Klemens 🦆 The Art of Fauna 🦆

Me in a red coat and hat stands on a snowy hillside at sunset. The sky is a gradient of blue and orange, with a sun near the horizon casting long shadows. Valley of snow-covered trees visible in the distance.

A single, perfectly shaped snowflake resting on my black glove

Group of seven people smiling into the camera. Snow covered forest in the background. I’m to the far left, with a very frozen beard

Reindeer standing in a snowy enclosure, surrounded by wooden fences. Snow-covered evergreen branches hang above, and the reindeer's antlers and face are dusted with snow.

The actual @arcticconference.bsky.social hasn’t even started yet and its already been fantastic!

🥶

Projektflächen – Regenwald der Österreicher Projektflächen im Korridor Unser nächstes Ziel: FINCA ABRAHAM Der Regenwald der Finca Abraham (31,5 ha) beherbergt neben großen Urwaldbäumen eine Vielzahl an seltenen Pflanzen- und Tierarten und sollt...

Read more about the project here:
www.regenwald.at/projekt-cobi...

Screenshot of the Donation Certificate in German. It says: Waldschutz-Klimaschutz-Urkunde Dank der Spende von Klemens Strasser werden im Biologischen Korridor COBIGA in Costa Rica 3.736 m2 Regenwald für die Zukunft gesichert. Dadurch wird ein wertvoller Beitrag zum Schutz des Klimas und zum Erhalt der einzigartigen Artenvielfalt geleistet.

20% of all proceeds from Art of Fauna are donated - and I just made the next donation. This time to Regenwald der Österreicher and their goal to protect a certain part of the rainforest in Costa Rica. 🇨🇷

The donation amounts to... 3,736 m² of rainforest saved 🫶

Great stuff!!

Train station departure board showing OBB RJ 855 to Wien Hbf at 07:00 via Bruck a.d. Mur. Current time: 06:47:15

On my way to @arcticconference.bsky.social !! 🥶

Promo graphic for Art of Fauna. The top shows the logo. Underneath are 5 cards of historical animal drawings, stacked upon each other. The shows a Mallard, an Octopus, a white pelican, a Black Crowned Crane and a Barbary Stag. Underneath is the text "The Lost Puzzles. Available Now", follow by a laurels showing "Apple Design Award Winner 2025, Inclusivity", "4,9 Stars, 15.000 App Store Ratings" and "App Store Award Winner 2025, Cultural Impact"

🎉 Happy 1st Birthday, Art of Fauna! 🎉

Celebrating a year with a special gift: "The Lost Puzzles". Available now!

✨ No AI-slop. Just beautiful historical images
♿ Accessibility-first design
🏆 App Store & Apple Design Award Winner

#indiedev #ArtofFauna #puzzlegames #a11y

Promo graphic for Art of Fauna. The top shows the logo. Underneath are 5 cards of historical animal drawings, stacked upon each other. The shows a Mallard, an Octopus, a white pelican, a Black Crowned Crane and a Barbary Stag. Underneath is the text "The Lost Puzzles. Available Now", follow by a laurels showing "Apple Design Award Winner 2025, Inclusivity", "4,9 Stars, 15.000 App Store Ratings" and "App Store Award Winner 2025, Cultural Impact"

🎉 Happy 1st Birthday, Art of Fauna! 🎉

Celebrating a year with a special gift: "The Lost Puzzles". Available now!

✨ No AI-slop. Just beautiful historical images
♿ Accessibility-first design
🏆 App Store & Apple Design Award Winner

#indiedev #ArtofFauna #puzzlegames #a11y

@marioprime.bsky.social 👋 Hey Giovanni! Art of Fauna dev here! If I have any updates on Fauna (or Art of Flora), is there any mail I can reach you at? Or should I just do Polygon Editorial?

Art of Fauna Paywall slightly updated! 🦆

- Moved the "No Subscription" statement directly to the price
- Showing my face in the "support and Indie Developer" section
- Added the awards hehe 🏆

Lets see if that changes things!

Thanks to @frederik.riedel.wtf for the inspiration!

Finally implemented one of the most requested features: Insights into the artists behind the beautiful drawings. 🧑‍🎨

It's first coming to Art of Flora, later to Art of Fauna as well. 🦆

#indiedev #ArtOfFlora

Screenshot showing the ratings of an app, being at 4,9 out of 5, with 15.040 total ratings.

15.000 ratings! Still 4.9!

Just a couple of days before the one year anniversary of Art of Fauna 🦆

Thank you 🫶

I won an GAConf Accessibility Award with Art of Fauna!!! 😱😱😱

I use Preview to convert them. There is even a quick action in Finder from Preview that allows doing it with multiple files at once. (You can also probably build an automation from that)

No, but you can use Preview to convert them. There is even a QuickAction in Finder where you can do this... quick :D

Screenshots showing the infos of two folders. The one titled Yasuni is 27MB in size. The one titled Yasuni - HEIC is 3,6MB in size.

Friendly reminder to export your app assets as HEIC instead of PNGs!

For Art of Flora, this lead to an almost a 85% reduction of size 😱

#buildinpublic

A man in a blue tee shirt with a raincloud graphic sits on a windowsill

📣 @chriswu.com TAKES THE STAGE BY STORM!

☔️ Chris has been an indie developer since 2017 and works on his current app, Please Don't Rain. He’s also an organizer of iOS Dev Happy Hour and CommunityKit.

Graph showing the Pre-Orders per day of Art of Flora. It runs from the 18th of November til the 17th of January, having a peak at the beginning and being more or less steady ever since. The total amount is 7.57k pre-orders, split between 8.85k Orders and 1.28k cancellations.

Pre-Order half time for Art of Flora 🌱

It's been 2 moths since the announcement and 2 months until the release. 😱

It now has an incredible 7.500 pre-orders, which is already 75% of my goal! 🥳

SSX Tricky (2001) animation behind-the-scenes

Tell a friend to save a life:

❌ name.lowercased().contains(searchText.lowercased())
✅ name.localizedStandardContains(searchText)

The latter ignores case, but also ignores diacritics (cafe vs café), handles localized variants (ẞ → ss, etc), and is supported in SwiftData.

HYPE 🔥

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Thank you @tylergaw.com for the recent shout-out to Art of Fauna! 🙇‍♂️ tylergaw.com/blog/a-few-t...

Kicking off another month me posting Art of Fauna videos on Insta/TikTok every other day 👀

www.instagram.com/reel/DTQUGrs...

They apparently don’t want you do be happy, Chris

Drawing of a male Mallard sitting on a stone and looking cheeky at the observer

Drawing of a male and female mallard swimming on a lake, with many others flying above them.

Ducking important question:

Which duck drawing should become an Art of Fauna puzzle? 1 or 2? 🦆

Yeah they will tell them about *my* app

This feature let PocketShelf grow from ~80 subscribers to over 300 in under a week! 😱

At least there is a fix for App Store Connect called Helm 😉

If you are from the UK and like PocketShelf, could you please leave a review for it on the store?
We plummeted to 2,8 stars 🥲

Very happy to have Art of Fauna in the honorable mentions of the AppleVis Golden Apples! 🦾
www.applevis.com/blog/applevi...