iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you're serious about game development or design, PLAY OLD GAMES I can't overstate how many good ideas are sitting there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it's not even stuff that was there at the time, it's only there now looking from a modern perspective.

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 26/09/2026

Pardall Games is live! Explore EVERY SINGLE ASSET from Final Fantasy 7 (including animations, pre-rendered bgs, and a surprise: Summon animations, it's not a video, it's all summons reverse-engineered into the browser). + Resident Evil 2, Baroque and Boku no Natsuyasumi #PS1 #FF7 #PSX #RetroGames

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Unomelon @unomelon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Seems like Microsoft has sent a false DMCA to another block game, this time Luanti. Please check out this article to see more information about it. It's really bad that this sort of thing is allowed to happen. blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/l...

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Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/08/2026

All the biggest announcements from Gamescom Opening Night Live aftermath.site/gamescom-openi...

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Have all your prototyping or game jam needs fulfilled for an amazing price from an amazing member of the game dev community!

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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 11/07/2026

the “for you” feed made my bluesky experience so much better I don’t even know why it is not the official discover algo

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 30/06/2026

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

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Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine

Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's all 3D? Always has been.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What an amazing initiative and event idea! A sale & showcase for UI heavy videogames - This is like the perfect overlap for a design nerd and a gamer: interfacex.net

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InterfaceX26 — Sale & Showcase

InterfaceX26 brings together 150+ developers to tag Fake OS games on Steam, with a week-long sale and a live showcase of exclusive reveals.

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ostonox @ostonox.com · 26/02/2026

Kat Abughazaleh on ICE in IL-9 debate "We need to fully abolish and prosecute ICE. We need to repeal the Patriot Act. We need to lift refugee caps. And we need to offer complete amnesty and citizenship to any immigrant here who has not committed a violent crime."

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

They literally destroyed books in order to scan in the texts to take advantage of a legal loophole. That's kind of fucked

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 🔜 NFC @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is old but I am still feeling this way up to this day.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

When I think of semiotics, like illustrators, character designers, writers can all agree, the difference between villains and heroes really can be observed and kinda not subtle IRL. It also makes me think of the differences between bees and wasps.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 04/01/2026

Pure joy.

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 27/12/2025

In the first month of our campaign OVER 2,000 people have signed our boycott Xbox pledge! So far that's: 🎮 1,913 gamers 🔨 296 game workers & developers ✏️ 179 game writers 👾 146 streamers Thank you for your support with our launch, we can’t wait to build the campaign bigger and better next year!

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 21/12/2025

The Escapist accused Blue Prince developer Dogubomb of using generative AI. This is patently false and an utterly gross accusation. The story has since been amended, but the damage has been done. You can search out the current version if you want, but here’s the original. archive.ph/CKiOB

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 18/12/2025

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

If you didn't know about the boycott, nor understand how any of it is connected to the games industry, this video is a great summary and call to action. #Palestine #xboxBoycott #gameDev #gamesIndustry

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 16/12/2025

Here's how to support human artists! 🎨

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The BDS movement is partnering with @nogamesforgenocide.com. Together we can help end Microsoft’s technological support of Israel illegal apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza. Sign the pledge to boycott Microsoft’s Xbox. Read more: loom.ly/1FQEDiA

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Currently working on a story about the Xbox boycott and hoping to have it up on the channel before the end of the year. But in the meantime, I'm very happy to have my name (and PMG's) attached to today's pledge from @nogamesforgenocide.com.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

We can all do our part to help untangle our games industry from the tendrils of genocide. I'm proud to have been part of the team to put this out, I've been working hard on the web dev side of this and I'm happy to see so many sign ups already! #gaza #genocide #palestine #BDS #gamedev #gamesindustry

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Came across a nice video by @camelCaseDev talking through some apparently slept on HTML tags: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgND... Not all the elements mentioned are baseline yet. I was sad to see that the closedby attribute isn't, but I learned about template and the inert attribute! #html #webdev

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Top 6 HTML Features You’re Not Using (But Should Be)

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Wow, the #ThreeJS prerequisites manual page is a surprisingly good crib sheet of ES features: threejs.org/manual/#en/p...

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Crashsune @crashsune.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I just dropped my newest (100% free✨) Blender guide - this time made with your help! It’s a 19-page collection of tips and tricks from some of the coolest Blender artists out there. It covers everything: Advanced Modeling, Rendering, Hotkeys and more! Okay, enough teasing! ⤵️ t.co/Ht4LUy538q

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Was cleaning out my codepen today, saw that a DVD Bounce sketch I found from 2 years ago no longer works. It used the <marquee> tag to achieve its animation, but sadly that has since been deprecated. So for my own collection, I've written an implementation in JS: codepen.io/liyiz/pen/Ea... #webdev

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DVD Bounce with JS

With the <marquee> tag deprecated, I wanted to update this with a JS implementation for my collection. The code pen I originally referenced was: https:...

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Razorblade Apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Michael_Foote on TikTok posted a video about how to quickly help a migrant friend who may have gotten nabbed by ICE

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Absolutely loving Ropuka's Idle Island. Just a lil frog guy gardening on my desktop

A floating island of tall grass, in the middle a cabin, deck chair, and a humanoid frog character running with gardening shears tocut more grass.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

My typing speed takes a huge debuff, but my other stats are buffed.

POV: A lynx patterned cat slumbers in front of you hampering your ability to type on your keyboard but looking hella cute.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I recently designed some merch for @gaby_cosplay (instagram/tiktok). This one I'm particularly proud of you can check it out here: gabycosplaymerch.dashery.com/products/794... #merchdesign #disabilityjustice #graphicdesign

Gaby's Merch Store page showing the "Bearer of the pain T-Shirt" item with a printed graphic of a ~13th century European medieval-style royal figure reclined in bed covered in a blanket looking poorly. The slogan reads "Mine inwards doth ache sore". The price of a Male Fit off-white shirt for this design is $22 (assumed USD).

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Lorenzo Pilia @lorenzopilia.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

fwiw i view itch as a victim in this and think they deserve some benefit of the doubt for everything they’ve done. payment processors are holding a gun to everyone’s head and itch is no exception. this is different. the death of itch, like so many are rallying around now, would be detrimental.

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 12/07/2025

The games industry is complicit in genocide and imperialism. It’s time to divest. If you're a game worker, journalist, streamer, or gamer, and feel like you want to get more involved, you can head to our website for more: nogamesforgenocide.com

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No Games For Genocide

The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 02/07/2025

Don't wait until you're thirsty to dig a well. Don't wait until you're hungry to plant your crops. Don't wait until you need a powerful union to build one.

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Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Woah, when did github add this feature that let's you use a kanban board??

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

That 2s clip of mantling over an edge in first person was enough to hook me. A solar punk Mirror's Edge that's made by students, sign me tf up!

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I would like one motorbroom please! 🧹✨

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I was tinkering around with @heytibo.bsky.social's Godot Plush character, trying to wrap my head around how the facial expressions work. Learned a lot about animation tree and animation player nodes today. I swapped in the relaxed eyes and made them open when lil guy sprints. #GodotEngine #gamedev

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... Kinda lost, but kinda not 😅 always trying to do the right thing

Willow Rosenberg from the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer: A young white woman with shoulder length red hair with an somewhat neutral expression.

Ariadne from the movie Inception: A preppy looking young white woman with hair past the shoulders, and with a loose hanging neck scarf, looking sceptically at someone off-camera to the right.

Dr. Sean Maguire from the movie Good Will Hunting: A middle-aged white man with medium long pushed back hair and a greying frizzy beard that is a little unkempt. He has a warm demeanour and appears to be mid lecture.

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Reconnecting with the graphic designer in me ✏✨

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Liyi 🌻 @liyizhang.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I recently got caught out by AI generated music playlist videos on YouTube. I'll link an informative article about it in a reply, but suffice it to say I'm relieved to discover human DJ videos, like these by Humano Studios: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvG... Hitting the spot for some background music!

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Smooth City Pop, Nostalgic Funk, シティ・ポップ, R&B [Vinyl Studio Session] with Bobby Ghanoush

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