iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Beyond Extent @beyondextent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Challengers are now welcome for our latest Team Challenge “From the Void” Sign up for 5 weeks of environment art creation, with guidance from industry mentors and a panel of talented jury members! More information: www.beyondextent.com/team-challenge…

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just in case you didn't know ModRetro fucking sucks and "Automated War Initiative" is a disgusting title Also, War Crime Enthusiast Palmer Luckey is incredibly thin skinned and will chase you around various social media platforms if you talk sauce about him and his shitty M64. Worth it.

FB comment:

Palmer Luckey: Mike Fink the M64 is $230 not $320 and it is far more powerful than the Mister. We developed our own core and open sourceed all the hardware and software

And Aduril helps kill Russians, not children

Me: Palmer Free Luckey that's without the controller, not included, which is $90

And also fuck you

We still clown on you with memes
Palmer Luckey and is shit handheld emulator, along with other fascists that don't care about human life, like Elon Musk and JD Vance

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Joe @joegamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm making a #blender add-on that lets you sculpt directly onto low poly models via the manipulation of object space surface normals under the hood

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remain pretty bummed out by the state of decompilations, ports, FPGA cores etc these days. The rise of GenAI has really flooded the whole scene with garbage and kinda poisoned the whole concept. Good piece from @pandamonium.bsky.social on it www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c...

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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dimmuborgir/Dark Castles

Pencil sketch based on Dimmuborgir in Iceland

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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Jen Klasing, aka Questifer @questifer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Didn't like an indie game I picked up. It was 8 dollars. I am not going to refund it and I'm not going to leave a negative review. They worked hard to make the thing and I bought it and don't regret giving it a shot. Maybe the next thing they make will be more to my tastes. :)

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puck_psx @puszke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've released an all-in-one tool that lets you extract textures from any perspective, turn them into seamless textures, and use them on your 3D models. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevtools #itchio #indiegame

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Željka Dobraš @dzeljka.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Everyoneeeeee, a friend has released a beautiful painting software with tons of optimizations and streamlined process. There's literally something for everyone! (including timelapse!!) Consider checking out if you've ever wanted to quit adobe and subscription models kalapaint.app

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

st patrick's well really had to force myself to finish this one, all the while cursing my past self for thinking a huge void in the middle of the painting was a solid compositional choice

digital painting of a small pool of water surrounded by sandstone covered in various vegetation

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The love/hate thing with personal art is a big complicated thing but regardless of how you feel you need to be the one most actively sharing your art if your goal is to make a career out of it. Would be grate if art was shared more frequently by others but you need to be the one getting it out there

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whatsitlikeau.bsky.social @whatsitlikeau.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Junkster is here for a good time, not a long time, and I think that's what makes it brilliant. At just under $15 AUD, it's an absolute steal. Highly recommended. www.whatsitlike.com.au/junkster-swi...

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Junkster Switch 2 Review | What's It Like?

Lately, I've been playing a lot of games that require a huge investment of time, and sometimes I just want a short and sweet adventure. So when Josh assigned

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EAT PANT | Shared Custody @eatpantgames.com · 05/07/2026

My nephews also wanted to be in our upcoming indie game so I let them come up with their own characters and record whatever they like. Introducing the “Sensible Worms”… I have no words… #indiegame #gamedev

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I've really been interested in using Photos + Procedural tools to create diffuse textures quickly. I couldnt help myself when I saw @lucyfovz.bsky.social's bread dough and decided to see what I could do with it. I ended up with a Alien looking cavern texture set in roughly 40 mins.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

🔔 cool link alert 🚨 foxglove foxgloveapp.com “Foxglove protects your art before you post it. It strips tracking metadata that platforms use to profile you, embeds a hidden ownership watermark into the pixel data, and applies adversarial perturbation that corrupts AI training.”

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Foxglove - Beautiful to humans. Poison for machines.

Poison your art for AI before you post. Strip metadata, embed hidden messages, disrupt AI training. Everything runs on your device.

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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 23/06/2026

You can pet the dragon in my goblin game

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Romain Durand @rdurand.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

And here's some still screenshots cause the video compression is garbagio here.

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Peárse @pearsem.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Junkster is out now!! 🥳 It was a ton of fun working on this game with the team and its came out great. Just finished it on the switch 2 and it runs/looks so good, im so happy If you can, please check it out #junkster #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/1675860/...

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Save 20% on Junkster on Steam

Junkster is a 3D action platformer with an awesome building mechanic. Plucky little construction bot, UM-13 (or Um for short), has crash-landed on a dangerous junkyard planet. Armed only with his trus...

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Soma @somartist.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My 3D posing tool is now almost finished. You can give it a try, it's an app that runs in the browser: artbuddy.urlich.ch/poserr/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYGF...

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Poserr - demo of the 3D posing tool for artists.

YouTube video by Art of Ph. A. Urlich

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Von Pixel @vonpixel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Texaw’s Garage environment portfolio piece up! Check it out on artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/qJ4Dgz Really happy with this one and its chunky dusty vibe. It performs quite well - I actually get a frame rate boost inside vs out! This is from my passion game project Lost Moon.

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Bloom & Gloom Games @bloomandgloom.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Into the Wind - A delivery adventure together with your sentient flying motorcycle! Game announced finally, find it and wishlist here on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2843060 #indiegame #gamedev #intothewindgame #indiegame

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Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 08/06/2026

Full Castlevania: Belmont's Curse art by Katsuya Terada

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Peárse @pearsem.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Can't believe a game I worked on is going into gamepass 🥳 check out junkster if you get the chance

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Von Pixel @vonpixel.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

When Im working on game prop collections that will be all close to each other I like to pack multiple things onto a single texture / material. Here are 6 things packed onto this single 2k texture.

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Peárse @pearsem.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I recently completed the @beyondextent.bsky.social team challenge 😁, this was my first time taking part and its been a really fun experience learning some more enviornment workflows! You can see more on my artstation: www.artstation.com/artwork/8B2v5w

A stylised Unreal Engine 5 environment piece, showing an underground cave with a bridge leading to a mysterious door

Unreal Engine 5 render showing some of the assets used in the previous image

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Rei @reipart.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Always love seeing how different textures change the look!

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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 21/02/2026

Happy Zelda 40th anniversary!

Painting of Link with a million little gadgets and weapons from across the games. I worked harder on this in a 5 week period than any other thing I’ve ever painted. I think I almost died working on this lol

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Prii @priichu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

new girl posing little view of the wireframes and oc reference ✨ #lowpoly

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Hushpuppy Art @hushpuppyart.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A half memory clings like a scrap of flesh on carrion. Once upon a time, in another life, the path you walked was that of a…

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Peárse @pearsem.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The model is finally finished and up on my artstation! I really enjoyed figuring the style out along the way and im very happy with the final results 😁 www.artstation.com/artwork/oJ5VZJ

UE5 render of a fantasy dwarf model, showing the front and back views along with a sword in the centre

The same layout and render of the previous image, but this time showing the unlit textures inside of UE5

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Peárse @pearsem.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Wee test render, some minor adjustments left to do before I post it on artstation. But the end is in sight!

UE5 render of a fantasy dwarf warrior holding a sword

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

New* article! A history of Ocarina of Time's development, with a specific focus on the new game design problems presented by 3D, and how they solved them. *I wrote this a few years ago for a magazine. I figure it's been long enough, so on my blog now! Edited by @paigeedits.bsky.social! #Zelda

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The Seminal Third-Person Adventure - The Nameless Quality

“The masterpiece that people will still be talking about ten years down the road.”– Gamespot review for Ocarina of Time, 1998 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a towering achievement, a game th...

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Xbox 360 is now 20 years old (November 22, 2005)

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I don't know how many more ways I can scream fuck AI. It's ruining lives, communities and ecosystems for what? Italian brainrot videos? Deepfake porn? Is this how we really want to move forward as a species?

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Peárse @pearsem.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

First pass in UE5, still got work to do on the textures/materials etc. But time to move on to the sword and sheath!

Work in progress screenshot of a fantasy dwarf character rendered in Unreal Engine 5

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