iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Shadows Of Doubt @detectivesim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The rain, the neon, the crackling fire 😙🤌 Oof it warms an old Detectives heart to see such beauty 🥹 #ShadowsofDoubt #ImSim #Voxel #IndieGame #IndieDev

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Verbante @verbante.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 MURDER TETRIS 🚨🚨🚨 my entry for #fallingblockjam is complete! if you are excited like our detective you can play it here: verbante.itch.io/murder-tetris #pico8 #gamedev

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Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In case you missed it earlier, I've got a new book out! Sort of! It was new four months ago! It is perfectly normal not to know that you've got a book out until four months later!

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Robert Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cubusaddendum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The ones closest to AI have the most cognitive decline.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty sure the UK TV industry could save itself from oblivion just by getting rid of the constant pizzicato strings.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some really salient points in this article.

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Jordan Fehr Mastering 🔊🎧 @jordanfehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why I don't accept genAI "music" submissions for mastering. If you are a human let's work together: www.jordanfehr.com #noAI #mastering #musicmastering #masteringengineer #musicproduction

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've signed up to be a mentor through Arts Emergency, which pairs people in creative industries with young people from underrepresented backgrounds hoping to work in the arts. If that's something you are interested in, you can also sign up! They're always looking for mentors: www.arts-emergency.org

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Arts Emergency

We help young people get a fair start in the arts and humanities

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just as meta glasses have been collectively renamed as something that actually describes what they do, can we all call SUVs 'child-killing machines'?

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@gilduran.com In case you haven't seen it, heads-up that Marc Maron waxes lyrical about The Nerd Reich in this podcast (50min mark). Fair warning, he momentarily forgets your name but finds it so that he can name drop you 😅: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMh5... 'grats on the launch.

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Marc Maron on Elephant Graveyard, Comedy Podcasts, and Clearing Out The Garage

YouTube video by The Best Show with Tom Scharpling

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Nathan Moody @noisejockey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stop what you’re doing and download this right now.

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Google search results don't return AI suggestions for questions pertaining to regex expressions 😂

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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"we're reaching the limits of how much the same four companies can shuffle money between themselves to stay afloat - time to start leeching funds from taxpayers"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Shout-out to Fuse Audio for putting out a no AI statement recently for their plugins (via newsletter and instagram). Some of the best in the game and the absolute opposite of the vibecoded toilet water that we're up to our waists in now. fuseaudiolabs.de#/pages/plugins

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Fuse Audio Labs | Audio Plugins and Apps

Fuse Audio Labs - Audio Plugins for Recording, Mixing and Mastering

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 07/09/2026

if people were genuinely interested in preparing children for an “inevitable future” they’d be stopping global warming and solidifying concrete pathways to homeownership, not teaching kids how to play with Claude The Guessing Toy

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

13 years?! 'kinell. Single-input control was a super-interesting design limitation to work with. I'd love to go back to it and evolve more systems around that.

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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Praxis of the DIY Album Pipeline, one of many things coming to @klangacademy.bsky.social in the Fall 2026.

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Newrulesnewlife @newrulesnewlife.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Phillip K Dick first draft

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 03/09/2026

hello I am modern aaa game designer. the shareholders told me to make the game longer. I do not wish to make the game longer. they told me to make the game longer or I lose job. I make the player collect 6 potatoes for 5% damage resistance. The shareholders are happy. I've been laid off.

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Thel - Pixel art comms open (2/5) @thelxinoe5.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I fit a small wave sim into less than 1024 bytes for the PICO-1K jam! Have fun going splish splash! thelxinoe5.itch.io/1k-wave-sim #pico1k #picotron

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just finished Angélica Gorodischer's tremendous fantasy Kalpa Imperial. Easily the equal of Le Guin's work (Le Guin translated this book!) or Calvino's Invisible Cities or Stanislaw Lem, as incisive and imaginative and funny and caring as stories can be, and so touching I cried at the end.

Cover of Angélica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 31/08/2026

This is a fun idea. A fanzine of annotated or marked music equipment. It’s was made by my friend Matt @theleaflibrary.bsky.social and can be bought from ashtoninspace.bigcartel.com Some of my own equipment features.

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i can't say enough about the craftsmanship of this game - every aspect of it is just meticulously considered and lovingly designed plus... it's wildly beautiful #pixelart #indiegame

a screenshot of moonring, showing a purple UI with a purple and black dark location rendered in gorgeous saturated contrasty pixel art with gentle orange and lilac glows. it shows caves, forest, a small town and ship in simple but elegant graphics

the left UI interface shows a stream of turn-based combat text

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 20/08/2026

See, this is why I think it's VITAL to differentiate the people making the games from the terrible corporate circumstances they're working under. The people actually doing the work are usually the coolest goddamn people you'll ever meet, fully in it for the love of the (video) game.

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James Parker @jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Me when Slovakia has a definitely bad idea

A sign from GamesCom reading "Good Idea Slovakia"

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 27/08/2026

A not-insubstantial part of why the games industry has *remained* in crisis mode since ~2023 is that all the investment has been siphoned off into chips and data centers that have almost zero chance of making back their money. But that doesn't matter, since someone still gets paid.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

any statement like ‘Gen z have no literacy/cannot write/spell/communicate’ that is not also coupled with ‘their means of learning has been eradicated by tech fascism and government removal of funding’ is not worth listening to or boosting. the kids are living under the regime we allowed

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was thinking about what an incredible name Gary Gygax is the other day. One half is from another planet and the other half is Gary

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I know I said you needed that other book but you definitely DEFINITELY need this one

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Claude Debussy, August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918. With Igor Stravinsky. 1910 photo by Erik Satie. (sonateharder) *** 'The musicians of my generation and I myself owe the most to Debussy.' — Igor Stravinsky

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Given the repression that is being inflicted in climate protestors, it is up to everyone to support people and organisations that are making a difference. The government has to know that the majority wants a future, and break this fantasy that there is a consensus around right wing bullshit.

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Hilarious Cow Jokes @hilariouscow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

All we have left as a species is the vague phenomenon of what it feels like to be alive.

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James Parker @jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The longest, hottest period of weather that the UK has experienced in 50 years is hopefully coming to an end. Hasten its demise (if only emotionally) by playing this excellent winter sports game.

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If I was PM and I saw this graph, the army would be out the next day digging reservoirs and firebreak trenches. Forget the decades of ignoring climate predictions; how could anyone who has been in England for the last few months not think this was an existential emergency?

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Matthew M @mattesque.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

all this vibecoding ecosystems really has me lose all interest in new plugin companies. like I just start out not trusting anything at this point. got some plugins lately and I realized I'm not going to even install them. just no faith anymore.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Game design isn’t about being able to identify problems. Everyone who plays games can identify problems. Game design is about diagnosing player experience, having intent, and executing. I think to a lot of folks outside dev, game criticism (an art in itself) is seen as interchangeable with design.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And if you're wondering how much revenue Netflix pulled in last year? Around $45 billion—a 16 percent upswing on the previous fiscal year. A truly colossal number.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Netflix to shut down two more game studios - Night School and Moonloot www.gamefile.news/p/netflix-cl...

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️

As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981:

To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?

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Nick Dymond @monomoon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Off to Spain for a fair chunk. Get some of that 'dying sun totally blotted by the moon for a minute' on me. Don't do anything stupid while I'm away.

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i used to be more polite about this but publishers, even indie publishers, have become so shameless about this, & i've heard and experienced so many terrible stories, i just don't care, i'ma call it like i see it it may surprise you to know we devs do often end up hearing the backroom conversations

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