iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 11h

I want to beam this into the brains of whoever is working on the next FF game. please

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unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 6h

>If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula Don't even think about saying that name around him unless you want problems

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 28/09/2026

I played Ace Combat 7 several years ago but I only played 3, 04, 5, and Zero a few months ago and it was definitely worth it obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

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The Operatic Geopolitics of Ace Combat's Holy Trinity (04, 5, Zero)

There are many reasons even older Ace Combat games remain compelling. Here are some of them.

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Arma Bellum @armabellum.quenmorr.eu · 21h

Also when most people say "videogames are art" they mean "many videogames contain good expressions of higher forms of art in them and thus my enjoyment of them is not puerile", not "gamedev is an artform"

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Updated Autopsy Report @aceattorney.bsky.social · 22h

You're in for a SCARE of a good time with our latest podcast episode! (Disclaimer: episode isn't scary at all)

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 22h

Even a terrible translation needs that human touch to be memorable.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century

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Radmad is Unplugging his PAX @radmad.bsky.social · 21h

A lot of people consider allowing media to facilitate the emotions it tells you it wants to make you feel "losing" to the art.

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 27/09/2026

playing Fortune's Weave after playing every route of Three Houses

Screenshot from Kowloon High-School Chronicle.
A girl wearing glasses and holding books is on screen. There is a dialogue prompt, with the two options being:
> I know the lore
> I don't know the lore

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

digging into my twitter archive for my favourite "you can tell the designer calculated this all in a spreadsheet" skill point system example

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

was talking about how DNS is centralized to a coworker

Cloud Strife standing in front of Shinra HQ; Shinra is labeled as "ICANN" and Cloud us labeled "Me after 5 buzzballz"

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On F:NV it was a lot of fun writing failure replies for threshold checks. The rules were 1) picking the failure option should be entertaining 2) picking the failure option should never put you in a worse position than you were already in.

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Magical Angel Jao @jaooooo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What a line

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nurvuss | back to fool season @nurvuss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These plus Baroque

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 27/09/2026

playing Fortune's Weave after playing every route of Three Houses

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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do not create content for the New York Times if I can, but it's clear the answer to the greatest TV show of the 21st century is Turn A Gundam Which, by virtue of beginning its run in 1999, is also successfully the greatest TV show of the 20th century as well

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How it feels doing long division on my whiteboard

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Folding Obsidian into Bethesda really demonstrates how interchangeable we all are to the money people. Who cares about studio culture or identity, right? If I put tuna on a meatball sub I can eat two sandwiches at once.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Harper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There's an expo about Suikoden / Water Margin in Tokyo, it's extremely interesting. I knew it was popular but wasn't ready for ~400 years of fandom — ppl drawing their favorite heroes, writing crossovers, gender-swap fanfic, porn, annotated editions, "Suikoden for kids", etc... All centuries ago!

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RyougaSaotome @ryougasaotome.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is true btw.

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Also been thinking more about this and, like, my personal view is that waiting until a thing is complete to enjoy it in all go is, at best, waiting to enjoy something materially different than the thing everyone already loves. The release schedule is a material part of the media!!!!!

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unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

An excellent write up on 3 of my favorite games. I know there are reasons why not but bamco really should do what they need to to get a more permanent multiplatform rerelease of 4-5-0-6 out.

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 16/08/2026

my weekend was ambushed by playing 4.5 hours of digital devil saga today because of @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com's blog post about it. revisiting it has really showed me how much my own rpg aptitude has grown over the years, because i've found it far more approachable than basically any smt title

the distant view of the karma temple in Digital Devil Saga from your clan's home base. it is a large pale tower in the distance

the approach to the karma temple in sahasrara

the door to the inner sanctum of the karma temple

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voiceless.bsky.social @voiceless.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is a good article I wish to highlight.

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Dragonzigg @dragonzigg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Anyway my friend @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com wrote an excellent piece that basically encapsulates all of my feelings and complaints on the game so you can probably just read what he has to say obsidianmoonshine.com/public/1-blo...

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Metaphor: ReFantazio Mythologizes a Better World but is Afraid to Abandon the Status Quo

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

I fucking hate being righteous btw. It is not my natural inclination at all. I fucking hate caring about things. I especially hate fielding people's outraged defensiveness at encountering someone who's more righteous than they are, it makes me want to shoot them with a crossbow

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One thing they don’t tell you about being a working artist is that every once in a while a picture is simply Haunted and, for reasons beyond the reach of man, simple things you have done a thousand times will be Very Hard and Look Bad and you will lose ten years of skill for the duration of that job

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 20/09/2026

haven't read this one in a bit and yeah i'm still 100% correct

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 20/09/2026

haven't read this one in a bit and yeah i'm still 100% correct

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 20/09/2026

Moral of the story: A bit of harmless nostalgia can break the illusion that hides how separated you are from everyone who functions normally by reminding you that you're stood on the edge of a staircase and for you there are no further steps, because you were robbed of the means to cope with them.

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Tower of Zeldaga is a mashup of the Legend of Zelda and Tower of Druaga. Every room has a secret puzzle and the puzzles get more obtuse as you go on. It's free, runs in your browser (incl mobile), supports controllers, and I'd really love for you to try it out! legitimatebusiness.biz/tower/

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Dragonzigg @dragonzigg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I finished Metaphor: ReFantazio and that is a rare (but increasingly common!) case of a game that is Pretty Good but also immeasurably disappointing and internally self-contradictory.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Jama @jama7301.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So its Numenera??

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The opening hour of Fortune's Weave feels like this:

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Lainwithtea @lainwithtea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Big recommend from me if you need a dungeon to get lost in this weekend! It's very classic Wizardry with some fantastic 70's Japan blue collar worker flavor tossed in

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it’s ben @yotsuben.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Recently, the talented @nakinyko.bsky.social asked me if I’d be interested in helping make a visualizer for the new song they made with @shikimiyoshino.bsky.social , which resulted in… this!! youtu.be/bnZKhm7XjFk

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We're Gonna Fly Away! | with Shiki Miyoshino

YouTube video by nakinyko

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 16/08/2026

torn between "who gives a fuck about digital devil saga in 2026" and "who else is writing about digital devil saga in 2026"

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 01/09/2026

alternate title: The Midsummer Heat Might Drive a Dog to Kill, but It Will Never Break Him

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Iro | Obsidian Moonshine @iro.obsidianmoonshine.com · 18/09/2026

Powered through the rest of my aegis rim replay before fire emblem arrived and yeah that's still an all-timer imo

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