iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 25/09/2026

FF7 scenarios with pre-rendered backgrounds were always a mystery to me during childhood; but even to this day it's still something that amazes me. Now you can inspect every single Final Fantasy VII stage, including the 3D path + variations. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“There are only two genders.”

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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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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If the Backrooms was real and any government was aware it’d be “free housing” for undesirables, outcasts, refugees, unhoused, political prisoners - fiercely guarded to ensure no one escapes. There’s so much social commentary baked into endless office space beyond BOO SPOOKY MONSTER.

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goba (ACT 2 out NOW!) @gobadev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest Act 2 is NOW AVAILABLE!! My solo action-adventure game inspired by Zelda, DMC, and Bayonetta just got bigger. A FREE update to Carter's Quest, adding a whole new chapter to the story, massive graphical updates, and more. Available on Steam now!

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Recently discovered The Train, a game where you're French resistance delivering Nazi-stolen art to the allies. It's a "plate spinning" simulator with multi-step input, playable in about 20 minutes. It feels like the progenitor to a modern indie game: Iron Lung 30 years before Iron Lung.

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SULLY - POLYPAINT out now! 🎨 @artofsully.com · 17/09/2026

thanks so much for the warm reception to PolyPaint everyone! 🥹 if you haven't already, check out the fun interactive booklet at polypaint.artofsully.com, and please leave a review on the asset store page if you love the tool (it helps a lot!)

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My hyper-fixation of the week: Densha de Go on an elevator. I know "Densha de Slow" doesn't work but let's go with it.

Cross section of an old timey elevator with manual lever and annunciator panel.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Games never should've advanced beyond the "sixth generation" because Raven Software perfected X-Men 20 years ago.

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SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Developer, @pvthinge.bsky.social (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam), has been fast at work on a 3D Saturn software development tool built on top of Johannes Fetz' Jo Engine, to make the Saturn development process both fun and easy! www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/11/f...

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Feature-Rich & User-Friendly ‘Saturn Workshop’ in The Works

Developer, Hinges (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam), appears to be well underway with the rapid-fire creation of a user-friendly 3D game development tool for Sega Saturn.…

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jumping Flash/GitS wall-crawling 6DOF Fuchikoma sim

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Blood Machine @bloodmachine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Digital Painted designs

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NoonDragoon @noondragoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m sorry, but you’re just not gonna ever see me care about a new Kojima game going over budget when Sony has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on live service flops and closed half a dozen studios this generation

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eliminate tier lists Demand equal equity from your representatives Donate your unused stuff Reevaluate the transactional mindset

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love how the HUD dips into the view screen like a dashboard.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been meaning to share more resources I come across for references/studies. This method only applies to low-poly hair styles but the results are gorgeous (good looking natural hair 😍): www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Xy...

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Experimentando com cabelo 3D

YouTube video by vivini

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goba (ACT 2 out NOW!) @gobadev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest Act 2 Launches SEPTEMBER 18th!! A FREE update to my 2024 solo indie game, continuing the story while the combat, performance, graphics, and more. This has been a labor of love and I can't wait for you to play it.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"games were a promise", a text document on my computer, written tonight. with apologies to efrim menuck, and hopes i didn't rope "my contemporaries" in wrongly.

videogames were a promise.

they were a cultural medium that said, in a hoarse and bitcrushed voice first, then rising in definition, in clarity, with each generation:

"we can tell stories that truly involve you."

you slot this cartridge or this disk in, lock it and load it, and here you are:
adversary to my ones and zeroes.
here you are, an abstracted you on the screen that moves when your thumb will it.
here you are, surrounded by a facsimile of the real or imagined.
here you are, the piece on the board.
here you are, the driving force of meaning.

you, the player.

but games are breaking their promise.

games no longer need a player.

like the stock market, like cryptocurrency, like gambling apps that bet on sports or elections or plagues. they are now a sign without a referrent; they are a plus sign or a minus sign. always online, they are disconnecting from the humane and the human; they sever themselves violently from the human beings that create them, in great bundles of thousands at a time, tens of thousands last year, and that number is finished rising, rising, going up like the line it feeds to its meatgrinder.
their physical manifestations flag and crumble; they sever themselves from the players, too, like a disputed belonging in a divorce. "you will own nothing and be happy"; in owning nothing, you will be an owned object. ownership of things is wealth; ownership of people is dominion, is domination.

stream the newest live service, always online. listen to the latest heinous voice piece of more or less artificial intelligence blather every few seconds, filling the silence, painting over reflection to prevent introspection, or contemplation, or any thought. do nothing, and watch the cutscene as a you-less "you" shatters the skulls of human beings, lovelessly rendered by artists whose trauma was irreplaceable by generative A.I. (the hurt of an intelligence must be real for the later lay-offs to doubly sting).

games are turning into a torture device for anyone willing to hear them out.

the people making games are livestock to be cut.
the people buying games are numbers going up.
the people playing games are rats in boxes.
the people loving games hate games and themselves for hating games.

it's like the promise was written on sand, washed away in the deluge.

and people like me want to be a rock. people like my contemporaries, who heard the siren song of the promise lead them to shore, want to sing upon it to break more people's hearts.

i've spoken to people who only play antediluvian games, now. who play ur, or chess; who play the NES, the SNES, the PSX, something, anything other than the rot-driven, digital asbestos-riddled, untouched by human hands and untouching of human hearts aphasia that is modern video games.
that turn away from the cost of doing business to give business to only the old, or the small.

but people like me are starving on the rocks. there is no boat coming to us, bringing us sustenance. we are dying.

we want to be the change of the tide; but this system doesn't give change to those like us, who sing.
it only takes.

please let our games be good.
please let our games be ours.
please let our games be played.
please let our games be real.
please let our games be loved.

this is a pamphlet towards a radical humanity in game development and fandom.

games are made by humans for humans to play; they are not made of humans for humans to consume.

games are made of code, they are not made of claude.

games are made of art, they are not generated.

games are a promise.

say it again, with meaning, this time.

- Quinn K.

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Tiny Cartridge @tinycartridge.com · 09/09/2026

it's 2026 and we have a two-minute trailer for Torneko‘s Mystery Dungeon releasing to the West for the first time

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

you cannot just slot a remake of Torneko’s Mystery Dungeon into a sizzle reel wtf where do I get it

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emma @emmagamedev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

textures i painted with gouache vs. model i used them for

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2dos @ DK64Randomizer.com @2dos.dk64randomizer.com · 29/08/2026

The DK64 recomp is now out! Play "DK64 Rekongpiled" now! Playable on Windows, Mac and Linux, just provide your own DK64 rom. No generative AI used at any point in the process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVUvGGXTk0E dk64recomp.com

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DK64 RECOMP RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT

YouTube video by 2dos

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 28/08/2026

Imagine Aseprite or another #pixelart program inside Blender? Pixel Perfect Pixel Art drawing and texture painting on top of the model in the 3D viewport and in 2D. Drawing, painting, selection tools, layers, texel density (pixel size) setup and density zones (multiple pixel sizes). #blender3d

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What if a modern adaption of DOS era detective games that starred you, the player, but things get increasingly personal as the game continues? Like those Doritos Flash games where you could opt into receiving emails.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Hai Guhrace” “Give me an example of a gkh-ree gkh-ree“ “Wolf-gang noooo… NYUOH!!”

The sexiest video game hunk Gabriel Knight, voiced by the late great Tim Curry

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I feel like the real reason is that every Western studio has been thouroughly dismantled by aggressive capital.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Speaking of games with a high obituary, fight against Tim Curry with the help of Lemmy Kilmister and Ozzie. Play the Stage Battles like a MOBA, you literally melt faces and drop burning zeppelins on the battlefield.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Mockup of a Story of Seasons style game where you maintain a co-op rooftop garden while organization with your neighbors to buy the deed to the building. As a suburban boy I dream of living in a clean self-sustainable urban environment. #lowpoly #pixelart

A pre-rendered sprite of a capybara guy admires some plants on a low poly rooftop garden

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The people who can hear his delivery in their head, y'all are cool.

Stratos from Shiny Entertainment's Sacrifice, voiced by Tim Curry

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Please not a return of the "games influenced by games" discourse which is a gross oversimplification. My GOTY 2025 was about managing an eating disorder which was equal parts fun and horrifyingly existential. There is an indie game for every niche, fetish, and esoteric interest.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cole Dröws, with permission from the rights holder, released the unpublished UK English version of Blackout. Blackout is a 1997 non-linear point-and-click psychological horror game filmed on Beta with hand crafted sets and stop motion puppets. coledrows.itch.io/blackout

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Blackout 97 by Cole Dröws

Escape your fate - if you can

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

coledrows.itch.io

Blackout 97 by Cole Dröws

Escape your fate - if you can

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Things I know about Ireland -There's lots of rocks -Zuckerberg bought a castle -The police are unarmed

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Happy #screenshotsaturday, y'all. Everyone tells new devs to start learning by cloning games like Pong. My advice: don't stop at Pong. However long you've been at it, recreating games or mechanics you like (or don't like) helps you understand the hows and whys better than just playing.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Underrepresented genres I want to see revitalized real time strategy space shooter (why does Star Fox 2 get snubbed?) sad boy friendship sim (new chibi robo let's gooooo) city block adventure game (don't let it die with shenmue 3 cmon)

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The immaculate vibes of Shadowgate 64.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

these guys look friendly

Three hooded cultists with open-toe sandals (gross) standing in a menacing A-pose around a candle-lit summoning circle.

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sodaraptor ➤ wishlist Hypnagogia 壊れた夢 @sodaraptor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Having fun with flares in my new upcoming submersible game 🧨

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Made possible because Romero and Carmack understood intellectual property dies in the vault. Open sourcing the code ensured Doom would live forever. Other publishers get on it.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We need to return to the days of wealthy patrons creating artist colonies in their palazzo's. All YouTube millionaires with their empty white-walled homes, do you know how little space an indie dev requires?

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 13/08/2026

Mr Freezy will be $5 at launch; for that $5, you'll be: - Getting a dope horror puzzle game - Supporting a small indie team without a publisher - Saying "Fuck You" to the gen AI games - Every wishlist and sale builds support for our next game **You can play the demo now!**

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A modern "Parasite Eve" game. Real-time-with-pause brawler.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

London Seirei Tanteidan a ps1 Bandai rpg finally got an English translation by humans. As an RPG it’s fairly like a 7/10 so far but the novelty of playing an original game for the first time in English is holding strong.

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VoidBurger (AKA Jess) @voidburger.com · 23/07/2026

Here is how I get out of Youtube copyright claims. I use this general format and it works 98% of the time, I swear (just, y'know, make sure you ain't lying and the video *is* Fair Use, and personalize the dispute to be specific to that video.) ✨You're welcome!✨

_______________CLIPS USED FOR EXAMPLES/SUPPORTING THESIS___________________

I believe this claim was made in error.

One of the primary topics of this educational/entertainment video is ___________. This is an original production and transformative work that contains a short clip of the claimed material in question as an example/demonstration of the topic I would like to clarify that this is not a replacement, nor can it be used as a replacement, for any media a viewer may own. Not only is the copyrighted content marred by audio commentary from the hosts, but it is also hugely truncated. We are within our legal right to present this material as an example to support our thesis in this transformative work.

For further proof and information on Fair Use, please refer to: https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Please have someone manually review this content, thank you!

_____________________CLIPS USED FOR REVIEW__________________________

I believe this claim was made in error.

This is an in-depth review of the (film/game/etc) ________. It is an original production and transformative work that contains short clips of the claimed material in question, though they are out of order, often without sound, or spoken over by my own commentary. I would like to emphasize and clarify that this is NOT a replacement, nor can it be used as a replacement, for any media a viewer may own. We are within our legal right to present this material in order to review the film.

For further proof and information on Fair Use, please refer to: https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Please have someone manually review this content, thank you!

____________________________REACTION VIDEO____________________________

I believe this claim was made in error.

This is an original production and transformative work featuring reactions to the claimed material in question. I would like to clarify that this is not a replacement, nor can it be used as a replacement, for any media a viewer may own, as the copyrighted content is marred by constant audio commentary from the hosts. We are within our legal right to present this material as reaction content.

For further proof and information on Fair Use, please refer to: https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Please have someone manually review this content, thank you!

___________________CLAIMANT DOESN'T OWN IT (Game music)_______________________

I believe this claim was made in error.

The claimant does not own the copyright for this material. The song claimed was composed by _______ for the videogame ________.

In addition to this claimant not being the owner of this material, I would also like to point out that this is an original production and transformative work that features this song as part of my normal gameplay experience. I would like to clarify that this is not a replacement, nor can it be used as a replacement, for any media a viewer may own, as the copyrighted content is marred by constant audio commentary from the hosts, as well as in-game sound effects. I am within my legal right to use this material.

For further proof and information on Fair Use, please refer to: https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Please have someone manually review this content, thank you!

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