iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Guys I’m starting to think Robert Moses is not the hero of this book

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Gavin Jurgens-Fyhrie @gavinetc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

General writing tip: if you're bored writing something, your reader will be too. You are your most valuable critic.

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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

(Voice acting for video games) Get good at being magnanimous when rejected. Not just for your sanity, statistically you'll always be rejected more than you'll book. But because if you can be cool when rejected for a role, your odds of booking the next project with that developer go way up.

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In the same way that being bitten by a werewolf make you a werewolf, arguing with an academic makes you an academic

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Got strange looks on the street, then remembered I was wearing my Circe's BBQ T-shirt.

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

what if the real video games industry was the people who made the games along the way

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

detective: you're a sick son of a bitch, you know it? that bird was your friend of 10, 12 years and you drop a big fuckin boulder on him. wile e. coyote: i swear to god man i didn't think it was gonna work. it never works. oh god. detective: nevada's a death penalty state.

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Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 15/04/2026

Also also a lot of dad games are about a guy being a bad dad and then gradually becoming a good dad, and if you tried to make a game about a bad mom becoming a good mom it would get raked so hard over the coals for her being “unlikable” it would make your fucking head spin.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Bluesky dilemma: So many cool artists and game devs I follow ALSO post pictures of their pet rats, which are my phobia.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

As the length of video game productions has swelled to 6+ years, many people are trying to figure out how to reverse that trend. Here's some food for thought from the always-insightful Josh Sawyer, director of Fallout: New Vegas and Pentiment. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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One Veteran Director Has Some Thoughts on How to Build Video Games Faster

Veteran game director Josh Sawyer thinks developers need to make fewer big changes during production

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Dalek Epscream. @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

About 8ish years ago David Sears told us he wanted to make a Southern Gothic game inspired by his childhood, with Southern cryptids none of us had ever heard of. Now South of Midnight is nominated for a BAFTA for Best New IP. Bravo everybody! www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

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Bafta games awards 2026: Clair Obscur and Dispatch lead the nominations

Last year’s celebrated French hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is nominated in 12 categories this year, with Ghost of Yōtei, Dispatch, Death Stranding 2 and Indiana Jones also making strong showings

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Congrats to everyone on the South of Midnight team for the nominations!!!

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

From blues to honky-tonk, every creature has a dark tune of its own. South of Midnight arrives on PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 in 3 weeks, March 31. Here’s to our original teaser trailer!

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 01/03/2026

Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist. Scientists are famous oversharers. They can't wait to tell you all the nerdy details.

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In collaboration with Clyde Henry Productions and music reimagined by Kid Koala, we’re excited to present an original South of Midnight stop-motion piece created with real puppets and handcrafted maquettes using traditional stop-motion animation techniques. Watch now: youtu.be/hl6J7JHiXE4

Thumbnail of the South of Midnight stop-motion asset featuring Crouton from South of Midnight.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/02/2026

Work alongside New York City's Strongest as we get through this historic storm. Emergency shoveling pay is now $30/hour. Walk into any sanitation garage to sign up TODAY BY 8PM or TOMORROW from 9AM to 8PM. Let's get NYC back on its feet— together. bit.ly/NYCShovel

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Meteorologist: we're expecting snow, sleet, and hail - boring - too detailed - just different forms of water Meteorologist: we're expecting a wintry mix - mysterious - excitingly vague - could include a yeti

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Delighted to have been part of this!

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"It's a competent loop of heist setup and escape execution. But even when I piloted Nomali through a flawless getaway, I found myself more interested in being able to return to the relooters' hideout to learn more about the game's 70 reclaimable artifacts and their very real histories."

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Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson

Correcting dark historic wrongs can feel surprisingly bright.

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Slashley Cooper 🔪 @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Stop making live-service games. The market can't sustain their existence and employees don't withstand their failure. Not every game can be a part-time job for players and most are already entrenched in an old favourite.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A reliable way to know someone's politics is to ask if they think Puerto Ricans are immigrants.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

What an awesome idea for a game!

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My pig Latin is getting rusty. If you don't use it conversationally every day, you lose fluency.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Glad to see ice skating fans appreciating the back-flipping genius that was Surya Bonali in 1998.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Not nostalgic for being a kid, but I'd love to have a daily art class again.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Minnesota and Denmark are home to Vikings. Of course they fight back.

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inkle @inkle.co · 18/12/2025

Lots of inkle games on sale on Steam, but we wanted to highlight Expelled! 40% off -- 95% Very Positive -- 5-stars in the Observer -- 8/10 in Edge "A wicked good time."

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Save 40% on Expelled! on Steam

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the cr...

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

70s love songs are all "I love you, I'm sorry, I won't tie you down, not asking for promises, shouldn't have said anything. Go your own way."

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today's realization: Monet's garden at Giverny is a canonical French garden, but it's actually in the style of an English garden.

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Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit

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inkle @inkle.co · 20/11/2025

We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

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TR-49 on Steam

Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! and A Highland Song.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

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The Gentrification of Video Game History

We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Why do all teenage girl characters on TV sound like they're from the San Fernando Valley?

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The Mummer's Dansky @rdansky.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just remember that behind every pearl is a deeply irritated oyster.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Having worked in TV and film, let me just say that I don't envy the FCC being up against entertainment lawyers.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

People say it's dumb to major in liberal arts, but some knowledge of history is pretty effing beneficial right now.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

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Dalek Epscream. @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Game8 has some nice things to say about the storytelling in Every Day We Fight (and the rest of it!)(game8.co/articles/rev...): "There’s a kind of slow-burn storytelling embedded in exploration. The game doesn’t shove exposition in your face. It lets you find it.

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Every Day We Fight Review [Early Access] | Gets Better Every Time You Die｜Game8

2025.07.11 Every Day We Fight is a turn-based tactics game where the characters you control are stuck in a time loop. Read on to learn everything we know, our review of the early access, and more.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Delighted to see that the F1 movie gives a credit to Roscoe.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Movies about lone wolf men who don't follow rules and who outsmart experts with "common sense" = making heroes of men with no friends or impulse control who did badly in school. Gimme introvert heroines with seasonal depression who could maybe lose a few pounds.

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Lisa Hunter @lisalisa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Valid uses of writing tests: 1) when someone's samples are in a different genre, so you can't tell if they can write your game 2) when someone has only ever done their own projects, and you don't know if they can write in anyone else's "voice." Otherwise, just read the damn portfolio.

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