iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

its so weird seeing the plot actually boiled down into a single line of dialogue when the current script obfuscates it a bunch (current script is better, that said!)

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I had blissfully forgotten I'd actually finished the original VXA version's script. That said. The current script doesn't include the word 'emerchesty' so im happier

realising that my momentary joy in getting to actually make game is now running into the next writing boss battle tutorials.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

okay! time to make actual gameplay hell yeah! > mechanic doesn't work > mechanic breaks > mechanic doesn't work > mechanic doesn't work > the audio has stopped working for some reason ....okay #gamedev

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[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500”
Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign.

Panel 2:
Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected

Panel 3:
Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”

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Puddor @puddor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

this is ff8 related as all philosophy ought to be

Puddor @puddor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

but what if you're the chicken and the egg :)

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all the AI grifters sobbing going 'nooo don't call it a grift pweaseeeeee pwease buy our products with AI we shoved in its ass and made worse as a result pweeeeaaase its the futuuuurree are u a ludditeeeee 🥺' me, categorically refusing all smart and ai products: ahaah miss me with that hal shit

allowing myself a moment of victory lap because, after (too long) the edited script is in! (a lot of the reason [not all] was moving to a modular, engine external text handling so that the game is able to be translated) for sanity's sake...sequential gameplay implementation is next. #gamedev

Trello task list, listing six unexplained codes (SQ-1, RN-1, SQ-2, RN-2, SQ-3, FIN)

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Squall's whole arc in FF8 is him finally having experiences and starting to make decisions on what he does and doesn't like after coasting by with someone else's framework on how to live. And I strongly believe keeping Squall 'coasting' was the intention from Cid/Garden.

at the end of the day, squall's not seifer, but he's also not a stellar student, he's belligerent to literally everyone. Compliant, but belligerent. I really like that about him.

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it's really easy to fall into giving squall a kind of...moderate, spoken and inner voice, because at the end of the day he's a smart guy who speaks well when needed, but he's shown frequently cutting off his words ('cause, gonna, etc)

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man i really hope this person doesn't get mad at me < doing their job

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some part of me wants to be like, okay, disengaging from all other activities and focus on this ONE THING for six months. except i have like 8 things i'd like to do that with so its not really feasible.

🌜Sara Kipin🌛 🔜 LBX Table #629 @sarakipin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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The Harbinger and The Hunter 🦇 Happy year of the horse! #darkfantasy #vampire #illustration

A vampire rider astride a vampiric horse. The atmosphere is dark and rainy, the perfect time for a hunt.

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this album radicalised me and i don't regret a single thing

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yeah they've deluded themselves into some sort of graphical moral superiority and its honestly so weird

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me: why don't you interact with the broader 8 modding community me, doing cursory stuff and seeing Certain Things: me: we don't agree on a fundamental level.

Archeia『🌻』 @archeia.itch.io · 20/01/2026

just because something is now technically '4k' resolution does not mean it is better. in fact 90% of the time its uglier because nobody has any fucking taste apparently

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Rare update for Reaper of the Starless Sea. Still a work in progress but it's looking so great <3 #gamedev #rotss

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Puddor @puddor.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

how many lines of dialogue are too many lines of dialogue or, better question: how many lines of dialogue does your game have and what kind of game are you making

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Puddor @puddor.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

the 2016 thing is funny to me because i genuinely remember Absolutely Nothing (its the cptsd)

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-mumbling- eat your vegetables...

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perhaps I should have anticipated this from a game involving time travel.

me: haha this thing in this game sounds like ff8, i guess its referencing the same thing ff8 did -doing research- ....this doesn't happen in any actual religious text is this actually an FF8 reference??

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i love the idea that there's certain books that are considered biblical but depending on which sect of bible-following you belong to, they point at it and go 'not canon' its like a candy pick and mix except its the origin of existence

when you almost post secret concept art like its nbd ah ha ha