Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)
@stecurran.bsky.social
Game Designer, speaker, presenter. Host @onelifeleft.com and @singmaraoke.bsky.social. Once investigated by the ICC for playing Pokémon Go at The Oval. Currently working on Mindset 🟨🔺🔵.
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Deep breath.
✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨
🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game
Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.
Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.
Big day. More to come... 🔮
✨ Mindset GO! is in soft launch now! ✨
🔵 iOS: mindset.game/app/
🔺 Android: mindset.game/app/
🟨 ... Or web: mindset.game
Mindset is a new smart casual puzzle that tests 👀 observation and 🧠 logic.
Install! Play! Share! ENJOY. And let me know how you get on.
Big day. More to come... 🔮
January 17, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Reposted by Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)
Iran has killed all connections to the outside. But in the early morning the regular internet works briefly. In that time, @hackimi.bsky.social sent me a letter about what it's like being a developer without the internet as the government tries to squash everyone:
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A Game Developer Without Internet
Iran has been without internet for 9 days. Arash sent a letter as a developer without the internet, in the few moments when the great firewall faltered.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Iran has killed all connections to the outside. But in the early morning the regular internet works briefly. In that time, @hackimi.bsky.social sent me a letter about what it's like being a developer without the internet as the government tries to squash everyone:
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AAAHHHH this is such good news. This is such good good news.
Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing.
We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news.
spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...
We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news.
spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...
A 16-year-old baby is born! Miracles do happen.
After three years under the Netflix umbrella, Spry Fox is once again a fully independent studio. As a studio, we’ve managed to somehow survive countless industry upheavals and release a whole lot o…
spryfox.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
AAAHHHH this is such good news. This is such good good news.
A reminder to all that I shipped a word game, Stackword, at the start of this year - on Reddit of all places. It now has 17 players! Some of them are better than me! Maybe you will be better than me as well. Give it a go?
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/
January 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
A reminder to all that I shipped a word game, Stackword, at the start of this year - on Reddit of all places. It now has 17 players! Some of them are better than me! Maybe you will be better than me as well. Give it a go?
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/
Three months late but the Jade (JADE?) album is incredible. It reminds me a bit of the Nicola Roberts album (?!) and sometimes a bit of iamamiwhoami (???) and all the time of earworm bangers:
music.apple.com/gb/album/tha...
music.apple.com/gb/album/tha...
THAT'S SHOWBIZ BABY! by JADE on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 14 Songs
music.apple.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Three months late but the Jade (JADE?) album is incredible. It reminds me a bit of the Nicola Roberts album (?!) and sometimes a bit of iamamiwhoami (???) and all the time of earworm bangers:
music.apple.com/gb/album/tha...
music.apple.com/gb/album/tha...
This came on 6Music and I genuinely thought they were playing 1979 backwards
music.apple.com/gb/album/ups...
music.apple.com/gb/album/ups...
Upstairs by TTSSFU on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:39
music.apple.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
This came on 6Music and I genuinely thought they were playing 1979 backwards
music.apple.com/gb/album/ups...
music.apple.com/gb/album/ups...
I built a perfect 27-floor tower in the r/stackword version of #Stackword #34 and wrote 'FEN' at the top. Can you go higher?
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/...
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/...
From the stackword community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the stackword community
www.reddit.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I built a perfect 27-floor tower in the r/stackword version of #Stackword #34 and wrote 'FEN' at the top. Can you go higher?
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/...
www.reddit.com/r/stackword/...
Reposted by Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)
I put my new word puzzle game Stackword on Reddit. A few aesthetic things left to sort but it's close to done now. This was one of the final steps, because _theoretically_ it will just sit there in its own sub forever* and kick out a new puzzle every day.
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
Stackword - your daily word tower puzzle!
Stackword is a daily world game by Ste Curran. Players must build the highest word tower they can, making one move each turn: ADDING a letter, REMOVING a letter, or CHANGING a letter.
reddit.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I put my new word puzzle game Stackword on Reddit. A few aesthetic things left to sort but it's close to done now. This was one of the final steps, because _theoretically_ it will just sit there in its own sub forever* and kick out a new puzzle every day.
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
I put my new word puzzle game Stackword on Reddit. A few aesthetic things left to sort but it's close to done now. This was one of the final steps, because _theoretically_ it will just sit there in its own sub forever* and kick out a new puzzle every day.
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
Stackword - your daily word tower puzzle!
Stackword is a daily world game by Ste Curran. Players must build the highest word tower they can, making one move each turn: ADDING a letter, REMOVING a letter, or CHANGING a letter.
reddit.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I put my new word puzzle game Stackword on Reddit. A few aesthetic things left to sort but it's close to done now. This was one of the final steps, because _theoretically_ it will just sit there in its own sub forever* and kick out a new puzzle every day.
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
reddit.com/r/stackword
*lol
🏙️ I built a perfect 20-floor tower in today's #Stackword and wrote 'LINO' at the top. Can you go higher? stecurran.com/stackword
Stackword: the daily word tower game
Stackword is a simple daily word game by Ste Curran. Add, change or remove a letter on every floor and build the tallest - or smartest - word tower.
stecurran.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🏙️ I built a perfect 20-floor tower in today's #Stackword and wrote 'LINO' at the top. Can you go higher? stecurran.com/stackword
Look! A @singmaraoke.bsky.social "wrapped" piece @edjefferson.com. It is very good. Have a read:
edjefferson.com/blog/maraoke...
edjefferson.com/blog/maraoke...
Maraoke Wrapped 2025
Some people singing at Maraoke. Photo by Grey. I help run a live event called Maraoke, which is Modded Karaoke - a karaoke event where the lyrics to the normal kinds of songs you'd sing at maraoke hav...
edjefferson.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Look! A @singmaraoke.bsky.social "wrapped" piece @edjefferson.com. It is very good. Have a read:
edjefferson.com/blog/maraoke...
edjefferson.com/blog/maraoke...
🎄Merry Christmas! Here's your present! It's a new game!
I promised myself I'd put something out today so here's 🏙️Stackword, a quick-ish draft of a daily puzzle / word game. Today's is hard but there's an archive with a month of easier / better (??) puzzles. Hit ? for rules!
stecurran.com/stackword
I promised myself I'd put something out today so here's 🏙️Stackword, a quick-ish draft of a daily puzzle / word game. Today's is hard but there's an archive with a month of easier / better (??) puzzles. Hit ? for rules!
stecurran.com/stackword
Stackword: the daily word tower game
Stackword is a simple daily word game by Ste Curran. Add, change or remove a letter on every floor and build the tallest - or smartest - word tower.
stecurran.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🎄Merry Christmas! Here's your present! It's a new game!
I promised myself I'd put something out today so here's 🏙️Stackword, a quick-ish draft of a daily puzzle / word game. Today's is hard but there's an archive with a month of easier / better (??) puzzles. Hit ? for rules!
stecurran.com/stackword
I promised myself I'd put something out today so here's 🏙️Stackword, a quick-ish draft of a daily puzzle / word game. Today's is hard but there's an archive with a month of easier / better (??) puzzles. Hit ? for rules!
stecurran.com/stackword
Duncan did brilliant work for us. This is the first thing you see in the best game I've ever made and I couldn't ask for a better first impression.
Three short trailers I made for @mindsetpuzzle.bsky.social. The brief said "feel free to animate the logo" which resulted in my first animation in a commercial game since The Getaway: Black Monday (2004)!
duncanrobson.com#mindset
duncanrobson.com#mindset
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Duncan did brilliant work for us. This is the first thing you see in the best game I've ever made and I couldn't ask for a better first impression.
Tove Styrke has released some incredible pop music since but what a curse to have to follow this tbh: music.apple.com/gb/album/num...
Number One by Tove Styrke on Apple Music
Song · 2015 · Duration 3:23
music.apple.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Tove Styrke has released some incredible pop music since but what a curse to have to follow this tbh: music.apple.com/gb/album/num...
Oh WAIT no, it's 100% going to be shouting "IT'S ON RED" at another cycling going through a pedestrian crossing like they in some dumb lycra beardo version of Speed
What is the passive-aggressive thing you do that is most likely to get you killed? For me it is muttering, in a resigned way, "You're welcome" every time I e.g. hold open a door for someone and they don't offer any kind of acknowledgement in return
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Oh WAIT no, it's 100% going to be shouting "IT'S ON RED" at another cycling going through a pedestrian crossing like they in some dumb lycra beardo version of Speed
What is the passive-aggressive thing you do that is most likely to get you killed? For me it is muttering, in a resigned way, "You're welcome" every time I e.g. hold open a door for someone and they don't offer any kind of acknowledgement in return
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
What is the passive-aggressive thing you do that is most likely to get you killed? For me it is muttering, in a resigned way, "You're welcome" every time I e.g. hold open a door for someone and they don't offer any kind of acknowledgement in return
Prototyping: FUN
Building it out into something bigger: FUN
Imagining other people playing this: FUN
Adding a tutorial so they can: MIGHT JUST PROTOTYPE SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD
Building it out into something bigger: FUN
Imagining other people playing this: FUN
Adding a tutorial so they can: MIGHT JUST PROTOTYPE SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD
December 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Prototyping: FUN
Building it out into something bigger: FUN
Imagining other people playing this: FUN
Adding a tutorial so they can: MIGHT JUST PROTOTYPE SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD
Building it out into something bigger: FUN
Imagining other people playing this: FUN
Adding a tutorial so they can: MIGHT JUST PROTOTYPE SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD
This is an annoying creative vaguetweet but in the evenings I've been working on something that is not a thoughtful newspaper-style puzzle, just to change the pace in my head, and it is so GOOD and it is killing me. I want to post it. But if I do I'll stop working on it and so!! That tension!!
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is an annoying creative vaguetweet but in the evenings I've been working on something that is not a thoughtful newspaper-style puzzle, just to change the pace in my head, and it is so GOOD and it is killing me. I want to post it. But if I do I'll stop working on it and so!! That tension!!
This is great. I don't agree with a lot of it but that's the beauty of good, probing writing - I enjoy the argument and it makes me question whether I'm right, before I (obviously) fall back to YEAH OFC I AM and choose not to think about it any more.
Unlocked for all: Baby Steps is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The best game-feel of the year. But is what it asks of you... necessary?
Baby Steps (Cuzzillo/Boch/Foddy, 2025) - exp.
Baby Steps is as incredible as everyone says it is. But is it worth what it asks of you?
expzine.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is great. I don't agree with a lot of it but that's the beauty of good, probing writing - I enjoy the argument and it makes me question whether I'm right, before I (obviously) fall back to YEAH OFC I AM and choose not to think about it any more.
Please LOCATE and ADMIRE my Mindset Christmas Cookie
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Please LOCATE and ADMIRE my Mindset Christmas Cookie
Reposted by Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)
We're Apple Japan's Game of the Day! #OnTheAppStore mindset.game/app
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We're Apple Japan's Game of the Day! #OnTheAppStore mindset.game/app
It's Friday. If you could I'd love a good "recall email"-style drama today. Something low stakes where someone slightly bad does something personally embarrassing, compounded by a stupid attempt to erase the evidence. Or I'd take a winter blunderland. That kind of vibe.
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's Friday. If you could I'd love a good "recall email"-style drama today. Something low stakes where someone slightly bad does something personally embarrassing, compounded by a stupid attempt to erase the evidence. Or I'd take a winter blunderland. That kind of vibe.
Reposted by Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)
This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is true and it's why it's important to support independent critics... like me!!! I just posted a 2500 word essay on Baby Steps and I've worked hard this year to talk about more new and independent games like it. I don't have any steady income right now, just $1 per month makes a difference:
Reposted by Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)
I'd love it if some of you fine folk would vote for our game Mindset Go as best mobile puzzle game and best mobile family game here...
www.pocketgamer.com/pocket-gamer...
But don't feel obliged. But do.
www.pocketgamer.com/pocket-gamer...
But don't feel obliged. But do.
12th Pocket Gamer Awards - Vote now!
Hello, and welcome to the voting stage for the 12th Annual Pocket Gamer Awards. We've been busy beavering away at whittling down your thousands of nominations into our twenty category shortlists, and ...
www.pocketgamer.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'd love it if some of you fine folk would vote for our game Mindset Go as best mobile puzzle game and best mobile family game here...
www.pocketgamer.com/pocket-gamer...
But don't feel obliged. But do.
www.pocketgamer.com/pocket-gamer...
But don't feel obliged. But do.
They took this from us
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
They took this from us