iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 27/09/2026

💿 CHARMING SOUND ! ✨🔊 ahhhh im super blessed to have magical girl expert @imcoffeecats.bsky.social draw me a magical audio fit !!!

CD-RROM sona floating in digital space in a CD-themed and audio themed "magical girl" outfit with equipment elements. A mini CD is on the collar, while a cover resembling a CD around their front is wrapped in a puffy dress with an audio monitoring interface. 3.5mm jacks come out of their head and resemble antennae, and they have a 3.5mm jack tail floating and wrapping around the air.

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✿ Joy ✿ @flowersforjoy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hiya folks! For this year's #UnderwaterJam2026, my friends and I are making a yaoi monster fish romance VN 🎣 We need of 1 sprite artist, 1 BG artist, and 1 GUI artist! This is an unpaid jam project. More info below ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Fish Yaoi 2026 Volunteer Recruitment

[Open] Underwater Jam2026 Volunteer Recruitment We are Fishfood Games, a new studio run by four sweetiepies who really needed to do something other than play FFXIV in between deadlines. And we’re...

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 09/08/2026

BIG HOPS TOGETHER is out now! - Play the 15 hour adventure with 8 players - Pick up, carry, and throw your friends - Tongue swing from other frogs - Steal items from each other's backpacks - Story progression and collectibles are shared - 40% off for the next week Link below ->

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 06/08/2026

THE PEOPLE ARE RAVING: "I got really confused at a certain point" "so basically this game was geared from the start to be Definitely Not For Me, and yet" "no fucking way" "get psychic damage from this game" "i am Not a SPORTS BRO!!!" "read swim4swim... and am still confused!" 🌊💙🌊🩷🌊💜🌊

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jen! @jcodyssey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My favorite yurijam read so far. I appreciate how grounded - and interested in - reality it is, while simotaneously being so surreal. The interlocking narratives/watercolor art/general aesthetic and texture make the whole VN feel like a dream you can't wake up from.

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blue jay @vn-fan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I drew bonnie(the protagonist) from the game once upon a witch's curse☺️ I saw all 4 of the endings and it was such a lovely game!

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 02/08/2026

The postmortem devlog for SWIM4SWIM is now in 1.0.3. The 2026 Futures Championships are now over. @jeanieboxx.com @maniacmayhem.bsky.social rombuffer.itch.io/swim4swim/de... #toxicyurivnjam

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 30/07/2026

News time! 🚨 On August 9th our Steam version will transform to become BIG HOPS TOGETHER. - Play the full adventure ONLINE with 8 players - Pick up and throw your friends - Tongue swing from other players - Steal items from each other's backpacks - Story and collection progress is shared

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robobarbie @robobarbie.dev · 27/07/2026

hellooooooooo video gamers it's time for #VeloxFabula4 ‼️‼️ if you've ever wanted to make a visual novel, this is a great small jam to test it out -- see details here: itch.io/jam/velox-fa... AND, with this comes 2 weeks of theme submissions! drop em here: forms.gle/fhWHp9M2pPzu...

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Velox Fabula 4

A game jam from 2026-08-15 to 2026-08-31 hosted by robobarbie. - ABOUT - Velox Fabula (or "Quick Story") is a ranked jam about making a complete visual novel in 10 days based on a community-determined...

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 23/07/2026

SWIM4SWIM OST by @jeanieboxx.com is now available! 1.0.2 was uploaded for extra bonus material + QOL updates! 🌊 jeanieboxx.bandcamp.com/album/swim4swim-original-game-soundtrack 🌊 rombuffer.itch.io/swim4swim 🌊 #toxicyurivnjam

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

it's not just that means testing unfairly gatekeeps care from people on the edges of the economic goldilocks zone. the logic ripples out through culture and influences how we talk about poverty, race, and disability. we do not talk about helping people without first talking about who not to help.

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Storm/Naoimh @stormstrom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just released a short piece of otome interactive fiction (inspired by reading too many indulgent romantasy novels/manhwa) for #O2A2 vn jam! Only 1k words, 1 sprite, 1 background and 1 morally dubious love interest~ naoimh-murchan.itch.io/the-revoluti...

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The Revolutionary's Captive by Naoimh "Storm" Murchan

A captive princess, on a knife's edge between love and hate.

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Sky @skyshard.itch.io · 19/07/2026

New visual novel for #O2A22026: DYSCRASIA Madeline Parker is dying. Her son, James Parker, won't take her to the hospital. A preacher has come to Parker household, promising an impossible cure. skyshard.itch.io/dyscrasia

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 13/07/2026

[ SWIM4SWIM ] rombuffer.itch.io/swim4swim FLY | BACK | BREAST | FREE made by me, @jeanieboxx.com , and Mayhem for #toxicyurivnjam / ~1 hour, 0 endings, 11k words 💙🩷💜🌊 [ On a sunny 14th of July, I swim for the first time in over ten years. ]

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 11/07/2026

[ SWIM4SWIM ] a visual novel about swimming / 0 endings, 11k words 💙🩷💜🌊 releasing July 13th 2026 11AM PST FLY | BACK | BREAST | FREE

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OD.MP3 💔🎶 @overdosemp3.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

the PREMIERE of WLCW is TODAY!!! you can hear me as Sidney Godfr-ACK!! stay tuned for much more!!!! #welovecoldwar www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwpv...

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We Love Cold War!! - CASINO (Pilot) - Act I

YouTube video by Nico Jiang Animeworks

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 03/07/2026

[ shape / form / feel / flow / of water ] #toxicyurivnjam

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Sky @skyshard.itch.io · 02/07/2026

New from me: All I Can Remember A short story/picture book, 78 pages. skyshard.itch.io/all-i-can-re...

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olivia @ lunamakaio games @lunamakaio.itch.io · 01/07/2026

July 1st marks the first official day of development for our Adopt A Boyfriend Chat Sim Spin-off, titled: STRAY HEARTS ONLINE shoutout to @deniz-g-lerosi.bsky.social for the awesome name ♥️ Stay tuned for more info, as well as a Casting Call coming soon! 👀

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Storm/Naoimh @stormstrom.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's out! \o/ Play as chaotic witch Bonnie, after a mismanaged curse that got her into trouble, also offers her a chance for love! Will the adorable demonic muscle of Gigi charm her? What about the the fae prince Ronan, who literally falls into her life? Romance both or neither in this free vn!

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Once Upon a Witch's Curse by Naoimh "Storm" Murchan

When a curse goes wrong, a chance for love comes a witch's way

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olivia @ lunamakaio games @lunamakaio.itch.io · 22/06/2026

LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR ADOPT A BOYFRIEND: CHATSIM EDITION! 💗✨ Come join the team of pet boy lovers working on expanding the AAB universe with this chatsim instalment 👀🐶 See details below and feel free to reply or message with any questions 🥰

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Storm/Naoimh @stormstrom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hello~ would any moots be interested in playtesting my latest romance vn? It's cozy and chaotic, with 4 endings, 2 love interests (1f/f, 1f/m) and a poly option! (beautiful art as always by @squirrelcurls.bsky.social )

A witch looks at an open spellbook while a demon lays prostrate in a summoning circle. The on screen UI shows several dialogue options the witch can respond with.

A pretty blue skinned fae faces a witch, who has several dialogue options to respond with via the on screen UI.

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 07/06/2026

HAPPY 6/7 🐛 pre-orders for bug stickers are OPEN - get 32+ little bug stickers for $5 - 16 unique insects - world-wide shipping - callie keeps telling me to make more help - supports evil yuri devs rombuffer.bigcartel.com/product/hone...

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 05/06/2026

Early microscope

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 31/05/2026

omgomgomg honeydewcomplex bugs are real !?!?! 🐛🦗 get callie's own bug sticker sheet + one set of die-cut 0.5 - 1.5 inch stickers !! 🐞🪲 (pre-order for an extra bonus set!) pre-orders run 6/7 - 7/6 🦟🪰 @imcoffeecats.bsky.social @ppilotco.faith #ryonajam

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JILLIAN F. KILLS⚾Shortstop by the Sea @killjill.itch.io · 30/05/2026

this bit from gentrification of the mind really gets it

Just as gentrification literally replaces mix with homogeneity, it enforces itself through the repression of diverse expression. This is why we see so much quashing of public life as neighborhoods gentrify. Permits are suddenly required for performing, for demonstrating, for dancing in bars, for playing musical instruments on the street, for selling food, for painting murals, selling art, drinking beer on the stoop, or smoking pot or cigarettes. Evicting four apartments and replacing them with one loft becomes reasonable and then desirable instead of antisocial and cruel. Endless crackdowns on cruising and "public" sex harass citizens. The relaxed nature of neighborhood living becomes threatening, something to be eradicated and controlled.
Since the mirror of gentrification is representation in popular culture, increasingly only the gentrified get their stories told in mass ways. They look in the mirror and think it's a window, believing that corporate support for and inflation of their story is in fact a neutral and accurate picture of the world. If all art, politics, entertainment, relationships, and conversations must maintain that what is constructed and imposed by force is actually natural and neutral, then the gentrified mind is a very fragile parasite.

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🐺porksbun🐺 @porksbun.itch.io · 28/05/2026

(sorry it's scuffed I had to edit this on my phone)

image of morgan freeman but blue tinted. text reads !rue...

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 28/05/2026

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!Rue, overlaying various windowed boxes, plugged into a handheld device with a cable connected from the device to her artificial ears.

"Thank you for 500+ downloads Agent Y"

The first year of the Scorning was defined by not its initial travesty, though we remember the loss of many lives to the oblivion of a force we'd only know as hatred, that terrible disconnection, but instead we remember the great struggle to make our stand, we remember the every day delight to make one another smile, we remember the small kindnesses we offered to each other. We held hands and called each other sisters.
In the face of impossibility, we ensured love found its way.

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Mathcat, Doll Quixotica @mozudyne.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Play my visual novel!

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 22/11/2024

Hi! I'm Michael Smith, and I like to write interactive fiction. Choices and nodes and stuff! 😌 I recently revamped a jam game that I'm very proud of: It's called "Carcinogen". Play it in your browser here: scriptfinch.itch.io/carcinogen

A scary crab telling you, "The sooner you acclimate to these particular market conditions, the better." From my game, Carcinogen.

A scary crab asking you, "Is that what's meant for all of us?" From my game, Carcinogen.

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 23/05/2026

CHAMELEONIC ACCORD is a bite-sized #visualnovel made in 9 days about a #magicalgirl reviewing her contract with the lawyer on her side. "We must want our fellow girls to ... walk the earth with her head high and look all women in the face." lillianaerato.itch.io/chameleonic-accord

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Kristi (งツ)ว @husbandogoddess.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Hey folks! A new Ko-fi goal has been set up to cover the cost of the backgrounds that have been done so far for A Little Inconvenience. Any amount helps, but of course, if you're not able to donate, sharing helps just as much! ❤️ ko-fi.com/husbandogodd...

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Support Kristi

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 05/05/2026

“And notice, gentlemen, the faster I go, the more Simmons sounds like a motorboat.”

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CD-RR0M 🌊 SWIM4SWIM @rombuffer.itch.io · 03/05/2026

i coded + recorded sloshy bits for #daydrinkingjam 🍷 kyousystem.itch.io/she-couldnt-... with words by @kyou.systems pictures by @ophanim.neocities.org backdrops by @ophanimkei.com

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She Couldn't Do Anything by Kyou System

No choices remain except bad ones.

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Jett Barker @jettbarker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"To My Dearest" is out now on itch.io! A kinetic visual novel about lighthouse keeping, existential unease, and (re)deriving one's purpose in a world thrown into flux. ✣ >7k-word narrative ✣ Over 250 voiced lines of dialogue ✣ 12-track OST ✣ 45-60min runtime jettbarker.itch.io/to-my-dearest

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Michael Smith @scriptfinch.itch.io · 25/04/2026

I did the soyjack face when I saw it

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

75yo neocon columnist: This YouTuber Says Capitalism Is Not “On Fleek”, But Is He Mogging Democrats’ Midterm Chances? 38 year old fellow at the Institute for Ethical Euthenasia of the Homeless: this is the most important thing youll read this year. if youre not scared youre not paying attention

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Hanako Games @hanakogames.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Marriage + Skills Update is now live for all players in Galaxy Princess Zorana on both Steam and Itch #gamedev

Screenshot of two women standing together. One has gray skin, pointed ears, and purple hair. One has green scales and wears glasses. Both are dressed in jackets. Sidebar text: "Zorana and Khdarr were married in an efficient, streamlined ceremony that featured modern fashion design and vows emphasizing the equality of the partners."

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

jump in!!!

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