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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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 28/09/2026

Hi! I’d love to throw my hat in the ring! You can find my main portfolio at www.drewgenel.com, and even more games work at drewg8.itch.io

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Drew Genel

Design and Development Portfolio by Drew Genel

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 28/09/2026

i’ve been meaning to play it!

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 24/09/2026

sad i missed out on getting in this, its a great collection of games though!

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 24/09/2026

i'm constantly making excuses for myself to make little guys

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 21/09/2026

I’ve been saying this!

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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

joining bennett foddy’s “zebra” in the category of games that deliberately hurt to look at

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

also slight self-promo: check out Flan’s itch collection linked on that page. My game, Boidwatching, is in it along with a ton of other cool stuff! itch.io/c/2852039/am...

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Ambient Play - Collection by flan

A collection by flan

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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

YouTube video by The Zium Gallery

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

very surprised and happy to see one of these posts with a happy outcome! congrats and good luck at the next role!

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

was about to send this! i still have my receipt paper somewhere

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

chiitan liked the first thing i posted on here. pretty good welcome to the platform

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 03/09/2026

Probably largely comes down to consumer and genre expectations. But also interesting to think that in most video games (but not all) failure is not narrativized well or at all, but is usually considered to be part of the process of playing and telling stories in TTRPGs

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Camp Mike-asma @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

YouTube video by Drew Genel

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

Infinite Los Angeli or no Los Angeles. No in-between

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

its a free version of a paid API with some gross stuff attached, but it works for what I need it for I guess

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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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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 27/08/2026

I used this exact example recently to illustrate why I don’t feel comfortable applying to pure “art” jobs in games. not sure if it helps, but i’ve always found your art incredibly inspiring, regardless of whether or not it’s technically precise

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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 Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 23/08/2026

we get SO many emails about wanting jobs and offering localization services. we’re a student/recent grad team, we have no money!!!

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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 · 21/08/2026

seems like a really hard game to matchmake for! not to mention that despite billing itself on every character being able to handle basically anything, team comp still matters and its not like overwatch where you can just switch characters

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 21/08/2026

i feel like there’s so many requirements to play deadlock well (map and gamestate knowledge, mechanics and movement, counterplay) that you can really easily get paired up with people who are good sometimes but completely falter when their one domain of mastery fails

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

the silver lining though is that i'm planning on playing it again to see everything with a smaller group and not seeing most of the game the first time means there's still a lot of fresh surprises to see!

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

I felt this extremely hard, and it was the biggest negative of the whole thing for me (although I agree it's not the game's fault). I'm pretty susceptible to FOMO in general though, so I didn't really know if anyone else felt that way

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 19/08/2026

more games should have a custom socialist anthem in them i think

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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

otherwise had a very good time! the game is very strange but also very cool with a huge lobby (10-12 people), but I also definitely want to go back and play through with a smaller group so I can see the many, many puzzles I missed. I also need to get the achievement for beating the game!

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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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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 14/08/2026

i got to see them and japanese breakfast live recently!

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 13/08/2026

The Avalanche! it’s pretty crazy that it’s essentially another full album in the style of Illinois that completely flies under some people’s radar

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Drew Genel @drewg8.itch.io · 12/08/2026

I LOVE how night feels in the game

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