iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 24/09/2026

Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop by Swan's Market Courtyard on October 3rd and play some alt. ctrl. games! Outside! In the real world!

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join us at this Month's Experimental Play Night tonight @ any time 5-9 for Bennet Foddy and AP Thompson's illegal competitive party game Multibowl. Be the last one standing!

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Experimental Play Nights

A game night of the elaborate and strange.

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Mike Merrill @kmikeym.com · 24/09/2026

The problem with volunteering at @mademuseum.bsky.social in the archives is finding so many games I want to play. anyone played Wishbringer, The Madness of Roland, The Colony, or Starflight?

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Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sharing an after-action report on the latest Multiplayer Bitsy workshop at @mademuseum.bsky.social. Read the latest updates and get set for #bitsyjam 100, starting Oct 15th! jatazak.itch.io/multiplayer-...

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MP Bitsy workshop at the MADE

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland hosted us on September 13th for the first public Multiplayer Bitsy workshop. After discovering the `avatar morph` rule, we quickly made some tea....

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Retro Blast 💫 @retroblastpod.com · 19/09/2026

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

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wowmd.bsky.social @wowmd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's the first footage of the cancelled SNES/SFC port of Railroad Tycoon to ever be posted online, captured from my promotional tape made by the would-be Japanese publisher. For a long time, the only evidence of the game's existence was two blurry Nintendo Power screenshots!

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Feel like throwing down? Get out that primal aggression in a fun, social environment where nobody gets hurt. IRL, anyway. Super Smash Bros Ultimate Every Thursday 7pm The first rule of Fight Nights @ The MADE? Absolutely please do talk about Fight Nights @ The MADE. Tell everyone.

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Fight Nights @ The MADE

Join us at our weekly Smash tournaments!

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Termite Terrace Club @termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Happy anniversary to one of Chuck Jones’ best shorts. The 2nd in the Hunting Trilogy, ranked number 30 in the The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time, and also the first to have layout artist Maurice Noble credited. Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck in “Rabbit Seasoning” (1952). #LooneyTunes

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Weird controllers. Unusual games. Let’s play. Join the MADE at Swan’s Market for the first O.A.K. Games, a free outdoor showcase of alternative-controller games, experimental play, and interactive art. These games ask you to move, swing, balance, and play with strange physical interfaces!

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O.A.K. Games by the MADE: Open-Air Alt-Control Games · Luma

Weird controllers. Unusual games. Let’s play. Join the MADE at Swan’s Market for the first O.A.K. Games, a free outdoor showcase of alternative-controller…

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Lucas Immanuel - Game Out! @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This workshop has been fantastic and you can hop in anywhere!

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Join us tomorrow at 1pm for @smshieldsy.bsky.social's intensive trading card game workshop where participants will go hands on with Worldbuilding and Scarcity in card games www.eventbrite.com/e/tcg-tradin...

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TCG (Trading Card Game) Intensive Workshop

What makes trading card games stick with people? Join us in this intensive 4-day workshop to find out!

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Mike Merrill @kmikeym.com · 12/09/2026

been volunteering at @mademuseum.bsky.social

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Habitat, the MMO for the C64! "‘It’s the first virtual world’, says Alex Handy, founder of the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) [...] ‘It was the source of almost all of the original terms that have to do with online worlds."

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Virtual worlds - Works in Progress Magazine

The massively multiplayer online game was created in the 1980s.

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That "five year mission" sure did stretch out. STAR TREK premiered on NBC on this date in 1966! Six decades of awesome aliens, optimism, and social commentary. And, yes, the appropriate amount of Tribbles and PEW PEW PEW KABOOM! Happy birthday, TREK!

Screenshot from Star Trek: 25th Anniversary for the NES. Pixelated art of Kirk and Spock. Spock is saying, "CAPTAIN, OUR MOST RECENT SENSOR REPORT REVEALED A"

Screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown. Space battle! Pew pew!

Promo art for STAR TREK: PHASER STRIKE for Microvision! 1979!

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xkcd Bot @xkcd-bot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Asteroid Mission xkcd.com/3294 Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny. Explain xkcd: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/…

Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer... Arguably it was the ZX81 I had for three months, but realistically the first one I really *used* was the Amstrad PCW8256.

A Sinclair ZX81. Black, roughly square, physically small home computer from 1981. The front 40% is covered by a completely flat touch-sensitive four row keyboard (with no space bar). Absolutely ghastly!

An Amstrad PCW8256 home/office computer, pale beige with screen/floppy disk/CPU unit, keyboard, and dot matrix printer (it came as a complete kit).

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The website is up: save-the-academy.org Important info, contact points, and news articles within

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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences

Don't mourn — organize. Rally Tue Sept 8, 10 a.m., 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy. Nine things you can do today.

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Do you like what the MADE is doing? Want to help out in some way? Join us Mondays 6–8 PM at MADE @ 921 Washington St for our volunteer meeting! We welcome new volunteers and anyone curious!

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Weekly Volunteer Meetings

Join us Mondays 6–8 PM at MADE @ 921 Washington St for our volunteer meeting and tasks! We welcome new volunteers and anyone curious!

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ICARUS @mistericarus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wanna go build a collaborative Doom map at a museum? (If you live in Oakland, CA, USA)

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Exquisite Corpse: Doom World - A Collaborative Level Design Workshop. Everyone creates a section of a Doom map before passing it along to someone else. Rooms mutate. Monsters migrate. Themes collapse. Come help build this grotesque megaWAD. Here at the MADE. #GameDev

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Exquisite Corpse: Doom World [Collaborative Level Design Workshop]

Build one monster. Together.

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mary Menzel, one of the first programmers for the MANIAC computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has passed away at the age of 97. RIP. www.riverafamilyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/m...

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Mary Menzel Obituary Aug 27, 2026 - Rivera Family Funerals & Cremations

View Mary Menzel's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You are playing an unusual form of interactive entertainment. A COMPUTER is here, displaying mostly text. In accordance with tradition, the text is written in the SECOND PERSON. There is a group of PEOPLE here. It's an INTERACTIVE FICTION MEETUP! Every first Saturday, at the MADE.

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Interactive Fiction Meetup

Every first Saturday.

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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How would you (yes, you) explain the concept of “clipping” (video game-style) to an older relative (you have to love them enough to try)? 🚧 Replies are open; thread is muted. 🚧

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Lucas Immanuel - Game Out! @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An absolutely incredible game, thanks to everyone who came by the MADE and played!

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🫡 Donors make the MADE! As we continue to inspire the next generation of digital creators and dive even deeper into the community impact we can make, we want to make sure we recognize the support of those who have supported us in the pursuit of our mission. We invite you to give as well!

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Donor Wall

DONORS MAKE THE MADE — From Kickstarters to individual and corporate donations, we've been privileged to walk side-by-side with people who believe in the…

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Lucas Immanuel - Game Out! @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tonight!

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIV Dolly You are one of the few people cool enough to get your likeness on a pinball machine and actually deserve it ❤️

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I was today years old when I learned that a travel guide was produced for the Game Boy in 1991 and that it has a cute little pixel animation to represent the character of each major city it covers.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Wii Mii Plaza lobby without a Peter Griffin or Darth Vader, which is weird

The text: not a cell phone in sight. just people living in the moment

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

INSIDE THE MADE You are standing in a playable video game museum. There is a computer here. It has ZORK installed. > PLAY ZORK _

Photo closeup of monitor showing the text adventure game ZORK.

People sitting at a computer in the MADE, playing the text adventure game ZORK.

People posing for a selfie in the MADE, playing the text adventure game ZORK.

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Ben Hart @pavlovforgoths.com · 14/08/2024

please stop using the term spirit animal

Spirit animal is racist

Patronus was invented by a transphobe.

I think it's time

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works.” - @archive.org blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/v...

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Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward | Internet Archive Blogs

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This Tuesday we'll have our usual indie dev coworking @ the MADE, and we'll also have teams from the Game Grove Incubator as special guests sharing their projects with us. Come by if you want to work on your project in community, or help support Game Grove's indie teams by checking out theirs!

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Game Grove Field Trip

Join the Game Grove Incubator teams as they journey to the MADE to meet industry experts, showcase their projects, and receive feedback.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Mega Drive games on floppy disk? Productivity, artwork, game expansions, and DLC when combined with the Mega Modem? Just a few potential uses of the unreleased Sega Mega Drive Floppy Disk Drive. Showcased in 1989, it would have been a Sony-Sega co-pro and used proprietary 2" floppies.

A magazine scan close up photo of the sidecar FDD that slotted into the expansion port in the right of the MD. It has the same cyberpunk aesthetic as the console itself

Another magazine scan photo of the FDD from the side, showing the boxy shape with grill panels like the MD and FDD in yellow text

A Japanese magazine article talking about its potential for RPG expansions for games like Sorcerian and release date of 1990

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Fight Nights @ The MADE! Join us for our weekly #SmashBros tournaments! Every Thursday, 7-10pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/fight-nigh...

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Ken Watanabe: Let Them Fight

Alt: Ken Watanabe in GODZILLA: Let Them Fight

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Lucas Immanuel - Game Out! @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

(you can play it on display right now at @mademuseum.bsky.social )

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Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment @mademuseum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Indie game developer co-working here at the MADE, every Tuesday! Bring your own project/laptop and hang out with the MADE's community of local game developers in a relaxed, friendly environment. #GameDev #Oakland

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Indie Game Developer Co-Working

Come hang out, chat, and work on your projects here at the MADE! A welcoming and laid-back place to meet fellow developers and get ideas.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Saw the Odyssey today @mademuseum.bsky.social

Original packaging of the Magnavox Odyssey videogame console displayed on a shelf.

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Lucas Immanuel - Game Out! @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Was a player in a Blood Moon Pact game GM'ed by @opheliaau7170.bsky.social themself this evening and it might be tabletop GOTY. Cannot WAIT to get this to the table on the 28th. Run don't walk. If you want to play sign up at the eventbrite link in the original post.

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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aidan strong @str0nkyk0ng.itch.io · 09/08/2026

Excited to talk about art game simulations next weekend at the MADE @mademuseum.bsky.social in Oakland! www.eventbrite.com/e/from-ants-...

From Ants, to Dwarves, to Skylines — Exploring Simulation in Games

artist talk + workshop
by aidan strong

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Lucas Immanuel - Game Out! @lucasimmanuel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I helped curate/write for this! Come look at it :)

Don't Read Me from Super "Sonic Saves the World" World.

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Rachel Heleva @hlywa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm building a space for community, art practice, and curation I've always wanted for games in the Bay Area at the MADE as Excutive Director. If any of that calls to you I hope you'll come hang out with us! Our new exhibit, Access to Tools, will be up for the next few months.

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠

An image of a boom box, a cd wallet, a travel atlas, business cards, dictionarjes a pay phone and various things people used before cellphones

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