iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...

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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - six minutes version

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Official Electric @officialelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RUIN: 35th Anniversary - Definitive Edition A Point-&-Click Adventure game set in a cyber-fantasy world of kingdoms and ancient relics. Journey through this mysterious land, behold its wonders, and ponder 35 years of mysteries. Wishlist on Steam Now: store.steampowered.com/app/5012260/...

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Lettier @letttier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Blender 3D animation. #b3d

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A collection of armour studies from this year. I’ve really enjoyed these

Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered with illustrative snakes

Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered

Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered with illustrative human skulls and the text ‘cry baby’

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/09/2026

Homeworld 2 was released 23 years ago today. Pick up Homeworld Remastered Collection (2015) to play this sci-fi classic! Art by Rob Cunningham:

A large, futuristic spacecraft with a blocky, industrial design flies through space. The ship has metallic blue/gray armor with white stripes, antennas, and lights, against a dark starry background

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finished VHOLUME and saw they used AngelScript angelscript.hazelight.se We used this at Theorycraft and while C++ Live Coding was pretty good, this was much better from an iteration perspective. It also converts to native and is fully compatible with blueprints. Hazelight devs know what's up.

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Unreal Engine Angelscript

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I got a compact split keyboard to help my shoulders and now my brain is so confused I can't type on my normal keyboard anymore either. At least my shoulders feel great?

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today's news reminded me to kill my UE5 P4 server on DigitalOcean, mostly because I haven't used it since June. If you are a small studio, I urge you to check out Godot. I firmly believe it gets BETTER as your team size shrinks. I haven't moved this fast since Bungie's Sapien level editor.

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote a post about how I love BSP/brush mapping: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

a screenshot of the DarkRadiant level editor, showing a level from the game Skin Deep

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Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!! 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Roguelike Campaign ☪ An Arabesque Futurism inspired Cosmos Hope ya'll enjoy our launch trailer! bit.ly/4bRLumD 🥳😎🚀💥💥💥 #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

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Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ZOOM ZOOM PEW PEW IS BACK ON THE MENU FOLKS - I'M HAPPY TO REPORT WE'RE (mA) (AH) LOCKED IN FOR AUGUST 14TH 12 PM BST! PLEASE SHARE OUR UPDATED TRAILER FAR AND WIDE! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE! bit.ly/4bRLumD 🥳😎🚀💥💥💥 #wishlistwednesday #gaming #indiegames #gamedev #solareclipse

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@unormal.bsky.social started porting Qud to Doom this afternoon...got Joppa up and running

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Why485 @why485.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the best space combat sims of all time. Super smooth. Incredibly stylish. Can't recommend it enough.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026:

Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret, a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).

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Tegiminis @tegiminis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One of the canon space dogfighting games to me. 70% off is a steal

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Tony Mo @tonymo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hands down, some of the coolest "in-space" audio design around. Can't recommend HotDS enough, in VR or 2D.

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Superconductor carapace flushed with condensed superfluid helium. Quantum stasis system. One occupant. Permanent seal. House of the Dying Sun is 70% off this week! store.steampowered.com/app/283160/H...

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Quadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏

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Save 63% on Klei Cyberpunk on Steam

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The more I code (I'm not academically trained), the more I'm interested in straight C, especially as my entity frameworks have veered toward composition as opposed to inheritance.

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Finding Crawl's curses version extremely elegant and clean. Everything the game needs is right here, but not more. Even the seemingly small tilemap is just the right amount of tactical information to move quickly through the spaces (and a full map is still available on 'X').

Screenshot of a roguelike called dungeon crawl stone soup, with an adventurer on level 2 getting into a fight with a worm, rat, and kobold.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ue... This is insanity. Microsoft is at least 50% to blame here for even allowing this. The install procedure even fires with OLD monitors once the system ids them.

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DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Romanus Surt （スルト゠ロマヌス） @yomigael.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I fell asleep and accidentally pressed the release button. Sorry, folks, now you can play my little game. store.steampowered.com/app/3819770/...

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Save 10% on Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath on Steam

A standalone expansion for a dungeon crawler for tired people.

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Cloning indies has been happening forever (some dorks tried shady stuff with HotDS 10+ years ago, even). ...but still, AI made the landscape EVEN WORSE and I'm trying to figure out when/where/how to talk about my projects, since my scale is perfect for bad actors.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Spent this week learning Godot. Reminds me a lot of Unity when it was hyper game-focused. The overwhelming simplicity compared to Unreal doesn't stop devs from building toy-like (but functional) versions of big systems like GAS/Abilities.

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Red Llama @redllamagames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I've been working on the options menu for my dark fantasy game, Crimson Rest. It's not the most exciting part of development, but it's a necessary step. ➡️ Wishlist 'Crimson Rest' on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3993140 #darkfantasy #indiedev #gamedev #psx #godot

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NoQuarter Software @noquartersoft.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy 30th birthday, Quake, you really are the Genghis Khan of video games

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Checking out Godot again this morning for no reason whatsoever.

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Map-Center @map-center.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I've interviewed the team responsible for my favorite Arcane Dimensions map Terror Fuma. If you always wanted to know how this iconic map was created and what inspired it, you can now read all about it right here: www.map-center.com/threads/arca...

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Departing for Thrax.

An illustration inspired by Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun-- Severian, wearing a black cloak made of Fuligin, is walking toward a set of stairs, behind him a ruinous city littered with remnants of an ancient missile launchpad.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.

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Anton @antonhand.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

'Battle Milk' is now stuck in my head, as a concept, forever.

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The State Tree engineering in Unreal 5 is kind of crazy. Being able to pipe data around to any parameter or task input/output/context seems really hard to do. Really powerful stuff.

Unreal state tree example from Epic's documentation

Unreal state tree details example from Epic's documentation

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 21/05/2026

Ralph McQuarrie working on a Cloud City matte painting:

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Mike Tipul @tipul.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

STALKER 2 finally has its hooks in me! I wonder how much they're getting out of the truly open map. They're essentially still doing what the old games did by cordoning off biomes by unpassable walls (radiation, rivers, keyed exits, etc) anyways, except now they're streaming everything.

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

random rock, trying to make myself draw anything #pixelart

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

“Sonoran Magnetism” by Marc Maggiori, 2022

Southwestern landscape painting with two horsemen in chiaroscuro against orange and cream sunset clouds and the Grand Canyon. They are riding on a cliff next to many cacti.

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Raúl Rosso @elrosso.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Obsesionado con la obra de Zdzisław Beksiński por culpa de mi fijación por los libros del New Sun de Gene Wolfe. Un Giger especializado en ilustrar tierras muertas. Aquí toda su obra visual recopilada github.com/itdaniher/Zd... Uno de sus artbook en Internet Archive archive.org/details/fant...

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

From the animated trailer directed by POTTO Collective for "La Langue des Vipères", a graphic novel by Juliette Brocal, published today in France by Rue de Sèvres. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH56...

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