iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Never used this little pod thing in Space Marine 2 but every time I pass it the lighting just makes me stop and go "dang"

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not knowing Unreal is painful for my job search but is doing wonders for my personal peace of mind

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

How my fur-collar winter coat looks at me from the closet the moment the temperature drops below 65

The Green Goblin mask where Norman Osbourne left it in his living room to temp him into putting it back on

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A game with no rules isn't a game, it's just a daydream, and everyone can already do that for free.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gonna walk into a pitch meeting and say "A corridor shooter set in space" and then stare at them blankly until they either give me money or laugh me out of the room

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a "game programmer artist" I can say from firsthand experience that this chart is stupid and dumb in its assumptions about skill level. If I didn't have our level designers telling me where to put things all the environments I made would have been total garbage.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My debugging system is only flagging some of the noise spots as not being hit by the ray from the light. Fascinating. Now the question becomes whether my raycasting logic is wrong, or if my debugging system is wrong.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After learning a lot of things about vector math, my vertex light baking system now takes light angle into account for smoother shadows! Next step: figuring out what's up with all that noise you can see jittering around inside the light's sphere of influence.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's been 10 months, Prime 5 when

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not with that attitude it can't.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

working on procedural rock formations

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"1 in 4 chance means it'll happen one time out of every four attempts, right? So why does it never work?!"

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here at Vodka Tactical studios we make random unfinished 3D remakes of nostalgic childhood flash games. We hope you weren't attracted here by the cool brand name cause you will be sorely disappointed.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If only the stock market (and the consequent dismantling of all that is good and functional in order to squeeze out some extra profits for the shareholders) didn't even exist in the first place.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What if I put triggers on lights close to the navmesh that re-enable their realtime light source when an entity hits the trigger? 🤔

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love being an optimization goblin. No lightmaps, no material variants, and it can do normal maps >:)

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Realtime lighting getting baked into vertex colors in Unity! The terrain shader uses the vertices' alpha channel as emission and tapers the edges with the material's normal maps. Might make this a free asset package when I buff out some rough edges to the logic and when I make it more user-friendly.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Does he really think?" is a better space to end that question. But then again, why use brain when can just make computer do?

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 27/08/2026

Just a PSA for all the other major publishers: You can’t make a GTA 6. Don’t have any meetings about it. Don’t put together any pitch decks. Don’t preemptively doom your workforce and the industry any further than you already have. Leave it alone.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wait til these guys hear about the Wii U

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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s eat or be eaten when Metroid Ravenous, the latest game in the 2D Metroid series, arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 Jan 28! #NintendoDirect

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The decision to let Samus keep her Metroid powers after the ending of Dread might be the coolest thing the series has ever done

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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watch out for his SUPER-ULTRA-MEGA-MOVE! ⚡️

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Every "corporate execs are assholes" satire ever written could not possibly compare to the level of assholery on display here. Jesus Christ.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I used to be confused watching Americans refuse to stick up for themselves or even allow OTHERS to advocate for things like workers rights (because doing so is Woke Commie Shit America Perfect Fuck You), but it clicked when I found out they make you pledge allegiance to the flag every day as a kid.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Deleted my original follow-up for sounding "harsh" but on further thought, nvm, I'm sticking to it. The level of disrespect and un-professionalism to tell your devs "yeah ur good" for an entire year and then to switch to "oop yep you're done" is so outrageously shitty I genuinely just have no words.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This really hits. My current project just announced "oops, project ends next month, yall better make job plans!!!" after A YEAR of the team asking "hey when is our release date?" Simultaneously realizing I'm blessed to have 1 month+, but still pissed at the detachedness of our managers.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 02/08/2026

Just to be clear on this article, the position I took isn't "developers need to be more brave" but "funding needs to be more brave". Developers make all the cool stuff, just because they want to - the funding side hits it with market research and fear and growth targets and shareholders.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

That said: Asha Sharma IS currently playing a bullshit PR game where she’s really just saying hollow things people want to hear in order to attempt to rebrand, so it’s possible they will hold onto discs for a while solely for that? But I doubt it, and if they do it won’t last long.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 15/07/2026

Update: A Ubisoft Barcelona employee has reached out to Game Informer to explain that Ubisoft is offering a "very bad offer that goes below any reasonable standard" in negotiations amidst an employee strike at the studio held to protest proposed layoffs. gameinformer.com/2026/07/15/a...

an image from the July 14, 2026, strike rally held outside the Ubisoft Barcelona office. Employees on strike are holding a sign that reads, "Corporate Greed," designed to look similar to Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed" title treatment.

An image of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced protagonist Edward Kenway clashing swords with Spanish soldiers in the game

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 14/07/2026

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced developer Ubisoft Barcelona has begun a strike to protest planned layoffs at the studio, just days after the remake's successful launch. gameinformer.com/2026/07/14/a...

an image of Ubisoft Barcelona developers on strike outside the studio's office. Various employees are holding up a large banner that says "Corporate Greed," stylized in a way that makes it look like Assassin's Creed, with matching colors to boot.

an image of Edward Thatch aka Blackbeard from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. He is angry.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It was really funny when they dropped the price of Gamepass and people started enthusiastically declaring she had saved Xbox And then it was immediately back to our regularly-scheduled war on the games industry and the livelihoods of everyone in it But hey at least gamepass is a few bucks cheaper

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Glad they updated this article title to be way more passive-aggressive

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Over 21,000 games released on Steam in 2025 alone. You have listed 8 successes spanning more than 15 years.

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Shell @cptshell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In my opinion, any CEO that deems it necessary to lay off this many people is admitting that they so woefully mismanaged their company and caused harm to their workforce. I think that warrants jail time, and I'm not remotely joking.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Been listening to the soundtrack nonstop, there is some INCREDIBLE music in there

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Adam. Pottery Beard. @thatbeardoadam.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Telling Tim to STFU is getting a lot of mileage lately.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/07/2026

This is horrifying and so important. Israel's continued massacres, child murder, genocide, forced starvation, concentration camps, targeted and structured destruction of life, and ethnic cleansing continues. It's easy to not see the full scale of this unparalleled evil. archivegenocide.com

Israel Exposed — War Crimes Archive
64,515 videos · 17,904 photos

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 02/07/2026

we were discussing where the cost savings of AI and physical media production go when they’re not being passed on to the consumer

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 30/06/2026

I'm happy to announce to game developers worldwide that almost every single one of us can now officially claim that at least one of our games did better numbers than the "Great American State Fair", and also that we did better at not shipping greybox assets for our setpieces.

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Shame this didn't apply to domesticated dogs, would've made the Kojack situation easier

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 26/06/2026

With the shutting down of Concord and EOL for Destiny & the complete gutting of live-service stalwart Bungie, Sony announces a new company strategy focused on -wait sorry let me re-read I must've gotten it wrong... no that's what it says- yeah they're still trying to build a new not-Destiny y'all

In the PlayStation 5 generation, Sony Computer Entertainment's software output hasn't been as impressive as it was in the previous console generation. Due to SIE’s aggressive live service push, the Japanese publisher released several games - such as the ill-fated Concord from Firewalk Studios and Marathon from Bungie - that did not meet players' expectations. Despite this, President Hideaki Nishino confirmed they will continue to pursue live-service games, even as he heavily hints at a PlayStation 6 handheld designed to meet the changing playstyles of gamers worldwide.

"We believe that live service games are content that attracts users on a global level, so we want to continue to revitalize the market through both first-party and third-party content," Hideaki Nishino said in a new interview with Famitsu celebrating the magazine's 40th anniversary. "We are not only focusing on promoting new releases, but also considering what we can do with older titles in the medium to long term. Also, this year we are planning to release our own live service title, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and we hope everyone will enjoy it."

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Will Slama @slamallama.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Related: that take from Kojima that he was happy about "going indie" after Konami fired him has always irked me. Getting fired cause you can't meet deadlines and STILL being allowed to hijack awards shows and get all your projects instantly funded no matter how goofy they are is NOT "going indie."

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