iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 10/09/2026

y'all ever think about how many women in game media have to pivot to being "the indie game person" or hyper-focus on a specific underserved niche because basically 90% of triple-a reviews get assigned to cishet men?

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'd advise editors to ask themselves: if you never get women pitching your site or applying for your jobs, why is that? Do you read female writers- and if not, why? Do you talk to women about whom they are reading, or do you only talk about work with other men? Not all of our biases are conscious."

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 23h

I wish there were more holidays where you get to hang out and wear pretty outfits and smooch and get nice photos :)

a black and white photo of a couple in wedding outfits. the bride is in a champagne (it looks white in black and white) dress and is picking the skirt up to walk across the grass as she ducks under a tree. the groom, behind her, brushes aside branches to follow. they both look so happy yay

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

another day in the layoff industry

My bad Canva edit of a tweet about feeding game studios to shareholders

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

love a food project weekend 👍

chicken parmesan made with homemade tomato compote, topped with fresh basil leaves

beautiful brown caramelised onions that have been reducing in a cast iron pan for two hours

a slow cooker full of beef short ribs, homemade chicken stock, and red wine. there is a lot of steam coming off it

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

whenever people say “cancel culture isn’t real, it’s just facing the consequences of your actions” I think about all the people who were the target of the internet’s hate for things they didn’t do, or for things that had much more nuance. it can ruin lives, over things that often do not matter

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

environmental storytelling or passive-aggressive editing

a car window with a sticker that used to say “my favourite people call me nanny” but someone’s removed the last word, so now it just says “my favourite people call me”

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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This one was real fun to read!! Featuring known fugitives @harris.zone, @hownottodraw.bsky.social, and @hellocakebread.bsky.social among several other mysterious indie dev contributors

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I made olive oil roasted potatoes with brown butter pine nuts on a bed of garlic yogurt aioli topped with homemade chive salt …and dino nuggies :3

a blue plate holding 5 golden dinosaur-shaped nuggets on one side, and beautiful deep brown potato chunks on a white sauce topped with pine nuts on the other

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve wanted to have a cheese cake (a tiered wedding cake made from wheels of cheese) since I was 14, and I finally achieved my dream!!!!! (also the marriage. that bit is really really nice too)

a wooden lazy susan spinning board holds four wheels of cheese stacked in ascending order of smallness. The bottom one, a lovely pinkish orange, is labelled Valley gold with a small wooden pick that has a sign on it. The middle one is a white double cream brie. the second smallest is a green thunder cheddar wrapped in forest green wax. The top one is a single red babybel. In front of the cheese are two Sylvanian families (or calico critters if you’re in the US) characters that are fennec foxes with little outfits on. Those are basically our cake toppers, but they would not fit on top of the cheese because the babybel was too small

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Millennial hypnotist, all waving a tamagotchi back and forth: "You are feeling eepy, veeeery eepy"

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I made my own wedding bouquet this morning, out of my favourite plants in my garden. it smells great. like a fancy spa mixed with roast chicken

a hand clutches a bouquet of rosemary, lemon thyme, and lavender against a blue wall

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In case you're wondering why I harp on people submitting enough keys to IGF every year, I've already seen one entry today that submitted with one(1) single steam key. Better hope the one judge who takes it likes your game

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Multi Hardcore @gravitybreak.media · 15/09/2026

very nice, thank you. small leading adjustment for this one

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it’s so great and normal that Steam is randomly censoring games like this for no reason, at the same time as they’re blasting “HENTAI VS FURRY FEST” banners all over the front page, which takes you straight to full-frontal nudity in one click

a banner proclaiming it to be Hentai Vs Furry Festival 2026, with some very busty ladies, lizards, and foxes glaring competitioningly at each other from the sides of the screen

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ice cream and cocktails with @hownottodraw.bsky.social (And also massage and pedicure but they are not pictured obvs)

Photo of Holly and Kate at the waterfront outside smiling while holding ice cream

Picture of two cocktails, one long one with grapefruit and one pink one with foam

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

cut my life into pieces :) make paper snowflake lifes :)

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inkle @inkle.co · 11/09/2026

🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!

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Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

ALT: Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I want to do more adult sleepovers. and not in a weird way

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can’t believe it’s exactly 14 years since The Greatest Living Englishman tweeted out this, which age cannot wither, nor custom stale its infinite variety

Danny Dyer tweet: “Can't believe it's been nearly 11 years since them slags smashed into the twin towers it still freaks my nut out to this day 9/11” (for some reason, it also says “ch 4 10 00” after that)

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

did some cute alters for my Magic deck this week, including my first foil (Heartfire) and a @blueprincegame.bsky.social land for funsies

A red magic card called Heartfire. the image is of a red heart with fire coming out of it, and rays of iridescent light emanating from the centre. I made it by removing the card art with acetone and then painting over the shiny foil!

a Mountain card from Magic that has been altered to show the mount holly emblem from Blue Prince, which is a blue holly leaf

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 09/09/2026

new kirby looks great

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I heard whoever writes for this game is a cool and sexy lil guy

A character in the game Hello Kitty Island Adventure who is a bear in a blanket called Moppu tells you about the game he’s playing. “Oh yes. It’s called greetings cat: Peninsula experience. It’s really good”

The player can respond with one of three choices:
1. Best game ever.
2. I hear the devs are pretty cool.
3. Everyone working on it deserves a pay rise and a private jet.

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thousand Hells is out NOW. A tactical narrative game about staging heists in different hells that blends mythology and surrealism from the creators of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages - there’s nothing like it. I’m delighted to be one of the writers involved store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

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Save 10% on Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists on Steam

Recruit your team, choose your path, and descend into hell. Four heroes must overcome the trials of the underworlds in tactical narrative encounters. A new systemic storybook experience blending mytho...

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I do think the most boring possible take is "Actually this was never good." Like, it may be sincere. And it may be true even! But goddamn is it ever boring.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

can’t believe they made navi hot

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

bury me in an atomic purple coffin

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the absolute most benefit-of-the-doubt take on this is that Richard Ayoade is a milquetoast both-sides-er, which is bad enough. British comedy has a real posh-boys-stick-together problem

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

oop! I was wondering why the feed was so discoursey today. turns out I was in the Discover feed. it’s like looking at YouTube without being signed in. or drinking from the toilet

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

casual note that IGF submissions close in a week and a half so if you were thinking of getting a game in this year, time's running short! (It's fine if your build isn't bug-free right now, you can patch it over the course of the competition - esp if you submit via a steam key)

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

gonna remake The Odyssey except all the suitors are actually suiters, i.e. they’re all in fursuits. also Odysseus is into gundam

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its probably will @itsprobablywill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this post has inspired what is either one of the best or worst things i have ever drawn digitally.

a parody/copy of the cover to The Black Parade album by My Chemical Romance. it has been changed to The Cat Parade by My Alchemical Courtship, and the Marching Band Person has been replaced by a crayon drawing of Hello Kitty's head.

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/09/2026

sorry to odyssey post more but i can't stop thinking about when furiosa is like "stop eating the flowers" and matt damon's line delivery of "but i love it"

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

we threw a marching-band-themed event in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, so you KNOW I had to throw in some Black Parade (and My Immortal) jokes

Hangyodon, a blue fish-man, speaks to his sanrio friends: “ this look reminds me of that one band, what’s their name… uh… my alchemical courtship!”

Pochacco, a small Snoopy-like dog, replies, “ my name is Raven. My jeans are skinny, my eyeliner is smudged, and my hobby is crying.”

pekkle , a seagull boy, says: “my name is going to be danger spider! And this is my emo boy dance! Check it out!”

hangyodon replies: “When I was… A young fish… My father… Took me into the ocean… To see a stand-up show…“

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eric van allen @seamoosi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

oh no they're gonna take the cheeses away from the meeces

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Gamedev can have a little door discourse as a treat

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

been into two nerd shops this weekend (Games Workshop & Magic) and both times I’ve met with unpleasant vibes. one was dismissive and unfriendly, the other was a guy mansplaining my own *unbeaten* MTG deck to me. love that we’re keeping the old ways alive

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

wow. what a beautiful world that has been built out of polygons and code by people for me. sure would be a shame if my main interaction verb was “shoot gun”

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renée 🌊🌈🍀 @gelatobear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

💧 friends in the pool #art

Two small crabs in an illustration of a popular poolrooms scene, a bright white pool tile room with clear blue water.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 27/08/2026

Just a PSA for all the other major publishers: You can’t make a GTA 6. Don’t have any meetings about it. Don’t put together any pitch decks. Don’t preemptively doom your workforce and the industry any further than you already have. Leave it alone.

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