iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the owner of this website makes me so unusually annoyed. i do not understand how he so consistently fucks up such a good and simple thing. why is there a giant bar on the left taking up half the screen. no one requires this information! he completely ruined the game library page. justso incompetent

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

should i even supply john backloggd with my world famous lists? you be the judge.

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

i don't understand how they fucked up something as easy as backloggd. site owner got massively lucky that ppl flocked to his site during pandemic. every (literally every) decision made has been a poor one and i say this as someone who genuinely likes the site and finds it useful for lists

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

rebranding nazi death camp tattoos as simply "anti-israel" is fucking disgraceful. what the fuck is going on here.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

myst was the best selling computer game of the 90s and there is little difference in the adventure games today in terms of knowledge-based progress

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taizou @taizou.12bit.club · 04/04/2025

Tariffs making your game consoles too expensive? Thankfully this problem was solved years ago. Simply set up a factory to manufacture the Sega Master System in your country

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/03/2025

Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

richard garriott, game development work station (1985) archive.org/details/logi...

richard garriott, straight brown hair, mustache, black vest, sitting at a workstation, 2 screens on a raised platform, a keyboard computer and disk drives below, a floppy disk on the desk.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

time to boycott Shopify

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies. Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 31/01/2025

4.) The original high-res, uncompressed audio recordings of Ultima VII's Guardian shit-talking the player.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 27/01/2025

vladikcomper on the SGDK discord has created an amazing and ridiculous mod for Sonic the Hedgehog (MD) in which quality degrades to different resolutions/numbers of colors unless you fill your blast processing meter up. It works real time in wide screen in a smaller rom size than the original game.

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Alberto Venegas @albertoxvenegas.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

La cultura que nos rodea es cada vez más similar, nuestra visión de la realidad más estrecha y nuestros gustos son cada vez más parecidos, ¿a qué se debe? Al ascenso de la cultura algorítmica y al poder de las plataformas digitales en nuestra vida. Sobre esto escribo hoy: presura.es/cultura-algo...

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La cultura algorítmica y el aplastamiento del gusto - Presura

¿Cómo ha cambiado nuestro gusto la cultura algorítmica? ¿Cómo condiciona aquello que vemos y leemos el algoritmo?

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Good things come to those who wait - the Video Game History Foundation Digital Library launches on January 30th, 2025. (We'll tell you all about it then!)

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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The “- of the killer series” by Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy. thecatamites.itch.io/anthology-of...

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Anthology of the Killer by thecatamites

History is a nightmare - - and loving it!!!

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Trump declaring an "energy emergency," aggregating more powers to himself so as to ram through unnecessary & deadly fossil-fuel development, is all the more infuriating becuz the Dems have refused to declare a climate emergency, leaving the space wide open for occupation by authoritarian interests.

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Alpha Centauri...only more relevant with each year.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that resists fascists, By Some Fascist

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I wrote this post about the illusion that indie is a 'superior development style' about a week ago and waffled on whether or not it was still relevant enough to post. Aftermath putting up a podcast on the same topic today convinced me to finally shove it out the door. auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

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A Pivot To Indie won’t save us – AURAMBLES

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 14/01/2025

New project! The Visible Zorker: a toy which lets you explore Zork 1 *and* the source code that makes it go. An exercise in making software transparent. eblong.com/infocom/visi... A post about how and why I did this: blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-... Enjoy!

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The Visible Zorker

Here's a little something I've been working on: The Visible Zorker! This screenshot has spoilers for Zork 1. This whole project is spoilers for Zork 1. That's the point. Really, go give it a shot. It'...

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 12/01/2025

ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below: itch.io/jam/californ...

wildfire rages through a building in southern california, bright orange against grey arches, with water from firefighting attempts pooling in the foreground

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What we found was one of the very worst examples of workplace abuse in the history of this industry. That may sound hyperbolic. I really don't think it is. Here's our investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H... (5/7)

PMG's video thumbnail for the most recent investigation, showing an illustrated representation of Christa Sydney slapping her own face.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

it's past time for a lot of people, esp in the left media commentary sphere, to give up on this idea of speaking to a broader audience that never seems to actually materialize and operate within the people who actually care and engage with what you do.

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Melos Han-Tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A big challenge for games history for the next 10 years will be decentering both the "Indie Darling" histories and AAA console histories, as consoles (hopefully) become less relevant and we realize conversations shouldn't be dominated by which indie or AAA game sold 5,000,000 copies

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Jason Dyer @jdyer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

There's been some discussion lately in game history circles (kicked off by felipepepe.bsky.social) about histories being too US-centric. All the Adventures accounts for *everything* so I've done enough writing about other countries I can share some notable things I've learned. 🧵 (1/10)

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Felipe Pepe (@felipepepe.bsky.social)

Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I really do believe AI is inherently fascist. Both the resources it takes to generate and the soullessness of its output render it entirely irredeemable, but it also hollows out any meaning we can get from communication and art and reduces human life to an aesthetic it wears like a skinsuit.

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дядя играет @rexadecimal.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Today is the last day you can post this picture

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I've just uploaded *eighty* of Dave Lowe's personal game development disks to the Dave Lowe Disk Archive collection on Internet Archive! archive.org/details/@dav... This upload focuses on the tools Dave used, so there's lots of audio software, development tools, and audio libraries.

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joey schutz @joeyschutz.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

went and wrote about gameplay loops :) blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-aga...

screenshot of a paragraph from the blog, which reads: The whole premise of the core loop game is to figure out a thing you can do for hours and hours. Refine that mechanic until it’s something broad enough and bendable enough, without specificity, to be deployed in a thousand different contexts. And then you go and make a lot of stuff with it. It’s a harsh delineation between the form (the mechanics) and the content (what you do). And usually it leaves me feeling unmoved. Usually it leaves me feeling like neither has much of a purpose. The content is there to justify the mechanics, and the mechanics are there to give you something to do with the content...and we never make anything with a real purpose. What is any of this for?

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

youtube video essays are not a substitute for written work, and shouldn't be made to be one. the idea that everyone should have to be on youtube and dealing with the strange social dynamics of that space and weird impenetrable algorithms of that platform is a huge part of the problem

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PC-FX Fan Club @pcfxfanclub.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Team Innocent: The Point of No Return for the PC-FX is finally in English for its 30th anniversary! This anime sci-fi adventure features beautiful pixel art, pre-rendered CG backgrounds, an energetic cast, an apprehensive atmosphere, and a dramatic story. Links are in the thread below!

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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Breaking: Amazon appears to have flooded striking workers in Queens with raw sewage and freezing water during sub-zero temperatures this afternoon. Video courtesy of Ryan Bruckenthal and details from Bianca Cunningham.

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

cozy indie scene are little more than ideological ruts, sedative works that dull the sharper critiques of society and drown out anything that might challenge the status quo

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My whole professional life there've been controversies over artists tracing someone else's art, plagiarism. My whole career I've dealt with the hideous theft of my work. Then some clown shoes billionaire tech bros come along and make a tech that literally CAN'T do what it does WITHOUT plagiarizing

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I say again - there are few things in American society that will radicalize you more, or faster, than being suddenly disabled in your 20s with a condition that no doctor wants to treat or touch or interact with, and leaves you in pain every second of every day. It is a cooker beyond belief.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

definitely one of the all-time great games in general. amazing how much a game from 1998 can run laps around so many contemporary AAA games in so many ways. check out my big piece i wrote for the 20th anniversary back in 2018 medium.com/mammon-machi...

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A Stairway To The Unconscious — Thief: The Dark Project, 20 Years Later

Part 1: Bluebeard’s Labyrinth

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André Alcântara @andrealcantarajor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Did you know that in Brazil, there are places where you can pay to play games for a certain amount of time? I narrated the past, present, and future of some of these spaces in the doc Um real a hora (2022) -- One real an hour --, which is now available in English! Let me tell you more below! 👇🏽

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

in the case of BL i do not blame the kids, they've been fed bad information for decades whereas reality dictates gngs fundamental importance to sidescrolling games. smb1 is its counterpoint: prioritizing articulate movement over encounter design. both key! and spartan x/pacland as precursors.

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cosmic @cosmicforge.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

fyi its well acknowledged by the creator of castlevania that it was konami's take on ghosts n' goblins. right down to the subweapons, 6 stages w/ 2 blocks and a map that represents progress. gng has vertical/horizontal scrolling, multiple stage BGM, more complex enemy patterns than smb1

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/11/2024

Tonight is probably one of the worst mental health crisis in the trans community I've ever seen. It's bleak. So many people are in crisis and I'm scared I'm going to wake up tomorrow and have lost friends. Please reach out to your trans friends and family. They could use some love.

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Michael Brough @smestorp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hey! I've announced my next game and I am asking for money already so I can finish making it. :) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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868-BACK

The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.

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Ramo @antoineramo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

100 Japan-exclusive PS1 gems! In 2018, I browsed the entire list of the console's releases. In 2021, I described my favorites in a twitter thread. Today, it's time to move this thread to Bluesky before deleting my twitter account.

The cover of a PS1 game called Dig a-dig Pukka. In the bottom right corner, a yellow fox with a green hat smiles at us, a pickaxe in its hands and a crystal before it. The rest of the image is filled with an abundant mass of green leaves. The title is in the upper center.

The cover of a PS1 game called Doki Oki. Two dogu-shaped aliens are looking at the title, and one is pointing at it. In the background, a surreal landscape is topped by a surreal building. The sky is blue.

The cover of a PS1 game called Meremanoid. A golden mermaid is playing a dragon-shaped harp. Behind her is a round-shaped window showing a green-colored underwater seascape. The rest of the image is white and the title is on the bottom right.

The cover of a PS1 game called Planet Laika. The image is cut twice vertically and its pieces are misaligned. It shows a toy rocket ship over a blue to black background. The title is on the bottom center. I am really sorry, but since there are over 400 images in this thread, the rest of it will not have any alt text. For each skeet, the images will consist of the mentioned game's cover and 3 screenshots.

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