iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 4h

character limit on this website sucks

screenshot of a bluesky draft that is 2166 characters over limit. the visible part of the screen reads

normal girls with normal kinks: *yea so i um. am just really into being tied up*

me: ok so. you need to checkmate me but like emotionally. ill be attempting to misdirect you, fight, and get into your head as a means of self defense, and because if i dont do that it wont feel genuine anyhow, i dont mind if i win but i want to play the game against a competent opponent, also dont forget midboss spawns at 10 minutes-

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

hey uh why was this in drafts past vivi(s)

post that reads 'not a ton of earth left for the meek to inherit huh'

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the living room polycule calendar is still one of the most helpful damn little projects ive done. love her sm. amazing what you can accomplish with some python and some apis

a departures-style flip-digit board with a grid of colored squares representing days of the week

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can just make yourself into a body pillow for your girlfriend, the government cant stop you

body pillow with a stylized drawing of the account owner on it: a girl with white hair who is laying with hands clasped and legs crossed. She has a black shirt worn off one shoulder, a skirt, and ripped tights.

body pillow depicting the account owner. she has white hair, a collar with gold fittings, short shorts, a crop top, and thigh highs. she is struggling against red rope bindings.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

wip ava animation thats good enough for some new attacks. the sword arm actually properly tranforms now instead of popping in, but its so fast you can barely tell lol

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ngl chat I look like Cruella de Vil's woke stepdaughter

Selfie of the account owner with white hair with a black stripe, big glasses, fangs, and a black dress.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

every time i get my injection for the week i get a sticker because despite dressing like a punk i'm actually a fuckin wimp when it comes to pain and i have so many stickers now!! look how many times i've been stabbed by my girlfriend!

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

still loving the black streak it feels so correct

selfie of a girl with white and black hair in pink lighting.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

still adding juice to basic attacks, i need them to feel GOOD. here it is with the button prompt lined up correctly and a bit of slo-mo on the prompt i'm kind of hesitant to add slo-mo because i liked the button press being tied to damage directly, but it solves a ton of tuning problems soooo

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

she would like to know why weve stopped watching TV when she just got comfy next to us

a photo of a torby cat nestled in a little cat bed, peering sleepily out above the cushions

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

washington state said trans rights

a purple, blue, and pink sky, stretching out over the sea and distant shores, thick with trees

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

turn timer, some tuning, and a reroll mechanic. ...also I didn't mean to keep filming but delilah gets lucky and gets to nuke everyone so I kept that

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

my color tool for last light is still like. really pretty cool.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

kinda love this vhs-y effect. i implemented this entirely because i watched the first episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off and i kinda love their fake DoF that's so crunchy and not blurred, so i made it the same way :)

still from "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off". Scott is holding up a piece of paper with ramona's hair in the background, and in the foreground Julie's head is out of focus, repeated multiple times at low transparency and overlayed over itself

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

faking some DoF. makes the current lane really pop!

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

cel shading online. we're kinda fucking getting there!!!

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

just found out heat protectant will let me blow dry my dyed hair and wtf its like its totally different its suddenly so much better???? hair care you are a mystery

selfie of a girl with white hair with a black stripe.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i got a black stripe in my hair and it slotted into my character design so effortlessly its like it was always there

selfie of a girl with white and black hair. the black is collected into a single thick stripe that runs down the side of the face. she is giving a little peace sign and sticking out her tongue while cuddled up with a blanket

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

spent last night putting more work into the art style for the game. I think I need to actively pull more minimal than I have been to make it production-viable, so here's an experiment where every surface just has 3 colors and a couple worldspace masks to blend it

screenshot of a tactics game with several characters on an assortment of squares. each square has relatively simple colors and little high-frequency detail.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

yeah! characters and other important objects write values to the screen during gameplay. the values depend on their current state (selected, target, is it damageable, etc). then, ui can use these values to hide its pixels if something underneath it has a specific value.

screencap from a game project. characters are flat silhouettes that have numerical values floating above them.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

very cool to put widgets behind characters for a few frames. I imagine a big "K.O.!" or other such things.

still from a game project. a big rainbow "X" appears at the hit location of a sword swipe, behind the characters.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

got ui rendering behind characters :) we can do really elaborate effects with this!

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

texture exploration. I think this art style might be a tiny bit too 'high-fi' to really produce for last light but boy if it isn't kinda cute

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

my hair is getting tooooo long and i need it cut again

picture of a girl in a black sleeveless bodysuit and gold chain. she has dyed white hair with visible roots.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this was so worth it just to make joke posters for my game

picture of a crying cat with a strange, untranslatable language superimposed around it. the image is in black and white with a distressed paper texture.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

last light's language is now a font :) so i can use it in more places in the game without constantly re-exporting

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

spun up a jira finally and.... man, ai features are so worthless. 5 similar work items??? in my project with 11 total work items EVER? none of which have ANY of these words? literally you're saying to me almost 50% of my - again i stress, 11 total - work items are similar? this is garbage

screenshot of a jira form that reads 'make fragile enemies die in one hit on wallbounce' and below it there is a notification that says 'similar work items (beta): 5'

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ok today's last light thing done - 'push' on enemies now cascades down the row. tomorrow we polish it up a little more, and we make it so you can bounce off the 'back wall' for 1 damage :) in this way push will translate to +1 damage if a row is full or if the combatant is in the back column.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

working as intended; no notes; ship it

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

one of the most fun parts about implementing my facial animation system for last light has been doing really quick sketches for ways i wanna see characters faces move, and then going 'does the implementation account for this?' SO fun figuring out code with sketches!!!

a set of quick sketches of ava's face, a little robot girl. she is making a variety of expressions including her tongue out, looking unimpressed, and looking excited.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I picked Phase - Mother Earth because I think it is a relatively surprising answer, but runners up include "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) by Félix González-Torres -- two clocks installed side by side, in sync, with the knowledge that one of them someday will fail and fall out of step with the other.

"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) by Félix González-Torres (or Felix Gonzalez-Torres). Two identical wall clocks situated side-by-side such that they are touching. The wall clocks are both in sync and display the same time.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Phase - Mother Earth, by Sekine Nobou - a hole dug into the earth, with the excavated material next to it. This thing brought me to tears by just hitting me at the right time. All *I* am is an elaborate relocation of material. My body, my piercings - all temporary transformations of the earth.

Phase - Mother Earth, by Sekine Nobou - a cylindrical hole dug into the earth, with the excavated material compacted into a cylinder next to it of exactly the same dimensions, making it appear as if a cylinder had been removed from the ground and moved beside it.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

immediately laughed too hard not to share this very wip footage

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ava's now on the new rig format, which means all my characters are! here's her axe kick - a cheap move that deals a lot of damage, but gets more costly with each use in the same battle.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

today's thing. did some more narrative system work (you'll see that later) and added a luck meter! you gain luck via a variety of sources. for temp purposes you gain it on block right now. you can spend luck to roll new dice, but you can only hold three whole containers so you gotta spend it often.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Workin on an Ava update to fix up some rig issues and shes cuuuute

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

i made the action command input prompt better. I kept asking myself 'how do I make an input prompt you FEEL instead of SEE?' frames the action pretty well. there's still some tweaks to be done but love how stylish it is

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I started this journey as a fan of destiny, and it led me to becoming a developer and working on it. It has been the honor of a lifetime. Thank you, all, for letting me contribute to something that means a lot to me, in my own way. I hope I did you all proud. I hope it was enough.

A picture of a pen and ink drawing from the video game Destiny 2. Guardians mill about in the tower, and the Traveler hangs low in the sky beyond them.

At the bottom of the image there is a button prompt: Press A to start a new adventure.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

or in some cases, i love seeing the medievalists i follow getting really excited over something with a name i don't recognize being pivotal to a joke and then i get to do the VERY GOOD post and I LOVE IT AAAA

Screenshot from tumblr that reads: "Hang on, I gotta google something real quick. Ok this is funny."

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

YES! player characters take their turns in any order now. since you always roll back to 4 dice after you spend, this lets you spend them across your party in cool ways. once you have more moves, you could use a move just to re-roll some dice and hope for a bigger move on a diff. character, for ex.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Changed the shading model for characters and. woah. huge.

A tactics game on a small grid. A number of enemies are hangin' out, including a mushroom guy, a strange floating cube, a few fish skeletons, and an evil mailbox.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

the outfits are rapidly trending more cyberpunk because if we are gonna live in computer hell we might as well look it

selfie of a girl with white hair, black liquid eyeliner, a black mask, black fingerless gloves, a black keyhole top, and a spiked collar.

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Still much iteration to do (and I think the scratchy outlines are might end up reserved for some big hits?) but im pleased with the direction!

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