iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robin David @robindavid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This trailer gave me goosebumps. Netrunner is one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had - and the only "lifestyle" game I got really into, despite trying loads.

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Associação Inércia @inercia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Aqui está a página com mais informações sobre a exibição da demoscene que estamos a organizar na Oficina de Cultura em Almada de 3 a 24 de Outubro: inercia.pt?viewArticle=... sessão de abertura é Sábado dia 3 de outubro às 16:00, apareçam!

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 23/09/2026

Buying a 3D printer I won't use to make components for tabletop games I'll never play play with friends I don’t have.

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just saw someone saying the rules for Root are very clear and not that hard to learn so I went to check to see how many Rules threads there are on its BGG forum. 2070

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What's the longest you've held onto a game idea? I have one that I've restarted multiple times over 13 years because the theme always makes me laugh! It's very ambitious design-wise but I'm about to try a new approach. Fingers crossed. 🎲 ✂️

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Dare Looks @darelooks.dev · 19/09/2026

The "Hype Riders" Steam page is live! 🎉 This is the Twitch hype train overlay I've been working on, the past couple of months, in collaboration with @ktqtpi.bsky.social! You stream on Twitch and want something special for your hype trains? Wishlist now! :D store.steampowered.com/app/5073950/...

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Remember when you could just ...buy software?

Four DVD cases with legal copies of software: Autodesk Maya 8.5, Autodesk Maya 2008 and two copies of Adobe Photoshop CS3.

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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 11/09/2026

Continuing to quietly beat the drum of "Designing without testing is like painting with your eyes shut."

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aran @aran.sokpop.co · 10/09/2026

RAT GAME has a release date! 🐀 1 Chef vs 2 to 8 rats - who would win?? A comedy horror co-op game where a team of rats secretly tries to ruin a restaurant while another player tries to stop them… coming 30th October, new trailer here!!

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The iPhone Duo announcement reminds me of this Samsung-patented crime against UX Design from 2022.

An image (either a prototype photo or most likely a render) of a smartphone with a folding screen. Not a bad concept but the screen here is L-shaped so it only covers half of its back.

Tecnical drawings of the phone showing, to my horror, a drawing of what the "fullscreen" would look like on this L-shaped phone.
I kid you not, the bottom left 25% is missing.

A bit like this:

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 08/09/2026

hinokodo.itch.io/human-made You can get it here for free.

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Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

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psenough @psenough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

to any of my demoscene followers: i'm organizing under @inercia.bsky.social a demoscene exhibit in an art gallery in Almada on October. if you're visiting portugal during the time i invite you to also give a little presentation (or play a demoshow of your demos or favorites), ping me.

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fun thread! I had wondered about this, because if I had a local group for Gaslands it would be fun to find local graffiti artists to paint over the miniature scenery.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well dang, should’ve just memed it in the first place

An illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante’s Divine Comedy that shows two silhouetted figures standing on a tall summit gazing up at a great celestial conflagration of souls in heaven. Text reads “We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things. It’s called the PUBLIC DOMAIN”

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Associação Inércia @inercia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We are organizing a demoscene art gallery exhibit in Almada during October. Alongside the exhibit there are openings for talks / workshops / demoshows / live sessions. We are looking for demosceners to come to Almada in October and present their art and craft to a small audience.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 02/09/2026

Video game companies keep trying to bait and switch us with AI, and it sucks aftermath.site/1666-amsterdam...

a 1666: amsterdam character looking thievishly at a table of food

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s kinda wild that people think that just because I’ve published a lot of games I must be raking in it In reality, aside from advances, it takes years of work before a designer gets any money In 6 years of active pitching and designing, I should be receiving my first royalty check this week 😊

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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Check out my trip to the Dutch Pinball Museum where I discover a new FPS, possibly the first FPS. dutchpinballmuseum.com

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☀️ @stel.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the part of the whole ‘gta will save the industry’ theorising that scares the ever living shit out of me. GTA games have always been brilliant mid generation hits because by then the console to play it on had reduced in price to ‘rich guy impulse buy’ Unless they release it on vinyl…

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 28/08/2026

Has anyone made a cool archive of the 3DS' little preload dioramas? They feel like the successors to PS2 memory card models to me.

A cropped photo showing the 3D diorama loaded when a MonHun Nikki Pokapoka Airou Mura DX cart is inserted in a 3DS. It shows a small pig running around a sleeping cat.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

From Jingo (Discworld, Night Watch). Terry Pratchett was so good.

A photo of the quote in the book:
"And then he realized why he was thinking like this.
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was so much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

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Angelo Nikolaou @angelonikolaou.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A game I'm very proud to have done the game design for is currently free on the Epic Store. You should try it if you like narrative games or card games or 90s nostalgia of playing cardgames on the playground away from teachers store.epicgames.com/p/cardpocaly...

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Cardpocalypse Standard Edition | Download and Buy Today - Epic Games Store

Download and play Cardpocalypse Standard Edition at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and price!

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tuglaw @tuglaw.leituga.com · 20/08/2026

duskbloods' version of the elden ring tutorial hole

An early puzzle from Zork: The Grand Inquisitor.

A wall sign reads: "In Case Of Adventure BREAK GLASS!"

Bellow it there's a large emergency box, with a glass window to display its contents. A magic scroll and a sword—both held by clamps—, and the hammer needed to break said glass, are inside the box.

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Gaming Hell @sarahssowertty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

GAMING THINGS WE THINK ARE COOL!! - In Dan-Ku-Ga, Gonzales' super move is a judo toss so powerful it sends his opponent into orbit and makes them burn-up on re-entry.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026

Historians Reveal Terra-Cotta Army Result Of Perfectionist Sculptor Screwing Up Soldier Statue Thousands Of Times theonion.com/historians-reveal-terr…

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tuglaw @tuglaw.leituga.com · 19/08/2026

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not only do digital things not last forever, digital objects are even more fragile than physical ones! You can put a piece of paper on a shelf for a century, but you probably can't read a Unity project from 10 years ago

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Bart de Jong @bartgamedesign.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I unfortunately don't remember who said it, but I've always liked this quote: "Anyone can solve a problem by adding rules. A game designer needs to solve the problem without adding rules. A good game designer solves the problem by removing rules."

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Owen Canavan @oscan.net · 12/08/2026

A couple of shots of totality. I'll have to wait until I get home before I start properly processing the shots

a photo of the solar eclipse during totality, from spain

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

First time trying to photograph a total solar eclipse was quite the thrill!

The totality of the solar eclipse. It looks like the Sun turned into a dark globe bt there's still a ring of light all around it.

The end of the totality, when the bottom of the Sun started glowing again.

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

First time trying to photograph a total solar eclipse was quite the thrill!

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12/08/2026

Brenda Romero's beautiful 'Chasing Lilacs' is a personal history told through the lens of gaming: aftermath.site/chasing-lilacs/

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Manuel Correia @gamesbymanuel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Kirkhammer from Bloodborne. It's a regular sword but you can put it back in the stone and wield the whole thing as a hammer.

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Flubs the Lore Frog @flubsthelorefrog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“The shoving and name-calling was all in good fun, and Bilbo began to finally view the Dwarves as companions instead of strangers.” Quarrel, art by @denmanrooke.com! #MTGHOB

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Flubs the Lore Frog @flubsthelorefrog.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thranduil’s Company, art by @denmanrooke.com! #MTGHOB

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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · 08/08/2026

the thing is if you make it very clear that shithead chuds are not welcome in your game space they eventually leave

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