iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Selkie Harbour @selkieharbour.com · 20/09/2026

🟥 Virtue and a Sledgehammer is coming. 🟥 27 October 2026. Just one month until you confront your past. 🔨 store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...

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Pelican Post @pelicanpost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey! Since our demo launched on Steam this summer, we've been taking a break. But now we're back to work and focusing on fixing a thorny problem: motion sickness with the truck.

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 15/09/2026

Ambient play is one of the most interesting thing happening in games for me, and this is a really awesome collection celebrating it!

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The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io · 13/09/2026

In the Valley of the Underground Mountain, within the compartment nation of Lyptch... 🛤️🏛️🎨The Zium Railway🎨🏛️🛤️ an open world gallery, a new exhibition, now available! Free admission. Be welcomed and enjoy. thezium.art/theziumrailway

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The Zium Railway - Exhibition Now Open

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 12/09/2026

I want to make things that feel like Cosmo Sheldrake’s music sounds

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Extremely heartbroken to say that I'm one of the affected members. Working at KO_OP for four and a half years has been one of the best things to ever happen to me and I really hope that my teammates can land a pitch that can bring us all back together again.

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 10/09/2026

I’ve gotten used to the kind of emails you get after you put something on Steam, but wow, these two are particularly egregious

Email inviting Pelican Post to an “AI Gaming Conference”

An email offering us $100 for the rights to our game. Claiming our (currently unreleased) game performed poorly

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Michael @onemoretimearound.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm glad this #FriendsAtTheTable Partizan title sequence fan video by @drewg8.itch.io popped back up in my YouTube feed for the first time in a while. It really conjures up such a perfect atmosphere. Partizan rules, listen to Partizan, never be not listening to Partizan, watch this video.

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Friends at the Table: PARTIZAN Title Sequence

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 31/08/2026

not sure if anyone else has had this specific problem, but i managed to find seemingly the only web tool that can create a nicely encoded and selectable pdf from an HTML page with modern CSS html2img.com/tools/html-t...

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HTML to PDF Converter | Paste HTML, Download an A4 PDF

Paste HTML and CSS and get back an A4 PDF with selectable text, embedded webfonts, and automatic pagination. Free in the browser, with an API behind it.

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 26/08/2026

We’re so excited to be part of this year’s Future Games Show! 🧑🏼‍🚀 🪐 Be sure to check out the showcase to catch all the great games you missed! 📽️ Future Games Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfJj... 🎮 Play on XBOX: hi.youngsuns.com/XBOX ✨ Wishlist on Steam: hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games · 22/08/2026

The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 20/08/2026

it's a close race between Titanium Court and Cairn for me. Big Walk and Marathon would probably have chance, but I need to play more of them

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 20/08/2026

I haven't stopped thinking about this game for two years. Go play it

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

as far as i'm concerned, there is no difference between a "controller" and a "manager" in programming and it's just all about what will make the class name sound coolest

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 15/08/2026

didn't get to see the ending of big walk because the game had a memory leak when it was my turn to go through the turnstile :(

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The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io · 12/08/2026

In the Valley of the Underground Mountain... Announcing... 🛤️🏛️🎨The Zium Railway🎨🏛️🛤️ an open world galley, and a new exhibition from The Zium Society will be released on September 13th 2026 Here's a trailer: youtu.be/9yf-lTRRRjc

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The Zium Railway - Announcement Trailer

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

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Pelican Post @pelicanpost.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey! Long time no see! We're really excited to announce that we'll be in this year's Wholesome Games Celebration on Steam! We'll be back with some news about what's happening in the world of Pelican Post very soon...

Wholesome Games Celebration. August 6-13

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Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳

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Party House: The Deckbuilding Game — Teaser Trailer

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 31/07/2026

Pretty happy with these results

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Falling asleep and hoping I wake up in the alternate reality where Sufjan Stevens did write an album for each of the 50 states. At the very least, one for New York.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This rules: @adriansandoval.net has been building a wiki about local Philadelphia game dev history. AND, recognizing that he is a single point of failure, he's seeking local government funding to support the site and partner with local groups for its stewardship

A potential detailing a proposal to build support for the PhillyMakeGames wiki, in collaboration with a group called Philly Game Mechanical.

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 27/07/2026

Made a game with some friends for GMTK Jam this year. It's a game about organizing people in a photo before the shutter timer goes off, and I think it's pretty fun :) jeremykdev.itch.io/get-my-good-...

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Get My Good Side by Jeremy K, r1icard, Drew G.

Smile for the camera!

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

500 STABS. 20 MINUTES. Do you have what it takes to survive? A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? Demo coming soon: store.steampowered.com/app/4602120/...

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This Saturday, Indiepocalypse Radio returns at 2PM ET with guests @nathanleigh.bsky.social & @nicoleorabona.bsky.social, @beewertheimer.com, and samira herber (samiraherber.itch.io)! Tune in it at www.indiepocalypse.com/radio Send questions to www.indiepocalypse.com/questions

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Danny DeVito offering you an mp3 and advertising that Indiepocalypse Radio happens Saturdays at 2pm ET

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is probably the biggest moment of my life 😭 After 4 years, the Game UI Bible has finally launched for all the world to see. A 400+ page tome of Game UI/UX goodness, celebrating all the weird and wonderful intricacies of this field. I'm SO proud of this book, and for you all to read it!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

one of the things about working in a creative field is that you sometimes end up watching stuff that you might not personally love but which is doing something interesting / important / useful to your project over and over and over again

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 14/07/2026

has anyone made a solo journaling or mapmaking ttrpg that uses bespoke drawing or procgen software? something like Moss or Become a Great Artist. seems like there's some cool stuff to be explored there

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

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Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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Playdate @play.date · 09/07/2026

small handheld. big ben.

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 06/07/2026

genuinely one of the most inspirational games for my personal process and approach to making a narrative game. is Pelican Post can live up to a fraction of what this game achieves, I’d be so happy

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BadBassGames @badbassgames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This Thursday at 1:35pm EST @teddyras.bsky.social will be speedrunning Bait & Tackle for Summer Games Done Quick. Go check it out and show them some support. IT'S FOR CHARITY!!! gamesdonequick.com/schedule/66#...

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 06/07/2026

really excited to see my friends’ game, Bait and Tackle, ran at SGDQ on Thursday!

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 03/07/2026

I ended up writing a SRT caption parser for gamemaker for a little thing i was working on. i thought about releasing it as an extension, but also realized that my understanding of delta time is shaky at best lol

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fingerspit @fingerspit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Virtue and a Sledgehammer False Awakening (Demo Soundtrack EP) is out now on @bandcamp.com! a short collection of some of the tracks featured on the demo, featuring tracks that might end up different on the final release as the game is still a work in progress, AND the tracks from both trailers! ♥️

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 02/07/2026

On the physical games discourse: it left an indelible mark on my soul when 10-year-old me saw that the player character in the Animal Crossing Wild World manual was named Drew.

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 01/07/2026

got my submission in for the Game Poems Magazine :)

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Hollow Ponds @hollowponds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Nearly all our games are on sale in the Steam Summer Sale, some up to 75% off! Spend some time zooming around on a giant bird, slicing into people's memories as a ghost, organizing a warehouse, doing jigsaw puzzles or hooning about as a kite/snake/wyrm. store.steampowered.com/publisher/ho...

A screenshot from Wilmot Works It Out with art by Richard Hogg. Wilmot is shown in the middle of lots of jigsaw puzzle pieces. He is looking at a piece that is mostly clouds. The puzzle is of clouds, flowers and a butterfly.

A screenshot from the game Hohokum with art direction by Richard Hogg. The player character, a colourful snake like creature is flying around amidst lots of big pots. There is a man shaped like a pot making more pots out of clay on a potter's wheel.

A screenshot from the videogame Flock with art direction by Richard Hogg. The screenshot shows 3 players flying giant birds away from the camera, they all have flocks with different creatures and are heading towards some concrete structures in the distance.

A screenshot from I Am Dead with art direction by Richard Hogg. A diorama showing a display case at Shelmerston Museum, the display case has lots of different items in it including a ships figurehead, a model of a ship, the ship's bell and various encrusted items from the wreck. There is also a large stone altar shaped like some kind of canine in the display case.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

before the green moon is both hugely inspirational to me and criminally underplayed. like what if a tarkovsky film was entirely cast with animal crossing villagers

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leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io · 27/06/2026

Okay here's what I'm thinking: I think a lot of devs had trouble getting reach during Next Fest due to the large volume of content. I'm gong to host a "jam" on @itch.io to let people submit their demos. Then we'll take over the homepage to showcase everything to give creators a second chance.

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 26/06/2026

Watched it yesterday on Nebula, this one's an all-timer.

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 25/06/2026

Between this and the Caves of Qud soundtrack, I've never been more tempted to get into vinyl

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the boys are over and we're all taking the Which Invisible Cities City Are You? quiz. Jacob's trivial ass got Maurilia lmao

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 23/06/2026

doing some zeno's paradox

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