iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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SightlessKombat #Accessibility @sightlesskombat.com · 11/09/2026

If you want to hear more about my experiences with Marvel's Wolverine as a gamer without sight, here's a video that lets you do just that (thanks to the brilliant @laurakbuzz.bsky.social for the opportunity!)

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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@gameonysus.bsky.social @cado.bsky.social I heard on Remap you're going to Japan. Not sure if too late, but I'd recommend the teamLabs art experience! I did the one in Tokyo and climbed up a waterfall, walked in marshmallows, drew a bird and watched it fly, and navigated a mirrored bead maze.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

RE human brains learning to ignore errors: Over the years of Destiny, there are multiple cases of us having to invent new, higher severities of runtime/import errors for our content. We'd accumulated so many benign, ignorable errors that people would filter out those entire error channels

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Gargoyles is such a fantastic example of the fact that you don't just have to keep recycling old IP if you want to build an audience. This cartoon emerged feeling so fully-formed and so confident in its storytelling that it remains a strong influence on fantasy animation to this day.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 21/08/2026

PSA: A heads up for those (kindly) supporting us with game purchases today: 1. Kiln and Keeper are getting permanent price changes soon! 2. All our games on Steam are getting international price adjustment reviews! 3. It's Psychonauts 2's birthday next week, which means a sale!

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sony is doing a hard transition to digital only for new games in Jan 2028. Nintendo is encouraging digital adoption by having a $10 price gap between the physical and digital editions of some games. We asked console video game players how they thought this would change their purchasing behaviors:

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others

Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00

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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Try the demo for Blood Dungeon, our newest game coming later this summer to Steam, PS5, and Xbox X|S! store.steampowered.com/app/4666390/...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/06/2026

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real; The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation." www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Klei @kleientertainment.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Rotwood Powers-A-Plenty Update is available now! It adds a new "Weapon Power" power type, QOL, and bug fixes. Also, Rotwood is now Steam Deck verified! klei.gg/RotwoodKleiF...

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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's @kleientertainment.bsky.social's 20th anniversary! Our throwback video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndt6... I'm so proud of Hot Lava and Rotwood. Amazing seeing people have so much fun with something I made. Check out our big update for Rotwood out today. All of our games are on discount!

Animated sequence depicting Hazard from the game Hot Lava. He's jumping between spinning blades with bubbling lava in the background.

Three hunters from the game Rotwood prepare for battle with wooden weapons ready. They wield a cannon, spear, and hammer. One hunter has hands raised to use a spike-summoning skill.

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Klei @kleientertainment.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Today's update adds a ton of new content. Update Highlights 🎬 Narrative conclusion and cinematics (Surprise!) 💀 Final boss + new unique biome ⚡Three new superfrenzy runs + Bosses 🎨Teffra Mirage system (appearance swapping) AND MORE Info: forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic...

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LadiesGamers.com @ladiesgamers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Rotwood blends brawler-style combat, roguelite progression and co-op monster hunting into a lively action game that’s easy to jump into. @kleientertainment.bsky.social #Rotwood #NintendoSwitch2 wp.me/p70tPw-rQH

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Klei @kleientertainment.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

U.V.S. Nirmana is an engineering puzzle game from @coincidence.games the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story & the inventors of the "Zach-like" game. U.V.S. Nirmana launches May 4th at $14.99usd + a 10% launch Discount. Wishlist & More info on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/...

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Localizer For managing localization text assets. Loads CSV or JSON files. This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep's development. Free Download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-local... Source code: github.com/blendogames/...

application window that shows a list of localization keys and localization text.

application window that shows UTF16 and ASCII codes for each character in a text string.

application window that shows a magenta carat at the location of every space variant in a text string.

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Bruce "86 47" Dawson @randomascii.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I've been seeing a lot more of these Cloudflare "security verification" interstitials lately. I hate them because they slow down my browsing and they smell like bullshit. What's the deal? Are these anti-AI/anti-scraping measures? Do they work? Do websites have to opt-in? Tell me more!

Screenshot of a "security verification" interstitial. It says:
thewaroncars.org
Performing security verification
This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page... not a bot
Verifying - Cloudflare

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John Welfare @johnbp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Xbox FY26 Q3 - www.microsoft.com/en-us/Invest... Total Revenue: $5.341B Content & Services: ~$5.120B (estimated) Hardware: ~$221M (estimated) Since I was expecting ~$226M for hardware, my ~400K shipment prediction won't change.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 01/04/2026

AI-driven manipulation comes in three forms, each tested in our research: • Deepfake videos • AI-generated misinformation articles • Personality-targeted political ads We ran multiple preregistered experiments to see if warnings protect people. Spoiler: They largely don't. 2/10

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

Andreas and Werner next to a spit with upside down Bambi on it

Ex Libris page from Pentiment with a smiling line drawing of a person in the middle image

Andreas and pink Gernot stand-in talking to Gernot with a jester hat on

Andreas performing the lemon juice candle minigame revealing the words "Guy sux"

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It is such a shame that cool people (I'm assuming unknowingly) keep showing up for that racist Jesse Petrilla's YouTube channel.

Jesse Petrilla's famous guests on his YouTube channel, such as John Romero, Ron Gilbert, and Dave Grossman, and a few awful things he's done such as putting up an effigy of Bin Laden in front of a mosque, suing to reopen schools during Covid, and putting up a billboard "Sharia Law Threatens America."

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥 www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft

"We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."

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Janet Ghoulcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Ghost of yotei was big on cutting to the point where they would have weekly cuts. Folks would get up and say here is what I cut this week and everyone would clap for them. Jason Connell said it was successful bc people like to be clapped for lol valid af

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A look at the WIP trailer for Ghost of Yotei created by Sucker Punch a year before the studio officially unveiled the title in Sept 2024. It was used as a ‘forcing function’ to help the team lock in on a vision.

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Chandana Ekanayake @ekanaut.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Have never seen anything this good or this easy. It’s such a simple contract and they’ve been amazing to work with.

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Outersloth @outersloth.com · 09/03/2026

💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰 We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign! We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there. In a nutshell: 💸 Pre-recoup 50/50 💸 Post-recoup 15/85 💸 Terms after 7 years www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...

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The Outersloth Contract | Innersloth - Creators of Among Us and The Henry Stickmin Collection!

Hello!

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@ichiro.bsky.social Like what you're doing with We ❤ Every Game, but I wish the videos would use the full width of my screen on mobile. The padding makes them tiny.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

So, shift in strategy from market expansion and revenue growth to margin protection. Younger and less affluent players aren't going to leave their established games and low barrier of entry platforms, and dedicated PC players will just play other things. But sure, higher margin % on lower revs.

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Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 05/03/2026

i worked on the latency mitigation tech on stadia,,, and now all the public documentation is gone, all that’s left is the post on r/stadia saying how responsive thumper felt 🙃 lmao

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 04/03/2026

More urgent than ever to dump Windows for Linux this year, if you’re able (yes not everyone is). My main advice is to start toying around with Linux sooner than later, so you feel more ready when stakes get more dire. I strongly wish I had started years ago, but next best time is now.

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Greg Pryjmachuk @minskworks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?” Me (indie dev in this economy): “Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We were shadow dropped in the Nintendo Indie World Showcase today: www.youtube.com/live/1DCtXFr... Woohoo! Exciting to finally go public!! #Games #IMadeThis

Two players battle the trickster boss Enigmox in Rotwood.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This honestly represents a level of forward planning and asset management / preservation unheard of in 95% of game studios (including mine)

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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Fly through of part of a Keeper level directly in the Unreal Engine editor. Part way through I turn on all of the game objects the player doesn't see -- it takes a lot to make games work.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/02/2026

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...

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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

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Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

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Chandana Ekanayake @ekanaut.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 14/02/2026

This is literally the best article on this topic I've ever read. It is something that many game devs can tell you straight to your face, and something SO many people simply don't believe.

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Arshy Mann @arshy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I’m honestly shocked that this story from @globalnews.ca has flown under the radar. Confirmation that Amit Shah, the second-most powerful man in the Indian government, was directly involved in the assassinations on Canadian soil. globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

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Intercepted communications link Indian government to B.C. Sikh leader’s assassination | Globalnews.ca

British intelligence provided Canada with initial tip tying India’s government to temple leader's 2023 killing.

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

PSA: seems like ds4windows has been hijacked? the ryochan7 github repo is gone, and the first google result ds4-windows dot com is an AI slop site pushing malware

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