iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When spring is finally here, going far from home can be dangerous but fruitful. Sometimes all you need is just a plunge in the river. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When a storm comes, it's always better to run back into the burrow. It's warm and safe there, and the big flashes won't scare you anymore. It's always better to be safe. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Winters can be harsh, with freezing temperatures forcing you deeper underground and scarce resources that you had to stock up in advance. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also, this funny number follows my games everywhere. Okaay

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Making a new game. Very chill. Picking berries, scaring sparrows, stockpiling for winter. Definitely not a horror, and certainly nothing bad is going to happen here 👀 #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

188 KB of the game. No textures, no meshes, no sprites, no samples, no assets at all except for the voice-over audio which is +2.8 MB. An experience that is short but complete in every aspect, looking, feeling, and sounding pretty decent, can be condensed in under 3MB. #gamedev #indiedev #horror

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Just got my first ever youtube let's play of my game! Someone found the game on reddit, played it 4(!) times to find all the endings, gave me a lot of great feedback, and even made a whole 30min video. This is so cool! youtu.be/1PFEuSDaT_Y #gamedev #horror #retrogaming

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An Eerie, Anxiety Giving Text Script Horror Game! | Haldane-4 | Indie Games | PC

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Phew, just finished my little horror ASCII game! It's a short story about exploring the depths of the Southern Ocean in a submarine. You can play it here (it's free): haldane4.denisbondare.com #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm making a tiny ASCII-style horror story about exploring one of the deepest under-ice cavities in Antarctica alone in a cramped submarine. It gets dark and messy pretty quickly, can't show everything yet haha Would you play this? #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Is there a way to subscribe to a feed of most popular game jams so I get notifications before they start? Itch io has like hundreds of them and I can't find a way to get notified.. #gamedev #gamejam

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Sorry babe, but my Notion 3D Engine stays on #notion #coding

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I gotta get back to work but I keep torturing this strudel snippet #dnb #creativecoding #beatmaking

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I keep enjoying using Strudel. Feels like being a kid trying Basic for the first time haha #creativecoding #livecoding #junglemusic

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My tiniest task manager. I like the idea of a task bucket, you drop in random stuff you need to do, and when you have time, you pull one out and do it. I just made a small local app for this. Adding tasks is easy at any moment with a hotkey. I really love minimalistic apps haha

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I just opened the repo of my tiny horror game that runs in the terminal. You can play it with python. Story: in the 80s, a deep cave was found but couldn't be explored. A robot was sent 3km down. You're the engineer controlling it from the surface. #gamedev #ascii #horrorgame #indiedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Wanted to try something new. I like that it's that simple, mostly just sine waves, and only 29 lines of code. Shifting arpeggio notes 4 chords behind was accidental, but turned out surprisingly well and I kept it. #strudel #music #livecoding #creativecoding

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

First time trying Strudel. Spent half a day reading docs and playing around. So fun! Also I love the McCulloch interview, I think it aged so well, go watch it.

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If I didn't need to earn money, I'd definitely spend years making hundreds of tiny games alone, hidden in some cave on a picturesque mountain. #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Apparently, Midjourney is unaware of the "brain rot" term. Who would've thought it'd be the last aesthetic humanity kept organic. The frontier of human culture if you will.

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We all know human memory isn't perfect. But do we really understand the extent of its imperfection? We do, but it's fun to pretend we don't. Imagine if your expectations were way off. What if your life isn't actually 95% like how you remember it, but more like 50, 30, 10%?

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I gotta finish this mf to complete my set of Notion #gamedev tools!! This is basically everything I've learned in 7 years of managing game development. All my HP went into this XP. A full workspace for teams to build a game in peace. Hoping to finish it soon and find some indies to test it for free

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Any games with Hieronymus Bosch vibes?

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Is there a website collecting data about indie #gamedev s? Like, how many games have been made, how many players played them, how long did it take, how many times the release date was postponed etc? Could be very enlightening and inspiring for others

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I've been shooting film since 2018, but I've never tried to grow an audience for my photos. I think that was a mistake, this support could really help me in life. So, I invite everyone who loves #filmphotography to my Instagram: instagram.com/denisbondare 📌 Some of my shots from 4 countries:

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Random three-body problem @threebodybot.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Initial conditions: m1=58.5 m2=85.1 m3=107.3 (solar masses) v1x=-4.357 v1y=0.363 v2x=4.894 v2y=2.922 v3x=-4.173 v3y=1.123 (km/s) x1=-1.0 y1=-11.0 x2=-27.0 y2=-10.0 x3=-4.0 y3=19.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in E Minor – Chopin

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Isn't a video game the ~perfect~ form of art? It's versatile, inclusive, engaging, and expressive. It offers countless ways to absorb and convey the creator's ideas and vision. And all you need to create one is a laptop. #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I wonder what percentage of game devs make what they actually love? Game development became such a huge industry, poisoned by the mass market, business, even ideology sometimes, it must feel like finding an oasis in a desert if you got lucky to work on smth actually valuable and authentic #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Game devs, how's your team tracking asset production? Sprites, textures, .fbx, SFX, texts, all of it. #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If you're a game dev, what digital tool you wish you had? Something that would really help you organize your work. Tell me, and I'll tell you how it's possible with Notion. #gamedev #notion

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I made my first game with Unity in 2016 and spent the next 7 years coding and managing many game projects. I've seen a LOT of.. let's say good and bad practices. The major obstacle to success when making a game is chaos. Trying to make our work less chaotic led me to Notion (thread)⬇️ #gamedev

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The best thing I've done for myself this year is turning off my laptop and smartphone two hours before bed. It's refreshing to be able to think clearly and feel alive again.

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hey, #gamedev people, show something you enjoyed working on 👇

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is the Pixel World, a small 64x96 2D simulation populated with AI creatures making their own decisions to survive. They explore, gather resources, build, talk with each other. There's no scripted behavior model. Just a prompt with a list of actions, short memory, current state, world info.

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Over the past 4 years, I've read 209 books. I enjoyed a lot of them, but only a few really stood out to me. I just want to start sharing my top picks in this thread 👇 #books #reading #literature

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Game devs, what was the first game that made you think, “This is what I want to create someday”? For me, it was definitely Flashback on the old Sega Mega Drive. It was such a masterpiece—unlike anything else I'd played before. I still remember all the SFX from it vividly. #gamedev

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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

50,000 followers. It's a good start. But as I said before, I'm not destroying the world until I reach 100,000. That should be all the motivation you need.

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

What's your opinion on AI? 1️⃣ I like it and/or use it 2️⃣ Neutral 3️⃣ I hate it 📊 Show results

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Csaba Kissi @csaba.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Are you #indiehacker or #buildinpublic? I made an Indie Hackers starter pack! Let me know if you want to join! 😀 And please help share it with others 🙏 go.bsky.app/BTNbXXx

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Jon Deadvies 🦖 🔜 Pixel Art Park (Tokyo) @sovanjedi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Friday thoughts: What if mammoths had hands at the end of their trunks?

A page full of line-art doodles; centre of which is the main subject, a cartoon drawing of a woolly mammoth, but with a human hand at the end of its trunk. All of the other drawings show the mammoth/s doing things with their hand-trunks, including Thumb Wars, holding a cigarette, high fives and giving the "OK" sign.

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Denis @denisbondare.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Bought an e-book yesterday, super happy! Now choosing a nice screensaver. Which one should I pick?

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Eons Away | Wishlist on Steam! @eonsawaygame.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Passionate about discovering #indiegames and connecting with devs? Join the community—there are still spots open! 🙌 Check it out: go.bsky.app/3NENmTy #indiegame #gamedev #IndieGameDev #indiedev

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Gamedev tip. Keep a little list of easy to handle but unimportant QoL fixes / bugs. I've got mine in an actual notebook by my PC. If you're towards the end of your day and don't have the energy to tackle a hard bit of coding or design, you can still feel productive crossing a few of these off.

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