iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I quite like how the FF Resonance demo plays (though I hope the dungeons get more complex and resources scarcer as it goes) but I'm a little mixed on the presentation and I'm not feeling particularly positive about the story or characters at all.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 8h

Looking forward to my October spooky reads 💙📚

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Last Man by Mary Shelley and The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Soarin above the snowcapped hills in Sonic Daybreak (2026, PC). Sorry about the quality, it was a nightmare to make this Bluesky friendly lol.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

not sure why I made this but now you have to see it

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 30/09/2026

Whenever I write about old software, it still strikes me how absurd it is that it’s easier to run software from the 90s and 2000s on a modern computer than it is to run an iOS app from 15 years ago.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My favourite game on the Amiga and possibly my favourite story in video games (though Rob Swigart still doesn't really think it is one!) I really want to check out the student-produced VR remake that came out a few years back but, alas, no VR 😔

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've always kind of felt sorry for Tharagavverug

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's time we as a culture started asking ourselves the truly important questions, such as "Is Ogre Battle the supreme achievement of human civilisation?"

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Lyric 🏳️‍⚧️ @bunbyte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I made a new video, it would mean alot to me if you checked it out youtu.be/YZpnT9ed_14

youtu.be

I Will Not Let You Slander Gex 1

YouTube video by BunByte

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Been really enjoying The Disappearers by Marlon James. No idea how accurate it is to the experiences of gay men in 80s and 90s Jamaica but it kinda spiritually, emotionally feels like where I'm at rn. (i'm doing fine i swear)

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

old school dungeon RPGs with dungeon synth soundtracks are cool and everything but what if I made an old school dungeon RPG with a funeral doom metal soundtrack

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Music for 18 Magicians @laurentds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is basically an album worth of improvisations. If you're interested in the process of trying to get the most out of a simple idea, check it out! How do you express joy, sadness, anger, fear from the same starting point, the same instrument

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep thinking about Follow the Trail by my friend Lexx recently. Hits on something really special. Amazing visuals and atmosphere, super well tuned dungeon crawling and a story that already stands on its own as is. Beautiful ending. Pls play it

lexx-pp.itch.io

Follow the Trail (Demo Ver.) by Lexx_PP

An empty Seed walks on ground sadly all too familiar to them.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

very good blog. a pretty significant number of my favourite games are built like this and I'm always lamenting how much it can be discouraged by Game Design Best Practices.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I knew I would love Dungeon Encounters but holy shit I love Dungeon Encounters. This shit is inspiring.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Xanadu Next might be the perfect action RPG

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My neighbour's cat, Ringo, got himself all snuggled up in my bike cover to shelter from the rain.

Beerus-type cat sat under a wet bike cover like it's a blanket

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's s shame the Amiga version is immediately, noticeably worse than the Mega Drive version because it has actual saves and it's a god send. Ah well. We got cameras and save states now.

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Ken Shirriff @righto.com · 12/09/2026

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. Plugging this chip into your IBM PC made math 100 times faster, good for CAD and spreadsheets. I opened up the chip to reverse-engineer exactly how it does complicated calculations. Let's take a look inside...

The integrated circuit is a black ceramic rectangle with 40 metal pins sticking out, in two rows. (This is known as a DIP, a Dual Inline Package.) It has three rows of text: "D8087-1", a cryptic version label, and then the copyright line with a big lower-case I, INTEL m c 1980 1984. The m and c are in circles for the mask-work symbol and the copyright symbol. The chip has a small semicircular notch on the left side, indicating its orientation. The package consists of two thin ceramic layers, bonded together with a gray substance; the metal pins stick out from this gray substance. The ceramic package is important to me because tapping the gray layer with a chisel will cause the two layers to separate, revealing the silicon die inside. In contrast, most chips are in epoxy packages, which are very difficult to open, usually requiring strong acids.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Feeling weirdly inspired by M&M Break Em for the Game Boy Advance.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 12/09/2026

hey thanks for screenshotting that person's hateful/bigoted/upsetting tweet and posting it here. i actually muted that person by accident on the other site who's URL i also forgot, and i intentionally make my life worse by keeping up to date on their thoughts so i appreciate you sharing it here

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riley 🐇☄️ @smudgebap.com · 11/09/2026

what???! there's a new video out!!?? "what lies beyond STAR FOX?" this time i went through the history behind and beyond starfox, its programmer's involvement in playstation software, and the beautiful game studio that resulted from this...?!

youtu.be

what lies beyond STAR FOX?

YouTube video by smudgebap

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thorhighheels @thorhighheels.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW VIDEO !!!! Elegiac N64 Games talking about the dreamy, eerie, pontificatable n64 landscapes surreal stretches of muddy repeating textures ! SOPPING WET LINK: youtube.com/watch?v=FhYQGt8RUUA

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For anyone interested, a ton of similar work was produced in Czechoslovakia at around the same time, and much of it was translated into English a few years ago! sgda.sk/playable-eng... I can also HIGHLY recommend the book Gaming the Iron Curtain by Yaroslav Svelch about this time and place in games

sgda.sk

Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games From the Late 80s Period

English translations of early Slovak digital games from the late 80s period, created in cooperation with Slovak Game Developers Association by Stanislav Hrda, Slavomír Labský, Marián Kabát, Darren Cha...

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Jingtong 景桐 @zogzhu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sweet Home now has English, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese localizations! It is a queer visual novel about coming of age in a small Chinese town and has become a sensation since its release last August store.steampowered.com/app/3528450/...

store.steampowered.com

Save 30% on Sweet Home on Steam

Sweet Home is a visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Parted friendships, ambiguous romances, tangled relationships, and flawed families... Are these just the pangs of adolescence—or something he...

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There's something romantic about heading out for a long journey by train and picking up something to read in the station bookshop before you depart. It just doesn't hit the same with planes.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Are there any newer 3D platformers going for the more slow-paced and meticulous style of PS1 Tomb Raider and stuff? Most everything I can find plays like Mario or Sonic. If it's "cinematic" then you get more grounded movement but the platforming is all context sensitive, zero precisio required.

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Video Witch @video-witch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

videowitch.itch.io/tennis-witch... New Demo celebrating the late 1 year anniversary of development: Day 2 playable 12 creatures available new tennis courts with extra matches aerobics classes for each day bug fixes 14 music tracks by the game's lovely composer serah :snailheart: and more

videowitch.itch.io

NEW DEMO AVAILABLE!

Celebrating the late 1 year anniversary of development, I have uploaded a new updated demo. Day 2 now playable 12 creatures available to use slight combat balances new tennis courts with extra side ma...

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Claytonian @claytonian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

some Japanese AD&D pirated editions. Fanslated too, no doubt

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Video Witch @video-witch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New Tennis Witches demo is coming

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My phone keeps trying to tell me to use "it's" for possession and it's really bubbling my piss juice. "It's" is only ever a contraction! Apostrophes only denote possession at the end of a noun. I don't care if a *person* gets this wrong but my bloody phone suggestions should be correct.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Working on the OST to my fiancée's game is really making me wanna get back into hobby game dev myself.

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Video Witch @video-witch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In one hour at 11am PST, I will be streaming Kirby's Return to Dream Land.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In making that list of books global game history, I found out that a Korean book about NEXON got an English translation :O It's called "Play: From a Bunch of Game Nerds to Building a Global Company", is only available as ebook on Amazon and there's no info/reviews about it online. Bought it lol

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Despite everything, I'll miss this place when I'm gone.

Photography.

An overcast sky, yellowing in the sunset. There is the silhouette of a house the left, old satellite dish protruding. On the right, more distantly, is a tower block, lights on from top to bottom. Across the bottom of the image are fences and foliage. Between where I'm standing and the tower block is a vast garden just out of sight.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Being able to disable reposts for individual accounts is huge but I think I'll still just keep them disabled for everyone tbh

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John @farawaytimes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

~Windswept Isle~ New release! Explore a vast, hand-tiled island to find your lost animals and make your cute boyfriend smile again. Play for free now on Itch. (EasyRPG-compatible for non-Windows users!) farawaytimes.itch.io/windswept-isle #rpgmaker #rm2k3 #lgbt

A blue-haired man overlooks a beach where a family is playing. Everything is drawn with default (or lightly-edited) RPGMaker 2003 assets.

The protagonist Sky promises his dog Champ a treat if he comes home with him.

Sky examines a book shelf within a mansion. "Shelves upon shelves of Boys' Love stories."

Sky explores a tall tower. Unlike the rest of the game, it's presented from a side-view perspective.

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euandewar.bsky.social @euandewar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

in Foxx Fights Back you play a fox who is like a real fox in almost every way, except his attack is that he gets up on his hind legs and pulls out a gun www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI4o...

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

reading Heaven by Mieko Kawakami. it's really good so far. it's about two 14 year old kids coming together after being bullied all their lives. the struggles of building a friendship founded on shared suffering. the style captures that sort of pained innocence beautifully imo. 💙📚

"I want to be friends,
" she said, looking at me. "I mean, if
you're okay with that."

I didn't understand what she was saying, but I agreed. I felt
a surge of misgivings. What did it mean for us to be friends?

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Got myself a little treat. Time to install the most important game.

A Dell Latitude CPX laptop running Windows 98

Menu of the Shareware disc "500 Games, Games, and More Games." I am selecting Castle of the Winds. There are no fewer than three versions of Colossal Cave Adventure here.

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Enn @girlsatcomputers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A taste of an Xcrawl (XCC) supplement I'm designing with @ghostphasemoon.northsky.social !

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sick of the sun. I miss the November sky.

Photography.

Evening asphalt road, heavy fog, clouds like concrete. Amber street and head lights diffuse into the fog. Traffic lights an insistent red.

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serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Case came dirty but I'm excited to dig into this. The games list has a few bangers! PD/freeware/shareware compilations have a bit of a sketchy reputation but tbh they may be a better representation of what computer gaming was like for most of us in the 90s and 00s than your Half-Lifes and shit.

The gritty fromt cover of a copy of 500 Games, Games, and More Games

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Iain Mew @superchartisland.com · 01/08/2026

I knew about the link from British microcomputers to modern phones via Acorn/ARM. But I only just learned that some models of the ZX Spectrum were manufactured by Samsung

A crop of someone's photo of the back of a Spectrum.

Made in the REPUBLIC OF KOREA by
Samsung Electronics Company Limited under
Licence from SINCLAIR Research Limited

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