iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/09/2026

Stop inventing shit the humans in Wall-E use

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Olivenaut @olivenaut.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Going to gamescom and full indie has reminded me that uhh I don’t really like being a “commercial artist”

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daffodil 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @daff.space · 06/09/2026

got invited to an "AI game dev conference" if you want to see a list of games to ignore and developers to proactively stop following, check out the conference's website here: www.glitch.fun/gameshows/9e...

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AI Gaming Conference | Glitch Festival

Learning workshops on how to better use AI in development and showcasing games made with AI

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Kay-Lynne @kaylynne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey look I promise I am a sweetheart of a person but you get my loud mouth bitch side only when you're showing your bigotry or boot licking okay lol #feminism #antiai #queer #anticapitalism

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Kay-Lynne @kaylynne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I will always be insufferable and loud about things I care a lot about Become ungovernable friends! ✌️

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another day another zero $ "wasting our time" hand crafting all our 3D assets ourselves without gen AI. Everything you see in our game is made with hrs and hrs of yelling at Blender until it bends to our will like god intended 🤣 I'm even modelling the damn blueberries #blender #gamedev #antiai

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Olivenaut @olivenaut.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People should give me money to make video games. But I am of course, a leftist. And that means I think people should give YOU money to make video games too

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/08/2026

Always helpful to remember that from the perspective of the "anti-woke gaming" content creator, hours a viewer spends actually playing games are hours they're not spending watching anti-woke gaming content. Games aren't their hobby, they are their competition

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I want to see something here- If you are making a game that does not use any generative AI, let us know in this thread, we'd love to wishlist your game and support you and I'm sure others would too! (gif is how I feel when yelling into the void about AI art all the time lol) #gamedev #antai

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When chuds call us "woke losers" when our video game studio is literally made up of just 4 queer natives 🤣 We aren't just "woke" we're living the wokeness baby OPEN YOUR EYES #indigisky #gamedev #lgbtq #queer

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you think we won't put you on blast publicly for being a shitty person because we're a game studio you are sorely mistaken. We have nothing to gain from your "support" and nothing to lose from the lack of it. See ya! ✌️

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 28/08/2026

the industry might be in a total freefall but if you file taxes as a game developer you can expense buying the strip mahjong game as research because it has impressive technical achievements for 3d animation

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Was cool to see THE @toadyone.bsky.social at #gamescom, he seemed too busy to say hi (or maybe I was too shy?) but I had a good chat with some fine folks at @kitfoxgames.com

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Alex Van Aken @itsvanaken.games · 28/08/2026

the amount of generative AI on display at Gamescom is genuinely embarrassing. there is no shame.

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Screenshots from our magic cooking game, Kitch Witch. ✨ No generative AI used. Hundreds of hours hand-crafting 3D models. And the game isn't even close to being done yet. AI shills will you tell you skip the slog, but it's part of the art of making art. #gamedev #blender #3dart #retro #indie

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I hate when I see cool indigenous projects that I’m really happy and excited to support, just to find out all their 3D models are auto generated ai-slop. Real cool. Real cool.

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Had the opportunity to play a bit of this pre-gamescom! Such a tightly designed playdate puzzle game. Highly recommend if you own one of these fun little devices. #gamescom #gamescomdev #indiegames

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Jupiter @jupiterhadley.com · 27/08/2026

Pasta with Canada friends this evening! #gamescom #dinnertime

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Kay-Lynne @kaylynne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Capitalism is evil and is ruining art and I hate that I have to interface with this shit at all I'm so tired take me back home to Canada so I can stop being in suit land thanks #gamescom #gamedev

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not a single word of a lie. One of the most unpleasant people I’ve ever had the displeasure of speaking to.

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Kay-Lynne @kaylynne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Xsolla can fund everything under the sun but let's not forget the fact that they will lay off masses of their employees to replace them with AI and treat indie devs like the scum of the earth and just print money that they steal off the top and add no value whatsoever #xsolla #gamedev #gamesindustry

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 06/06/2026

for any indie devs who might be interested in xsolla now after their ai slop ad closed out the day of the devs presentation you might wanna also read their wikipedia first en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsolla

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m so tired of xsolla man.

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Olivenaut @olivenaut.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I love making and playing videos games

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I took literally one step into the main #gamescom floor and immediately ran back to the business area. That shit is TOO busy. I’ve never seen so many people in my life.

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Kay-Lynne @kaylynne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know we all want to promote PoSiTiViTy in our daily lives and yeah sure that's good whatever But here's some negative shit that has happened to me working in the video game industry that is WORTH TALKING ABOUT Feel safe to vent too, I'm here to listen as well as yap! #gamedev #gamesindustry

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Olivenaut @olivenaut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

reminder to those who were underwhelmed by opening night live, there are FIVE HUNDRED indie games at gamescom.

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Requested a song at karaoke and it ended before they played it 😭😭 my night is ruined and I will never recover #gamescom #gamescomdev

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Practicing the tried and true method of networking where I sit in the corner with a beer I don’t even really like and hope somebody comes and chats with me 😎 #gamescomdev #gamescom (If you’re here and also socially inept, come hang!! I’m wearing a button up covered in bubbles. Hard to miss)

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Absolutely fucking phenomenal. Best talk of the entire #gamescomdev hands down.

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Half the #gamescomdev booths are AI tech. I’m tired of this, grandpa.

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Character portrait concept art for our playable character and a couple NPCs in Kitch Witch from our lovely artist @cainupe.bsky.social ! ✨💖 Wishlist Kitch Witch here! store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #conceptart #characterart #gamedev #gameart #art

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Kitch Witch fan art from our friend Daya at @voidblob-coop.bsky.social! We are OBSESSED, forever grateful and just blown away that our game can inspire our friends to make such gorgeous art! 🥹💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #kitchwitch #gamedev #art #cozygames #cottagecore

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our cozy cooking game, Kitch Witch, just surpassed 100 wishlists on Steam in the first week of our Steam page being live! 🎉 We are so grateful for the support! If you haven't wishlisted yet, we would be so happy if you did! 💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #kitchwitch #gamedev #cozygames

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I didn’t realize showcasing would be so exhausting but it’s so nice to see our game click for so many people. Worth the long days and early mornings for sure. #gcc #gameconcanada #gameconcanada2026 #indie

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Kay-Lynne @kaylynne.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Nothing has made me feel more confident that we are going to publish our game independently than going to a game dev event and meeting with and/or talking to investors and some publishers (I had a couple publisher meetings that were really good and with people who felt real).

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"But gen AI allows me to make art when I can't do it myself!" Make bad art. Making bad art is the first step to making good art. Your AI art looks terrible and painfully obvious anyway, may as well at least learn some actual skills #antiai #gamedev #gameart #genai

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I don't want to talk about AI unless it's to talk about how much it's ruining the whole entire world and even then preaching to the choir here Game dev events are half cool chill people and half AI shills and i bet you can guess which half I want to be friends with lol #antiai #gamedev #gcc

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Our cozy narrative cooking game, Kitch Witch, is now available to wishlist on Steam! ✨ It would mean the world to our small Indigenous and queer team if you would wishlist our game and share it with your friends. 🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/4816430/... #gamedev #cozygames #witchsky

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Carmen Ito @beemon.symbolicon.net · 21/05/2026

Greed has no respect for art, nature, and humanity. They'll destroy anything and everything for money. It was supposed to be a protected art piece, but nowadays, as long as they have money, they don't care about laws and justice. They are willing to commit crimes in public spaces.

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Support is obviously optional but appreciated!! We will be making some bigger update posts available for free on Patreon as well, so drop up a follow! #gamedev #indie #godotdev

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I KNOW THE DOCS ARE SCARY But there’s no better way to learn a piece of software. It’s one of the greatest things about these large open source software projects that documentation is plentiful and very high quality. A good 70% of my coding time is spent reading the godot docs!

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Struggled a lot trying to move an orthographic camera around cleanly. This seemed like an okay compromise for now.

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A man telling me what I can and can't do is a surefire way for me to do the thing. #blender #gamedev #feminism

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It might not be healthy staying up until 5am to try and get a shader to work, but god damnit I’ll be damned if I quit now.

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We're so happy to share that we've been selected to join Cohort 6 of the @babyghosts.fund Cooperative Foundations program! Worker led models are truly the future of this industry and we are so excited to learn more about how we can employ those values and systems into our studio! #gamedev #coop

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marentin @marentin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Nvidia who could possibly be asking for this???

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