iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joe @joegamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm making a #blender add-on that lets you sculpt directly onto low poly models via the manipulation of object space surface normals under the hood

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading this I was thinking (not for the first time) how ridiculous the whole circus with singing the national anthem etc. before NFL games is. Just imagine that this is what they'd do before football games in Germany. With fighters flying overhead etc.. 🫠 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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‘Refusing to meet Trump was an easy no’: Colin Kaepernick on being ‘blackballed’ for taking the knee, racism, and why he’s still ready to play

Ten years ago, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem. He was accused of disrespecting the flag, the game, and America. In a rare interview, he talks about inspir...

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Random gameplay memor: TimeSplitters Duck Shoot challenge. I don't think I've ever managed to beat this, and we tried soo many times. 🙈 🐤 youtu.be/MzDKtfJ6mCQ

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TimeSplitters - 2B Dock Duck Shoot - 188 Kills

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not much into ships but I love the UX and versatility on this! I need more like this; airplanes, cars, spaceships, wormlikes whatever. 😍

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Henry Halfhead - OUT NOW! @lululu.games · 16/09/2026

Happy Birthday Henry! 👁️👃👁️💜 Henry Halfhead launched exactly one year ago! Thank you for all the lovely reviews and precious feedback we received 💜 To celebrate, the game is on it's biggest discount yet on Steam, PS5 and Switch! Get it now and play it alone or with a friend ❤️

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

About a year ago I moved away from (Amazon owned) goodreads and switched to Hardcover. I'm not a "power user", and it perfectly fits what I want from it, which is to track and find books. You can try it out for free. Biggest +: not owned by a big bad company owned by a creep. hardcover.app

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Hardcover

We're a social network for book lovers to find life changing books, track what you read & want to read, and connect with passionate readers.

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Oopsie Daisies | Tom the postgirl @oopsiedaisiesch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

NEW DEMO IS LIVE !! 🔥 Meet all the new people in town and discover a bunch of prime peeking locations in the first act of the *coming soon* game 👀 🎉 Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/2257440/...

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aoma @aomamao.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

biggest cargo, 400m long - going forward I will not have a schedule 🤍 Thanks for following

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just realised that - in Obsidian - it's possible to display the content of another note in a note, using a ! before the link... so e.g. ![[Note Title]] Also works for bases.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hilarious take on classic Baltics plunders "Belgium advance to the knock-out stage of the FIFA World Cup." ❌ “Tiny former Nazi state of Belgium advance to the knock-out stage of the FIFA World Cup.” ✅ "The U.S. state of Alaska." ❌ "The historically Russian region of Alaska." ✅

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Another event I'll soon be part of will be a workshop about using Unreal Engine for Fully Animated Virtual Production on the 10th of September. I'll give insights using the actual project of a released movie. It will be free, in Zurich. More infos: www.blindflugstudios.com/transmedia-e...

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'll hold a talk about how we did and do character animation for our WW2 base builder Ground of Aces at the Fantoche animation festival in Switzerland next month. On this project since 4 years and still going - so I've got a lot to share. 😅 #unity3d #animation #indiedev fantoche.ch/en/festival/...

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Tomas Sala @falconeerdev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

proof everything is meticulously handcrafted (without textures but with vertex colors).. as clean as I ever had to cuz of all the procgen stretching and welding to make shipshaper workd #indiedev

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aoma @aomamao.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

god's chisel, 1400m tall

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Or audiobooks on Apple Books. Have a whole bunch of Story of Civilization books trapped in there with no way to get them to Jellyfin :/

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Zelda series. Played it on a N64 demo display with playable Zelda at some department store and the character was stuck in a shop. Couldn‘t get out, couldn‘t restart the console. Walked away and never played any of the other entries.

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Just realised that the dev of the best Blender UV tools (Zen UVs) was a Modo user before. :D Makes sense, because that was one of the major pain points when I had to do the switch, and Zen UV does make Blender UV Unwrapping decent.

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Since I use both Sketchfab and ArtStation quite a lot, I hope they're in good hands.

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wondering what it means for the whole Epic integration of both. Also interesting that Epic sells to a Fab competitor. I mean they migrated the shop part last year, didn't they?

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Some industry news: Sketchfab and ArtStation are acquired by KitBash 3D (which means Epic sold them). Never interacted with KitBash in the past, so at least it's good marketing I guess. sketchfab.com/blogs/commun...

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KitBash Acquires Sketchfab and ArtStation

Today, Sketchfab and ArtStation are becoming part of KitBash, the company behind 3D art platforms KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla. Using KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla, artists and studios can access…

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thomas w schaller @thomaswschaller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

American Impressionist Society. 6th Annual Member's Exhibition "Evening Services" Watercolor on Paper - 15x11

Evening at a small church on NYC's Upper East Side

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 03/08/2026

Where our character creator started vs. where our character creator is today! ✨ Young Suns has had a HUGE glow up in the past year, and we can’t wait to show y’all what we’ve been cooking up! store.steampowered.com/app/4149610/...

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Harry 💬 @halisavakis.com · 31/07/2026

No need to use your imagination anymore, cloud shadows are now accurate ✨ It's such a silly approach and I can't believe it worked, I giggled so much when I got it working

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The game itself was done in Flash, so RIP. 😂

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The gameplay was that you had a vehicle and could upgrade them - every vehicle had it's own song; the car was Communication Breakdown, the tractor Bring It on Home, the spider (of course) Heartbreaker. Then the boat was Rock and Roll and the last vehicle, a Zeppelin (👀) was Whole Lotta Love!

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I once recorded the music for a little game with my then bandmates and it was instrumentals of Led Zeppelin songs; Rock and Roll, Communication Breakdown, Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker and Bring It on Home. Once every couple years I listen to them and smile because you can hear the fun we had. 😀

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hah crazy! Hope it works, good luck!

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Wait, that's not really the power supply that was in there. How does that work?

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some of the new Ground of Aces assets I've worked on; control towers that allow for reducing landing accidents on your airstrips. @blindflugstudios.bsky.social #swissgames #unity #indiegame #ww2 #raf #basebuilder #3dart

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Absolutely love these photos of early game developers just chilling in their homes/offices.

Koichi Nakamura, creator of Door Door and founder of Chunsoft.

Makoto Ichinoseki (left), creator of Fruit Panic.

Kazuro Morita, creator of Moritan no Battle Field.

Akira Takiguchi (creator Olion) and his friend Masakuni Mihashi.

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Blindflug Studios 🛩️ GROUND OF ACES @blindflugstudios.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today marks one year since Ground of Aces launched into Early Access on Steam. 🧡 It’s been an incredible first year, and we wanted to take a moment to look back at everything we’ve achieved together. 🫡 🧵

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"One Billion Players a Day" isn't a business declaration, it's a bullet loaded into a gun aimed at everyone you *didn't* lay off today. It is setting an unattainable standard to justify further missed expectations.

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We're currently adding fire to Ground of Aces, and while it hurts to see my airplane like this, I think our 2D artist David Hunziker did an amazing job with the VFX. ❤️‍🔥 @blindflugstudios.bsky.social #ww2 #indiegame #airplane #unity

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Render from an animation pitch for the story Das kalte Herz. Unreal Engine 5.5, using Metahumans and the medieval village project. Currently doing some updates with 5.8, will share some more soon.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I guess sitting is putting just too much additional non intended strain on the bridge structure. Can't win this 😭

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

While I understand the skeptical reaction towards UE6, I think the new features for 5.8 are actually pretty interesting - especially the Metahuman and PCG features. Full Body Anmiation with markerless mocap sounds pretty cool!

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thanks for the reply, I was more referring to Obsidian itself. AFAIK the vault can only be synced either by using iCloud or by Obsidian Sync. Or has this been changed?

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Obsidian is one of those things that are great and just keep getting better. Can recommend it - only (biiig) issue I have with it (or lets say iOS) is that it can't run self hosted. Would be a perfect fit.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It’s been almost 30 years since the Fifth Element came out and you still can’t just buy a tank top like this any store. What are we doing.

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A new indie game from Switzerland was just announced, and I get some strong FF VII vibes from some of the visuals here (below Gold Saucer?). Check it out if you love twin-stick action adventures.

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just took a look, and it definitely has strong Severance vibes. But also P.T. and potentially Control? TBH too creepy for me, but I like the concept. Congrats to Kane Parsons (director).

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Pretty crazy that they'll release an expansion for an 11 year old game. Wanted to replay Witcher 3 soon but now I guess I'll wait until next year. Or, since I nowadays don't get to play more than 2h a week, maybe I should already start? 😅 www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/new...

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT

CD PROJEKT RED today announced that a third expansion to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling role-playing games of all time, is coming next year. Songs of t...

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I guess the Blender vs. (whatever other 3D modeling tool) has come to game engines. Also, didn't Blender once feature a game engine? 😅

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Thomás Sánchez (b.1948, Cuba) Inner Love, 2020. #Acrylics

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Frédéric Hein @frederic-hein.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

First thought: oh wow what game is this? 🙈

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