iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 22h

Oh this is real fucking good

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the one thing I feel like you can't get in a high-fidelity, real time 3D remake of Myst (1993!) It is, and is ABOUT hypermedia - it's about how Links and Pages would both connect worlds and create digital ruins.

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ok this fucking rocks new instant answer for "how do i start making a personal website"

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm the lead developer on this one!

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if you grew up on the i spy games but didn't play this, you need to correct that asap found out there's a famous non-spoiler guide to help you along if you really need it myst masterpiece edition, the point and click one. grab some friends in a discord call, go nuts

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finalv3.zip @finalv3.zip · 27/09/2026

NEW EPISODE sam gets really weird about the portal 2 beta leaks. watch. youtu.be/Kdip2joB3To

youtu.be

the portal beta leak made me sad

YouTube video by final V3

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

genuinely what are websites like patreon and megaphone doing that give you a full 1-2 seconds of blank page every time you click on anything it's driving me crazy

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

renewed my library card the other day you should do that

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finalv3.zip @finalv3.zip · 24/09/2026

final v3 is back, for real, releasing regularly first episode just went out for patrons www.patreon.com/FinalV3/post...

patreon.com

grieving with portals | FinalV3

grieving with portals by FinalV3 on Patreon. Join FinalV3's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

fucking gross! people have been calling this for a decade, since they were 'deepfakes'. it should have been made illegal a long time before it became a possibility. it can still be made illegal now!

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it's fucking insane how good the vibes are on the original MYST

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 15/07/2026

Also, while I’m at it in this thread, this also ties into the problem of copycats: bsky.app/profile/matp... When copycats appear really fast, folks wonder why all games can’t be made that fast. It’s because a copycat has no problem with indecision. All decisions are already made.

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

show me what you are making NOW

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

need to buy whoever designed the wikipedia app a nice meal it's using web 1.0 map of connected pages thing to build a daily (finite!) feed without engagement farming shit just pick X articles about things you're interested in, and it starts pulling N new connected pages fractally from there

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

theyre going to kill him for being right

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

The three discourses circling tonight are making me very very grateful for the training and support available to me entering the industry in the glory days of Wii shovelware. I got to be shit, subsidised and trained for three years upon entering the workforce. That’s what has fallen away.

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my friends told me this was pointless because zero people would notice i edited this slide to include Rodrick from Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

when stable diffusion was first released in 2022, i was chatting with a friend about processes that preserve joy, using MS Paint as an example and he went "oh, you could use AI to finish the drawing for you!" i still don't understand what he thought would be the point of that

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

okay it's now been almost a full week has even a single affected company made any statements about the steam leak? the law moves slowly so it's too early to call, but i'm wondering if this is just gonna pass

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Programming with blocks" actually wasn't the important thing about Scratch. it was just a shared constraint, the sport we were playing. the real gift of Scratch was the league - a very intentionally-maintained community for *kids* to make and share things with each other online

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Jonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com · 01/09/2026

It influenced our clocktower bell collapse sequence in Uncharted 4...

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

i always try to push for flexibility when i design creative tools, but you don't actually want infinite flexibility in a project forever! you think you do - but you don't! you need some walls to push back on or you'll never make an interesting choice

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

it's still so funny to me that the temp voice lines for Wheatley, recorded by an animator on the team (richard lord), ended up surviving until the E3 build of the game

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

it's so fucking inspiring to see people engaged in a craft try to build something across a long period of time. getting to watch the creators, the methods, and the ideas all change each other. so i wish there was a standard practice to let preservationists access unfinished game builds

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"why do you use underscores in filenames" bc it looks like what the computer felt like when the computer was cool

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the new control resonant trailer is the closest thing i've seen to an @rj.dcellgames.com trailer at AAA scale

youtube.com

CONTROL Resonant | Altered State Trailer

YouTube video by XBOX

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's a big investment on astronomically long odds, but you gotta focus on the *opportunity*. If you can capture just 1% of the GTA6 audience,

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

guy looking at an unfinished game, somehow earnestly: "dude this game looks unfinished"

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

yesterday i found out you're supposed to use both shift keys on the opposite side of the keyboard to capitalize letters and I feel like a fucking alien

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

thinkin about ways i and others have moaned about the hard parts of making stuff, but i hope it's been clear- the hard part is also the good part it's no journey without the hard part. i love the climb. i love the wide range of experience you get to have when you're committed to making something new

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i'm still heartbroken epic pivoted from this

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

a nickel for every piece of rendering tech with a beautiful and simple mathematical backing, but its implementation is like this

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It would be my honor to break my legs slipping off the top of this thing

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

let level designers make shapes

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

this is a PSA for professional unreal developers: i swear to high christ i'm going to break into your house and steal your computer if you keep shipping games with the default Roboto bold font

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I haven't learned much math in a while. Is there a good like... placement test, or something, I can use to better target where I start re-learning again?

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i would pay more than i'd pay for the game to see this guy's slack notifications right now

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First Twitch streamer who makes a data-poisoning OBS plugin gets a place in the hearts of millions.

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ok so how do we find out who cut the PRIMETIME trailer because it's one of the slickest bits of editing I've seen in a minute

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

checked out that minecraft 'verity' brain rot all the kids were making noise about. wild how they started tapping into fears kids have around interacting with AI, and then seemingly got one-shot by watching Obsession and tried to make that instead

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

workin on a quake map for rooftops jam

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

hey, has anyone done a writeup comparing perf implications of lit particle fog vs. 'real' volumetrics (froxel or otherwise raymarched), especially on mobile chips where overdraw is a bigger concern? because i wanna read that and i can't find it. (video from a mirza beig project)

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

That is not what balkanization means

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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Stefan Reinalter @molecularmusing.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

People know that I care about performance, especially since we've almost collectively forgotten how fast our machines actually are (except for a few people that *do* care - you know who you are). This now sits at 720ms in a master build. Thread with optimizations:

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

i like reading the updates on "gas town" because it's like watching someone buy carbon monoxide detectors so they can ensure they're getting enough carbon monoxide in their house

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