Celia
💜 Hobbyist gamedev at https://celia14.itch.io
✨ Making a narrative daily puzzle: https://the-daily-spell.com
🔎 Big fan of thinky, story-focused, and cute games
🏷️ She/her
- ICYMI, our game My Friends the Monster Trainers was nominated for a Thinky Award! Still psyched to get a mention in the extremely stacked Best Free Game category, and I’m looking forward to catching as much of the ceremony as I can Wednesday.
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- I'm starting a newsletter for The Daily Spell! It'll have weekly updates plus bonus puzzles with some extra lore. Interested in TDS, but the daily pace doesn't work for you? Subscribe to solve puzzles and discover the story weekly instead. Go to About the Game to subscribe: www.the-daily-spell.com
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- Reposted by CeliaWe open public playtest for Burn With Me! 🔥 Demonic deckbuilder about an obsessed Teacher. Animal occult university, cozy dread and eerie mysteries! Also, you need to burn your cards. A lot. store.steampowered.com/app/2954010 I live and breathe this game for a year already — please give it a go!
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- Reposted by CeliaWe put up a big post about Hint Line ‘93, the game we made for the ACMI museum! yarnspinner.dev/blog/hint-li...
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- I enjoyed seeing Bright Side play our Minesweeper variant, TrapSweeper! A highlight of the video: "Playing this game is like eating pizza from random angles." I understand what you mean and I'm tickled it feels that way! Sometimes it's fun to try some new angles. celia14.itch.io/trapsweeper
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- Reposted by CeliaThe Roottrees are Dead is now a year old! In this post we take a look back at all the cool stuff that's happened since. store.steampowered.com/news/app/275...
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- The others are cool and all, but nobody can touch the number one drama queen in Puzzleville, a puzzlephobe living in a puzzle world, winner of best horns and best eyebrows, the overdramatic icon Greg.
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- Reposted by CeliaRhea and I have been tracking our @nytimes.com word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read. #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2025/tw...
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- Reposted by CeliaThe Detective's Apprentice demo is out now! Sharpen your deduction skills and uncover Cleo's beginnings, as she solves her first three cases. Play it now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4159750/...
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- I love that this calls out the momentum and pacing. TH moving faster at the end (because that flows naturally from the mechanics and setup, no less!), rather than bogging you down in a super challenging final level, is one of its biggest revelations to me. It works so well with the horror theme.
- Besides being psyched for this game, can I just say this is a big deal for the “narrative deduction is a good genre name” club 😄
- Reposted by Celia🚨⚠️ Release Date Disclosure! ⚠️🚨 TRAILER: VIDEO EVIDENCE, see below. Please watch, assimilate and share. DESIGNATION: TR-49 GENRE: NARRATIVE DEDUCTION / AUDIO_DRAMA DATE: 21st JANUARY PLATFORMS: iOS / PC / Mac / Deck This is what we know, so far.
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- Reposted by Celia2026 has the potential to be an even better year for detective games than last year, which had at least 46 releases! I made a thread here for upcoming games I am aware of. If I have played the Demo or Playtested it, I will describe the games a bit, as well as when they state their release dates.
- I just want to give a huge shoutout to @roottrees.com, a game that completely changed my 2025. First off, the game: the combination of search with fill-in-the-blank deduction hit the spot for me and made me eager for more. It kicked off a year of playing, thinking about, and making deduction games.
- I loved it enough to venture into the Roottrees discord, and found a friendly community of narrative deduction game fans, great game recommendations, and fun conversations that inspired my own creativity. The collective Secret Searcher quest to crack hidden messages in the game was a big highlight!
- Reposted by CeliaIt's Thinky Awards season! The fine folks at @thinkygames.com invited me to be a juror again, so here's my brief impressions of all the nominees I played. There are a few days left in the Steam winter sale and many of these are discounted, so check them out! A 🧵 david.reviews/articles/thi...
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- Such a useful list from a detective game expert! This was a great reminder of all the small, free games out there that I really want to try, as well as the awesome Steam releases this year. Thanks for highlighting this great year for detective games!!
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- New devlog for The Daily Spell focused on combining story with a daily puzzle! Featuring how I was inspired by @gamesam.bsky.social, @milkbaggames.bsky.social, and @thinkygames.com's daily games (for better or worse?? 😄) and how great drop quote puzzles are. jamwitch.itch.io/the-daily-sp...
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- 2025 was a big year for me in gamedev! Rose and I normally make a jam game or two a year, but this year I also happened to stumble into a really nice community of narrative deduction game fans and got inspired to dive even deeper. 🧵 This is a Jamwitch 2025 recap thread! jamwitch.itch.io
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- Hearing a real author whose books I loved is enjoying my experiment in narrative x daily puzzles really made my day!! 💕 People enjoying the The Daily Spell makes me excited to keep going with it and doing my best! 💪
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- Reposted by CeliaGift Jam is back for its 10th edition🎁 Make something small for a friend, your partner, or a relative. Thank them for their help during a hard time or just for making life a little happier. That's the theme! More info on @itch.io Banner by @isi-cano.itch.io. itch.io/jam/gift-jam...
- Reposted by CeliaClover's Quadrants has a trailer! If you've wanted to get a better idea of how the game actually plays, this video should help.
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- New devlog for my Pokemon-inspired deduction game, My Friends the Monster Trainers! Featuring a lot of my typical narrative deduction design thoughts, a general devlog with some behind-the-scenes screenshots, and what's next for MFTMT! celia14.itch.io/my-friends-t... #indiedev #gamedev
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