iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kieran HJ Connell @kieranhj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I finished my port of legendary game Paradroid from the C64 to the BBC Micro! Check it out here to download the disk, play in the emulator or read through the code: bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/... [Disclaimer: AI assisted with Claude Code.] #retro #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #demoscene

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Paradroid, by Bitshifters

Acorn, BBC Micro and Retro Computer Code & Demos

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not the android phone app notification I want to see before my KLM flight.

An android phone notification with some other text but also starting with "KLM is crashing frequently"

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Aah, a Judgement Day speedrun. Step 1: Give access to air traffic control. Step 2: "It's the machines. They're starting to take over."

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Leonard Superglue" certainly has a vibe.

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Karl Davis @karltechno.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Recently spent some time tidying up my personal website and adding space for a blog. Here's a short post on a DX12 root descriptor alignment quirk I found out about recently. karltechno.com/posts/2026/d...

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D3D12 Root Descriptor Alignment: Mind the Gap | Karl Davis

A little known D3D12 descriptor binding alignment pitfall.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Father's day letter and subsequent treasure hunt with dead ends, logic puzzles and dart board maths puzzles arranged by my youngest children was very thoughtful.

A red envelope with the word eight written on it in white. Similar in style to the red letters from the game Blue Prince.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This sounds like shopping in poundland.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hah, I saw this on the screen at the party and it reminded me of your style. Now I know why! Great stuff. Saw someone at the party with a wakeful hoodie too.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Only if you set them to zero.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So now you have to shout XBOX whenever you say it, like how you have to say JSON as if you've trying to call a distant Jason.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Really great. Nice to see at the party too. Congratulations!

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Cedric Guillemet @skaven.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Just got back from Revision demoparty—my 64KB intro took 1st place. Huge thanks to @alkama.bsky.social for the audio work that made this possible. It’s a fully procedural 3:40 animation packed into a 58KB executable. I had a blast building it, and the audience reaction was incredible.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Very happy to win first place at #RevisionParty2026 for my 4Kb executable graphics entry "Lost Media"! www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... I was lucky enough to go the the party too this year and had a really great time. It was good to hang out with friends old and new.

A Computer Generated image of a blue cassette tape partially submerged in green looking water in a rock pool. There are bumps of sand with rocks on in the background and underwater.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Oh no, where did you last see them? Have you tried looking by the coffee machine? Or outside taking research photos of puddles?

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James Brown @ancient.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result. I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2...

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Digital Iris

YouTube video by Ancient

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Conversation with Claude about tracery parsers, and it advises me to look at kate comptons parser, to which i reply “but Doctor i am kate compton”

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a robot army is a good guy with a robot army.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

It makes me want to code something with 3DFX Glide.

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Conspiracy @conspiracy.hu · 17/10/2025

Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions. As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...

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Pablo Zurita @pzurita.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them. irradiance.ca/posts/

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🎵 Win or lose, sink or swim One thing is certain, we'll never give in Side by side, hand in hand We all stand together 🎵

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🎵 Win or lose, sink or swim One thing is certain, we'll never give in Side by side, hand in hand We all stand together 🎵

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Kieran HJ Connell @kieranhj.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Don't forget the humble BBC Micro port by yours truly, with music by @inversephase.bsky.social! Find out more and download here: bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/...

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Prince of Persia, by Bitshifters

Acorn, BBC Micro and Retro Computer Code & Demos

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Tommodore 64 @tompedalino.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Done a little cry to this. If everyone complaining about immigrants could just take a moment to understand how so many of them feel there wouldn't be all this hate.

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Stephen Hill @selfshadow.com · 10/08/2025

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

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SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Aha. For some reason I'm also glad to learn "The mould was known as a flong."

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Oh nice one. I like all your tiny shaders but this one is really neat.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hey, you sass that hoopy Tom Forsyth? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🎵 Darning his socks which he keeps in a jar by the door. Who could want more? All the lovely people... 🎵

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

and this one ended up with the most over the top beer and glass rendering for what ends up just a few pixels high.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This was one of the last ones to be made. Really happy how well it turned out though considering how simple the astronaut model and lighting actually is.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This was supposed to be like a "leaning tower of Pisa" pose but I'm not sure how well that came across. The sky is nice though.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So I'm spamming them here :D

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I tweaked the program I was using to preview the animations to make some .gif files of the different sections.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I put an early version of the astronaut model in some of the shots and joked "hah, they look like selfies" and we ended up going with that theme.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

@kieranhj.bsky.social wanted some "simple" UV lookup table effects for the part of the demo that he was coding. We came up with a scheme that allowed some shading and so I just had to add nice lighting and reflections and a bunch of advanced features. I'm really happy with how they turned out.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The other production I had a hand in at Nova 2025 was the Allstar Megademo for the Acorn Archimedes. www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_cY... For which I made all the graphics and lookup table effects for the "Space Trip" section in #shadertoy.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Last weekend was the Nova 2025 demoparty in the UK. I worked on a couple of the productions released there. I made a 4Kb Executable Graphics picture "void main". www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi... Since then I've also put a variation of the code up on #shadertoy www.shadertoy.com/view/3fySDR

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ouch. When we worked with them the phrase "Where there's blame there's Acclaim" floated round our office.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hi, I'm Paul, a tech programmer in the games industry. I'm a Technical Director at Assemble Technology in the UK working with a number of studios. I've been known to make stuff on #shadertoy, do random coding for old machines and some other #demoscene stuff. Expect terrible puns and daft nonsense.

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Love this! Reminds me of this silly thing I made a while ago www.vertexshaderart.com/art/TdqvseMQ...

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vertexshaderart - Garden Fireworks - by P_Malin

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rob cupisz @robcupisz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For the love of our eyeballs, do not align your ember particles to velocity! Don’t give them that comet texture either, ugh. Let’s make ✨physically based flying embers✨ A Unity vfx graph implementation and explanation below. 🧵

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Paul Malin @p-malin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Spoiler: It's the off button

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