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Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)
@stecurran.bsky.social
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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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Hello, here is some free advice for those of you starting to think about VALENTINES WEEKEND:

maraoke.com/booknow
A Maraoke poster. White on hot pink, as is the way. It reads: "THE MOST ROMANTIC THING YOU CAN DO ON FRIDAY 13TH FEB IS ATTEND MARAOKE AND SING SONGS WITH ME BECAUSE IT IS MY BIRTHDAY* 13/02/2026 LOADING BAR N16 0PH *IT IS MY BIRTHDAY ON THE 14TH BUT YOU ARE USUALLY BUSY THEN"
February 5, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Here is a small reminder that I 'released' a new puzzle game on Reddit at the start of this year. It's called Stackword and you build towers of words by removing, adding or changing letters each time.

It's tactile and good and now works on iOS and Android too! Try it here: reddit.com/r/stackword
A Stackword tower, grey blocks on a sky blue background showing a series of letter blocks piled on top of each other. The base is the word TOONS; the S has been removed to form TOON, then an O to form TON. Switched out the O for an I to get TIN and then an F to make FIN and, appropriately enough, that was The End. A zoomed out picture of the Stackword tower. 21 floors. You can do better, I'm sure.
January 26, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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@frankcifaldi.bsky.social
Maraoke lyrics projected on the wall of a basement in South London: Who’ll scour eBay for the Lucky Done Caper That’s one bid from Frank Cifaldi
January 17, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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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/
A screenshot of my game, stackword, in which you add, remove, or change letters to build a tower of words, row by row.
January 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Please LOCATE and ADMIRE my Mindset Christmas Cookie
A plateful of Christmas cookies, decorated by me and my six year old daughter for the school fair tomorrow. One of them is a Mindset design; another says GOTH because I don’t know you give me a black icing pen and what am I meant to do
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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If I were lumines I would not have a title that looks like it says arse, on a logo that looks like an arse, positioned over an arse
The Lumines Arise logo which does all of the above
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Thanks Alexa
Screen showing an Amazon Echo display. The question at the top, asked by me when I was discussing it with my daughter over dinner: "Is pepper a fruit or a vegetable?". Alexa's answer: "According to an Alexa Answers contributor: It is a vegetable as it isn't a fruit"
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Mindset, a puzzle so pure it would work in a newspaper, is now in a newspaper. The Observer started running it today.

Cat for scale.

(You can play the digital version in browser at mindset.game, or grab the app at mindset.game/app)
Troy, a ginger tabby, sit with one paw folded on a copy of The Observer, in which Mindset is running from today.
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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In 12 or so hours I will post about something I've been working on for... maybe 18 months...? that is a very big deal to me. Also today one of my cats wore a tiara. You can like this post and I won't know which thing you're into but that's OK because they're both good.
A close-up portrait of Maurice, a two-year-old grey-white tabby who has soft fur and sharp claws and a stocky body, wearing a golden tiara.
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I literally gasped
A screenshot of Mr Resetti making his return in the new Animal Crossing New Horizons update, announced today
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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we're painting the roundabouts red, lads
A photo of me in front of the Alice in Wonderland display at the Blackpool Illuminations. One of the painting-the-roses-red card soldiers looms above me, goggle-eyed, paintbrush in hand.
October 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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izzy wizzy let's get cursed
Sooty display, part of the tableux at the Blackpool Illuminations. This year it's missing the top left back panel.
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Probs won’t order rechargeable batteries from aliexpress again tbh
A cheap battery charger and a cheap battery, post explosion, charred and warped
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Finnish friends: I am nearly out of gin & red grapefruit!! Please invite me to Finland for Maraoke so we can collectively fix this!
A fridge full of Hartwall's OriGINal Long Drink. There is only one can of gin & red grapefruit remaining and I'm saving it for a special occasion.
October 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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End of an Era indeed :(
A screenshot from Facebook showing me unfollowing Taylor Swift. It is over :(((
October 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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We recorded @onelifeleft.com live on @yogscast.com today and to celebrate I remixed the intro to my game with a silly / challenging new shapeset. Playable version here!:

mindset.game/yogs/
A screenshot of me, Simon and Charles recording One Life Left on Twitch.
September 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Correct
Me beneath a sign that reads I AM FAT CAT AND I DECIDE ALL. I’m in Munich btw
September 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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End of the week. I am going to @singmaraoke.bsky.social at Loading in Stoke Newington. Join me?

If you can't: play mindset.game/app and, if you enjoy it, leave a nice review?? Thank you!

Bugs / suggestions / critiques? Talk to me directly in the discord: discord.gg/5GazDscvVH

IT IS FRIDAY. xo
A Venn Diagram showing My Day and Good Times. On the left: graphs, computers, scheduling and trying to predict the future. On the right: snow, sleep, cake, holidays and cricket. And in the middle: Maraoke, Mindset and cats. I am grateful for all three.
August 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Intense times so decided to calm brain at 1.45AM on Monday with this week's Everyman (The Observer's easy-ish cryptic). Eyes immediately fell on 5D (as '80s film' felt like an easy in) and wtf wtf wtf
This week's Everyman, The Observer's cryptic crossword. 5D is highlighted. "Resents '80s film's outlook on life (7)"
August 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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it’s brutal out here
Brutalism courtesy The National Theatre
August 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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We're in @edgemagazine.bsky.social this month. There's a beautiful two-page feature (art by @charlottemadelon.bsky.social) and a picture of me scowling, (almost) exactly 25 years after I made my sulky print debut.

There's also a secret on the playable page. Let me know if you solve it. NO SPOILERS.
A picture from an issue of PC Gamer from sometime in 2000. Ste pouts at the camera. STE CURRAN: Specialist in: Arcade (somewhat true), first-person shooters (completely made up) Current favourite game: Pseudonyms This month: Took to discussing himself in the third person. No, really.
August 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Celebrated soft-launching a game the way everyone should: by seeing @mogwai.scot in a park.
Mogwai on stage in Crystal Palace. They’re the best band.
August 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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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... 🔮
A release image for Mindset GO! It says "Mindset GO! Out Now!" next to the Mindset logo, a modified Venn diagram. Below, a cat lurks by some sortable shapes. There are cats in the game; also shapes.
August 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Found the button.
The button in App Store Connect that will release Mindset GO!.
August 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I was in an arcade in St Annes the other day and saw this incredible hybrid work - a massive (digital) arcade machine based on those Tomy handheld water toys that I am certain you grew up with too.
A Tomy Waterfuls arcade machine in all its lurid glory. Hit a button to power chaotic floating rings around a screen, like you used to in the 1980s except now consuming a lot of electricity instead.
August 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM