iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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Jewel @bunpy.bsky.social · 14h

the new deadlock update hit and you should absolutely look through the blog, down to the character names+key art, because it's super inspiring every artist should study this stuff, especially the use of color and silhouette; valve artists are so good www.playdeadlock.com/cityneversle...

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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chess!! @videochess.world · 28/09/2026

== Cave Story it's literally a perfect video game you guys... i know everyone says this, but Cave Story was a huge "wait... you can just... Make A Game?" shock moment for me. one person, or a small group of people, could make a game. and it could result in something like Cave Story. that's crazy!

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Jarvs | Indie Insights 🎮♿🏳️‍🌈 @jarvdusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎙️Starting a podcast: Playing it Forward. Going through every job in games, A to Z, with people who actually do them. First up: Audio. Looking for 2-3 audio designers to share how they got in and what they'd tell the next generation. Know someone? Send them my way.

a cartoon drawing of a woman looking at a sign pointing in different directions

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 27/09/2026

conventional wisdom for the entire time i've been programming has always been "less code is better". the idea that we must write more code faster is ridiculous. the problem has never been rate of output

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 27/09/2026

my current focus on writing games specifically for retro systems is partly in response to this, the toolchains im using are all a decade old, long before LLM coding was even thought of. and yet, it will last longer than most software being written right now

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching a let's play of Still Wakes the Deep where they're using the "please translate all the hard words into English (International)" subtitles option, and it's got me strongly believing non-scots players should just suck it up and learn what a jobbie is through context

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Fred Wood @fredtwood.com · 26/09/2026

I should probably let go of this very cool Super Famicom storage system rather than just put it in storage... but it's so cool. :( You can even have it hooked up while it's closed.

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Bee, dog in the city @brodnork.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Making video games is fun actually

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JLP @jlp.systems · 24/09/2026

I had to make this a jingle

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Control Resonant is WEIRD! I get why it was off-putting to some people.

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Chris Perry @perridot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OH!WARE, my first commercial release, IS OUT NOW! Your ancestors whisper guidance. The Gods all watch. They want you to check it out and give it a review 🙏♥️ store.steampowered.com/app/4121430/...

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 23/09/2026

Seeing a five quid powercard in a Silent Hill game is mangling my mind more than any of the faceless shambling horrors.

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sponge @goodass.dog · 23/09/2026

happy to see QC get its big farewell update too. quake champions was always my favorite quake gameplay wise. i'm also proud to say i came up with the name (and pushed against calling it quake world haha) and the design of athena's hook was my one big brained game designer moment!

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Chao @chao-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been working on this little garden for the past year, and today it's finally open! 🌱 Chomp Garden is out now on Steam! A bite-sized puzzle adventure where you play as a tiny lamp, guide strange plants with light, and find your lost pup! store.steampowered.com/app/4457150

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DrMelon @melon.zone · 23/09/2026

New blog post: Part 1 of how I built my Deltarune fangame for NES last year! melon.zone/blog/blog/ga...

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mantle.nes breakdown blog part 1

the how and why of my multi-month demake fangame project!

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DrMelon @melon.zone · 23/09/2026

This was one of the very first Sonic comics I read, before I knew anything about StC! It informed a lot of how I (and honestly, a lot of the kids in my area) thought about the story of the initial games back then!

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A well mannered red-eyed vireo covering its beak while it coughs 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f6.3, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“The report is expected to say that there is a widespread instance of the British public telling the truth and the British propaganda machine lying frequently and loudly to it to change their minds“

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: Scotland's train drivers are threatening a boycott over a firm shortlisted to build new vehicles having links to illegal Israeli settlements 5 firms are shortlisted to build the new fleet for Scotland's publicly owned rail company, including Spain's CAF

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 21/09/2026

Game Devs of Color is this week!!! My talk making the trailer for Skin Deep by @blendogames.bsky.social is Wednesday at 1:45p Eastern time. This one is an extremely tight 30 min which starts with me getting the job and ends with final capture (and lots of unused takes 😅)

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

playing the WD-40 game

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 19/09/2026

One of the best Quake mappers and texture-artists out there, soon to release a pack of ~1600 textures for commercial use. Fingers crossed that we see some of these popping up across the retro shooter sphere over the next couple years.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

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DrMelon @melon.zone · 19/09/2026

(confirmed in replies not to be ai) looks like the box art for an amiga version of pizza tower

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Joe Dillon @joffocakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

when you have to prove to your manager that you're too injured to use a keyboard

Yakuza Zero's collectable card "Luka Kanae Type C"

Same card, zoomed in. Also maybe this joke only works with a Scottish accent. Or Geordie.

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Kwaze Kwaze @kwazekwaze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

4 years of truly abysmal people insisting this isn't how any of this works, how new and transformative content is being served, and finally there's the documentation of the people behind this crime saying "nah it's all theft, hope we get away with it"

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

not available yet, but it's all coming together!!!!!

screenshot of a storefront selling concrete textures. it includes screenshots, and a description that reads:
"Makkon Textures Concrete
A large and comprehensive pack of diffuse-only retro textures made from scratch in a cohesive art style, extensively battle tested by the Quake mapping community.

The concrete pack comes with 26 color variations, from bare concrete to painted colors to covered in moss.

Includes patterns for: building window facades, bare/cracked/broken surfaces and decals, floor tiles, a multitude of wall patterns, trimsheets and panel sheets, dedicated stairs, waffle slabs and fences, and huge 1k megastructure wall facades.

Built for and work best in 32 pixels/m texel density.

Screenshots may contain supplemental textures from other packs."

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

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Michael Harker @michaelharker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com

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Liam E 🚲 🦝TANUKI @liambme.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Huge congrats to our friends @ukiyostudios.com on the opening of the Ukiyo Game Bar In Ginza! We’re super happy to be a small participant! If you’re in town for TGS, then you can head over & play TANUKI, but also get yourself a TANUKI PON’s SOUR cocktail to drink! 😊

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Alex RS - WOIM🪱✂️🥚 @dogspawn.net · 15/09/2026

sometimes all you need is a little teamwork… #godot #indiegame #gamedev

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suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 15/09/2026

Loved seeing this system take shape. It felt like one of those key advances during development that put a lid on the chaos we'd created and turned it into something you could learn the rules of.

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RainDing 🌧 @raindingrandom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what? Here's ALL the opponent voice clips from Kirby's Avalanche. There's some really good ones that I think more people need to hear. #Kirby

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making-friendos @making-friendos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OH HELL YEAH IT'S THE PANTS BIRD

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Kaptajnen @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#SAGE 2026 is here! And that means that we are inbound for a TON of #fangames, #homebrews, and other cool #indiegame projects. With an emphasis on #retro & #Sonic themed games. There really is something for everyone here Full 23-minute-long video youtu.be/2dREVQosRjI #retrogaming #gaming #romhacks

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

reminds me of the energy that old sites like the indiegames dot com blog used to have, tbh

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ngl i adore the leave-nothing-out energy of SAGExpo. no other showcase would have commercial games, noncommercial games, fangames and romhacks all right next to each other back to back with no separation.

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Jaime Cross @speedyjx.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Got some shots back from the @gameworkers.co.uk demo this morning. Will need to go through them properly, but some decent ones in there. Shout out to Snappy Snaps, fastest film dev + scanners in the west (end). 📷 Pentax MG 🔎 SMC Pentax-M 1:2 50mm 🎞️ Kodak Colorplus @ 200 ISO

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Damn, you've got to imagine Rockstar never envisioned a speech like this one happening when they fired those 34 workers, huh?

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Today marks the beginning of our trial against Rockstar to hold them accountable for firing workers who were trying to unionise. In order for us to see this through to the end, we need your support. Please donate to and share our fundraiser for the Rockstar 31: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/wWq5Omj...

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Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31

Justice for 31 Rockstar employees who formed a union and were fired en masse

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Holo - Incubus Dragon @holodrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It was not, in fact, an IKEA-furnished player home. You can just, go ahead and experience the absurdity for yourself. XD youtu.be/iZODN0QUgjI

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KALLAX STORAGEBORN, a free creation for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim™ from IKEA.

YouTube video by IKEA Ireland

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