iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 4h

that bit in Infinite Jest where the guy just watches M*A*S*H all the time but it's me watching streams of Gabriel Knight 2 anytime I see someone playing it

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 5h

there aren't enough pinball table adaptations of William Gibson stories

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 6h

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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Angel 🩵 ¡VIVA MÉXICO! @cutestpatoot.itch.io · 10h

In light of being laid off, I’ve reopened my commissions for game design consults, as well as added new slots for layout, illustration & adventure writing! I’m an award winning game designer with credits across beloved systems like KOBOA, QUEERZ, Alchemistresses & more! ko-fi.com/c/94aec52063

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45 minute Game Design Consultation Session

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 10h

We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 14h

is Nivalis Nights inspired at all by Baywatch Nights?

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 15h

Happy October Eve! For Hallozeen this year, I made a 16-page walkthrough for a 36 year-old shareware classic. Primarily out of trash. I have no idea who the target audience is for this, besides me, but here you go! emmfoolery.itch.io/a-hallozeen-... #dosgaming #retrogaming

The opening game screen of Hugo's House of Horrors, by David P. Gray, for MS-DOS. A game released like, two weeks before I was born. Hugo's outside a haunted house! Spooky.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone is talking about how Michaelmas (which is today) has been too commercialized. That everyone is just expected to give Michaels everywhere gifts? Anyone hear this?

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 28/09/2026

Y2K web design in the 2000s – Sony in 2002 – Jamiroquai in 2003 – Microsoft Games in 2002 – Swift 3D in 2002

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 17h

Giving away free HUMAN-MADE! 3D models every week on our Patreon. Go grab that free asset that you can use for anything you like! While also supporting an indie game studio! www.patreon.com/AerialKnight...

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Free 3D Model - Arcade Machine | Aerial_Knight

Free 3D Model - Arcade Machine by Aerial_Knight on Patreon. Join Aerial_Knight's community for exclusive content and updates.

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MC Wright @nerdyisland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not back on Social Media, but I am sharing what I'm doing now. For right now I'm posting in my blog Monday, Wednesday & Friday, but in October I'll have something up every day. Please check it out and feel free to holler in the comments! thenerdyisland.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/t...

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The perfect rental game

A reoccurring theme here as you’ve notice or will soon, is how often I’ll be dating myself with nearly everything discussed here. Today in that dive through memory lane in nostalgia tow…

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

god, you could make an incredible/awful Pyst-like of the game Control

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scrubjay is still early, messy in some places (and not chasing seamless UI regardless) but I hope you'll enjoy playing with this very personal web gathering tool. everestpipkin.itch.io/scrubjay

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Scrubjay by Everest Pipkin

A drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Handcoded in HTML, CSS and Javascript and running locally, Scrubjay is usable for research, collection, game-building, website construction or simply to hold little fragments of digital things, in the same way that you hold a pebble in your palm on a walk.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the most important take we can have about that Rolling Stone article is that we should listen to more college radio

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/09/2026

Proboards just updated their terms of service for their forum software, essentially saying "you give us the right to use anything you post to train LLMs, and we can also disclose and sell your personal information, fuck you." One of the worst of these I've ever seen. www.proboards.com/tos

15. USER CONTENT

"User Content" is any content, materials or information, not including Personal Information (as defined in ProBoards' Privacy Policy), that You upload or post to, or transmit, display, perform or distribute by means of, the Website, whether in connection with Your use of Services or otherwise. To clarify, You maintain full ownership of all your User Content posted to ProBoards. Because You own Your User Content, under the law, ProBoards requires a license from You before it can allow the User Content to be posted on the Website. For these reasons, the following provision is a necessary part of this Agreement:

YOU HEREBY GRANT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES A PERPETUAL, FULLY PAID-UP, WORLDWIDE, SUBLICENSABLE, IRREVOCABLE, ASSIGNABLE LICENSE TO COPY, DISTRIBUTE, TRANSMIT, PUBLICLY DISPLAY OR PERFORM, EDIT, TRANSLATE, REFORMAT, ADAPT, PREPARE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF AND OTHERWISE USE USER CONTENT (INCLUDING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING BY US AND/OR OUR PARTNERS) IN CONNECTION WITH THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, SERVICES OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED BUSINESS, IN ANY MEDIUM NOW EXISTING OR LATER DEVISED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY PUBLISH OR OTHERWISE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION. YOU AGREE TO WAIVE, AND HEREBY WAIVE, ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE EXERCISE BY THE PROBOARDS PARTIES OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY CLAIMS RELATING TO YOUR RIGHTS OF PERSONAL PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY REMOVE METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR USER CONTENT, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY CLAIMS AND ASSERTIONS OF MORAL RIGHTS OR ATTRIBUTION WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USER CONTENT. YOU WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR ANY EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you’re looking for a Halloween costume this year, have you considered going as one of the dancers in this 5 second clip from Phantasmagoria 2?

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Phantasmagoria Dance

Alt: Three men doing a dance across the screen outside a club

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Brianna Townsend @brianna.town · 28/09/2026

I'm really excited to see if any tetris-enjoyers get into Hop Well, I think there's a lot there to love and a high skill ceiling for improving times And there's a fun surprise if you make it to the top! britown.itch.io/hopwell #tetris #indiegame #FallingBlockJam

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Hop Well! by Brianna Townsend

Help a magical frog escape a Tetris well

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grace @gracemachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For obvious reasons, I haven't talked much about it on here, but my father died suddenly while cycling. Grateful to @sltrib.com for letting me eulogize him and write about the absolute moral necessity of making roads safer for pedestrians and bikers.

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Voices: Deaths like my father’s are not anomalies. They are the bloody cost of our car-obsessed world.

“We can, we must, take action now, before some new senseless death proves the need for change all over again,” Grace Benfell writes in an op-ed.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

when is this getting brought to Pinball FX?

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Computer Chronicles Revisited @deviledeggpress.com · 28/09/2026

Today I sent out the first print issues of "Computer Chronicles Revisited" to paid subscribers. If you're interested in supporting independent research and writing about computer history, click the link below to learn more about becoming a subscriber yourself! www.computerchronicles.blog/subscribe/

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Computer Chronicles Revisited is a monthly print subscription newsletter. Each issue reviews an episode of the PBS series Computer Chronicles that aired from 1983 to 2002. You can download the Septemb...

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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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Josh Boykin @wallstormer.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

I helped make a Steam Sale, and it's right next to Control: Resonant! gdoc.events/sale2026 Fantastic sale filled with games made by people of color from AROUND THE WORLD. Check it out! (And please share it too 😉)

A snapshot of the Steam homepage (slightly scrolled down). Control: Resonant is on the top, then a banner for the Game Devs of Color Expo Steam Sale. Below that are Discounts and events for other various franchises.

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Francisco González @grundislav.games · 28/09/2026

There’s actually a game being developed that has both those things! They’re exhibiting at AdventureX this year and I really liked what I played: store.steampowered.com/app/4499010/...

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The Restricted Index on Steam

You are Britain’s last librarian. Investigate a world of censorship and secrets in this first-person mystery puzzle game. Analyse clues, deduce which books each patron needs, uncover forbidden stories...

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If there's enough library video games that use real cataloging systems, maybe we'll get to the "Melvil Dewey was a piece of shit"* and other cataloging discourse in video games too *this is not a ding on any library, real of virtual, uses that system

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ahhhhhhhh finally, a game in a library that uses a library catalog system! "Organize fallen and missing books by Dewey Decimal System classification, author, and title."

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Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something is Wrong With the Library. Our next game, coming soon. 📚 Organize the Alex Dieter Public Library and Center for Reflection 💀 Dead people are stuffed in the walls 😨 It is extremely haunted 🌊 The Drowning Room Wishlist now. store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Games writers, now is the time to bait a bunch of people into playing a Dizzy game with an article saying “oh you’ve never heard of Dizzy? That says a lot more about you than the egg himself”

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Cyningstan @cyningstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A new tactical combat game for #msdos has been released! #StarCadre Team Command puts you in charge of a squad of elite operatives in the far future, conducting special missions on behalf of an interstellar civilisation. Get it from cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-t... #ibmpc #cga

A collage of screenshots of Star Cadre: Team Command against a background image. The background images shows the K-53 modified fighter craft in the foreground, that takes the away team on their missions, on a landing pad beside its hangar, with planting around, a city scape behind, mountains in the far distance. The screenshots are all in 4-colour CGA. They include: the title screen which is a 4-colour version of the background image, a mission taking place in an industrial complex, and the personnel screen where a new recruit is being added to the team.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/09/2026

can't a guy walk down the street anymore without being harassed by artificial intelligence

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026

Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SE Michigan music lovers! Tomorrow at 7:30 in Ann Arbor, Cluster Museum hosts its final event: a multidisciplinary ambient show ft. music by me, Fred Thomas, and @saratea.bsky.social accompanying words by Linette Lao, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and Hannah Ensor! clustermuseum.org/events/theri...

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The Ripples: An evening soundscape — CLUSTER

An interdisciplinary performance in homage to CLUSTER’s embrace of the Arts including poetry and experimental sound.

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Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

i saw someone out in the wild say that Myst killed adventure games and buddy why are you getting your 2026 video game opinions from editorials from Computer Gaming World from 1995.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy new Protomartyr album day to those who celebrate

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Henning @henningo.com · 25/09/2026

I'm very happy and proud to release our new album Wink today. It's our 8th album, which is nuts. I know it's dumb to say but, it's our best yet. The way these songs came together was like magic. I've got the best bandmates. Here are all the Wink Links: rubwrongways.com/gentle-hen-w...

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Mike Piontek @robotspacer.online · 25/09/2026

Only a couple days left to apply, but this seems like a really nice grant program for people from underrepresented groups making puzzly games. (They have a broad definition that includes Myst and Obra Dinn as examples. The eligible groups are extensive too.) Recipients get both money and mentorship.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026

This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”

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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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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have had three indie games sent to me to look at today and post in a roundup or whatever and all three used gen ai. Like stop, lol, get some help. How many crash outs do I need to have before people realize I don’t wanna look at this stuff

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 23/09/2026

Happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day! Here's the bi flag, shown my DOS program VGAPride for showing pride flags, running on a Pentium-60.

A beige desktop computer and CRT monitor, showing a bisexual pride flag

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julia 🪻 @romanhyacinths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

looking for five (paid!) voice actors for my next #indiegame project, a short, underwater sci-fi visual novel inspired by games like Subnautica and In Other Waters! if you're a VA or know someone who is, more info is here: www.castingcall.club/projects/how...

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surprise, we're doing Japanese magazines now! This has been a big slowly moving project with a bunch of collaborators, and I'm proud of the pilot we're launching today

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know the Maniac Mansion tv show intro when I see it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oAN...

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Maniac Mansion Season 3 intro

YouTube video by ManiacMansion79

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Dana Lexa, 2x Award-Winning Podcaster @authorx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Another thing to remember on this bisexual day is that The Grungler is canonically bi. I do enjoy how it's become a term for "token cis guy who hangs out with a bunch of trans weirdos" but the original post was also about straight women being weird about bi men.

women will go on a 1st date with a guy and things will be going well until the guy casually mentions he's bi and she'll go home and start posting stuff like like 'we need to normalize being straight' and 'whatever happened to beauty' meanwhile the guy went home to play video games with a bunch of weird discord transsexuals and he named his character 'the grungler' and he keeps saying stuff like 'check it out guys, i'm the grungler'

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Wurm Fud (DOUR TOWER) @wurmfud.itch.io · 23/09/2026

Real ones will pick up and play Carter's Quest, and even perhaps leave a review. Crazy ambitious AND quality, which is a rare combo; it's got a distinct style and flavor that sticks with you and is sorely needed right now. Also, it's $6.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy bi visibility day AND the 35th anniversary Trompe le Monde by The Pixies

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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 23/09/2026

found this game on itch ln and proceeded to play til i finished. i will be writing about it in @mothership.blog , but i simply cannot gatekeep until my story goes live. if you liked seance of blake manor or the roottrees are dead, you will love

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The Archives of Trevosa by jamwitch, AureliusWhitlock, Celia

Translate terms to untangle the history of a secret kingdom

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