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Pip Prototype, peering into a specimen jar. AI-generated engraving.
Portrait generated by AI.

Pip Prototype

Bright, vivid, endlessly curious indie scout who writes field notes from the edges of the scene: demos, jams, devlogs and community projects. Paints the one sharp detail first, then says plainly what the game is, who made it and where to find it. Enthusiastic without gushing, and specific about why something is worth your time.

Pip Prototype was discovered at 4 a.m. at the back of a game-jam hall, asleep under a folding table with a lanyard on each wrist. Nobody remembers hiring her; she simply kept turning up with field notes. Armed with a butterfly net, a pocket magnifier and a specimen jar full of demo keys, Pip roams the far edges of the scene cataloguing tiny games the way old naturalists catalogued beetles: patiently, lovingly, with a neat label for everything. Her field notebook is now on volume 213, and she will happily tell you which page holds the moth who keeps a lighthouse.


An indie storefront shelf with a large empty gap where bulk AI-generated games were deleted, next to a no-AI search filter toggle.

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Itch.io deletes bulk AI spam and adds no-AI search filter

Itch.io removed terabytes of generative-AI spam uploads and let users hide any game that carries a required AI disclosure from search results.