iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Adam Hartling @xenosns.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is outrageous!

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Kai McGilligan Oliver @kraydius.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

@smoothdunk2.bsky.social Your comics are gold, thank you for your service and your art!!!

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Bmaster4114 @bmaster4114.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

For anyone Claiming "Blue Prince also used AI" that claim is officially false. The source of the claim was an Escapist Article from a ProAI author, with zero sources, but below is the OFFCIAL Blue Prince Discord Server posting the statement from the publisher Raw Fury! bsky.app/profile/bmas...

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Trezy @trezy.codes · 12/02/2025

If you're looking for a role in the #GameDev industry, check out the Game Jobs & Careers feed! It surfaces content for open roles and individuals looking for roles! Check out the feed description for info on getting your posts into the feed. 😉

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Kai McGilligan Oliver @kraydius.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Sending up a flare to the gaming community 🎇🎆🎇 : Any vfx / tech / shader artists interested in jamming? I'm 99% certain we'll be making a mechs-meets-pinball concept come to life this Nov! Art by ledgem ledgem.itch.io/whimsical-ro... #gamejam #serendipity #pinball #mecha #mech #robots #gamedev

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Lufina, eerie woodland creature ☠️🍂 @lufinabina.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

map of different EU countries' chat control stance as of august 2025

oppose
(austria, czechia, netherlands, poland)

undecided
(belgium, estonia, finland, germany, greece, luxembourg, romania)

support
(bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, france,hungary,ireland, italy, latvia, lithuania, malta, portugal, slovakia, spain, sweden)

proposed it
(denmark)

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Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It's not over. Steam isn't allowing games with 'mature themes' in Early Access. Call, email, letter PayPal, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. Do your dailies.

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Kai McGilligan Oliver @kraydius.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Curious about gay giraffes and quintuple-gender fish? Biominoes will reveal the wonders of nature - in all its queerness - in this small but mighty board game, selected to go to Queerness And Games Conference 2025! @qgcon.bsky.social #gay #LTGB #queer #queerecology #boardgames #gayanimals

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Truth Scrapper 📚 Demo out now! @truthscrapper.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Showing a trailer at gamescom can cost $500k+, but you can see our game trailer for free 📚 You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention... Who will you decide to remember? 📚 store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/...

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

invisibly slapping a scarlet letter on artworks, based on an internal set of tags deliberately obscured from the user base, that now can be used to completely cut off your income and audience, is an indefensible choice for a publisher.

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Cody R. @canthealz.com · 28/07/2025

Well said!!

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it. 🧪🧵⬇️

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YouTechInfo @youtechinfo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Is this the twilight of "creative freedom"? 😭 Itch.io is now removing adult games, pressured by payment processors. 💸 Founder stated "compliance" overrides content, prioritizing profit. 💔 This echoes Steam, leaving indie devs vulnerable. I see this as a chilling precedent: when money dictates art, t

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Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games

It’s Tumblr all over again.

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢 If your game got: • Deindexed • Removed • Payouts turned off Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you. 🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece. 🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

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Kori Michele @korimichele.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Over the past decade, I've been booted off of half a dozen different digital sales for selling queer and adult work. Itch is the one place that has never faltered. Losing the ability to sell uncensored work there would be devastating.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

QGCon is actively fundraising and looking for sponsors! It's a PWYW conference dedicated to queer games studies. They are raising money to make sure they can pay their keynotes and provide travel grants for speakers: bsky.app/profile/qgco...

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This Panda Eats Pumpkins @annie.redpanda.fun · 23/06/2025

The Stop Killing Games initiative is giving up because of a relentless campaign of misinformation and verbal abuse largely directed by PirateSoftware/Thor, which has completely tanked their momentum and burned out its founder. youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo

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The end of Stop Killing Games

YouTube video by Accursed Farms

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Bobby Vanden @danga.games · 10/06/2025

He Who Watches is in this Next Fest! 🧩 It's a first person puzzle game about walking on walls and discovering secrets. Check out the demo below! store.steampowered.com/app/2381760/...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

When you find out the bar was set, met and never surpassed 1700 years ago.

In the fourth century, the Chinese poet Su Hui wrote a reversible poem in five colors of silk, designed to correspond to a star gauge for reading the cosmos. Her poem had nearly eight thousand possible readings. Su Hui sent this poem as a letter to her husband who was far away. Upon reading Su Hui’s poem, the couple reunited for life.

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Kai McGilligan Oliver @kraydius.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

@backyardzoo.bsky.social banner and game description is an immediate follow :D

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22/05/2025

they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This morning, eBay subsidiary TCGplayer abruptly announced plans to shut down its authentication center in Syracuse, NY, eliminating the jobs of hundreds of union workers who have been bargaining their first contract with the company. cwa-union.org/news/release...

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CWA Statement on eBay’s Syracuse Closure Announcement

eBay subsidiary TCGplayer has abruptly announced plans to shut down its authentication center in Syracuse, N.Y., eliminating the jobs of hundreds of union workers who have been bargaining their first ...

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

NEW: Take Two's recently filed annual report removes all references to support of DEI, drops prior boasts about awards it got for supporting LGBT workers, and omits prior mentions of work to diversify talent pool with scholarships No comment why, but we can guess! www.gamefile.news/p/take-two-d...

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Take Two removes praise for its LGBTQ efforts from its annual report, scrubs diversity references

Game File combed the latest annual reports from Take Two and EA, finding numerous fine-print changes. Some serious, some not, some seemingly in reaction to Donald Trump.

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JohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

exciting new project

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 02/05/2025

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack. I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

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Enbyeon, Bearer of the Werepinata's Curse @enbyeon.moe · 30/04/2025

gamedev dot txt

Let's take a look at the reasons why you might get laid off while working on a game, shall we?

Your game doesn't do well, which, sure. Harsh, but understandable.
Your game is called a success by Microsoft. Microsoft then lays you off.
You help make a game as successful as Marvel Rivals. You are then laid off.
Your studio gets acquired for over $60 billion dollars. You are then laid off.
You endure executive pressure that forces you into making games your studio isn't good at making. It doesn't go well. You are then laid off.
Someone decides your portfolio needs to be aligned/reorganised/restructured to become more flexible/agile/versatile under economic/industry conditions. Meanwhile, your CEO might've spent $2 million on vintage cars. You are then laid off.

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TakaComics / Shannon / シャノン @takacomics.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Well, time to delete Duolingo. I don’t mind AI really for occasional tasks, but when they’re firing people in order to use it instead, that’s a problem.

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Adam Hartling @xenosns.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Visit the The Deck Box Halifax on April 19th between 1pm and 3pm for the NSCC Student Game Launch! Four games developed by the students of the NSCC Truro video game development course will be playable by the public. the-deck-box.shoplightspeed.com/copy-of-satu... #novascotia #halifax #gamedev

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Kai McGilligan Oliver @kraydius.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🦉 Hey mutuals! 🦉 I'm interested in chatting with YOU if you are a wiz with solving a Rubik's cube! I have deep questions about the 2x2 that need your enormous brains to solve! 🫠 #rubikscube

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a hand is holding a rubik 's cube with the words hariology.eth below it

ALT: a hand is holding a rubik 's cube with the words hariology.eth below it

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Using simple scaling and/or shear operations, you can achieve so many effects *without* modifying meshes at all. The ceiling light here is being aimed by editing a single component of its basis, and the treasure light is just being squashed vertically. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so are you a trans gamedev? Reply with your games, and let's see if we can't get you some visibility? Please include a description of your game, introduce yourself if you feel comfortable doing so, and very importantly, a link to your game or work.

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a pixel art of a person wearing a red hat and blue scarf

Alt: Madeline, the main character from the game Celeste, doing squats.

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AFNarratives @afnarratives.blacksky.app · 24/03/2025

GDC may be over but you can follow amazing Black & Femme Game Developers any time!!! 💖🎮👩🏿‍💻 go.bsky.app/88aYGTF

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

pretty cool that they can just sell the data they've acquired down the line

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I'm a proud mother. Whether I'm walking my son to school or reading him a bedtime story, I do everything to make sure he grows up loved and cared for. And for the sponsor of the drag ban to say that my existence is a fetish is false & cruel. I'm glad we were able to defeat this hateful bill today.

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