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Owen Goss
@owengoss.com
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Canadian indie game designer/dev. Half of Milkbag Games: Fivefold, Kickoff League, Disco Zoo, FutureGrind, Sidewords, SantaCraft, Photobomb. Amateur potter. He/him
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Adding to my intro post to mention the two daily web puzzle games we created in 2025, both of which you can play free in your web browser:
Fivefold: fivefold.ca
Kickoff League: kickoffleague.com
You can find all our games at: milkbag.me
Screenshot of Fivefold. It is a 5x5 grid with numbers in some of the grid cells. Some cells have multiple smaller numbers to make notes. In between some cells are dots or pentagon symbols representing different rules that must be followed to solve the puzzle. Screenshot of a Kickoff League puzzle. It is a 7x10 grid that looks like a soccer pitch, but with a chess board pattern on top. There are two teams of players on the pitch, represented by blue or purple jerseys. The Blue team jerseys have chess piece icons on them. There are lines showing the path the play has taken so far, and a player with a bishop icon has the ball and there are dots marking which squares they can move to, and an arrow showing where it can pass the ball. In one of the nets there is a target icon showing where the player must get the ball to score.
January 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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My very first published crossword puzzle is running on @puzzmo.com today! This was so much fun to make and refine with the help of Puzzmo's editors. You can solve it at www.puzzmo.com
A screenshot of the puzzmo mobile app showing a blank crossword grid with the title "Tug of War" and the text "By Owen Goss. Edited by Madeline Kaplan. Created for Puzzmo's second Open Submission Week."
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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If anyone needs me over the holidays, this is where you’ll find me
Photo of a fluffy white cat asleep on a couch under a blanket
December 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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People traveled many leagues to the palace to attempt the King’s Challenge. For what mortal being would be capable of lifting such an object? It was said that it was fashioned by a Giant Bear people, and that no human could move it, let alone open it and feast on the forbidden nectar inside.
A photograph of a Costco-sized jar of Kraft smooth peanut butter weighing 2 kg (4.4 lbs)
December 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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lol nice work, fifa. didn't *quite* hit that amount you posted for group phase ticket prices.
Screenshot from a CBC News article that reads: "FIFA said in September that tickets released through its website would initially range from $60 for group-stage matches to $6,730 for the final. But those prices are subject to change as it adopts dynamic pricing for the first time at the World Cup." Screenshot from the FIFA tickets website showing a group phase match between Canada and the European Play-off A team at Toronto statium. The cheapest seats are $1300 CAD, and the most expensive are $3035 CAD.
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This is a recent forum post, and is this supposed to punish me in some way? This person is denying themselves (and possibly their girlfriend) something they think they would enjoy because no number on Steam will go up if they play it.
Screenshot of a Steam forum post. It is a reply to an original post which states: "Probably would sell more if you had added achievements." The new post states: "this. waiting since years to buy this, but still no achievements. Gf gifted it today to me, but i have send it back because still not achievements. :("
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Oops, we made another game!

Fivefold is a daily logic puzzle where the rules change every day. Play it free in your browser!

fivefold.ca
Screenshot of a web puzzle game from a browser. The header says “Fivefold” and “Daily”. The main play area is a 5x5 grid. Some of the grid cells are filled in with large numbers of various colors. Some of the cells have small numbers in them representing possible candidates in those cells. On the edges between some cells are symbols, some are pentagons, some are multiple dots. The dots range in number from 1 to 4 dots. These symbols represent rules telling the player information about the relationship between adjacent cells.
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Be a game designer, they said. You don't want to spend all day staring at spreadsheets, they said.
A spreadsheet with a lot of data in different rows and columns related to rating the difficulty of some kind of puzzle. There are columns of data related to different measurements, and columns that apply different weights to those values, and a bunch of graphs of different data relating to other data.
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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if that game had gone on much longer, sports sites would have had to redesign their game info tables
Screenshot of an innings details table from last night's World Series game between the Toronto Blue Jays and LA Dodgers. The table shows 18 innings of scores, but it's running out of room and the inning numbers are almost touching each other in the header row.
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Managed to get out and photograph Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) last night! This is 15 mins of integration from my Seestar S30, processed in Siril, Graxpert, Seti Astro Suite, and Photoshop.
Astrophotograph of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). A bright ball of bluish-white is followed by a wide trail of orange-white. Inside the orange trail a smaller bluish trail is visible that twists and turns and extends out much further behind the comet. Stars are in the background.
October 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I thought someone might be curious what it looks like inside the dome. This is the chaos beneath. Everything is connected to a Teensy 4.1, which is what controls everything and will eventually make the game run.
A photo of the inside of a ceramic dome (which looks unsurprisingly like a bowl). You can see many coloured arcade buttons where they camp through the holes in the dome wall. There is a huge mess of different coloured wires connecting the arcade buttons to a Teensy 4.1 microcontroller.
October 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I’ve been working on this side project for several months now. It’s a hand-made ceramic video game? It’s still a WIP, but I got everything wired up for the first time last night so I could test controlling all the lights individually. Exciting step! Now I “just” have to make it interactive. 😅
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Some more astrophotography! I captured 885 x 30s exposures of The Pleiades - M45 (about 7.4hrs integration) with my Seestar S30, and processed the data in Siril, Graxpert, and Photoshop. This is an open star cluster and reflection nebula about 444 light years from Earth.
A stacked and processed photo of The Pleiades star cluster. There are several very bright stars in the middle surrounded by wispy clouds of dust that is glowing blue, reflecting light from the stars. There are many smaller and dimmer stars in the background.
October 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Reached a 700-day streak on the Puzzmo daily crossword. 😅 Approaching a two-year streak. I really enjoy Puzzmo’s games.
Screenshot of my Puzzmo.com profile stats showing a best crossword streak of 700, plus some other notables: “really bad champ”, “flipart champ”, “typeshift champ”, and “played to play”.
October 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Another beautiful fall day today, and another short hike along a different section of Bruce Trail.
A view from the top of a cliff overlooking a forest and marsh. The trees are a mix of greens and yellows. In the far distance, the water of Georgian Bay is visible, with large islands in the lake. The sky is blue with some fluffy clouds near the horizon.
October 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Limestone boulders
A large limestone boulder, about 2.5m tall, is leaning against another boulder in a forest. The boulders have moss growing on them in places. The ground is covered in brown leaves. Tall thin trees are visible in the background.
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Had a lovely hike today on a part of The Bruce Trail on the Niagara Escarpment.
A photograph taken from the top of a cliff. In the foreground are some cedar trees on the left. In front, and far below are trees that are starting to change into fall oranges and yellows. In the distance is a large body of water (Georgian Bay), with land and islands on the distance. The sky is a mix of blue and clouds.
October 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Wet Leg in Toronto last night were 🔥🔥🔥
Photo of Rhian Teasdale, lead singer of the band Wet Leg, in silhouette on the stage at the club History in Toronto. She is surrounded by fog which is lit from behind and glows white around her. Heads and someone’s phone are visible in the foreground.
September 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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We pushed up a small update to Kickoff League last night. Now the season schedule has buttons for each previous match in the season, allowing you to jump right into a specific game. And the schedule button now shows you how many previous games in the season you haven’t played yet.
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Screenshot of the kickoff league season schedule page. It is a table with teams on either side of a column with scores from previous games. Under each score is a button that either says “play now” or shows your star rating for when you played that game. Screenshot of the kickoff league season schedule button. On the left it says “Season 3 Schedule” and on the right are two lines of text saying “19 Upcoming Games” and “6 Unplayed Games”
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Periodic cat photo
Photo of a cat, curled up, sleeping, half on a throw pillow and half on a blanket. She is mostly white but has a grey striped face, and a striped grey tail that is very fluffy.
September 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I captured this image of M31 (The Andromeda Galaxy) last week while we were out of the city under dark skies. It’s just over 5 hours of integration on my Seestar S30 (an f/5 telescope with a 150mm focal length). The captured images were stacked and processed in Siril, Graxpert, and Photoshop.
An astrophotography image of a large spiral galaxy: M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. The galaxy is very bright, glowing in the center, with dark dust clouds visible circling it. Many other stars are visible behind it, and some smaller/more distant galaxies are visible as well.
August 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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My copy of Workworkwork arrived! I’m getting quite a nice collection of @letibus.bsky.social puzzle books. 🙂
A photograph of three small puzzle books on a desk mat. Left to right they are Abdec, LOK, and Workworkwork by Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design)
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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But how can you stay mad at this floof? Lookit dat face
Close up photo of a young cat sleeping. The cat is white and fluffy with grey markings on her face.
August 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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My grandfather, Geoffrey Goss, was a commercial artist and portrait painter. He painted this poster for the Government of Canada, probably 1950s, to promote tourism. He died July 31, 1985.
An illustrated poster. It says "Canada Vacations Unlimited" in the top left in large letters. It depicts a young family overlooking a scene of water and islands. Husband and wife are smiling, while their young daughter points and something in the distance. In the clouds are illustrations of various sports and leisure activities like sailing, fishing, golfing, etc. In the bottom right some small text reads "Canadian Government Travel Bureau Ottawa Canada" A small signature in the bottom left reads "G. W. Goss"
July 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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When we launched Kickoff League, @haoleboygames.com mentioned that it would be fun to have a physical version, and that kind of wedged itself into my brain. 😅

I was off work last week and had some time, so I made a physical version out of stones, some plywood, and paint. It was fun to make! ⚽️
A photo of a board game version of Kickoff League. A piece of plywood has a green checked board pattern painted on it in a 7x10 grid. It is decorated to look like a soccer pitch. Small stones sit on the board. Some are painted with a yellow striped soccer jersey on them. Some a blue jersey. The blue ones have white chess icons painted on top. There is a small round stone painted to look like a soccer ball. A closer photo of the board game. A higher up photo of the board game showing the layout more clearly.
July 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM