometry nodes. most of the heavy lifting is being done by two post-process shaders: a dither shader and a sobel edge detector with / without shaders

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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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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 · 08/06/2026

figured out how to use the snake hook tool. i'm unstoppable now

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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

my partner has kindly advised me that my portrait of australian culture is not complete without a sideways trolley in a car park

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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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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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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 03/03/2026

finally got around to learning shader code after putting it off for ages. i feel so powerful right now

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 06/01/2026

i got a new tattoo! it's a dogoboros!!!

tattoo of a borzoi dog catching its own tail going around my upper arm. there are pink and green abstract florals around the dog

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 27/12/2025

probably not too many surprises here

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 22/12/2025

the proximate posts on tumblr are good...

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 20/12/2025

current version. still not 100% sure about the positions on all of these. going to sit with it for a while

s tier - what is a cozy game?
a tier - ludonarrative dissonance
b tier - should games tell stories? is friction inherently inaccessible?
c tier - should games have an easy mode? do games have to be fun?
d tier - are games art? can games tell stories? what is an indie game? should making games be profitable? the game awards/gdc. yellow paint. dickhead of the month

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 20/12/2025

i'm having a powerpoint party for nye, because i do not know a single allistic person, and i'm gravitating towards doing a tierlist of gamedev discourse. this is what i've got off the top of my head. what am i missing?

b tier - should games tell stories?
c tier - what is an indie game?
d tier - are games art? can games tell stories? should we make games more stupid so that people with no attention spans can understand them? the game awards

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 17/12/2025

the result of a week's work... a primarily Ink-driven turn-based combat system

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 24/11/2025

went up on squats today 😊

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 21/11/2025

drawing some little freaks today...

A nasty looking Ibis. There's tentacle-like tendrils coming out of its mouth and nostrils.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 24/10/2025

solo dev award photos are so funny. me & my four meters of empty space

red carpet AGDA photo of me. i'm in a dress and heels, holding an award. there's a lot of empty space to either side of me

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 23/10/2025

sometimes the splatter will look like the above. sometimes it will look like this. why? because i believe, above all, that the player should go fuck themselves

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 23/10/2025

why: experimenting with a "quest marker" mechanic in Dead Zone where you sacrifice health to pool some of your own blood on a plate, spin it, and whichever direction it splatters in is where you need to go next. some characters will try to explain to you why it works. they will all be lying

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 13/10/2025

thank you so much for covering proximate! i was showcasing it at pax when i found out and someone took this photo of my live reaction lol

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 10/10/2025

we're at pax! come say hi!!!

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 09/10/2025

at least i'm an award-winning game developer now

me, homosexual, squatting in a short dress and holding an agda award

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 01/10/2025

and only today i discovered the power of: singleton with serializable color fields. it's so obvious in hindsight.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 22/08/2025

an email i sent this morning. i love making satire

I made PROXIMATE as a warning for why I *don't* think this technology should exist. I believe that the environmental, social and political consequences of LLM AI are ruinous. In PROXIMATE, I imagined a dystopic scenario in which a company takes this technology and allows it to filter and dominate the way we perceive the world, to terrible consequences.

The absolute last thing I want is for my game lend itself to the creation of these same technologies.

You are not permitted to use any assets from PROXIMATE. I would encourage you to seek out other projects. If you want to create software to help blind people, perhaps speaking to blind people and asking them what they actually want might be a good step.

- cain

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 06/08/2025

doing a stick n poke on myself for each game i've shipped. starting off with waste eater! proximate next

A tattoo on my wrist: it's a straight line band going around my wrist with a gap in the middle. inside the gap is a little minimalist bird, the same one from my first game, waste eater

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 06/08/2025

the cats in this house are fucking weird

A white cat laying on a couch armrest. He's pressed his whole body flat against it and is gripping the sides. He looks like if someone dropped a scoop of vanilla icecream on the couch and it's started melting.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 05/08/2025

playing around with ways to display text/choices in my IF game. i think the common model of "big image on one side of the screen, scene description on the other, choices in a vertical list" works fine but is also a missed opportunity for creating visual hierarchy / more playful forms of expression