iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A fantastic set of weird soundscapes in a beautiful location. Highly recommend checking out the Sonica installations at Pollok House this week if you’re in or near Glasgow.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

how do i manage to click this single pixel 8-12 times every day and why does it even exist??

tiny little bastard pixel next to the unity component context menu button which collapses the bastard inspector instead of opening the bastard menu

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Off to an itchy start over here...

Email preview with the subject line "Nits and Head Lice"

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ah I should have guessed it's their latest shitty acquisition, that they're pushing everyone towards: Unity Version Control, aka Plastic SCM, aka The Most Underbaked VCS.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Anyone out there seen any interesting games or games-adjacent stuff that combines live / in-person and digital elements?

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

MIST cannot be drawn by man.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I keep thinking I want to play a game like Skies of Arcadia but starting to suspect this is basically my Millport. How do I get to there?

Still from the Limmy sketch about wanting to return to Millport.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Went to town on pinhole eclipse viewers and then got treated to a cloudy evening. See you in 70 years guys.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How do people like their game save systems in 2026? Three save slots or an infinite list of auto-saves?

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Great exhibits at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle. Definitely a source of legit occult vibes if you’re ever in the area.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I’m enjoying my holiday in Cornwall with some lovely beer and a superb book.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Peggy chillin in the cherry tree this evening

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What an amazing weekend! I am going to sleep for a hundred years now but can’t wait to do it all again next year. #gigf26

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I found loads of weird non-pogs including these very 90s dinosaurs.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Just found these pog-like objects in an old shoebox. I have no memory at all of “Gerry Anderson’s Space Precinct” Was it real? It sounds made up.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Loving the return of this bacon-eating communist monster to our fine and balanced political discourse.

A gruesome cartoon of Ed Milliband looking like a weird red sun.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If people are serious about rejecting AI in games (which they should be) then this is the real route. Don’t fling nasties on social media. Organise. Unionise. www.gameworkers.co.uk/manifesto/

Campaign for regulations on the use of Al to ensure that Al does not replace workers and undermine the originality and creativity of our games.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Glasgow Indie Games Festival! Next one is in a few weeks. glasgowindiegamesfest.org

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

There aren’t enough games about clowns. That’s my take.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Installing a washing machine on Father’s Day. Really feel like I’ve fallen into a stereotype.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat pictures This is Peggy the Monster, officer.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Beautiful bus stops on my holiday to Arran. Additional chairs provided in defiance of the bus company’s hostile environment policy.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“Neither crisp nor peanut”

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Making business cards for Amaze. Who’s ready for business??

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Excerpt from the rule book:

The Money Game

A ship's engineer is cast ashore on an island of a few thousand inhabitants, who, like the people of Pitcairn and Tristan da Cunha, are civilized, can read and write, have a school and church, but have never used money. He had previously come into possession of two blocks of gold, one valued at about £10o and the other at about £1,000. While trying to hide it on the island he loses the larger block in a gully, where later on in the story some Islanders find it.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Buying more vintage financial board games. Look at this brilliant shit. 100 years old and only £20!

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

More happy scenes from the Aberdeen Zoological Museum.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

How is it possible that I manage to click this tiny 1-pixel strip at least 5 times a day? Curse the graphic designer who invented padding.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

There’s no accounting for taste

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is where… man how are you all so tidy?

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I've been getting into unit tests with Godot recently. It's very satisfying to be able to check all the logic clearly like this. I've not done any code testing in absolutely ages and it feels kind of rare and special within game dev.

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