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Let's face it, you were gonna put a squirrel into every field anyway

The hammers are ringing at the Nightwell Forge!

Deductopia: Scout Camp by Gwen C. Katz Room 5 of Deductopia

Played my new free puzzle yet? Deductopia: Scout Camp has been updated with new, trickier clues! Give it a shot!

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The Nightwell Games philosophy

Gwen exemplifies that game designers are artists of many types.

Artistry pictured: Nightwell Games vest, T-shirt designed for Jules, and the one-of-a-kind piece Sean was wearing in our previous post.

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Always have been, always will be.

The Nightwell Coyote says AI art makes his eyes bleed.

The only thing I'd change now is that point would be the first one

(and I could probably leave off the Metaverse point, that one's pretty well dead and buried)

Duderoo we wrote this into our fucking manifesto like 2 years ago

Well, after a month of work, we're taking the L. The mac version won't launch correctly for OS-specific reasons we can't sort out. We are officially amending the game page to say that this game doesn't support MacOS. (Our more recent games do though!)

ThinkyCon 2025 · Thinky Games Puzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

Meet the Wolfmaster at ThinkyCon!

@gwenckatz.bsky.social will be there Wednesday November 5 at 2:30 PST talking about what puzzle designers can learn from curriculum design!

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Tuxedo Mask saying "My job here is done"

Steam support is like

We are now two weeks and dozens of messages in on the saga of Steam's Mac Release Option Doesn't Work and no closer to a resolution. Our profound apologies to our Mac players and we will continue working on this as long as it takes.

New Deductopia room is currently in testing! (Yes, the draft art always looks like that.) It's the skate park--and we have a surprise guest writer!

Well. We have a Steam-side bug that's preventing the Mac build of The Wolf of Derevnya from launching. We've contacted Steam about it, but in the meantime we've temporarily taken down that launch option.

If you already own the game on Mac, you can manually run it--the build's perfectly good.

A puzzle where you have to match train stations to their destinations

Mostly behind-the-scenes work right now. But we are cooking up revisions on our newest Deductopia room!

A terrific game illustrated by...me!

Why thank you!

We had a wonderful time at MAGWest! Our new puzzle got an overwhelmingly positive reception and we got lots of great feedback on how to improve the UI/UX. Great experience all around!

Players are tackling our brand-new Deductopia room--but it's a toughie! We'll be at MAGWest until 5; come give it a shot!

Come catch us all weekend at MAGWest! We'll be playtesting a never-before-seen new puzzle. This is our favorite event of the year!

Our favorite grant is back open!

Choose Wisely Festival 2025 The stakes are high and everlasting. Welcome to the Choose Wisely Festival, a choice-based games celebration! Focused on featuring the delightful craft of branching narratives, open to developers wor...

Do your choices truly matter?

Sign ups for the first Choose Wisely Steam Festival have opened! The event, hosted by Studio Ephua, celebrates the delightful craft of branching narratives and is open to developers worldwide.

Submissions close August 24th.

More info below.
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Just make it exist first, you can make it good later!

Buy a game from the dev who pranked Cybertruck owners!

(And always remember to wash your Cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice!)

Friday’s Free Games! A Bunch of Nice Casual Games and Action-Related Titles This Week! After last week’s smaller number of free indie games, this week is exploding with them! Today’s Friday’s Free Games features half a dozen casual games, and a lot of action titles! Many of these hav…

Little shout-out to Deductopia Chapter 1 here: cheapretrogaming.com/2025/05/02/f...

SOUND ON

Jeff Simpher recorded tenor sax and clarinet for my music to this cozy maritime deckbuilder called Ecotone.

Game by @nightwellgames.bsky.social

#gamemusic #gameaudio #indiedev #gamedev #cozygames

pretty much the definition of "short and sweet" - see if you can figure out which pet belongs to each kid! 🐕🐈‍⬛🦎

Deductopia Chapter 1: Bring Your Pet to School Day on Steam Can you sort out this chaotic classroom? Six kids, six pets, six desks--but whose is whose? Drag the right names and pictures to the right desks to win!

The hammers are ringing in the Nightwell Forge! Bring Your Pet To School Day is up now on Steam as DEDUCTOPIA! And there will be 9 more puzzles coming soon!

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Surradia: An Art Retrospective on Steam Unravel the mystery of three magical artists who went missing during World War II in this challenging, story-rich deduction game. Explore artworks, letters, photographs, and interviews to answer the q...

Surradia: An Art Retrospective got a big facelift! New animations, a cast roster, lots of visual improvements, quality of life features, and more. Give it a spin!

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The cat's name is Lump