iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Always on the hunt for good "family" co-op games (despite both our kids being adults now...) We still need to start Big Walk, Orbitals comes out today, and I just learned Minecraft Dungeons 2 is later this month! Finally, co-op gamers are eating well

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

finishing up last minute prep to fly to gamescom i need steam deck recommendations - just picked up denshattack and nier: automata, what else?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Heading to Japan tomorrow, so of course I'm prepping my Analogue Pocket for the trip. Any recommended hidden gems I should check out? As tempting as yet another Super Metroid playthrough is, I feel like I should branch out. Everything except RPGs or tactics games and I'll likely be into it

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We're just about done hiring for this project. If any of these roles sound interesting to you please apply! We're working on something I think is p cool

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Wasn't totally feeling the opening act before The Prodigy tonight, and then he busted out some Atari Teenage Riot My apologies Nitepunk, I was unfamiliar with your game

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Saros downloaded, won't unlock for another 3 hours

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This week marks 20 years since starting at Infinity Ward, marking the beginning of my game dev career - a dream I thought was never going to happen If you're wondering, no. I still don't know wtf I'm doing Some days I still wake up thinking, "Man, itd be cool to make video games for a living"

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The last year produced some incredible games, but the one I think I'm going to continue to go back to for years is Sektori. If you love shmups or twinstick shooters like Ikaruga or Geometry Wars I can't recommend it enough. The Steam reviews are spot on store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...

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Sektori on Steam

Sektori is an intense, fast paced twin-stick shooter infused with hard hitting techno music. A game where the high-adrenaline gameplay, visuals, and music come together to transport you into another s...

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Admittedly you'll have to put up with the occasional groan-worthy dad joke puns from me, but on the positive side we're working on something cool and are looking for more awesome devs to help us! tldr: rad team, independent studio, new IP (we own it!), great benefits, equity/profit sharing for all

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

First playthrough of Terminator 2D: No Fate completed If this was released to arcades in 1992 it would have made all the money. Highly recommend it if you like this sort of game, just make sure to play on a higher difficulty. Was pretty easy to blaze through on the medium difficulty setting

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Also loving Sektori by @gimblll.com! If you enjoy twin stick shooters and have a burning hole in your soul since Geometry Wars you should check it out. I play when no one else is home because the home theater needs to be at 11 for the music. Didnt blink during a 30m run I had last night, no notes A+

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Shoutout to @bysameng.com on Skate Story. Played a few hours and its everything I was hoping for. Awesome skating gameplay, rad af graphics, killer soundtrack via Blood Cultures, and just a perfectly bizarre narrative - this is the skating game I've been waiting decades for

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0m... The core conceit of this is truer than you realize. Doing a great Game 3 can be arguably harder to do than Game 1

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Really looking forward to ARC Raiders launch tomorrow. First game I've preordered and been this hyped for in a long while. That server slam test was some of the most fun I've had in PvP in years - no surprise, Embark showed they already know what's up with THE FINALS Anyone else going topside?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Picked up one of those insane-o 45" ultrawide OLED LG monitors. Wow Suddenly my 4090 doesn't feel quite so beefy 😭

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

30 years ago this is what I hoped video games would become. So happy games like this are being made www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Je1...

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Skate Story | OUT DECEMBER 8 🛹

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

When I was 12 I got Myst for Christmas and fell in love (was huge Sierra / Lucas Arts adventure game fan), and this making-of video on the CD was the first time I saw any kind of game development. From then on I knew what I was supposed to do

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

@digitalfoundry.bsky.social Do you guys use off the shelf software for your framerate/frametime overlays or is that a custom job? Often in dev I wish I could replicate it, as running extra profiling to get the data isn't always possible

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

One benefit of having COVID this week is that I've had the time to clean up my email inboxes Gotta keep things nice and tidy for the daily dump of spam to arrive, ya know?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

New job listing posted! Totally biased, but I think we're on to something really neat here. Come help us make it a reality!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Watching the team go through a show and tell of all their work this morning and I am just in awe that I get to work with such talented and amazing people

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

We don't plan to get much bigger, making openings here more and more rare as we fill out our team. If you care deeply about making fun games with crazy talented people, check us out!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Reminded of ATVI blowing up Infinity Ward because the bonuses due to the dev team Cool quote from an ATVI exec email thread months before they fired our studio heads and took away our bonuses, "we are paying way too many people way too much, we need to find a way to put caps on our bonus payouts"

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Well, Premiere can't talk to licensing servers so I guess I'm done working on this project for tonight. Thanks Adobe!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I miss when there was a hot dog guy outside Home Depot We used to have standards

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Games media deserve better If I had an extra pile of cash lying around I'd totally throw it at the problem, but alas :(

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My wife and I are working through South of Midnight this weekend, really enjoying it so far. Loving the setting, story, music, and characters -- but the character and environment art are the biggest treat Congrats to everyone at Compulsion Games on the release!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Damn, think I just fried my 3080 :(

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Vividly remember my best friend from high school (rip Rob) getting on IRC and losing his shit after seeing it opening night. I hadn't seen any advertising for it yet, and he convinced me to go in totally blind the following day Aamazing moviegoing experience. Wish I could bottle that feeling

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Happy 6th birthday to Apex Legends Once in a career project - everything lined up and the team managed to pull off quite the feat Fun fact: basically all of the launch game was made in about 14 months

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Just realized that whatever banger @slothy.com is bumping in his office next door is synced perfectly to the blobdance emoji on discord

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Anyone else finding a certain sense of calm during the holiday? For me I think it's because studios are closed so games aren't getting patched. I launch Steam or boot a console I'm not having to sit there and watch half a dozen games update themselves I can just boot and play. What a concept!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Also, the project car is nearing completion! I don't usually do new years resolutions, but I do intend on spending more time driving for fun this year Any other Subaru nerds out there? EJ207, 6MT, DCCD, Ohlins, Brembos, Recaros...

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Watched Canadian Bacon tonight (rip John Candy) Someone should find and question Michael Moore, that shit was prescient and way funnier than I remembered I'm upset I missed all the weapons manufacturing auctions of the 90s, tho. Getting my own AT4 would've been rad

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Is there a way to actually dig yourself out of email spam hell? No matter how many unsubscribes I click through the amount of spam in my inbox doesn't go down. There's no useful way to communicate anymore; spam calls, spam texts, and spam emails have rendered it all useless

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

And Swen's speech was S tier

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Astro Bot and Balatro cleaning house tonight has me grinning from ear to ear

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

pants with microfiber pockets to clean my phone screen while walking around send tweet

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Are you one of those people that buys Christmas presents well before 12/24 and immediately wraps them too? I have one question... How?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Any recommendations for decent 1v1 FPS ou there, ala oldschool arena shooters (Quake, UT, etc)? As fun as Straftat is, there's not a lot to learn, and all the old guard games are d.e.a.d.

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Oh what a glorious day! Chevron station a few miles from the house now has six E85 pumps!

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

a few years ago we decided all the effort to make and clean a thanksgiving meal wasn't worth it now i just go pick up a shedload of our favorite indian takeaway the day before and we all get to sleep in and still eat ourselves to the point of naps

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Taking a few PTO days next week to coast into the long holiday weekend Instead of doing what I usually do, which is nothing, any suggestions for books/games/shows/movies/music/activities near LA/Ventura I should check out?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Cool cool cool Got a flat on the way home. Tow truck gunna take at least an hour Any suggestions for good music and/or mobile games to check out?

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

its that time of the year where the sun manages to come in through the windows just right at both 10am and 3pm that i am blinded why don't i close the blinds? dunno

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Really doesn't feel like Titanfall 2 could be 8 years old today, yet here we are What a game! Had a great time working on it with such an incredible team

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Oh no, I just watched lovely videos of someone painstakingly painting and building scale models Now I can feel the expensive desire for a new hobby hyperfocus forming Must stay strong. I will NOT buy a bunch of paints, tools, and an airbrush !

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Drew McCoy @dko5.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

straftat on steam is a throwback to late 90s fps online gaming on custom map servers mixed with warioware consequently, i love it

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