iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

on AI generated voiceovers in games

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 21h

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, Mario never criticizes the player for underperforming and tries to be understanding and supportive. According to Charles Martinet, that was his initiative, as he felt being negative would go against the core principles of Mario's character.

In the Mario Teaches Typing games, even if the player does badly or underperforms compared to previous attempts, Mario will try to be understanding instead of critical:
Uh-oh, that wasn't quite as fast as the last time.
Hmm, are your fingers getting tired? Mine would be by now... if I had any. (laughs)
Charles Martinet, speaking at TooManyGames Convention 2021:
I got this marvelous opportunity to do Mario Teaches Typing. And when I got the script and I'm in the studio - I'm reading the script for the first time, there were things like "You failed!"
"That wasn't very good." "That was much worse... that was bad."
And I was reading that and I said, "Do you mind if I just, like, play with these words a little bit and just change them around?" because, you know, I never say "no" and I never say anything negative as Mario... and the producer graciously said "Sure, go for it!"
And so it became "Oh, that was good, but I know you can do even better!" "Oh, nice one but let's try again!" so it was always uplifting and always trying to be positive. And I think that that is the essence of the character to me - it's that love and that joy.
Source: transcript of speech found at youtube.com/watch?v=k9RywNQXCUM

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 23h

Beautiful! I can't wait to try it 🤩 I'm gonna facilitate 2 puzzlescript workshops soon. If this works well, this is gonna be a nice addition to the workshops!

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just wanna point out the pope blessed the white Sox and they still haven't lost.

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Restarting Chicory after years of leaving it mid-game. It's as wonderful as I remembered it, very excited to discover it again and finally witness its ending!

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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whoever chooses to willingly moderate this server might actually be some of the strongest and bravest human beings of all time

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Playing Titanfall 2 again and it just fills you with sadness, that specific strain of narrative first person shooter that Half-life wrought basically does not exist any more in that same way. We barely get a confusing single player campaign stapled to a multiplayer game any more.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 04/10/2026

every game would be better if the protagonist was waluigi imagine if you were playing like bioshock, and andrew ryan is all like a man chooses a slave obeys, and waluigi is like wah

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Tijn 🍉 @tkers.dev · 05/10/2026

Goldfish Simulator 2027 is finally here! Admittedly one of the sillier things I’ve made for Playdate; think of it as a hyper-minimalistic tamagotchi, or maybe a walking sim without walking... either way this lets you live the dream of taking care of goldfish! Check it out: tkers.itch.io/fishsim27

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Goldfish Simulator 2027 by tkers

Time waits for no fish

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

writing in games should be closely linked with personification and progression. when we do level design we consider and manage the flow of the player’s attention, what to tempt with, what to highlight and what’s clutter. but it’s less common to give this sort of attention to narrative

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A good reminder for myself that Volume is still in my backlog and asks to be played

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 03/10/2026

Having your kids play older classic games is a good way to bond, but for the love of god don't make them play N64 Goldeneye I know it was THE game when we were kids, but it does NOT hold up at all, even remotely. That's just like punishing a modern kid making them use those controls and controller

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really love the curating work that you do 🙏 Please keep it up!

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 02/10/2026

Did y'all know you can just MAKE video games? Like that's allowed.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/10/2026

Video games are RUINING gaming. RT if you think gaming was better before games

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I heard the term ‘meat proxy’ recently, meaning someone who places themself as a human middleman between an employer and genAI, and it is simultaneously a perfect term for the practice, and existentially depressing when you realise how many want to nominate themselves for the role.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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RITSUKAXAN @ritsukaxan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did you know... Final Fantasy was named that way because it was supposed to be the very last video game ever released? Just a few months later, a meteor was going to destroy the Earth... but a blonde guy with a bunch of eco-terrorists saved us all subscrive for more game curiosities

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would have preferred if there was more of a main storyline to drive you rather than random sidequests to progress, but that's pretty standard for this genre. Anyway, can't wait for the sequel launching later this month!

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally played Toem! It was incredibly cute, and a great addition to the photography genre. I loved alternating between the 2D and 3D spaces to discover new details!

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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026

lol smite

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Vinyl but like, very scary @dumbnbass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My only exposure to Ed Shearswhatever was that one of the first mods for Pokemon Scarlet was one that removed his song from the credits

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fun bug in Guitar Ego where if the player holds the enter key, it will just generate a whole streak of hard-to-play notes :') Gotta fix that before I resume working on the tutorial

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Update: it proved to be maddeningly hard (it might be straight-up impossible?), and so I decided to put that on hold and focus on the rest of the game. I wonder if it'll be easier to implement with the upcoming Stage Tour guitars??

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 06/09/2026

modern gamer: why can't games go back to being non political? seaman, 1999:

The Sanctity of Life

Your role as the caregiver of an animal does not entitle you to end the creature's life. While the "law of the jungle" states that the weak are victims of the strong, this only applies in the wild, where it is merely a facet of the food chain, necessary to ensure
the survival and balance of life. Please remember that humans have been responsible for the senseless obliteration of numerous life forms
on this planet. If you are interested in the protection and preservation of wildlife, please visit the following
website to learn how you can make a difference:
http://www.panda.org/

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My previous hi-score in Devils on the Moon Pinball was 26M. Went from that to 362M 🤯 I'm on a roll (weak pun intended)

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They have really exciting portfolio! Looking forward to the games that will come out of this 😊

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Quietly funded high school band programs We lost an incredible person.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As a Montrealer, I'll ask around! Are you part of Elektra's festival by any chance? If so, my game will be featured there too, and I'll happily try yours :)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/08/2026

Apparently Lilly Wachowski does s tier alt text

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! I was wondering if you contacted selected game devs yet / if you send responses to everyone (including devs not selected) :)

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Tomorrow, I'm gonna implement making these bad boys work with my rhythm game

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

New Puzzlescript game dropping today

Puzzlescript title screen that reads:
The Best Performance, by Rafiki

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Rafiki @rafikidev.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Didn't know until today that there was an animated version of this iconic Britney performance! Beautiful. (I'm making a new Britney game so I'm in the rabbit hole again)

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Britney Spears “I’m a Slave 4 U” from the 2001 VMAs Get Animated 🐍 MTV

YouTube video by MTV

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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