iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Know any women, nonbinary folks, or trans people (around Montreal) who want to make their first video game? Applications for the Pixelles Make Games program are open! It's free! And no experience required 🙌 More info: pixelles.ca

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Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

As some of you already know, my little brother has a rare cancer. Less than 200 people are recorded having it since the 70's. In just a month, it's progressed to stage 3. He's only 20. It's been SO hard. If my game dev advice was ever useful to you, please consider: www.mealtrain.com/trains/y5z8yy

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Meal Train for The Poprik Family

Alan has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and is undergoing treatment at MD Anderson. He is spending one week as an inpatient to receive chemotherapy, then we will be taking him every co...

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Remember they told Jews to shower in gas chambers? Now they tell starving Palestinians to collect food aid - then machine gun them down. All those years we wondered how a holocaust could happen. Now we know. All those years you swore you'd have done something if you could have. Now you know.

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Brennan Storr @largelythetruth.com · 24/07/2025

Every time an app I use offers me a discount if I switch to annual billing I start wondering exactly how they're planning to fuck up their service with AI

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/07/2025

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble

Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

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Jesse Scoble @jscoble.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What a week for DEAD MONEY issue #1! In our first week on KICKSTARTER, as of this writing, we’ve hit 135 backers, and have just crossed the 4k mark, which lets us do a Spanish ver (in PDF). Campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea... Newsletter: buttondown.com/Jesse_Scoble

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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hello friends! My team is looking for a musician / audio designer for contract work on our combat-focused game! We're looking for music that's catchy, energetic, featuring chopped vocals, funky rhythms, and a seamless mix of hip-hop, electronic, and funk.

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HeartLoop Games - Call for Musician / Audio Designer

HeartLoop Games is looking for a musician and audio designer for contract work on our combat-focused game! High-energy, breakbeat-driven music with funky samples and an upbeat, playful vibe. Chopped v...

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I had an amazing time at this panel, speaking with industry veterans and a great audience. And while I don’t know which way games is going and my place in it, I’d like to be able to do another one someday

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Jesse Scoble @jscoble.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Heading to MontrealComicCon today to moderate "Narrative Nightmares & Lessons Learned" with Tanya Short @kitfoxgames.com, @jillmurray.bsky.social @shomatic.bsky.social at 3:00pm! ...and to chat up DEAD MONEY. :)

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Please help if you can - aid is already scarce, and thanks to disgraceful tactics, trying to acquire it on the ground is often dangerous

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Looks like Elon isn’t Gretchen Wieners - he’s Janis Ian

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Meanwhile in North America we stripmine artists’ talents, use them every day to survive the prison that this planet is, and are then outraged when they ask for a living wage and job security

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Let’s stop calling them layoffs. They’re wage suppression tactics at best.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If you’re in North America, PLEASE consider joining @videogameworkers.bsky.social. We cannot allow these robber-baron execs to keep doing this to our profession and art form. We deserve dignity. Unemployed workers and freelancers/contractors are all welcome in our union. We MUST fight back.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’ll be at Comic Con this weekend at a panel with some great industry folks!

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you’re a leftist group, stop using AI images in your promotional materials or social media. Theft is not a good look for your cause.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism By Jennie Kermode

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Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women

Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

There is an almost direct correlation between the days I volunteer and the days I am able to read the news and not fall into a pit of despair.

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Sweet Baby Inc @sweetbabyinc.com · 21/06/2025

🎉 It’s a @narrascope.org weekend! 🎉 We’ve seen so many amazing talks so far this year, and today, it’s OUR turn! Catch Tristan J Tarwater and Camerin Wild (www.linkedin.com/in/camerin-w...) in ⏰ EXACTLY FIVE HOURS ⏰ for “Lost & Found: Converting TTRPG Experiences into Video Games” See you there! 😘

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Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games

NarraScope 2025 at Drexel University is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Also there are so many people (rightly) pushing back against unpaid tests but I was recently asked to do an extremely predatory test (~ a month’s work in a week) and when I asked fellow game writers for advice was told that if I don’t do it, someone else will, because that’s just the industry now.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s both hilarious and horrifying that we all know EXACTLY which company this is. Have we all gone through their recruitment “process”? Should we form a support group?

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

They are being intercepted right now. THIS IS A WAR CRIME.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is the one games-related story that we really can't let get buried by the worst guys you know fighting or summer geoff fest.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Someone on Reddit said Musk today was like “Gretchen Wieners cracking” and I have been laughing at that for like the last four and half hours

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’ve been volunteering with Food Not Bombs’ NDG chapter for a few months now and it’s been one of the most enriching experiences ever. If you’d like to cook some delicious food, meet some cool people, and connect directly with the community, come hang out with us!

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Mais arrêtez c’est même pas de la satire maintenant 😭

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Only someone who has never created a thing of value in their life would look at a project that people poured their heart and soul into, and see a financial write-off.

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J. @doverej.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I'm not using "DEI" or "Pluralism" or any other word other than kindness. Anything else can be co-opted by MAGA as a racial slur. Sick of it. No more corporate and capitalist lingo infiltrating basic human decency. Language is power. #culturallinguistcs #languageandpower #linguistics

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

White supremacy can only function in wilful ignorance. Racists will claim Europeans invented maths and science, but will know nothing of Aryabhatta or al-Khwarizmi, or indeed anything about the rest of the world.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Until the Lord Chamberlain fires him and the entire company after producing another hit in the Henry franchise

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Smo - Screaming for vengeance @smomotion.tv · 26/05/2025

I remain convinced that AI is the fascist's answer to controlling the flow and messaging of the arts.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A happy glorious 25th of May to all who celebrate. We need the People’s Revolution more than ever in a world where truth, justice, freedom, love, and eggs are getting harder to find. #discworld

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This cold and rainy May here in Montreal is really starting to give Year Without a Summer vibes (Hope this at least leads to the invention of another literary genre)

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Any Montreal folks available to help out at a barbecue at the New Hope seniors centre in NDG tomorrow? It’s paid work; from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM plus clean up.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Here in Quebec, we have trillium woods instead of bluebell woods.

Trees surrounded by small white trillium flowers

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Just a reminder that this is what Microsoft and Xbox are supporting when they support Israel.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Any of us could be Anas or his family. I know times are tough but if you can help, please do.

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inspectorbeans @inspectorbeans.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Busalāme I'm half-Iranian, and I'm exploring Iranian mythological creatures but making my own spin on them. The first sketch I did felt really too sci-fi but I still like it! This website is amazing and I'll be basing my explorations on their amazing work! www.eranshahr.com/myths

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

So YouTube agree that the content they’ve been hosting on their site for over a year *is* abusive harassment… enough to take down a victim’s video about it, but not enough to take down the abusive videos themselves.

A screenshot from the YouTube platform, where Alyssa Mercante’s video, outlining the violent misogyinistic abuse she has received over the last year and change, has been removed in less than 24 hours, despite the abusive videos remaining up on the platform.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is harrowing. One of the many ways the industry fails to protect the people who help build it, is legitimizing their harassment by a rabid minority

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

While here in Canada we’re (rightfully) elbows up against the US’ annexation threats but the fact that many look at Gaza and don’t realize that this could be us too is equal parts lunacy and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Food security experts warn Gaza at ‘critical risk of famine’ amid Israeli blockade

Report by UN-backed consortium of specialists tells of ‘major deterioration’ since its last assessment in October

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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 07/05/2025

So I am doing a little #gamedev protest, I am putting Moving Houses on the Epic Games Store in the HOPE that if enough indies join, maybe Valve takes notice and lowers their GIGANTIC CUT a little bit. But I need your help to wishlist, share, and make some noise. store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/movi...

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Moving Houses Coming Soon - Epic Games Store

Moving Houses is coming soon to the Epic Games Store. Please check for availability and add to your Wishlist

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Dominik Hackl @dominikhackl.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Build cute little old towns in my upcoming city builder Smalltown Architect. Wishlist on Steam! #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Relieved to see the Canadian election results (and good job Carleton!) - hoping I and others like me won’t feel obliged to vote strategically in the next one. It’s time to yank the Overton window to the left and trash the far right once and for all.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Please sign and share so that we can one day have a healthier games industry

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