iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

In short, reworking and remaking things is HARD. Changing a part of your work you love is painful. But if it makes the art as a whole better, it's worth it. Change is an important part in the creative process: for every game, a million scrapped ideas shaped the it into what it is now. 4/4

I'm reworking the generation to make the game world feel interesting and fun to explore, hoping to create zones like "biomes" and strange discolorations and blobs that hopefully will encourage the players to come up with their own stories and interpretation of an everchanging world. 3/4

The issue with this, in turn, was that my beloved background generation system, fueled by a pseudorandom noise generator I designed myself, looked boring. It just... repeated itself, perpetually. Furthermore, it lagged the game like crazy when generating on such a scale. So... I'm changing it. 2/4

One of the hardest things in game design is discarding a system, especially one you love. My game, for instance, was a strange type of single-room brawler. However, that was a space that didn't allow much creative expression, so I had to scrap the concept entirely and expand the game world. 1/4

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Being a Silksong fan is harder than being a Christian. Prove me wrong here. You simply cannot.

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Feeling bad for all the poor indie devs playing Deltarune and experiencing the formative moment in their life when they finally comprehend that Toby Fox is the final boss of game design. If you ever make a game better than him, you've officially beaten the career and can rest for eternity.

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Every so often, I think we all need to remember to be happy we're alive. Like, life sucks sometimes. But being alive allows the possibility of happiness, and that's leagues better than being dead. Even if nobody's there for you, you should be there for you. Keep going for yourself, to spite it all.

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I have finally coded the melee attack system for my game T.I.M.E.! By generating a seed from the current day of the year, each enemy selects an animation and automatically balances its own custom attack based on its powerlevel. Finishing this puts me startlingly close to release. #indiedev #T.I.M.E

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Sometimes, I break my consistent routine of devving because I think I need to "do other things" and "have more than one hobby" and then I dev for more than an hour, and I realize that this a silly notion and I need not do anything else with my life. #indiedev

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I'm of the mind that balance is a misleading term when making single player games. Balance isn't making the enemy and player always perfectly matched. So long as nothing feels unfair or nonsensical, it's probably fine. Stop asking if your game is perfectly balanced; start asking if it's fun to play.

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A better game dev would strive to fix these strange occurrences. I'm not that kind of person. Playing the game at midnight in your timezone is now officially a built-in hard mode that you can only access if you have a poor sleep schedule. Oh, I can't wait for release. #indiedev #itchio #T.I.M.E

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My game, T.I.M.E., is based on the real world clock. Now, I'd never tested the game at midnight... And it turns out that the game just goes crazy then. The clock-adaptive background just broke. The spells were applying 4 different special conditions. It was wild.

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Say hi to #7, the protagonist of T.I.M.E.! I've been meaning to redesign her to have a more normal color palette for a while now, but I'm oddly attached to that sweet lil face And yes, her skin is blue. This is because she's from a timeline where everyone's skin is blue. #indiedev #itchio #T.I.M.E

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Working on a game called T.I.M.E. It's a game about the passage of time based on the real-world clock with generated new weapons every minute and new enemies every day. I'll be posting updates pretty frequently so, y'know, if INFINITE CONTENT TILL 2038 sounds interesting to you... follow me?

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I have a personal vendetta against scents that don't make sense. Like, girl, what does "Uncharted Waters" smell like? I... I don't want my laundry smelling like whale piss, so unless you know something I don't, please elaborate on what exactly your product smells like. Kindly, a concerned customer.

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Do you like the Metroid? Do you like Mega Man? Possibly both? Have you never played either? Irregardless of your prior experience with those games, you should go play Metroil 2: Megan Quest, because it's a fully unrelated game. yyekko.itch.io/metroil-2

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METROIL 2 : Megan Quest by yekko

Samos disappears after returning to Zibis to confront a new threat

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beetlina @beetlina.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

GAME RELEASE! GO PLAY! - METROIL 2 : Megan Quest yyekko.itch.io/metroil-2/de... #gamedev #indiegame #scratch #itch

cutmin and megan soying out over metroil 2's release

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The LSRL is the Least Squares Regression Line, which minimizes the sum of the squares of distances to the line, which must be positive, so it actually creates a line of best fit on a scatter plot. If the residuals sum to 0, we have an LRRL, but the sum of the squares could be insanely large!

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Least Residuals Regression Line. The reason we don't use the LRRL is because it just minimizes the sum of the distances of dots to the line, which can create lines that don't fit at all (such as a horizontal line right between two vertical points.) The L*S*RL is the usual best fit line.

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Somedays its just like someone just made a LRRL instead of an LSRL of my brain and it's in the totally wrong direction but hey those residuals sum to 0 and everything is awesome MY FRIEND THE SQUARES SUM TO 4 MILLION THIS IS NOT ALRIGHT epic statistics reference amirite

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

There is so much going on and somehow I've managed to do everything except the one thing I really really need to do but really really don't want to. It's a skill.

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Listening to There Is No Ship by Rose Betts and I think this might just be my third favorite album of all time I've listened to it on loop like 5 times today already XD

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TH3GADFLY COMMISSIONS OPEN! DM for details! @th3gadfly.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

LET THEM JOIN, DAMMIT! Bug Ego remains PEAK, btw! #bugego

two japanese highschoolers, one is a large bulky man and the other is a long haired girl in a japanese school uniform, the girl is saying “Here” “We Signed It, Hitsujiya”

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beetlina @beetlina.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

read bug ego the best manga ever made by a long shot chapter 7 just came out go read

Hashira Yuki using an unknown hack in chapter 7 of Bug Ego, the best manga I've ever read by several miles

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Bug Ego might just be one of the only things I've ever read that's made me nearly cry at a character's introduction arc. Absolute peak writing from ONE, you must read it right now or else. #bugego #ONE www.viz.com/shonenjump/c...

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Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I do not have ADHD I just can't focus because I'm always thinking about other random topics and I never finish books or shows because something else grabs my attention and I'm playing like 5 different video games at the same time and working on more projects than I can possibly do. I'm just silly!

Zpyo @zpyo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I'm confused how to spend my time and stuck in a consistent and repeating loop of gradually rising panic, but every day where I legally exist is a victory. Even if I'm getting that victory from a loophole in an executive order that says we're *all* nonbinary. Listen, little victories, people!