Klemens 🦆 The Art of Fauna 🦆

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My App Store award in my hand together with a signed card by Tim Cook, saying: Congratulations. Your app is one of the best of 2025. Every year, the App Store celebrates exceptional apps that improve people's lives. These apps showcase the highest levels of quality, innovation, and impact, and Apple is proud to recognize you this year. Thank you for making a difference in 2025.

Selfie of me holding my App Store Award

Thanks Tim!

I WON!!! 😍 Porta Nubi is Apple Vision Pro Game of the Year from the #AppStoreAwards! 🌟

This is so unbelievable 🥹

Winning an Apple award was a huge life goal of mine, and I cannot tell you how happy this makes me - thank you to the whole @AppStore team for this award!

Danke!!

Thanks man!

Yeah it’s heavy AF, so probably yes haha

Me in a brown shirt leaning on blue column with the App Store Award sitting atop. A text on the image reads "App Store Awards 2025 Winner" with an Apple logo.

The App Store award, resembling the App Store app icon, sitting on a desk in front of some books.

Speechless. Art of Fauna won the App Store Award in Cultural Impact 🫶

Check it out here:
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#AppStoreAwards #ArtOfFauna

Selfie of me in front of the Hollywood sign, during the golden hour. I wear a Art of Fauna cap and T-Shirt

The Griffith observatory during sunset, seen from a higher point up, with downtown LA in the background.

The Hollywood sign during sunset, with a sign in front of that says "Caution, Rattle-Snakes"

Sunset over LA. You can see buildings in the fog in the background. In the front, there are two hills. On one, two people stand with a bike.

Going indie worked out ok, what do you think? 😬

Seriously - I'm incredible grateful that I can experience this kind of stuff now.

A library room with wooden bookshelves filled with colorful books. The ceiling looks wooden and features chandeliers. The walls are filled with large, colorful murals depicting various historical scenes.

Close up of the Woden ceiling, which is not sodden

This is not wood! It’s just very well painted on!

Ornate chandelier with illuminated bulbs encircles a globe, featuring a blue and gold design. The ceiling above is detailed with geometric and floral patterns in muted colors.

A grand library interior with tall, ornate ceilings and vintage murals. Rows of bookshelves fill the space, illuminated by natural light from large windows. Tall lamps with red shades provide a warm glow. Tables and chairs are arranged for reading.

Colorful atrium with large orange and teal trusses ceiling and hanging circular sculptures featuring birds and flowers. The space is bright with natural light streaming in from the glass roof, surrounded by tall windows and columns.

The central Room of the public library. Ornate ceiling with intricate patterns and a central circular chandelier in a richly decorated room. Surrounding walls have large murals depicting historical or cultural scenes, with multiple tall arched windows letting in natural light.

Went on a (free!) tour of the Los Angeles Public Library yesterday and it is one of the most incredible buildings I've ever seen!

It might happen in the future 👀

Hey!

Yeah this is a bug - Svalbard is a free pack that is only going to be released on December 10, so you shouldn’t even see it right now 🥹

Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles App - App Store Download Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles by Klemens Strasser on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Art of Fauna:…

You can download Art of Fauna here and play the pack right now! 🧩

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“They’re just so struck by the proximity of these mysterious forms to New York City,” says Madeleine Thompson, Executive Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Library and Archives. 100 years ago, the Arcturus Expedition set sail from New York City. Led by the then-New York Zoological Society—now WCS—the six-month expedition sailed through the Sargasso Sea, around the Galápagos Islands, and then back through the Hudson Canyon just off the New York/New Jersey coast. Thompson shares some of the timeless beauty they found and captured in intricate drawings. This story is a part of WCS’s effort to designate the Hudson Canyon as a National Marine Sanctuary. Speak out to protect Hudson Canyon with Thompson: https://secure.wcs.org/campaign/2406-ADV-Petition-Hudson-Canyon Drawings of Otherworldly Wildlife: Capturing the History of the Hudson Canyon

The puzzle pack in Art of Fauna features six puzzles, based on drawings made during the Arcturus Expedition 100 years ago. ⛵

Here is a video, where Madeleine Thompson shows off these beautiful drawings. 🧑‍🎨
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The Hudson Canyon lies 100 miles southeast of New York City & is the largest submarine canyon on the U.S. Atlantic Coast. It is currently under consideration to become designated as a National Marine Sanctuary. 🦑

If you live in the US, please speak your support:

secure.wcs.org/campaign/2406-...

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YouTube video by Mobile Accessibility with Robin Header navigation on mobile #accessibility #accessibilitytips

"How do you navigate by headers?" This is what I got asked the other day by a client, so I showed them how to use the accessibility rotor and navigate a page jumping from header to header.
Do you use this kind of header navigation? Let me know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=syk7...

Promo graphic of the PocketShelf Black Friday Sale. Left shows the app icon, the logo and a text "Black Friday Sale, 50% off the first year". Right shows the app running on iPhone and on iPad.

Our PocketShelf Black Friday sale is live!

Get 50% off your first year (new users only) 📚
Available from now til December 8th.

Get the app here:

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Now, back to building some shiny new features 😎
#indiedev #iosdev #PocketShelf

IndieDevMonday is back, and I'm happy to be featured in the first new issue! 🥳

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Vote Vote Vote! 🗳️

Just found out that I'm nominated for the #GAConf Awards 2025 - In 3 categories!!

- Indie excellence
- Mental health accessibility
- Aaaand most dedicated studio, together with freaking childhood heroes Rare and id Software

Public votes are open here:

Art of Flora: Cozy Puzzles App - App Store Download Art of Flora: Cozy Puzzles by Klemens Strasser on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Art of Flora:…

This puzzle is going to be part of the "Mediterranean Basin" pack in Art of Flora. 🌸

Art of Flora will be released in March 2026, but you can pre-order it right now #OnTheAppStore

#indiegame #gamedev

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Screenshot of the same terebinth drawing on Flickr, provided by the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Clicking on it reveals that it's available in high resolution and under public domain. ♥️

And so I have my image without paying a dime to a stock image side, and instead, can use the money to donate to the Biodiversity Heritage Library!

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Screenshot of Flickr of the book "Le Regne vegetal t3 atlas (floor medicale)", showing 9 images of vintage plant drawings.

With the name of the book on hand, I could go back to my datasource (Flickr and WikiCommons offers an easy way to search for it).

And Voilà - I immediately find the book! 📚

Screenshot of Alarmy, showing 3 black and white drawings of plants

Side-note:

Sometimes I can go directly to the stock image side, but in this case it wouldn't have revealed the image that I was looking for! 🔍

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Screenshot of Alarmy, showing the properties of the image and the price for the license of a single image, being 22€

Going to the stock image side does reveal a price for the license of 22€ 👀

But also the name of the artist, the book and the date, making it clear that this image is actually public domain!

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Screenshot of Google image search for the screenshot of the terebinth. It shows results on the Website MeisterDrucke, but also Alarmy and Album Online

Fortunately, I can make a screenshot and use Google Image search, revealing the drawing on a stock image side! 📸

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Screenshot of the website Meisterdrucke, showing the image of the terebinth next to a configurator of the print - Revealing a cost of 119.90€

Going to the website reveals that I could buy the print of this image for 119.90€ 💶

Unfortunately, it doesn't list the artist nor the book where this picture is from...

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Screenshot of the Google Image search of the "Terebinth vintage drawing". Shows multiple black and white images of plants, but the second one is coloured. This one is selected in the search

I wanted to make a puzzle for the terebinth, but my dataset didn't have anything labeled for that plant.

But turning to google, I found this image which I quite liked. 👀

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Vintage drawing of a Pistacia Terebinthus, showing the plant in the middle, with detailed pictures of flowers and fruits on the side

Making a new puzzle for Art of Fauna / Art of Flora often involves a wild hunt through the internet to find the correct picture.

A thread showing you how this works on the example of the Terebinth 🌱

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#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Not doing TikTok dances yet, but still continuing to jump in front of the camera to promote Art of Fauna!

More videos on Instagram and TikTok!

#indiedev #gamedev

lol I didn’t even notice hahahaha