iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hey, Project C has a name! PRECOGNITION. Excited to be collaborating with newly launched @kineticpub.bsky.social on this, our wildest ride yet!

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Very cool reel, and the Nala pics added with the music are just awesome haha. Reminded me of this video, so thanks 😀

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Silent hill 2 menu sounds with cats [original]

YouTube video by hillsii_but_EVIL

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Neha🍰 @nehapolitan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

✨Hire me to write some memorable melodies for you!✨ Im available for more music work this year! Im always open to negotiate pay and can write in a variety of styles and do implementation in Wwise🔥 This is a small medley of some of my more RPG ish music RTs appreciate (for me AND Nala heh)

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 18/03/2026

If you want players to care about text in your game, you have to make reading the text rewarding. And not like earn currency rewarding, actually rewarding

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

when the two wolves inside you are: polite wolf: they did not ask for advice, stay quiet, smile encouragingly realtalk wolf: don't just go solo fulltime indie without a plan or prototype or solo jamming experience of some kind oh my god please don't put your arm in a woodchipper

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Sounds like a smart plan which would indeed be much more convenient for indie games. Best of luck, I hope that it works out so you can keep on doing what you are good at and what you love !

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Thank you so much for recommending this, I watched it yesterday. Visually it's one of the most mesmerizing movies I've ever seen, with great sound design. It's filled with symbolism and interesting ideas, loved the use of the 5 senses. It gave me so much inspiration, can't stop thinking about it !

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Just finished trying out the demo, seeing this just now, looks like a +10 guts card to me, minimum ! Total respect for a very hard and brave decision. I'll back the project on Kickstarter !

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Makes me sad and angry to see people like you who have devoted years to gaming pretty much forced out of the industry because of its stupidity and toxicity. And in years companies will complain over not finding senior profiles to hire. I hope that you can find a job out there that makes you happy.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The 9 games that inspired me the most gamedev-wise ! The Stanley Parable (Ultra Deluxe) The Beginner's Guide Silent Hill 2 (2001) Undertale DDLC Plus Immortality Outer Wilds Superliminal Blue Suburbia HM : Silent Hills P.T, SOMA, Edith Finch, The Witness, Subnautica #9Games #IndieGame #GameDev

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My game The Unknown is mentioned for a bit (4:03) among other cool games in this video from a Taiwanese YT channel ! Thanks Isa ! I can hardly describe how special it feels to see for the first time a thing that I've made being talked about in a language I wouldn't understand without subtitles 🖤

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YouTube video by Isa的遊戲樂園

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

His govt recently led a smear campaign against Francesca Albanese from the UN to get her to resign. Which shows how they act beyond the façade when it comes to international law. So as usual, it's impossible to trust a single thing he says. Hopefully it can still bring some good despite that.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Heard exactly the same excuses, and indeed people don't seem to care enough. Or they find ways to bury their head in the sand. I've also heard : "oh but you can filter your feed to avoid seeing all that crap". Problem """solved""" 🥴

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

On it, again ! Thanks for encouraging everyone, keep having fun on making Jumper

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 22/02/2026

My heart is full of gratitude and there are still 20 days left of the bundle

Screenshot of the no ice in Minnesota charity bundle on itchio that has raised $500,008

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

ACAB (All Coffees Are Beautiful) even though coffee police be like

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Ramadan Mubarak to all my Islamates ☪️

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Really having fun learning with Unreal Engine modeling tools ! I was initially just trying out spiral-shaped stairs and got a little carried away... #UE5 #leveldesign #3darchitecture #stairs #gamedev

A very large spiral-shaped staircase making a 180° angle with steps made of transparent glass, a reflective black wall on their right side. 4 giant oval arches rest at different rotations on top of the staircase wall, but all stemming from the same base pillar.

At the bottom of the glass stairs lies a square hole, on each side of which are straight steps leading down inside, making it look like a squared amphitheater.

The scene is in total darkness, except for the bottom of the hole and the arches emanating a glowing white light. The camera is positioned at the top right of the stairs, looking down to see the glowing hole through the curved glass steps.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Vu la situation c'est sans doute la bonne décision, même si c'est vraiment déprimant et injuste que tu doives faire un tel choix. Leurs murs de glace ne pourront pas empêcher ton art de toucher des gens. Cette glace fondra. 🫂

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14/02/2026

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

a screenshot of a long winding brutalist staircase. there is a poem written on the wall. light comes through the windows. paint splats are on the stairs.

a screenshot of a tree that looks like a human bowing. the tree is large and covered in dandelion whisps. there is a poem at the base of the screen.

a screenshot looking up at old brutalist buildings. the buildings are abandoned.

a screenshot of a desert filled with dead trees. the dead trees almost look human. there is a poem at the base of the screen.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Congrats on the release, excited to play the game ! Get some good rest and some good food now 🙂

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This so much, such a cool part of the process ! At one point I was researching for a post-apo/pandemic scenario, went down a similar rabbithole reading about neurodegenerative diseases, especially prion diseases. Fatal insomnia is the stuff of nightmares (yeah)

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Je pense que le parasocial existe de base même si c'est peut-être + présent aujourd'hui avec nos modes de sociabilisation. Qu'il faut faire avec tout en restant lucide sur ce que ça peut engendrer, ça peut être une façon de se questionner sur soi, sur son rapport aux autres si c'est bien utilisé.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Pour le négatif forcément l'idôlatrie qui peut amener à des comportements prédateurs qui même avérés empêcheront pas une partie de la commu de défendre aveuglément l'idole, tordre les faits pour excuser les comportements, harceler les victimes... Parfois en contradiction avec leurs propres valeurs.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Pour le positif, ça peut apporter du réconfort, une relation à explorer de manière "safe" car fictive/non réciproque, qui peut rester sans conséquences en cas de mauvais jugement. Ca peut aider à resociabiliser s'il y a une commu autour. Si pas ça peut se substituer à des relations IRL et isoler +

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Dans la question le mot "renvoie" est utilisé, je trouve que ça colle bien au parasocial. Je pense que l'aspect positif ou négatif dépend de la manière dont on s'investit dedans. Que c'est au fond un miroir nous renvoyant une partie de notre personnalité, de nos biais, qui diffère selon la personne.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Thanks for the reminder, this is helping ! Days ago there was an artist asking advice about going to IGF and I pointed her to one of your posts about this. It's beyond depressing and infuriating that this is now a question to even ask advice about, for anyone. Stay safe people, wherever you are.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

More than 75k$ already and the bundle only launched yesterday, let's go ! Tons of good games for a good cause (and my game The Unknown is in there too) ! Really glad that bundles like this exist and that so many people care, it's a difference that we can only make together 🙂

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Ga-Yi @roboticake.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Oui c'est moi, oui je me suis pris des DMs pas fous depuis hier, oui on m'a traitée de "suceuse de buzz", mais oui sinon ça va.

Screenshot d'un quote-post sur X (Twitter) de Ga-Yi @/robotigame : "Il essayait d'obtenir des nudes de mineures via Facebook aussi. Genre, par hasard, une photo de (mes) boobs.", en réponse à un post de @/PiclouR: "Je viens de voir Passer ça sur insta à propos d'Antoine Daniel, je suis abbatu putain. Soutien aux victimes on vous croit."

@/PiclouR partage 2 images venant d'une story Instagram. La première montre le texte suivant: "Je viens de recevoir le témoignage d'un.e abonné.e concernant Antoine Daniel. Le mec a été un agresseur quand il vivait à Toulouse et a agressé des filles/femmes de 14 à 20 ans. Pour éviter qu'elles ne parlent, il les a menacées de revenge porn/proposé des compensations. Elles n'ont jamais été prises au sérieux.Il est évident que je crois ce témoignage, et que ça me [l'image est coupée]."

La deuxième image montre le texte suivant: "Parce que vas y c'est bon le gars est encore ultra connu et tout alors qu'il a agi salement. Pas envie de participer à sa visibilité. Bref, faut vraiment pas admirer des gens hein. À la limite des personnages imaginaires et encore."

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Rami Ismail had made a post about this, the thread is still available, the main takeaway would be to avoid going at all. I also managed to find again a blog post which gives details about exactly this kind of situation with airport customs. I hope it can be helpful !

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Reflections on Narrascope 2025

In which I should not have travelled to America

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Lucie Ronfaut @lucieronfaut.com · 06/02/2026

J'ai adoré cet article sur Doki Doki Literature Club (un jeu auquel j'ai pourtant peu de chances de jouer), qui l'analyse sous l'angle de la destruction du dating sim et de ses mécaniques misogynes, mais aussi comme un jeu prisonnier de ses propres fans. www.mothership.blog/monster-was-...

By this point, the player has spent hours treating these girls exactly as the game framework demanded — as routes to be optimized, as problems to be solved, as characters whose emotional pain exists to make the romance more satisfying. The true horror lies in recognizing that the game required you to be monstrous first.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Super article, merci du partage ! C'est une des analyses les plus intéressantes que j'ai vues sur l'aspect critique du médium de DDLC. J'y ai enfin joué récemment et ça m'a tellement inspiré que j'ai commencé à écrire des idées, puis d'autres, et je me retrouve avec un concept de jeu à développer…

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

La répartition par région ça pique aussi de voir les chiffres, je suis en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté et :

Photo d'une salle de classe vide avec la mention "Bande de batard on est que 2"

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Le générique de ma prochaine insomnie être comme

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Je connaissais pas le générique de base, quel banger, et le mashup aussi !

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHnl... i didn't want to spend a bunch of time compressing this so i posted to youtube. sound on!!! i love game audio because it's not just sound. it's a system you build for the sound so that it responds to the player just right. yay! 🎉 #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev

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Sound demo of my current project (game poem)

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Amazing work ! You succeeded at making the sound immersive and interactive, those pads are perfect and I love how the distorted sounds blend in and start transitions. After opening each poem when the sytnhs stop to emphasize the choirs, it works well both musically and to focus attention on text !

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Really cool article, this resonates a lot with what I've been thinking about lately. It's comforting in a way to see we are so many people on the same boat. Thank you for taking the time to interview game makers and compile all their answers :)

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Liz Alfos @touloutoumou.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

New article: I asked hobbyist game makers if they used to want to work in the game industry, and if they still do. They answered more or less how I expected, but it also revealed something else. medium.com/@touloutoumo...

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Do you dream of working in games making anymore? The state of hobbyist game making

I have a hobby, and I have a job, and they’re completely separate. I engage with my hobby purely because it brings me joy. I didn’t start…

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Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo @stjv.fr · 28/01/2026

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

Ubisoft is no more, long live Ubisoft!

On January 21, 2026, Yves Guillemot announced the end of remote work, closure of several studios, cancellation of projects, and a new 200€ million “cost-cutting” plan. We were informed of this at the same time as the press — as none of these changes had been discussed during the mandatory consultations with the works councils a few days earlier! On January 26, 2026, management announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan that will affect 200 people at Ubisoft’s headquarters.

We are promised autonomy for « Creative Houses », but what about autonomy for employees? We have been negotiating for over a year on remote work policy, sometimes under difficult conditions. An agreement has been in place since September in some studios. Trampled underfoot!

We are told about responsibilities, but those who wield this word so easily do not take any responsibility for the consequences of their catastrophic management.

We are not fooled: rather than taking financial responsibility for layoffs, they prefer to push us out by making our working conditions unbearable. It’s outrageous.

It is because we love Ubisoft that this situation revolts us. Ubisoft’s unions are calling for a massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees on the 10th, 11th and 12th of February 2026.

NO
to their anti-remote-work obsession
to “cost-cutting” plans on employees’ backs
to top-down decisions
to coercive control on our working conditions

YES
to our leaders truly taking their responsibilities
to management’s duty of sincerity in the face of its failings

It is time for our management to understand that they cannot do whatever they want, whether with public money or the work of hundreds of people!

Without us, Ubisoft would never have conquered and transformed video games as it has. WE ARE UBISOFT.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

J'ai participé mi-novembre à la 20 Second Game Jam, je la recommande fortement, c'est un exercice intéressant et c'est vraiment idéal, encore plus pour une 1ère fois. Non-classée, thème libre, 2000+ participants, commu très bienveillante et elle dure longtemps justement pour éviter de se cramer.

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Finished building my first PC, it was stressful, it took some time but I finally have a config to do just about anything ! Back to gamedev soon with an update for The Unknown to implement some changes suggested by people :) Also, the game is included in this bundle : itch.io/jam/no-ice-i...

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No ICE in Minnesota

A game jam from 2026-01-07 to 2026-01-27 hosted by jesthehuman. FAQ Can I submit multiple projects? You are welcome to submit multiple games, free, paid, or pay what you can, including new and existin...

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exaheva @exaheva.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Les projets de jeux RPG Maker, c'est souvent des fantasmes de projets démesurés, imaginés par des ados et abandonnés après quelques mois. Mais... Et si quelqu'un avait continué à créer son jeu tout seul, dans son coin, pendant... 23 ANS? Ce jeu existe, c'est AEDEMPHIA. Et il va sortir cette année. ⬇

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Mindream @mindream.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

23 ans... Rien que pour ça obligé de jeter un oeil, j'ose pas imaginer le niveau de travail et de détail apporté au projet. Les screens sont très beaux en tout cas, merci pour la découverte !

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