iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chloé Cashew @chloecashew.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I totally missed starting the #RepostYourArt challenge initiated by @byjessicaelena.bsky.social, so let's catch up!! Starting with the first prompt, Hello! This is a little self-portrait i did in 2023 with MSPaint and a mouse c:

black and white mspaint line drawing of a blep artist with long hair in a half bun, headphones and a scarf (me).

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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Titanoboa going for a crocodile snack 🐍 Copic Markers and colored pencil on Schoellershammer paper 11.8″ x 8.3″ (30 x 21 cm) #paleoart #paleoillustration #SciArt #animalart

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kris anka @kristaferanka.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A few years ago I was asked to be a small part of Project Hail Mary. This is a selection of designs from my first few passes on Rocky, our main directive was to find interesting ways to play with asymmetry, silhouette and texture while I took some attempts to imbue ways to depict culture

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Still possibly the greatest title drop in video games

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Are indie games developing a gambling problem? We'll discuss this in our article by focusing in solely on recent examples that have slot facades while ignoring the entire history of mobile games made by actual gambling industry designers"

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Elliot Hudson @ekhudson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

OK Chat, Menace and Xenonauts 2 are both on sale - which should I grab and play?

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

very easy and not even really untrue to say "not even Fortnite can make live service work now", but like. Most generational hits don't then try to brute force a new Steam and try suing the entire tech industry. People are losing their jobs in service of insane vanity projects.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

www.pcgamer.com/games/action... A heartfelt thank you to AAA Companies for creating a point of difference that indies can claim at no extra cost. Simply by continuing to make games with intent and reliable tools, we can show our audience respect, and be respected as professionals in return.

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Ex-Blizzard president says gamers need to 'man up' over AI usage in games after Crimson Desert devs issue apology

"AI, in one form or another, will be in every single video game."

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I dunno, if I see you doing this to voice actors what it tells me is that you'd do the same to me in a heartbeat. People worked this out without AI for decades before you - using this excuse mostly tells me you have no respect for craft outside your own

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 19/03/2026

There's some variation in reviews, but most big sites have it hovering at around 8/10 with a couple percentage points either way. That's enough to crash a AAA studio's stock price these days despite it being a huge seller. This kind of nonsense isn't sustainable. Or coherent. It's just weird vibes

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

the people who said if you want to understand where culture is heading you should be paying attention to "fringe" and niche subcultures have been aggressively proven right and the people who believed they were too serious and distinguished to wade into the riffraff have been made to look like fools

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Honestly, "disruptors" are like gaslighters: They try to convince you something is broken and that only they can fix you... I mean, it.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Ai is neither intelligent nor artificial. Behind it is a mount of human labor. Stolen, underpaid, exploited human labor

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Alexandria Neonakis @beavs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hey all I'm looking for work! I'm experienced in character design and costume for games and film as well as illustration for books and TTRPGS. I'm based out of BC Canada looking for freelance or full time. My portfolio is linked in the first comment, thank you for shares!

white knight in the woods with a dragon hunting him

character concepts from the last of us part 2

character concepts from a catan expansion

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Outersloth @outersloth.com · 09/03/2026

💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰 We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign! We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there. In a nutshell: 💸 Pre-recoup 50/50 💸 Post-recoup 15/85 💸 Terms after 7 years www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...

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The Outersloth Contract | Innersloth - Creators of Among Us and The Henry Stickmin Collection!

Hello!

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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 06/03/2026

True Art

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa)

BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history.
REGINALD: Wow! What's it do?

BEARTATO: It... what?
REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do?

(Beartato thinks.)

BEARTATO: I don't know.

REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do?

EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this!

(The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet)
MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk!

(Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

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Elliot Hudson @ekhudson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I have found the exception to my "all cars should be destroyed" stance

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/03/2026

www.tumblr.com/prosthetic-p...

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

the most underrated bad thing about our current era culturally i don't really see other people talking about is that a lot niche communities treat insularity and conformity to their own very specific set of values as an extreme virtue and are deeply suspicious/unfamiliar with anything outside that.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 07/03/2026

When Unity started collapsing I made a quick "how do I get going in Unreal" website many folks found helpful. that website has now MOVED and is a DIFFERENT COLOUR. If you want Unreal demystification, tips and scoops, this is a place www.ughiguessiwanttomovefromunitytounreal.com

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

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JoCat @ Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 05/03/2026

whatever you call this art style - PS2 era medium-poly characters with hand-made highly detailed but also somewhat blurry textures with baked-in lighting - I absolutely love it and it makes me want to drop everything and make games

A render of Ann Darrow from Peter Jackson's King Kong for the PS2 (screenshot specifically from Noodle's video about the game)

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Kellan jett @kellanjett.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Some of the work i did for Where the Water Tastes like Wine back in the day

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Bithell Games @bithellgames.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Amberspire is out on May 6th! 🌇 Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flourishing city atop the ruins of an abandoned moon. Wishlist now on Steam!

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Anyway all of this is endemic of the mode through which we monetize video game development. It's shifted to offloading risk from the wealthy publisher that can afford it (tencent) to the poorer developer that cannot (wildlight) we don't have to make games like that aftermath.site/indie-game-p...

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Meet The Unconventional Publishers Trying To Unfuck The Games Industry

Developers turned publishers like Innersloth and Pocketpair are leveraging their success to help other indie games thrive.

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Alex Connolly ▞ @alexconnolly.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Appreciation post for the French Tara Polar Station (@fondationtaraocean.bsky.social), a drifting scientific base designed for long-term Artic missions to study biodiversity and the effects of climate change. More info: fondationtaraocean.org/en/schooner/...

Image of an orange and silver vessel, floating in the artic.

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Elliot Hudson @ekhudson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Man, I would kill for the chance to work in the RE Engine. It seems fantastic and looks amazing.

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Elliot Hudson @ekhudson.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Well this feels 100% like my jam

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 28/02/2026

Just going through SteamDB to see if there were any real deep-cut indie gems I missed, and I stumble upon Terminal Lucidity. A very polished looking sci-fi horror adventure with a lot of command-line shenanigans. 100% positive user reviews, and it's apparently a full-length game. And it's FREE.

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Terminal Lucidity on Steam

In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to...

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I love “cozy games” on an individual level but “cozy” used to include replaying resident evil 2 for the 5th time now as a genre it’s starting to feel like it is locking people into aesthetic tradwife boot camp

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Art by Philippe Caza for Call of Cthulhu RPG 1993

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

My new shirt design is so powerful that part of it had to be redacted for the preview image roryblank.bigcartel.com

a shirt design featuring a skateboarding boy who may look somewhat similar to a famous skateboarding boy from a cartoon but it's impossible to know for sure because there's a black bar over his eyes, holding his own severed head and saying "anything subversive or countercultural can and will be commodified and re-absorbed by existing social order, defanged and neutralized, reduced to an aesthetic pose. No product can ever be radical, man."
in blue and red on white

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Michael Markie @markiemusic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Hey so we just announced SPRAWL zero, a new FPS that we've been working really hard on. Inspired by classics like Bungie's Halo and Marathon, as well as Half Life 2 and anime from the era, this is our love letter to the golden years of FPS. Wishlists would rule <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju0r...

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SPRAWL ZERO - REVEAL TRAILER

YouTube video by SPRAWL

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Elliot Hudson @ekhudson.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It ain't hard! And whatever your broader stance on the benefits and utility (or lack thereof) of AI, surely this particular example is a clear "yeah, you shouldn't do that"

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Oh sick A well-known and frequently used website actually put their foot down in a meaningful way. This actually made my day better

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕻𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖊 𝖂𝖞𝖗𝖒 from Beyond The Fields We Know: An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

Text: Greater Prairie Wyrm

Image: a snake-like dragon with a pointed bird-like snout is curled amongst dry grasses and bushes, its tail curled around an old stone marker from the early settler period. A wire fence and trees in the background indicate a vast field.

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flo veltman 🔜 Paris Games Week (maybe?) 🔜 AdventureX (maybe?) @vltmn.itch.io · 21/02/2026

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 21/02/2026

We gotta start actively teaching the kids how to hoard tens of thousands of roms, (safely) pirate whatever looks cool and not be afraid of downloading files even if Chrome says that it's from a Bad Site. Undo that corporate programming one romhack at a time.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

the worst thing for me is. Imagine you lost a bunch of expert carpenters and you had to learn carpentry from scratch with no teachers, no youtube. That’s what the industry is currently doing. just getting rid of the folks who know the craft, and retaining the folks who know how to parasite

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

To paraphrase a friend: stay on the path, make good things. Indie has always flourished in the face of AAA distraction. Times are bad, but let others deskill, pivot to nonsense or chase impossible outcomes. People really like playing videogames. Suits forget that every 6 months or so.

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Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

makes you wonder if 8 bucks really is 5 bucks...

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bbno$👶🚫💰 @bbnomula.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

WHOS NEXT???!?!?!!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A good piece, but an additional aspect is nearly everything we do exploits resources in ways we need to avoid. Which is to say the entire foundation / thrust of our technologies is often deeply flawed and does not consider ecosystems, biodiversity, etc in other than an exploitive or Disneyfied way.

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tante @tante.cc · 19/02/2026

I really It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.

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tante @tante.cc · 19/02/2026

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia. But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

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