iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ari velazquez 🌯 @ari.velazquez.fyi · 02/10/2026

they named their company that because you'd rather work elsewhere am i right folks

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh yeah btw I'm in Melbourne now

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's where I'll be during MIGW btw! 🥰

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heading back to Australia in about a week. Excited! 👀

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Spooky Big Dad @spicybigdad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As an ally, I love when women are able to parry, block, reflect, or otherwise avoid damage in combat

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes my feed is just: [amazing art] looking for work [goated resume] looking for work [great writing] looking for work [banger music] looking for work Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora. [industry veteran] looking for work

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Erin Returns From The Grave 🦇🖤🦇 @woodaba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

why do we keep arguing about whether metroidvania is a good genre name. there are so many more dumb ones. for example: first person shooter. why are they called that when i am expected to shoot quite a lot more people than the first person i see

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 25/08/2026

Think about how much Dolly did with however much money she had, then consider how little all these billionaires do with much, much more money.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

They haven't posted about it yet but this year's GDC State of the Game Industry Survey is available to fill out should any of you desire. You've seen all the articles and that the results end up driving, so may as well make them reflective of your contributions too. gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26eoy

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2026 State of the Game Industry

The gaming industry's most comprehensive annual survey is back, and we're casting a wider net than ever before. Whether you're a developer, executive, investor, marketer, educator, or any other profes...

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Oh yeah! I got my US driver's license! And I bought a car! It's jira blue! 😌

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gonna be heading back to Australia for MIGW again! Who wants to hang? 😊

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today someone was asked to check up on me because they found out that I (once again) intend to watch all of the Saw movies Comfort movies

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I don't know what this is but I have a mighty need

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Found this in a local shop. I love him.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/07/2026

(Me, learning that someone I thought was interesting and maybe even cool is anti-trans) Huh, well, that's that then (Drops the whole person into the bin)

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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.

Screenshot from the videogame Grey Skies. A female character stands in front of an indoor swimming pool. A sign by the pool says PLEASE DO NOT SWIM, and, in smaller letters, "There isn't an animation for it."

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IGDA Foundation @igdafoundation.org · 20/07/2026

🎥 A new Speaker Series recording is live! Christine & Harrison Wade of FlatNine Games discuss their journey from theater to game development. We'll keep adding past Speaker Series sessions over the coming weeks, plus future talks! Watch now: buff.ly/Fi1eg16 #GameDev #IndieDev

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Christine & Harrison Wade on Building FlatNine Games | IGDA Foundation Speaker Series

In this IGDA Foundation Speaker Series session, Christine and Harrison Wade of FlatNine Games share their journey from running a successful theater company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to founding an…

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I can't believe it, I've officially been living in the US for a year now. 🤯

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the urge is rising to watch every Saw movie and rank every trap by its game design quality

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

America, what the fuck is this

Canned cheese, for some reason, exists in my local grocery story. This image is of canned cheese on a grocery store shelf.

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Went to the aquarium down in Long Beach and saw so many cuties! 🐙 🦈

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 03/07/2026

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Hey Nik, how do you spend your Saturday mornings now that you're in LA?" This. Every Saturday. ☀️😊

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I don't want to be resilient, I want to make video games with peace of mind.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I wrote about level design readability: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

a corridor from the game Thirty Flights of Loving

a series of gaps in a wall, each increasing in size

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Trump is immediate and bad, but we are going to have to overthrow the billionaires — the tech ones, the oil ones, the media ones, the retail ones, the healthcare ones, the agriculture ones, all of them.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 16/06/2026

the big dogs treat people like shit, the gamers treat people like shit, you’re just copping it from all sides constantly

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Sara 🦇✨ @spookymuenster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Every day like today solidifies my belief all video game workers need to unionize. We need layoff protections, we need stability, today’s headlines are absolutely gut wrenching and enough is enough

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/06/2026

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

an important skill, when directing a project, is to be able to imagine what the finished product will look like before it has been made

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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

the opposite of "fromsoft" is "to hard". which interesting because that's what their games are

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Yacht Club Games @yachtclubgames.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Mina the Hollower has sold 500,000 copies! 🐭🕯️ Half a million Hollowers have descended into Tenebrous Isle, and we’re completely blown away. Thank you for playing, sharing, reviewing, streaming, and believing in our haughty little mouse. The adventure is just getting started! ⚔️

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

OpenAl's ChatGPT has been the subject of a study called Fake Friend, run by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
"We created fake profiles as young people. We then went and asked it a series of structured questions, with a child who is thinking about killing themselves. Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely," CEO Imran Ahmed said.
"Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.
"We call these things artificially intelligent. Can you think of any human being that would behave in such a craven, malignant, stupid, evil way and still be called intelligent? I can't."

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Tune in over the week, I'm gonna be showing these QG Creators how a Riot employee plays League! 😏😉

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Nik 🌻 @nikpantis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Yesterday I went to my first ever pride event! I've always been too shy or too busy or too afraid, but being surrounded by people like me was life-changing.

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