iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 25/09/2026

Today a Federal Senator is playing Fortnite from our office studio. Life is weird.

A white man playing a PS5 game in a office chair on a green screen with a boom mic above him

4252

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 10/09/2026

heartbroken, Mo was one of my favourite tiny friends to visit. Love to @wafer.baby and family.

A smiling white man with a cap and glasses holding a beautiful little (disinterested) yellow chihuahua

080

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 10/09/2026

Great, now we have to avoid pervert watches as well as pervert glasses. www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Screenshot of Apple Watch press release saying:
Live Rewind, which can help users recall what was just said in conversation. A double press of the Digital Crown shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet, so the user can catch something they may have missed or are less familiar with. Users can ask Siri about the content of the text or save it to the Siri app to revisit later.

Siri Recap, which can create high-level summaries of conversations that users can review later to jog their memory. When Siri Recap is turned on, after a conversation, Apple Intelligence automatically generates a title and key points in the new Siri app, allowing users to be more present and engaged in the moment.

250

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 10/08/2026

6 years married. 10 years together. ❤️

A light skinned lady in a green dress with a light skinned man in a rainbow jacket. Both are smiling. She has gingery hair and he has black hair.

3490

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 05/08/2026

If we were, hypothetically, to be at #GamescomAsia and @adventurex.bsky.social this year, would folks be keen to say hello, tell us of narrative games things, and so on?

A purple capsule with a phone smiling with HA HA! BUSINESS written around it, evoking the old meme

0103

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 04/08/2026

This is the one we call “the big dog”.

A tiny black and tan chihuahua in a scroll on a couch

1152

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 03/08/2026

ordered some RAM on eBay (at like 4-6x the price it should be). this is how it arrived. this is what AI has done to us.

a cardboard box opened, with a yellow envelope inside it that says RAM INSIDE scrawled in red

a yellow envelope inside it that says RAM INSIDE scrawled in red

5281

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 30/07/2026

Spent a moment making sure Leonardo’s Moon Ship works with the Steam Controller! #LeonardosMoonShip

060

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 20/07/2026

Added a oft-requested feature as an experimental/preview feature to the @yarnspinner.dev VSCode Extension: the Preview mode will prompt you for values for custom functions that the compiler knows of/can infer the type of, without your game engine being needed!

4266

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 12/07/2026

adding (optional) connection labels (detour, jump) to the @yarnspinner.dev vscode extension! look for it soon.

a screenshot of 6 nodes connected together in the yarn spinner for visual studio code extension

0121

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 09/07/2026

this is better and more useful than every "AI" feature github.com/jotson/ridic...

39429

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 01/07/2026

not that I want to use a generative AI feature, but shit like this is one of the reasons why I'm using a Linux laptop now, Apple

a "new features" banner in Pages, Apple's word processor, offering a new feature that is "Generate shapes" making custom shapes from a text description

171

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 26/06/2026

hey, @yarnspinner.dev on sale on the Unity Asset Store! And on Itch! Unity 😎 lab.to/unitysale Itch 👀 lab.to/itchsale

Yarn Spinner, the friendly dialogue tool for Unity, showing Frog Detective, and other games, powered by Yarn Spinner.

0177

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 25/06/2026

why settle for boring empty save slots, when they could be a little fun? #leonardosmoonship #wip #gamedev

six empty save slots in the game Leonardo's Moon Ship, showing Leonardo bored and waiting. he is a cartoon sketch

1112

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 16/06/2026

@smwhr.net I did a bunch of work getting our tool, @yarnspinner.dev, running on the Playdate recently! I'll finish it up this coming weekend!

260

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 16/06/2026

WIP of the "Hint Pigeon", a feature of Leonardo's Moon Ship where you can send off a pigeon to collect a relevant hint from Leonardo's archives. All driven by @yarnspinner.dev and the saliency system, of course. #gamedev #wip #leonardosmoonship

0195

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 08/06/2026

It’s sometimes hard to accomplish things with these two

A Caucasian man with dark head and glasses wears a computer headset and holds two tiny beautiful chihuahuas one yellow one black and tan

2260

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 31/05/2026

Went to visit some of the old growth forests being logged/scheduled for logging in the Central Hightlands of #lutruwita #Tasmania, with the Bob Brown Foundation today.

Central Highlands Forests in Tasmania, logging is visible in the foreground

Central Highlands Forests in Tasmania, a group walks through them in outdoors gear

1113

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 30/04/2026

don't tell him it was good because he'll get smug, but my old (concerningly old at this point tbh) friend @chrisjrn.fyi did a good talk (at his own conference) that you should watch (and also attend next time as it's great)

Timothy Dalton Simon Skinner meme from Hot Fuzz.

244

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 29/04/2026

9 years ago I got to hang out with Tim Cain, co-creator of Fallout, Arcanum, and The Outer Worlds, which are three of my favourite games. Fallout especially is one of the reasons I wanted to be a game developer. So awesome.