iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Just got a random email of effusive praise for my Minesweeper book that legit made my entire year. If you like someone's work, let them know!

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 4h

I've updated the venerable USB Prober V2 so that logging works using on modern macOS without the need for a kext or driver. Result! (And I've made zero changes to the grand old interface.) github.com/gingerbeardm...

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 6h

Denshattack! has been added to the Game UI Database! Another game in the vein of Persona, where the UI elevates the experience, giving it a distinctive visual identity of its own. Props to @chloehodgson.bsky.social for making a brilliant game even brilliant-er! www.gameuidatabase.com/gameData.php...

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 9h

Here's my award winning game YOYOZO in <400 lines of @jinks.gg this is just me flexing the system as it stands today. 💪😎 Plays exactly as you'd expect, but there has been zero UI work done on it so far. ✌️ #indiedev #goty #bestgamesof2023 #gameengine #multiplatform

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 11h

Daytona USA built on Virtua Racing Deluxe engine (Sega S32X) www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8gO...

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Daytona Usa 32x test (virtua racing deluxe engine)

YouTube video by Camtrack

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 29/09/2026

Implemented my top idea from the weekend away and my biggest Jinks games are now 25% less verbose. 📉💪

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 29/09/2026

Is there a VNC app for iOS that will let me enter my unlock password, and default to the correct main display (external not laptop)? Seems like the lowest hanging fruit, yet no app I've tried does these two simple things.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 29/09/2026

Katana is my native macOS app for managing SD cards used in GDEMU on modded Sega Dreamcast consoles. v4 adds support for custom disc artwork, the latest openMenu-ateam files, several improvements, and a few minor fixes. And I updated the website unlike with v3! www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/katana/

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Katana—Manage GDEMU SD cards for Sega Dreamcast

Katana is a native macOS app for managing GDEMU SD cards for the Sega Dreamcast. It opens a card's numbered game folders and lets you rename, reorder, add, and delete games with every change written s...

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 28/09/2026

Had a weekend away from the computer...allowing my brain to defrag and the cream of ideas to rise to the top. All this to say I've decided on a few changes to the Jinks language to simplify a few things even further. Making games in this new system as it settles is important! 👌

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Swooping along the hyperspace psi-ways: PSYBORG from French developer Loriciel in 1992 (Atari ST version) While it follows in the footsteps of race-to-the-finish-and-avoid-obstacles Trailblazer and Cosmic Causeway, it was Sky Roads and Rollcage that came to mind the most while trying this out.

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screws! exchange 'em! @sleepyoutsider.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

you know i was literally wondering why Umihara Kawase's music was so familiar after having played it for the first time last night... as it turns out, it shares sound staff with the Kuru Kuru Kururin series, which... makes a lot of sense!

in game screenshot of Umihara Kawase (hardcoregaming101 cred.)
here we see the protagonist Kawase Umihara using her fishing line as a grappling hook to solve platforming puzzles in a surreal, cubic environment with a pretty, yet low-fidelity picture of a seafront.

Kuru Kuru Kururin (also hardcoregaming101, cred.)
Controlling the Helirin, a bizarre two-bladed helicopter, Kururin (the cute bird) must navigate through obstacle filled mazes while timing his movements as to not damage the Helirin's constantly rotating blades.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 27/09/2026

#My9Games - MaBoShi - Kururin Paradise - Excite Truck - Pang DS - Flicky - Orbient - Sensible Soccer - New 3D Golf Simulation - Bubble Bobble

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 27/09/2026

Another amazing Japanese game manual. Bubble Bobble for Famicom Disk System gamemanual.midnightmeattrain.com/entry/%E3%83...

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 25/09/2026

I'm stuck on a train that keeps falling further behind schedule...thankfully I brought the latest build of a few Jinks games along for the ride. 😎 #indiedev #sbcgaming #anbernic #rg35xxh

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 24/09/2026

I'm watching Korean crime drama Nine Puzzles and loving it. No spoilers!

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 24/09/2026

I seem to have fallen down the 16-colour palette rabbit hole for POPSICLE. #indiedev #cga #16colours #lospec #palettes 🆘 SEND HELP

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 24/09/2026

ROLLA (pantaloon) "The humans are simply calling it ROLLA as all it does is roll, eat and destroy everything in its path." Demo - Windows: warpdoor.com/2026/09/24/r...

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 23/09/2026

Back in 2008, I thought that MaBoShi DS used the CGA palette (8 dark colours + 8 lighter tints). I later realised it's more "CGA-inspired" using 9 colours (ROYGBIV, pink, white) most which have a handful of %age tints, resulting in a much more sophisticated overall look IMHO 🧐

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yoot Saito's The Tower box art by Mamoru Takahashi / 高橋衛. potteryarts.theshop.jp/p/00004

a painting of a skyscraper seen from above

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 04/06/2026

My love letter to the wonder that is "The Flying Luna Clipper" blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/09/03/t... A Japanese animated movie from 1987, produced entirely on an MSX2, with a sense of style all its own. Arigatou gozaimasu Ohno-san! 😍

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 21/09/2026

A handful of old Macintosh floppies have been uploaded to Internet Archive (and Macintosh Garden) MacPower TOP SHAREWARE (January 1995 Issue Special Supplement) archive.org/details/macp... Mac Treasure Chest: GAME COLLECTION IV (1993; one disk was bad) archive.org/details/mac-...

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 21/09/2026

You don’t need a remote decision service like Jev for CPU players in a game. You already have the game state so simple heuristics do the job! POPSICLE's demo pilot makes 32 simple checks to decide when to turn left, turn right, or thrust. Coming soon to Web, PC, Wii & Dreamcast!

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 20/09/2026

It's truly amazing that platforms like this exist where anybody can connect with people around the world with common interests. No matter how niche or specialist. One world, one love. ✌️

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 20/09/2026

#NewMusicMix a rare release "Yet All Drifts" by Mi von Ahn youtu.be/kBw4MJ75zgU Nothing moves Yet all drifts Nothing's the same #dreampop #shoegaze

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Mi von Ahn - Yet all drifts (Single)

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 20/09/2026

Had a brainwave. Adding more powerups. #indiedev

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Frank Force @frankforce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My new game SP13KTRA is out! 🌈 8 racers, 8 tracks, 8 songs, real 3D, and it all fits in 13K. Play in your browser on desktop or phone: mouse, keyboard, gamepad or touch. @newgrounds.com @wavedash.com @itch.io @github.com #js13k #gamedev

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John Andersen @johnandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

T&E Soft was in such a need for workspace in Nagoya (between new entries in its Hydlide and golf-sim series) the company opened a second annex office (pictured in 1991) right across the street from its main HQ. This occurred during the late-80's/early 90's. (1/2)

The Super Famicom - 1991-03-08 - Number 7 - Volume 2 - Issue 4.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 19/09/2026

You just have to go your favourite path. Because it's a game.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 19/09/2026

Deep in the gameplay balancing (throw stuff out) phase. Might even change the game! That's #indiedev for you. I added 16 power-ups but whilst playing… some were annoying, others felt too similar, or were overpowered. So I'm down to 8 right now. You gotta go there to come back!

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 18/09/2026

OCR has never been easier: one click of “Copy Text from Image” www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/2up/

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 18/09/2026

Been a while since #NewMusicMix this one courtesy of my Bolt driver earlier today: "Relax Your Mind (feat. Melodiq)" by @patdmusic.bsky.social Streaming song.link/https:/music... YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRwv...

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Relax Your Mind (feat. Melodiq)

YouTube video by Pat D - Topic

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 17/09/2026

Whilst working in @jinks.gg (my new way of making video games) I like to take a step back and build something as a palate cleanser… So over yesterday and today I built an enhanced version of Kuniaki Watanabe’s Spout game concept (originally on P/ECE) 💦 Releasing soon on multiple platforms! 😎

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 17/09/2026

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 16/09/2026

Currently at 162 countries, 17.5K downloads. ⌚︎

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 15/09/2026

WipEout 3: Special Edition at 100 FPS www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8vj... patches: codeberg.org/hueponik/goo...

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WipEout 3: Special Edition 100FPS

YouTube video by HueponiK

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 15/09/2026

The Great Wave 神奈川沖浪裏 is on view at The Sumida Hokusai Museum, Tokyo, until 23rd November, 2026. hokusai-museum.jp/modules/Exhi... More at: greatwavetoday.com

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 12/09/2026

Behold! BELTRUNNER and @jinks.gg are running on Nintendo 3DS (tested on my N3DS Ambassador Edition) #screenshotsaturday Running well! I'd like to spend more time on optimisations. At 240p it proved how good my menu and UI design was! Just some slight font adjustments were needed.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 12/09/2026

Thanks to @gingerbeardman.com I've just discovered 1992 me, talking about Atari Falcons, A1200s, multisync monitors and why can't I find Joe Satriani's new album anywhere in Leeds. Things were simpler then. Take a look - see if you too can find your younger self. www.usenet-rewind.com

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Usenet-Rewind

Search Usenet news text-message archives from 1981 to present across hundreds of thousands of newsgroups.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 12/09/2026

Just found some cool old stuff on USENET thanks to www.usenet-rewind.com - 1996-01-17: first post! a reply to a thread in alt.music.bjork 😎 - 1996-03-11: first mention of my website/homepage

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 12/09/2026

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 12/09/2026

"Hey! That looks like…" (don't say it) 😆 LOGiN ログイン 1990年5月4日・18日合併号 No.9、10合 jp.mercari.com/shops/produc...

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John Balestrieri @tinrocket.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Any Way You Want It

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 10/09/2026

Got a bit of a backlog of app releases and updates. Going to need to take a "screenshot and metadata day" at some point very soon.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 10/09/2026

Surprise! My question about simple SVG editors for macOS was to see if I'd missed any apps whilst making my own. Introducing Scalpel: surgical/atomic edits, changes shown as diffs against original, sync selection across canvas/nodes/layers/code…plus a bunch more unique stuff!

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 10/09/2026

With the iPhone Duo, I wonder if Nintendo is kicking themselves for abandoning the dual-screen form factor? I still use my 3DS regularly! At least there are be a lot of dual-screen game ideas to use as inspiration.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 10/09/2026

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