iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Game dev is sometimes so embarrassing because you write a cool ass scene and just sit there like this while you wait for the artist to read it

little guy with big eyes waiting in anticipation

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best min-maxing dressmaker this town has ever seen

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Finally got my Murdoku book and I found the perfect thing to go with it: transparent sticky notes (look closely!)

A photo of transparent sticky note over the grids on the paper

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Zero-Sum Heart has officially reached 200 reviews, and just in time for #FallinLoveFestival, featuring tons of amazing romance visual novels from all devs— please check out the festival page here: store.steampowered.com/curator/4624...

Steam store page for Zero-Sum Heart having 200 reviews at 92% positive

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The sunlight is really nice today so this is my makeshift workstation

A cushion placed on the bay window with a laptop balanced on a clothes storage box

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For Chinese Steam users, the search result for the Steam tag "LGBTQ+" is now censored.

Shows Steam search results showing "content has been flagged as inappropriate for violating local laws or regulation, and cannot be viewed from your current location"

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Our 2-hour romantic thriller VN, Zero-Sum Heart, is once again 40% off for the Steam Summer Sale! For $3 you can take your heart out of your chest and make it explode like a stress ball (Look I'm running out of things to pitch here): store.steampowered.com/app/2954920/

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Having too much fun playing my own game

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

That part in Slay the Princess be like

A excerpt from Raye's song Skin & Bones. The lyric goes:
Skin and bones (Just skin and bones)
And lungs and a heart (And lungs and a heart)
Two eyes and a liver (Two eyes and a liver)
And a nose and no brain (And a nose and no brain)

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Upcoming in Dance of Theseus, our monster dress-up sim... #indiegamedev #art

Death by Tango, a dress-up set in Dance of Theseus with a woman wearing a tango dress made of meat, bones and flowers, two big bone scythes and a big shadow looming behind her

A graph showcasing some of the details of the first image paired with item description flavor texts

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Jenny and I (Okay mostly Jenny) made the best fucking dumplings on the planet

Dumplings in a pot, one is held up by chopsticks and bitten into

Dumplings on a plate with fried eggs base

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I can't believe it's been two years since the release of Death Trick: Double Blind! To celebrate, here's a little DND re-imagining of our characters. It was so fun to return to them again💗

2 years since the release of Death Trick: Double Blind, DND AU, featuring Echo as wizard, Yan as rogue, Rolf as druid and Aideen as ranger.

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Favorite enemies in Slay the Spire 2: - The Deer (majestic) - Transparent Sunfish (Disturbing) - Two Little Dudes in a Trenchcoat (Adorable) - Lil Mantis Dude that Hugs my Card (Relatable) Least favorite enemies: - These MFers

* An image of actual hairtail fish, not a game screenshot

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If you are looking for a short game about love, magic and girlhood, Zero-Sum Heart is 40% off for the first time ever for Women's Day Sale! Check out all the other wonderful games here (including our new project, Dance of Theseus): store.steampowered.com/sale/womensd...

Zero-Sum Heart 40% off for women's day sale

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Can't decide which game I'm gonna play first this weekend, Esoteric Ebb or Slay the Spire II!

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My mom speaks exclusively in Yuzuru Hanyu gifs to tell me food is ready

Screenshot of a chat between me and my mom and it's just her sending me Yuzuru Hanyu gifs

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Death Trick: Double Blind is 50% off for Steam Detective Fest! In our game, you can: - Watch a puppeteer make a child cry with his avant-garde stage art - Hear about a man chasing an ostrich on the highway - Uncover a hidden, tragic sapphic romance - Develop an allergy to hammers - Solve a murder

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I feel personally attacked by this post

Screenshot of Zero-Sum Heart dialogue, the character "him" says "I love you", and one choice says "(Lie) I love you too."

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

As a translator, sometimes I get mad at whoever wrote the game for coming up with a truly stupid amount of puns, and then I remember it was me, I wrote the game

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

In keeping with the theme, all buttons on Dance of Theseus' title page are symbolized by body parts. #indiegamedev #art

Dance of Theseus' game launch page. "New game" button is a hand grabbing a golden apple, "continue" is the brain attached to a nervous system, "Settings" is torso with internal organs, and "exit" is a wing extended

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Whoa Tiny Chef are you sure

Tiny Chef christmas video with auto-captioning saying "But I just want to kill you tonight".

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Guess who was getting into (read: addicted to) Divinity Original Sin 2 before Larian came out with the new announcement

My steam replay. Top 4 games being Divinity Original Sin 2, Field of Mistria, Tiny Pasture, Sultan's Game, Roots of Pacha

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Upcoming in Dance of Theseus, an indie monster dress-up sim I'm working on: (I think sometimes we ask ourselves: would someone put this in the Nikki games? No? Then it's our territory lol) #indiegamedev #art

The suit "Heartfelt Vow" in Dance of Theseus, featuring a white-and-red bridal ensemble with an open, beating heart, bony hands, a bouquet of eyeballs and an open brain.

The suit "Mate Eater" in dance of theseus, inspired by Praying Mantis design

The suit "Heavy Metal" in Dance of Theseus, featuring a lot of piercings and a dress made of spiky metal

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Jenny and I visited the ACMI museum in Melbourne last year, it was incredible! We learned about phenakistoscope discs there, and it inspired this day-to-night transition in Dance of Theseus. #indiegamedev #art #animation

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Guess who I found today!!!!!

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A little sneak peek of my upcoming game, Dance of Theseus, a "glamorous monster dress-up life sim". Trailer and Steam store page available now :) #indiegamedev #art

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Announcing Dance of Theseus, a dress-up life sim with wings, tentacles, and claws. Venture into the glamorous world of monster ballrooms, craft new body parts, assemble yourself, and outshine everyone at themed events. Singleplayer, no microtransactions :) Wishlist now on Steam: s.team/a/3581260

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy 1 year anniversary of Zero-Sum Heart! We developed it in ~6 months, so it has officially been twice as long since. As we spent last year chipping away at a much bigger project (more on that to come!), we really began appreciating ZSH more as something small, tight, and beautiful.

Zero-Sum Heart 1 year anniversary, featuring three characters toasting and eating hotpot together

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Normalize drawing your music composers a cute lil graph to illustrate what you want for the trailer

A graph of trailer timeline and intensity with annotations (parts blurred for spoilers)

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Zero-Sum Heart is now available in LATAM Spanish! And it's currently 25% off for Fall in Love Visual Novel festival on Steam, go check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/2954920/...

Zero-Sum Heart now available in Spanish.
Spanish Localization: Francisca Stachiotti
Gracias!

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Silksong reviews at 57% in Simplified Chinese right now mainly due to translation issues

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Me planning out timelines and dialogue in google sheets: I love spreadsheets Me when our programmer hands me 10+ spreadsheets called enums, Variable Field, GlobalData and SpritePath:

An image of a turtle eating the excel icon on a laptop. Text says "yes bro eat excel take it away"

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Oooooh working on Zero-Sum Heart French localization, it just has that je ne sais quoi

Credits screen "Histoire inspirée de《La petite sirène》de Hans Christian Andersen"

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

[Trailer TW: Self-Harm] So excited to announce that our romantic thriller VN, Zero-Sum Heart, is now out on Nintendo Switch across all regions! This edition includes the digital artbook and OST too :) You can purchase and play it RIGHT NOW for 10% off at $7.19! #nintendoswitch #indiegamedev #art

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Do not trust A Solitaire Mystery's developer difficulty ratings. (How the hell is Time Travel mode on the same level as Hanoi Solitaire?) But here's the secret, I've found the real difficulty guide right here:

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Look I'm sorry for personally attacking you with this line/j

Plenty of people sell their souls to a mind-numbing corporate job, and they don't even get the benefit of eternal life or infinite knowledge.

There's a near-monopoly on remarkable deals, it's either your local auntie's grecery shop, or the devil.

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This is such a cool idea! And great UI design too

My result screenshot (350/500, pretty good)

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Went to the Stardew Valley exhibit at Shanghai video game museum today! They had a wall where you could give bouquet stickers to each marriage candidate and so many people were giving them to Krobus that they got him his own lil basket ❤️❤️❤️

Photo of me sitting in a Stardew Valley bus stop installation

Me with Krobus and his little bouquet basket

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

My romantic thriller VN Zero-Sum Heart is 25% off going into Steam Summer Sale, the cheapest it's ever been: s.team/a/2954920 To convince you to give it a try, here's the best 15 seconds in the whole game (imo): #indiegame #gamedev #visualnovel

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Shanghai International Film Festival this year has an Evangelion marathon that runs for 464 minutes straight. It starts at 23:50 and ends at 7:34 the next day... I sure hope the seats are comfy lol

SIFF Special: 30th annniversary of evangelion

Cinema listing that shows the time slot (464 minutes)

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Omg Unity Sprite Editor why don't you go fuck yourself

Unity Sprite Editor deleted thousands of small particles each as individual sprites

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Late to posting, but Zero-Sum Heart is currently on sale for #LudoNarraCon, alongside hundreds of other amazing narrative games! Please go check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/2954920/...

LudoNarraCon Zero-Sum Heart on sale poster

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Try Pixel Crusher's Dialogue System! I'm actually the opposite (I prefer writing in a doc first), so I didn't like working with such a visual-based UI, but it sounds like it's perfect for your needs!

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Aww she's learning to read

Cat with her head up looking at a banner

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Mari M @marivers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Wow someone cosplayed our character 🤯 I never expected this but look at the attention to detail! The makeup! The way they layered plastic on the wig to get that texture! 😭😭😭It's amazing

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