iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Some personal highlights: - Qud localization, obviously - @everest.bsky.social on gamers yearning for the mines - @droqen.bsky.social making a sudoku poem LIVE - @codingcrafter.bsky.social on proc gen and pedagogy - a 45 minute special on recovering and repairing the Hack sourcecode

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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 7h

The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026

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a wear a mask iteration @an-iteration.bsky.social · 15h

The lineup is so good! I went 👀 seeing that @everest.bsky.social will be doing "a retrospective of video game holes." Their 2023 presentation on gardens is one I still think a lot about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78u...

youtube.com

Everest Pipkin-The Fortunate Isles-Fragment Worlds, Walled Gardens & the games that are played there

YouTube video by Roguelike Celebration

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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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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you hear no news; read no gazettes; extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements; you hear of no domestic afflictions; bankrupt securities; fall of stocks

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i think i have to take my email off my website because the "ask claude to generate a list of 1000 people to email about my new project" boys are delivering the world's worst takes directly to my inbox

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 19/09/2026

obsessed with this 4 minute open laptop talk about an phone dollhouse from wordhack this week (should start at ~39:20)

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WordHack feat. Neta Bomani, Andrew Badr and Andrew Boylan

YouTube video by Wonderville

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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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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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In mid-2025 Alex Spencer did an incredible preview of Big Walk for Edge, doomed to print purgatory. Been thinking about this vignette of Jake's hand-placing rocks ever since. As the slop wave intensifies, it's just a beautiful depiction of a game made by people who care (and have the time to care).

For the tour's conclusion, we've all gathered
at the central mountain's summit, arriving just as
the sun peeks over the horizon and bathes the
world in pink, syrupy light. Disseldorp is fiddling
with a handheld radio, seeking the perfect station
to complete the mood, while the rest of us pass
around a pair of binoculars and Strasser describes
placing every single rock on the island by hand,
working his way around clockwise. He points out
the areas already done, with an outstretched arm.
"I've gotten to the edge of this valley," he says.
"That's my big job, between now and release."

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 17/08/2026

I'm truly relating to @meredithgran.com 's fear of making a game known for having bannable content rather than, you know, what the game is actually about.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

late night tinytools.directory audit tonight. removing broken and rotted links as usual (and adding in new finds and submissions) but also thinking a lot about what i want this directory to be good for

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 06/08/2026

the energy costs are catastrophic. the companies you rent them from are destroying the world in multiple axes. they are addictive and cause damaging brain patterns. they destroy community and shared knowledge through isolation and independence.

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 06/08/2026

the software that LLMs write is not software i want to run on my computer. the text LLMs generate is not text i want to read or write. the images LLMs generate are not images i want to see or make. the music LLMs generate is not music i want to listen to or write.

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 06/08/2026

using LLMs violates so many of my morals that its hard to even begin with arguing about it. any one is more than enough to not consider it, that when i see ppl dismissing it all at once, its so overwhelming.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

work on the warehouse game continues

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 22/07/2026

Needs some beeswax to do that. Where'd I leave that beeswax...? I can't. I need to get the beeswax. Everyone's waiting on that beeswax. Beeswax... come on, Oddy, think! Know I saw some beeswax somewhere... Surely I can find some beeswax. Need to find the beeswax first.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

rural facebook is fantastic right now btw. old timers organizing to stall data center construction in the county. hundreds of comments calling flock camera vandals heros. everyone hates AI and loves the post office

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Making a period tracker yourself is a really amazing way to take over your digital agency!! I want to teach a workshop where we each make a simple securely hosted (or locally hosted) website (that doesn't rely on large hosting platforms) where you can easily go to and enter your data

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Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.com · 15/07/2026

permanent daylight savings doesn't go far enough

GET RID OF TIME, BUT NOT THE ZONES

a map of the US, divided vertically into 12 time zones, permanently fixed to 1:00 to 12:00. it's divided horizontally by the AM/PM line

FIXED TIME FIXES TIME!
"It's always 11:00am in Philadelphia!"

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

thank you for all the object contributions. i'm going to cherish seeing them populate the warehouse - i really do feel i was handed everyone's treasures

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

there is some soft and kind spirit moving through the world these days I can sense it

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Objects contribution for god's warehouse game

What is this? I'm (Everest) making a short parser fiction game where you are a worker in the warehouse of the gods, sorting and storing objects to the whims of holy creatures. Would you like to subm...

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words @words.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

still thinking about the greatest wikipedia article ever written

en.wikipedia.org

Disappearing polymorph - Wikipedia

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

first day of the second "the browser is already a game engine" class with sfpc. excited for the next 10 weeks of talking and thinking deeply about online games

I WANT A GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOMEPAGE
I WANT A GAME I CAN DOWNLOAD AND EDIT ON MY COMPUTER
I WANT A GAME THAT LIVES IN AN IFRAME
I WANT A GAME I CAN INSPECT WITH THE CONSOLE LOG
I WANT A GAME WHERE I CAN HIT CONTROL-A AND SELECT EVERY HTML OBJECT ON THE SCREEN
I WANT A GAME MADE OF HOTLINKED IMAGES FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
I WANT A GAME THAT RUNS ON A PHONE FROM 2011
I WANT A GAME MADE OF 1000 <a> TAGS
I WANT A GAME I CAN COPY-PASTE FROM
I WANT A GAME WITH A GUESTBOOK
I WANT A GAME THAT IS A WEBSITE, NOT ON A WEBSITE

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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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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 24/06/2026

God bless the weird mod trend that I keep seeing called "immersive masochism." Yes, of course it's a good idea to simulate the process of troweling on mortar and placing one brick at a time instead of a cubical "brick block"

Screenshot of the Brick-by-Brick mod for Vintage Story.
Image shows a cartoony version of a bricklayer making a wall in the middle of a field, with an afternoon sun and birch trees in the distance.
Tags: Realism Immersive Immersion Mechanic Construction Building

Brick-by-Brick
Brick-by-Brick makes masonry a hands-on building process. Instead of placing a finished brick block all at once, you use a trowel, mortar, and individual bricks to build it in stages.

This is still a somewhat rough prototype. The main idea is working, but there are large improvements planned if people enjoy the concept and want to see it developed further.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026

As Kels from @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social told me: "they’re being given extraordinary sentences for things that are supposed to be protected actions. Fireworks on the Fourth of July being called explosives and terrorism? Political literature is something worth taking 30 years of someone’s life?”

newrepublic.com

The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency

A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news, not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.

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GuileWinQuote @guilewinquote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Front Mission 2's window color configuration menu is still the most romantic thing i've ever seen in a video game

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA

a MISTY robotics robot appears via security camera on the screen of an Apple IIc computer. An explainer for the Apple IIc is under the screen.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 19/06/2026

HOLLERING START TO FINISH this is so good

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

OBJ? Text, surprisingly, and not even disguised text.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 12/06/2026

Oh wow, yeah. I've only just scratched the surface of it by End Of Starchild feels like it might be one of the coolest things ever made with the Doom engine? Fully freeware and standalone. msx.horse/eos/ All these screenshots are from the same game It's seemingly a followup to 2021's Time Tripper

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

i truly cannot tell you how proud and excited i am to say that the marielda soundtrack, in a really extraordinary form, will be coming to vinyl in collaboration with @lostincult.co.uk

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Asymptotes. @asymptotes.au · 18/06/2026

Announcing... Asymptotes. Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection. On Saturday July 18th, we're running a showcase of abandoned games, with talks and panels on non-commercial and difficult to commercialise game-making. 👉 asymptotes.au

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Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thinking about ‘the block’

$A fraction of the giant hoard is on display in the exhibition, including "the block," a 330-pound mass of fused-together artifacts. Spearheads, wagon parts and harness pieces are visible from the outside, but "what's inside is largely a mystery, the museum's archaeology curator, Emily North, tells BBC News' Seb Cheer and Joanita Musisi.$

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

THE PRISONER ♟️Coming to the Criterion Channel in July!

The Prisoner

Long before Twin Peaks beamed prime-time surrealism into the American living room, there was The Prisoner, the 1960s British cult sensation that pushed television into new realms of unsettling, Kafkaesque mystery across seventeen hypnotic, thrilling episodes. With its prescient exploration of free will in the age of surveillance, this pop-culture touchstone remains one of the most discussed and endlessly analyzed series in television history.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 17/06/2026

I sure am grateful that Monoskop is still alive and well--we finally created a page that links to almost everything the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social has published (recent technical reports, zines, articles, books) along with media coverage over the years 💚 monoskop.org/Media_Archae...

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Media Archaeology Lab - Monoskop

Wiki for Arts and Studies

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

casually been writing my own text parser, like god intended

you are delivered to the warehouse of the gods with a coat and a letter. you tumble out beside the tracks.

so begins your

100 days in the warehouse of the gods.

look

you are at the train tracks. long line into the distance

at the train tracks there is a bird, a coat and a letter.

it's not so late out. there is still light in the sky.

look at coat

you look at the coat. smelly, furred

go

where would you like to go?

you may go: south to the loading dock

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boshi's place @boshis.place · 15/06/2026

On Saturday June 20 at 5:30pm, boshi's & @everest.bsky.social are giving experimental performances, talks, and presentations at the Strother School of Radical Attention, questioning what games can become when rules and boundaries between disciplines are ruptured. RSVP below, seats are limited

poster reading: Games and Play Salon with boshi's place and everest pipkin. featuring: d.h. croasdil, beau mcghee, flan falacci, eva khoury, mut, hatim benhsain, joey schutz, everest pipkin, jude pinto, walid raouda. saturday june 20, 5:30 - 8:30 pm, at strother school of radical attention

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

legitimately a formative computing experience was figuring out how to escape from the windows 7 settings menu to an admin account in the 6th grade computer lab. it was a reproducible series of steps that my friends and i wrote down on notebook paper and shared with our classmates like a spell

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

sketch of shyness the dog in the spring

a great pyrenees among tall grasses and flowers, sketched in black and white. a lot of the drawing is white space

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

MANIFESTO JAM 2026 An invitation/provocation for YOU to write a manifesto. Running for a full week from June 8th to June 15th (AEST). Participate and submit at: itch.io/jam/manifest...

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Manifesto Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-06-07 to 2026-06-14 hosted by haraiva. MANIFESTO JAM 2026 A Manifesto for Manifesto Jam, 2026: SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN VISIT YOU AND EXPLAIN MY PASSIONS I'm sick of talks. I...

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