iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jank @jank.cool · 6h

Have you considered giving six pounds to Jank dot cool? www.jank.cool

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I guess I could read about PC games.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 6h

Scenes from the Picket Line: Day 3 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh, following hundreds of job losses and thousands more to come. Here are our wonderful workers, staying strong: (1) Craft-making on the picket line ...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 6h

Are you coming to New Scientist Live next weekend? I'll be speaking on Sunday about games, AI and what it means to 'beat humans'. Do come and say hi if you'll be there - I'll be signing copies of Next Level on the day too. 🙂 live.newscientist.com/new-scientis...

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shmuplations.com @shmuplations.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week we have a charming Final Fantasy VI roundtable interview from 1994, conducted one month before release. The team discusses the making of the ominous opening sequence, world design, and their favorite characters! shmuplations.com/ff6rt/

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Final Fantasy VI – 1994 Developer Roundtable - shmuplations.com

This Final Fantasy VI roundtable interview conducted in March 1994 discusses the making of the opening sequence and the staff's favorite characters.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

A photo of a truck by the side of the road in Tokyo. The driver's leg is sticking out of the window resting on the side of the trailer. The title of the talk is written on the truck. It will happen on October 18th, online. Tickets are roguelike.club

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Exhibit:Play @exhibitplay.com · 26/09/2026

New Exhibit:Play Curation Series 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐋𝐨𝐟𝐢 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Curated by @farfama.bsky.social Explore procedurally generated planets in a lofi aesthetic Games from @santaragione.com, @nothke.bsky.social, @trevixx.bsky.social, XRNZ (Emmanuel Schmuck), Alessandro Ghignola

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Procedural Generation: Lofi Planet Exploration

Explore procedurally generated planets in a lofi aesthetic.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m so excited about this, but I also have to remember to get out there for some night photo walks while there’s traffic to snap! This is going to be so so cool though.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that's crazy, man. what happened to it.

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026

What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology".

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of course I got the dates wrong, let's try that again.

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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i love a softer world so much. i have a print of this one hanging in my room

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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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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been keeping a record of games people made in response to this manifesto, they're in an itch.io collection here: itch.io/c/7632694/no.... Each one is a little treasure, and usually very short, I recommend checking them out! I have also come up with a little idea.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When you’re mean to me this is who you’re being mean to.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Vesa Saarinen @vesasfi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of Lindy effect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_e...

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Lindy effect - Wikipedia

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 28/09/2026

just released an 8-page zine for #FallingBlockJam! 📖 🍝 past-a-pile 🍝 a print-and-play falling block zine where you pile as many pieces of pasta as you can on a plate! print it out & pile up the pasta! 🎲🍽️ 🎮 npckc.itch.io/past-a-pile

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having a good time as always reading theory papers written by computer scientists.

XKCD string theory comic.

"I just had an awesome idea. Suppose all matter and energy is made up of tiny, vibrating strings."
"What would that imply?"
"I dunno."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 28/09/2026

FROM SCRATCH LONDON completely improvised electronic and non-electronic music 18th October luma.com/u10889rd

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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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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok so **spoilers for Reacher S4** but a pivotal scene involves the classic “tech hacker character asked to enhance something” and he does it using… a prompt. Unhinged shit.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Screen-based 2D games are a dead-end; there is simply no comparison to an immersive 3D experience." The death of 2D games is on the horizon, predicts EDGE magazine in December 1993 - a common feeling at the time as FMV, texture-mapped polygonal 3D, and VR became the hot new tech.

The future of the videogame is pretty straightforward.

There are two routes that the videogame can take: 2D images dragged from ROM or CD; and the 3D environment generated in real time.
While the 2D route encompasses real 24bit images, full-motion video, bluescreen, high-definition rendered graphics and so on, you can only explore what is on the disc; you can only visit the places that the artist or camera has visited before you.

3D environments are still visualised in a more basic fashion, but once the world and its contents have been described mathematically, the player can go anywhere he or she wants; there are an infinite number of views to be had.

As the technology advances, so those basic vector graphics give way to polygons with light sourced shading, texture mapping, transparency and so on. And the ultimate experience is to actually wander around that virtual world and interact with it in three dimensions, using stereo eyephones to see the world and motion sensors to track your position.
Screen-based 2D games are a dead end; there is simply no comparison to an immersive 3D experience. It's the difference between being the passenger in a car and actually driving it.

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Adel Faure ⏚🍉 @adelfaure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Glitching giant red ghost is chasing you #gamedev #pixelart #textmode

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Loads of beautiful stuff and nice artists here, if you’re in central this afternoon!

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@6knifes.bsky.social Are you exhibiting all day tomorrow?

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Chris Higgins🔜 @higgins.games · 26/09/2026

yeah that’ll do it

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

incredible thread. i feel normal. i feel normal about the world and the events that happen in it.

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Kor Bosch @korbosch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes when you see an image you have an irrepressible immediate association.

Het spel "Wie is het" met alleen vrijwel identieke portretten van clerici, in dit geval de martelaren van Gorcum.
The game "guess who" but with only near-identical portraits of clergymen, in this case the "Gorcum martyrs".

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We're launching Sparrow Warfare on November 16th! Mark the date in your calendar. The birds will need you! The storyteller will hate you. store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...

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Sparrow Warfare - Launch date announcement: November 16th 2026 - Steam News

Our deckbuilder x boss rush game is ready for liftoff featuring 178 wildtiles, 106 birds, and 3 playable characters.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A modern philosophical text that you can buy on Steam.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've added a Magpie Supporter Pack to itch now. This is basically a way to tip/buy me a coffee for Magpie, as a few people asked about it. In return you get some extra sprites and performance code I wrote for my own Magpie sets! Magpie itself is free forever ofc 🪶 illomens.itch.io/magpie-suppo...

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Magpie Supporter Pack by ill omens

A bundle of shiny things for Magpie supporters

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zep.p8 @lexaloffle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#pico8 now has the most officially published cartridges of any console in history. Well done everyone.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New Scrap: Spinlock Another unfinished jam idea I'm putting online as part of my post-manifesto stuff. This one isn't really playable, but the gifs convey the idea (you can play it if you have love2d). It's 4-directional Tetris - catch, align, and sink them to score. illomens.itch.io/spinlock

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ORIGAME DIGITAL @origamedigital.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Penguin Colony will release on October 16th. 2 weeks before Halloween

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 24/09/2026

i think one big factor (among many) as to why AI has had such a foothold in coding spaces is because the majority of people dont consider programming to be art

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The specific technique for generating the worlds here, in almost no code at all, is really beautiful. I might adapt this into a function for Magpie! Also: Picotron in beta soon!!!

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

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