iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

OUR BIGGEST UPDATE YET!! Get the full rundown: store.steampowered.com/news/app/393...

Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Holy crap, i finished my book. Like, it's written. Still lots of editing to go, but it feels like a huge milestone. Thanks to all the readers, contributors, and everyone who's helped in anyway. Watch this space 👀

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I do not agree with the school of game design thought that the first two hours of an open world game should be a boring slog of backstory where you have to play as an injured/child version of your character.

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I feel like this sums up the chaos of our game (and teams) 😶‍🌫️

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The books progressing well! Let me just check how my target of 55-65k words is going... 90k. shit. Gonna have to take some of these "very very very very"'s out.

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The soft aaaAAAaaahh of @charliekinglake.bsky.social as he falls kills me everytime I see this

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A moderately chaotic little team we have. Check out this clip from our FixForce stream the other day of us... er.. fixing stuff? well trying. 🤖 www.tiktok.com/@surgentstud... Sorry not sorry @surgentstudios.bsky.social for the excessive movie references

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ZERO DAYS WITHOUT AN ILLEGAL MOVIE REFERENCE #fixforce #indiedev #indiegames #multiplayergame #coopgame

TikTok video by Surgent Studios | FIXFORCE🤖🔧

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

FixForce already has a good bunch of varied accessibility settings you can find on the community hub for the game. We're in early access and actively updating the game with new content & better #accessibility! There's a survey on the main menu for if you find any barriers to help us prioritize!

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

ICYMI: FixForce Early Access is HERE!! 🤖🔧

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What you get right off the bat (before any updates): 🪩 62 unique props 🤠 32 cosmetics options 🕺 8 emotes 🤬 5 different enemy types 🗺️ 3 levels with plenty of randomisation 🔋 3 battery variants 🤖 Proximity chat with matching mouth animation #FixForce

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Steam page fixed! AND THAT'S WHY THEY CALL US FIXFORCE 🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What an absolutely wonderful review, thank you Joshua - it was lovely playing together. At this point I've fully embraced my new title, Joe "No Fixers Left Behind" Kinglake! FixForce is now available in Early Access: store.steampowered.com/app/3933150/...

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FixForce on Steam

Leap, climb, and launch your friends in this chaotic co-op extraction platformer for up to 6 players! Use your drill-wrench to build your way across a vibrant post-apocalyptic world, find replacement ...

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Come watch us play some FixForce! 🤖

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Every night in my dreams 😔 I see you 😔 I feel you 😔 #FixForce

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

this is why they don't allow jump pads in prison :/ #FixForce

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I felt like a god making this shot - we didn't make the van though 🙈. #FixForce🤖

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

⬇️ SHOOTING A HEAD THROUGH A TELEPORTER IN FIXFORCE ⬇️

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Surgent Studios @surgentstudios.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🔧🤖 FIXFORCE 🤖🔧 MAKE THE FIX AND DIE TRYING Surgent's newest game is coming to Early Access on 12 March! 🚀 Wishlist on Steam and Epic for updates!!

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Can I Play That? @caniplaythat.com · 14/04/2025

Ubisoft released a color blind simulation tool today, called UbiChroma. The free and open source tool enables developers to test for color blind accessibility issues in real-time. Fitting existing workflows, it can help catch color blind issues early. caniplaythat.com/2025/04/14/u...

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UbiChroma, a real-time color blind simulator released by Ubisoft - Can I Play That?

Ubisoft released a color blind simulation tool, UbiChroma, making it possible to test for color blind accessibility issues in real-time.

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Tara Voelker @tarav.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Come hang out with me!

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Can I Play That? @caniplaythat.com · 29/01/2025

Don't miss the GAconf Awards today! They premiere 3 hours after this post goes out, you can watch them on the IGDA GASIG YouTube channel, including versions with Audio Descriptions, ASL and BSL. They will also be co-streamed by IGN. Good luck to all the nominees, who are all winners in our book!

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GAconf Awards 2024

Playlist housing streams for audio description, ASL, and BSL

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Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Calling UK #gamedev, the MCV/Develop awards have an accessibility category and are open for nominations now - mcvdevelopawards.com/nominate/

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Nominate | MCV Awards

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In very cool news, Mythwrecked had been nominated for... 🔸Award for Accessibility 🔸Best Soundtrack 🔸Best UK Indie ...at the @debugmag.com 2025 Indie Game Awards 🎉

A shortlist of the nominees for Accessibility.

A shortlist of the nominees for Best Soundtrack.

A shortlist of the nominees for Best UK Indie

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Ericbomb @ericbomb.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Also if you love Game Jams AND game accessibility, do I have a game jam for you to check out! Also the discord has some of the folks I mentioned who are award winners and vets of video game accessibility. itch.io/jam/games-fo...

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Games for Blind Gamers 4

A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to make game...

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Heya folks, do I have any mutual indie developers who have included #accessibility features in their released games they would be interested in letting me reference in my book on building better accessible games?

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Please take the time to listen Rami's this appeal, read the campaign @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social has put together and support the project how you can. The industry has been complicit in the dehumanisation & genocide of the Palestinian people, now is the time we can speak up and give our support 🍉🇵🇸

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 28/11/2024

I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.

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An appeal for Dreams on a Pillow

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/11/2024

In case you missed this yesterday - this project is incredibly important and dear to me. The developer, @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social, is potentially in danger for insisting on making this game, but he refuses to back down because backing down would mean not telling this story.

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Ian Hamilton @ianhamilton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The most common & harmful #gamedev misconception about accessibility is that accessibility = feature development, therefore accessibility = cost that must be weighed up. If there was one single thing that I could delete from the collective consciousness it would be that.

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Briër @The Blade & Briar @thebladeandbriar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

www.laurasender.com/game Hi Bluesky! I have finished my article on women in videogames and I’d like to share it with you all. It’s been a real labor of love for me to write this, so I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. #videogames #women #gamergirls #gaming #gamedev #art #ux #uxresearch

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Designing for Representation — Laura Sender

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Hippolyte 🪐 @hippolyte.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide Is OUT!! youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...

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The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide

YouTube video by Hippolyte 🪐

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Luke the BunBun @therainbowbun.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Can we please agree that it is perfectly fine and encouraged for people to play games on any difficulty they feel comfortable with without feeling the need to judge or criticise them? Gosh, let people enjoy things.

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Bsky already seems to evoke a lot of those early Twitter gamedev community memories in the first day of being here. Glad to finally be off Twitter, I think it says worlds that people who cite it as a "free speech platform" really just are applauding their freedom to spout hate speech unmoderated.

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Joe Kinglake @joekinglake.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hi I'm Joe, a Design Director at Sumo Digital. I've worked as a designer on a bunch of games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, Hitman 2, Sack boy: A Big Adventure and more. I'm also currently writing a #GameAccessibility book under the working title "How to Build Accessible Games".

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