iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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120 retro UI sounds for your game: clicks, hovers, confirms, cancels, errors, coins, power-ups, level-ups. 13 categories, WAV and OGG, every sound synthesised from scratch in code. €5. packsmithy.com #gamedev #indiedev #soundeffects #gameaudio #godot

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Under the Surface of Classic Sonic @classicsoniccode.bsky.social · 18h

A technical dive (😉) into Sonic 3's water palette swapping!

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 7h

another day in the layoff industry

My bad Canva edit of a tweet about feeding game studios to shareholders

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 2h

Incredibly weathered takeaway sign on Dale Road, Buxton. One for @deswalsh.bsky.social ‘s environment art reference.

A sign saying ‘Lucky Takaway Parking for staff and customers only’, where the vinyl or whatever substance makes up the lettering has curled and raised due to rain and frost damage so much that it has almost created a new font.

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Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social · 12h

Oooo... port of L'Abbaye des Morts, originally by @locomalito.com. Lovely game now available on the #ZXNext shrek128.itch.io/labbaye-des-...

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L'Abbaye des Morts (ZX Spectrum Next) by shrek128

A dark exploration platformer, now available for the ZX Spectrum Next.

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Marty @martincrownover.bsky.social · 12h

The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work.

A screenshot of a post on Threads by Joe Hill. The post reads: "Here’s a thought about the purveyors of AI. They aren’t selling assistance—they’re selling dependency. You give up on acquiring one skill after another, give up on the knotty, meaningful struggle to acquire those skills and AI takes over. It isn’t freeing up time so you can make more of yourself. It’s encouraging cognitive surrender so you can be less."

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 16h

looking into the sunset from thirty nine thousand feet

picture of a beautiful red, orange, yellow, blue sunset with a mountain in the middle. juni doesnt know exactly which mountain, but its north of the plane when It was east of San Francisco

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This Panda Eats Pumpkins @annie.redpanda.fun · 20h

as a former resident, I can confirm this would be a more accurate name

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404 Media @404media.co · 20h

So Trump's new AI chatbot? Creepy. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social saw this on Bluesky and gave the prompt "play minecraft" a test. This is what happened:

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wrong. It’s happening

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

If you've seen Majuular"s UO video (m.youtube.com/watch?v=35SK...), this is what I mean when I say Block Game is inspired by ultima. I want Block Game to be a similar canvas for player expression, just in smaller self policing communities without the issues anonymity causes because it's not an MMO

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Ultima Online Retrospective | The Last Hurrah

YouTube video by Majuular

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The 1939 Pontiac Ghost Car rmsothebys.com/auctions/sj1...

Black and white photograph looking through a showroom window at a crowd of people looking at a transparent car

A color photograph looking at the car from the rear and below every part of it is either white like the tires are chrome or plain Steel and then finally plexiglass which forms the body of the car

Black and white photograph looking at and through the plexiglass car

A smiling woman poses inside the trunk of the transparent car or we can easily see her and looking down at her holding on to the side of the car is another woman

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bruce Campbell in ARMY OF DARKNESS

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This country is horrifying

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The letter "O" from Joris Hoefnagel's Guide to the Construction of Letters (1595), a work designed to aid and inspire calligraphers. Each letter is surrounded by an array of symbolically charged motifs. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First page of the new Dredd story by Williams, Wyatt and Flint. At this point Flint is operating on a completely different level. The things he is doing here with perspective, flow, information and pacing feel intuitive but properly new.

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D-Pad Studio @dpad.studio · 27/09/2026

Accessibility features! We lack experience in this field, but it was surprisingly breezy to implement this high contrast mode using a couple of shaders and background fx. Any other settings we should consider adding before launch? 🤔 #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some interesting discussion on game difficulty design here. 🤔

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

July 25, 1992 (Protest at the Supreme Court): Together with Fugazi and the organization Positive Force, Bikini Kill played a large protest concert at Capitol Plaza and in front of the US Supreme Court. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl #punkrockhistory

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

George Callaghan (b.N.Ireland, 1941) Autumn Road through the Glens. oil and acrylic on canvas.

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 26/09/2026

ICYMI: "Once in a while, you watch a movie and think, 'Oh, so this is about as good as this sort of thing ever gets.' Forbidden Planet is one of those movies." @orringrey.com watches Forbidden Planet (1956): buff.ly/Xp6ATE8

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Monsters from the Id: Remembering Forbidden Planet (1956) - Unwinnable

An invisible brute only seen in the outline of disintegrator rays and electrified barriers.

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GoofOffBert @goofoffbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wonder what he wants to talk about?

The SysInfo program on an Amiga 3000 with the comment, "Phone Me NOW!!!"

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Adel Faure ⏚🍉 @adelfaure.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It should be done by tonight

draft of text mode poster elements, typographic vartiations of display font around the word "algorave", twelves aquatic critters drawn

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Let the Right One In” (2008)

A scruffy blonde golden doodle on its hind legs peeks through a screen door, hoping someone will let him in or join him outside.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Waterloo Bridge, the effect of the sun in the mist - 1902 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Asset Hoard @assethoard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AssetHoard v0.2.2 is out! Right-click any 3D model and export it as a turntable GIF or sprite sheet. Animated? Pick a clip, export once per direction, done. Plus textured Unreal previews and tag search. assethoard.com/releases/0.2.2 #gamedev #indiedev #gameassets #solodev

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A NEW ULTIMA RETROSPECTIVE HAS HIT THE TOWERS MR PRESIDENT youtu.be/35SKawn2SDI?...

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Ultima Online Retrospective | The Last Hurrah

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ArtBlast | Art Jobs @artblast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 Technical Artist 🚨 👤 Technical Artist at [Gaming Studio] 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 📅 just now 🔒 Company + apply link in today's email. Daily Art Jobs → artblast.co/subscribe/?src=bluesky ($7/month) Keep applying. #art #gamedev #artjobs

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sad to see Daft Punk having to make ends meet like this.

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Blender con is happening right now, and the next-gen Blender anim tech is basically what Cascadeur did. Remember that cool anim tool where you can arbitrarily lock bones and move the rest like it's IK but it isn't actually IK, and everything Just Works? HOLY SHIT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2J_...

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Motion Sculpting: A New Animation Paradigm — BCON26

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The headline makes you think they are trying to fix things but this quote from Reece Denzel says something else: "the actual way that we do credits and credit verifications has not changed" Friends have struggled to get credited on MobyGames forever.

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Return of the Utah Teapot - SIGGRAPH 2026 Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Utah Teapot at SIGGRAPH 2026 with Martin Newell and Jim Blinn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-23...

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The Return of the Utah Teapot - SIGGRAPH 2026

YouTube video by Cem Yuksel

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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

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Unreal Corvus - spin.exe @unrealcorvus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Crazy to see how far this game has come. Here is a look at the grapple hook's upgrade. #throwbackthursday #gamedev #gaming #indiegame #indiedev

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PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.

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Gabreu Senra - Wishlist Cozy Littlequarium @gabreusenra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stop tweaking your movement code. If your combat feels "floaty," you don't need a better physics engine—you need 3 frames of hitstop and a bassy impact SFX. It’s the fastest way to add weight. What’s your go-to "cheat" for instant juice? #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City

Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

True. Used to be you had to really work to run up huge IP liabilities. Now? This 30-second video probably infringes at least two trademarks, between two and six copyrights, and - somewhat remarkably given that there are only three speaking roles - six people's NIL rights. Truly incredible progress.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading this and I'm sorry, Why are we supposed to adopt this again Like I get why a piece of shit manager might inflict it on you but uh what's the upside for willingly sticking your dick in the Dick CutOffer 5000 here again? Why is anyone doing that. It's in the name you know what's gonna happen.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 24/09/2026

This is a good visual metaphor for #gamedev using generative AI to code… it gives the illusion of competency and creativity without an understanding of what the hell is going on.

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DoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Bride Of Frankenstein by Bruce Timm

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

dragon slayer I, magazine excerpt, skeleton sprite, game boy (1990) archive.org/details/game...

lofi pixelated game boy skeleton sprite, a couple of ribs, a skull, one big eye socket, one small, arms, legs, feet.

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