iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tarot reader: this card is called guy getting stabbed, it’s a major arcana recipient: oh, that’s concerning reader: no, it’s upside down so it’s great news. it’s beside the happy baby card recipient: wow, great! reader: in this context the happy baby is an ill portent of doom

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

designer: i want to do something ill advised with our tools engineer type 1: i have wisdom and guidance to share on this topic so that i may nurture your learning! engineer type 2, blowing dust off a large gun from the cabinet labeled BANNED TECH: here, kid. just don't pull the trigger indoors

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

trader joe’s is a cursed place for me. i will emerge from the store with a full cart, somehow having forgotten to buy eggs or milk but with 49 boxes of Trader Joe’s Presents - FunnyOs: Pork Rind Breakfast Cereal With A Hint Of Sriracha And Honey-Lime

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drilbot @drilbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

beautiful women named cvs pharmacy keep texting me

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

producer: the engineering team's all busy, so we slated your feature request for work in 17 years. or you could ask Gorg designer: who? producer: he's that guy who has no job description. lives in a pond. eats entrails. he will implement your feature immediately. you didn't hear it from me, though

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

said it before and i'll say it again: the number one writing hack is just to make friends. you can either spend an hour in an obscure & contentious reddit forum trying to figure out what a 2012 camaro sounds like or you can ask your buddy, the Car Guy

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

started a BotW family playthrough, and husband and i take turns playing with the kids. today i showed them all the secret mom combat techniques their dad doesn’t use: running away, exploiting enemy vision ranges, and killing things with 1000 arrows rather than entering melee range

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Brie @briechindeyerle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

productionalchemist.com

I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

i love in medias res experiences so much that my first final fantasy game was X-2, on accident, and i played all 100 hours without questioning it. at the end i was like “dang they never really fully covered who that unnamed blonde guy was but it’s probably not important”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

1000xRESIST is now firmly in the top slot for “games that have made me cry the most.” great videogame. it’s about so many different things and yet it all comes together so well, like a poem.

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

lots of big differences between people who play RPGs and people who don’t, but IMO the sharpest skill check is “have you intimately memorized the layout of a japanese high school or not”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

airports suck, but Burbank is the best airport. parking lot is approx 39 inches from your plane. you think you want your bag from baggage claim? they’ve already psychic beamed it directly into your car trunk, have a nice day. only 1 restaurant, but it’s Guy Fieri themed, as all restaurants should be

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

watching/playing pokemon with my kids has given me a new appreciation for the insane transmedia strategy this IP had right out of the gate. a banger video game series, CCG, and a solid tie-in anime in the same 12 months? could a company in 2026 ever hope to pull that off???

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

my belief is that at the end of the day, great games are made by groups of people who have high trust with each other & can fluidly execute a shared vision. which is a small part of why these layoffs are so devastating- it's not just about jobs, it's about these "trust structures" being torn apart.

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Ammnontet! @bleakvision.info · 19/10/2025

BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!

norman "my name is not norman but still i" rockwell's painting "freedom of speech" except i made the guy fucked up, and he's doing a Beam Blast. and also everyone around him looks more worried than usual

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

(looking at blueprint) jesus christ, who worked on this content last? this is in terrible condition. i would never shame anyone, but i need to see who it was and shake my head in disdain a little. let's go check the perforce history an--

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

i have two children, and they are very different. we saw a little bird on the lawn this morning, a bird we’d never seen before. my daughter, 4, said “wow, so cute!” my son, 2.5, pointed and stated emphatically “i eat him”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

went to clean up my hard drive today, got to Steam. there are folders in here for games now defunct-- Highguard, Concord, Marvel's Avengers; and other folders for private "friends & family" betas for games that never shipped, or may not ship. i need the HDD space back. and yet.

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𝖏𝖆𝖘 @vores.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

instant tears. thank you Destiny 2 for being an important space for me and my friends over the years and for giving me some of the highest highs i've experienced while gaming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyUz...

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Destiny 2 | So Far, Together

YouTube video by Destiny 2

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

hi friends- we're looking to hire a progression designer on my team! we're remote friendly (1 onsite/year) and implementation skills are a must for this role. i absolutely love this team and game. i'm not the hiring manager, but my DMs are open for questions! job-boards.greenhouse.io/teamlfg/jobs...

job-boards.greenhouse.io

Principal Progression Economy Designer

United States, Remote

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

five years ago i gave my husband a cute nickname in my phone, but i have to say now (years later) it is really fucking humbling to be struggling thru the Costco aisles with two screaming kids and barking into my phone, “siri, i said CALL HUSBANDOLORIAN”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

wake up hikaru utada, we need you on the front lines girl bsky.app/profile/wari...

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

nocaps takes a look at the history of Game Jams, the commercial games they've spawned, and the future of the form in the absence of Ludum Dare. WATCH NOW on noclip_2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONj... (by @nocapsbb.bsky.social)

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the Past, Present & Future of Game Jams - nocaps_2

YouTube video by noclip_2

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

sometimes late at night i am confronted with a troubling thought: maybe in 2026 everyone has just forgotten how to make video games. then i am confronted with a more troubling thought: perhaps we actually never knew how to make video games in the first place

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

watching F1 from a game design perspective is so funny because all of the rulesets and guidelines amount to We Didn’t Think Car Could Be Like That

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

future career goals? honestly if the opportunity aligns someday, i would love to be the guy standing on top of the shed with my rifle, looking around in a little 180 degree vision cone and waiting for the protagonist to come by

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

2026 feminism is about rejecting the emotional & mental labor inflicted upon you by Okta Verify

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

thoughts & prayers for the rocket league team who are transitioning from UE3 to UE6 in one fell swoop, that is a hell of a jump (but yes the cars do look pretty) www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5d7...

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Rocket League x Unreal Engine 6 - Official Reveal Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by IGN

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

good: i bought a bunch of snacks to send you a care package this week bad: i ate the snacks good: ...but i bought new snacks to replace them bad: i ate those as well,

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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

an underrated game dev skill IMO is being able to realize “this person and I have been discussing (thing) for months, and yet i think we have slightly different versions of (thing) in our heads. let’s get together and talk about that in excruciating detail”

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

when i was a kid i always found it unrealistic that padme died of a "broken heart" after luke and leia were born. but now i think it's actually the most realistic thing ever, that a society with flying spaceships and shit still has absolutely no idea how to, like, care for a postpartum woman

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

we've come up with a system where you can demonstrate growth to shareholders by hiring more people than you should, but also you can demonstrate growth by firing more people than you should. we call it the economy and we think it's going to be great

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If we're doing game design doc discourse, I highly, highly recommend following this template from @kchironis.bsky.social

Clown Nose Feature

For a game that doesn't exist, called World of Clowncraft

Goals

Add thematic content to our upcoming "Everything Is More Clowns" DLC

Give players a new method of communication which touches on our project pillar of Horrifying Nonverbal Player Communication

Flesh out the available player customization options in response to player feedback that "there are honestly just not enough nose customization options"

Players have especially called out the lack of humorous/silly customization as a pain point and are requesting more content in this category

Proposed Design

On the wearer

The clown nose is a nose players can equip in the dressing room menu.

When activated, the clown nose occupies the nose customization slot.

If the player is wearing the clown nose, they see a honk button added to their primary player Ul when they are in explore mode. This button is to the right of the other player interaction options in the hotbar.

Hitting the honk button does the following:

Produces "honk" SFX

Spawns a "honk" VFX (maybe a red toon-y sparkle from the player's face?)

The honk has no cooldown. Honking in valid Morse Code causes the honks to be translated using our in-game subtitle system for other players to see and read.

On listening players

The honk noise can be heard from up to 100 meters away.

If any players have the turn player sounds off setting active, the honk cannot be heard.

The first time a player receives a honk sfx, if they do not have turn player sounds off active, they get a small Ul toast in the corner of their screen with a message noting that these sfx can be turned off via that menu.

Eval Criteria

Players from our customization-heavy demographic slice report satisfaction.

Players on the receiving end of the clown nose do not feel annoyed or overwhelmed and understand how to opt out of this feature if desired.

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

ADAM, TURNING TO GOD: i feel like you could have roped me into this process sooner, there's critical context i'm missing. can you include my department at an earlier step next time?

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

medieval peasants: what grand works do ye bring of the future, lady me, holding up phone: so it’s a soulslike extraction friendslop with twitch integration and collector elements peasant: and doth it bring joy ? me: oh definitely, for like 4 hours yeah

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 10/02/2026

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

bluesky-map.theo.io

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

why is game dev feedback always kinda like this

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

i tagged you in that thread. i expanded the DM into a channel. i ported the DM to the thread and then turned the thread into a huddle. i'm operating on planes of existence you've never even heard of. i'm speaking holy tongues to the angels, in the huddle. the huddle is pinging you. join the huddle

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

protect your peace. right click Slack > mark all as read. namaste

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Heartbreaking: Kindest, Gentlest Person You Know Is Just A Real Fuckin Sociopath In Arc Raiders

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

something that goes against everything in my nature…? yes, it’s being asked to insert Screw G into Hole B as depicted on page 11 of the booklet. i respectfully believe that is an insane ask and i rebuke it. why is this dollhouse installed backwards and upside down? please, no further questions

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

If there's one thing I hate to taste, it's my own medicine. Of all the things I want taste, my own medicine ranks dead last. I'd taste any medicine you threw at me unless it's my own. I hate it when my friends are tasting my medicine and they're like "oh this is so good you should try some"—fuck off

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

We may still see a few more layoffs added for 2025 as I learn of ones I may have missed (there are always some of those) or new ones emerge (not all regions take the last weeks of the month off) but a few more won't make a dramatic change now so behold the state of games industry layoffs. 🧵

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

alternative math curriculum for game developers: - probabilities and loot tables, aka If you Fuck This Up Your Endgame Playerbase Will Be So Mad At You, Pay Attention - physics, aka Oh God Is The Player Stuck In That Wall Again - vector math, aka Bullet Logic Is Mostly Raycasts Honestly

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