iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i mean it is also true that a provocation and a 24-hour game jam is great pressure to make something bibliomancer.itch.io/poems-arent-...

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Poems aren't stories. by bibliomancer

(A response.)

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · 13/08/2026

bitsy is turning 10! to celebrate i've created an archive of every released version of bitsy, and i'm hosting an extra-special, extra-long 100th #bitsyjam :D blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-0...

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10 years of bitsy: announcing the bitsy archive and #bitsyjam 100!

every version of bitsy is now online + the last #bitsyjam

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I've been working on something cool and it has a kickstarter coming up soon, so you may want to hit the notify button. There is also a free demo if you haven't already checked it out. Cats! Demons! Slime! Texas! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...

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Coming soon: Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid

Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yikes. There are a bunch of accessibility reasons not to do this that are obvious, but if you ignore all of those like a jerk, can I just say that it looks bad? This is just terrible visual hierarchy. Get it together UI/UX folks!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I checked this out at AMAZE and it ruled. Go playtest it!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Grab this while you can & get their new one tomorrow!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The key art for Dana's book rules

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This immediately looks like a game jam to me

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just found out about this Böcklin exhibition that'll be up in Berlin during @amazefest.bsky.social next year: www.smb.museum/en/museums-i.... Multiple Isle of the Dead paintings in the same show? Tagging @antihelios.bsky.social, @laststarfarer.bsky.social, and @calligramstudio.com for reasons.

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

once again thinking about how alex colville invented uncanny videogame graphics from first principles in the 1970s

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Apply to make tiny games for money!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I have been saying mobile is dead for years, but this is making me have a real Frankenstein "IT'S ALIVE" moment.

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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 13/05/2026

Behold… our beautiful line up of croupiers who will be gracing the Car Boot Casino floor this Saturday 16 May at @amazefest.bsky.social … & pls especially enjoy my bootleg Horse Race Tests character art. 🐎 🦩 🎰

Poster for car boot casino with full line up.

Line up text reads:

HORSE RACE TESTS
by Blake Andrews
CAVE
by Ada Null
SAUSAGES GAME
by V Buckenham
THE INViSIBLE CASINO
by C. Diffin
GAMBIT
by Finn carney
LUCKY STARS by Josh Hadkey
CARDS!
by Holl Gramazio

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This begins as a detective game and ends as a fever dream. If you haven't played it yet, go grab it while it's on sale. I played it a year ago and I'm still thinking about it.

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andy @gleeson.dev · 08/05/2026

new font (soon). fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.

cover image for my upcoming font, ANALOG MONO.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Anybody remember hell.com when it was an early showcase of weird flash art pieces that were all linked together? Circa 2000? My favorite was a watering can that poured out letters.

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Kasey Feral Smith @kaseysmith.net · 14/04/2026

I've started a new series, an installation (I think) about security theater and Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch. Part One -- balaclavas sewn from vintage Night Watch cross stitches. Each inspired by one of the two central figures in the painting.

A woman in black wearing a balaclava sewn from an old cross stitch. It's the style of balaclava with one big slit for the eyes.

A balaclava lying on a white surface. It's made from an old cross stitch and laces up the back with red ribbon with gold tassels.

A woman in black wearing a balaclava sewn from an old cross stitch. It's the balaclava style wut holes for each eye and the mouth.

A balaclava lying on a white surface. It's made from an old cross stitch and laces up the back with yellow ribbon with yellow and gold beaded embroidery

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Marc Watson @marc-irl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

@unormal.bsky.social I made a card to describe my experience playing Caves of Qud 😁

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

With over 3000 specimens, this Flickr collection is still unrivalled when it comes to vintage hotel luggage labels. www.flickr.com/photos/waves... Type & illustration gold.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Running an old copy of The Print Shop on my grade school Apple II was where I discovered that graphic design was my passion- along with the joy of Carmen Sandiego and Facemaker

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The icon || the artist || the work

Pixel art self portrait of Star St.Germain, a woman with pink hair and glasses

A portrait of Star St.Germain in a phone booth in Tokyo, wearing a blue dress, shot by kotokhira

Screenshots of the mobile game HoloVista

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

everything is a UI problem, except memory allocation, which is witchcraft

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Old man yells at Creative Cloud

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Lorenzo Pilia @lorenzopilia.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Showing games in a cinema is not a new thing, but @gamerausch.bsky.social in Berlin is doing it at a different level with an excellent curation and trying different things out with the event format, in this case by pairing Baby Steps with the film Journey to the West www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXbI...

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JOURNEY TO THE WEST Trailer | Festival 2014

YouTube video by TIFF

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inkle @inkle.co · 28/03/2026

What a headline

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Truly gutted to not be at GDC this year, or even in SF at all. Hit me up if you’re coming to AMAZE? I would love to see you.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#my9games is more or less what you’d expect. Though I’m sure I’ve forgotten something excellent and formative that I will bolt awake thinking about in a couple days. my9games.com/s/164dc55e0f...

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Quote your art with glasses on 👓

pixel art self portrait of Star St.Germain with pink hair, wearing large round pink glasses and a purple jacket, moon and stars in the background.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The series is chronological, and we are thoughtful about spoilers up to particular quests. So, if you’re just starting to play Qud on switch, you can listen along as you hit specific milestones. Let us be your Qud buds!

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

If you see this, repost with a Sentai team that isn't the Power Rangers or Super Sentai Kamen Rider exhibit from my recent visit to Toei Studio park in Kyoto

Mannequins wearing the costumes from the show Kamen Rider at Toei Studio Park in Kyoto

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’m letting go of these original artworks & If you love them I’ll consider any offer. I can’t take them with me! ~CD sized, paint, xerox transfer and wire on wood. Pick up in San Francisco, or pay shipping.

Three colorful artworks by Star St.Germain, painted on wood.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) Video Sculpture 2) Art, Life & Money 3) Lyric Diction 4) Beat Research 5) Math, Logic & Knowledge

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

It’s finally out! Go play this masterpiece now that you can!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I feel privileged to have experienced the glory of Nova Express, its Cthulhu statue and late night pizza in wacky flavors en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Ex...

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Nova Express Café - Wikipedia

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m debuting an extremely early look at a new demo I’ve been working on in this show tomorrow!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This game was the best thing I played last year, and would have been my GOTY if it were, well, out yet. Always a joy to work with @inkle.co.

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FluffCopter @fluffcopter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Caves of Qud update: poured warm static on my dog, it turned into a dromad trader that comes with guards and items. They are all my dog, the whole trade party and merchandise. I convinced my dog to sell me my dog for free while my dog, my dog, my dog and my dog were standing guard.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I posed this question in Jordan’s replies and people are amused so it might as well be on my timeline too.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“Welcome to the circus of values!”

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

So thrilled to be working with these lovely folks again!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Had a dream that I was officiating a wedding between Beyonce and a refrigerator- in Brazilian Portuguese- a language I do not speak.

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Zhenia Puzankov @allworms.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A bit late into Black Friday but hey I got three courses worth of Narrative Design lessons up on sale for half price. That's right I've published lessons from Narrative Crash Course and Strangened Narratives course online. Plus Dialogue Design! itch.io/s/171366/nar... #narrativedesign #indiedev

Cover of Strangened Narratives course. A hand with Strangened Narratives written over it with multiple eyes flying around it.

Cover of Narrative Crash Course. Title in the middle and a bunch of simple birds surrounding it.

Cover of Dialogue Design course. A woman is yelling with words coming out.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 28/11/2025

I don't actually *know* that my late great-uncle worked at Bletchley. But the available evidence suggests he did. Here's what I know. I inherited a few things when he died - not in his will, but just collected from his attic. One of these is significant, and linked.

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Check out the spoiler-laden conclusion, where we ask the devs all the deep questions about the ending of this truly epic game. A huge thank you to everyone present for this chat. <3 Join us for this (nearly) 4 hour hour long finale episode!

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thisisstar @thisisstar.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A triumphant moment compared to most of the times I accidentally ruined Nanao’s life in this game.

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