Nightwell Beast merch! Coming soon!

We have a new trailer! Puzzle fans rejoice!

Deductopia Trailer YouTube video by Nightwell Games

Deductopia has a trailer! Get the first glimpse of the fun new puzzles you'll get to play when the full game is out!

youtu.be/P3GY9aH3N0E

It's that time again: STEAMWORKS NONSENSE TIME! Steam doesn't like that my game has a freestanding demo, so if you've been playing the demo, please go re-download it from the new location!

Yes, it's annoying, but I assure you it's way more annoying for me.

So we've had a little kerfuffle with Steam's backend, and the upshot is: We're going to have to take down our freestanding demo page. You can now download the demo from the main Deductopia page. Don't worry--your save file will transfer!

store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

Pen drawing of a phone screen with a crow reflected in it

The Nightwell Crow can't resist a selfie

The Nigthwell Rat

The Nightwell Rat wishes you all a very happy World Rat Day.

Well, actually, he doesn't care if you have a good day or not, but he has a day-old bagel and a gnarly C++ bug to sort out, so he probably will.

We just watched the first draft of the new Deductopia trailer and it is siiiiick! Can't wait to share!

Nightwell vs Orwell.

*Chef's kiss*

Nightwell games’ statement on ai-generated content In the Nightwell Forge, we define art, as opposed to content, as something created by a person in response to their emotions, thoughts, and experiences in order to form a connection with other people by sharing those emotions, thoughts, and experiences. Because a LLM has no emotions or experiences to share, it can only create content, not art. We at the Forge create games for the purpose of forming just such connections with others. We deliberately craft our work the slower and more difficult way because we believe it deepens these connections and makes our games more meaningful. We are in the business of creating art, not content. For this reason, we will never use AI-generated images or text for any purpose.

Is it time to repost our statement on AI?

Deductopia Demo on Steam So you think you're a detective? Try your skills in the world of Deductopia! This demo features three zany and creative chapters about chaos in the classroom, mix-ups on the hiking trail, and confusio...

The full-length Deductopia demo is OUT NOW on Steam and Itch! Play the first 3 rooms for free and get a first look at our overworld map, lots of new art, new QOL and accessibility features, and more!

store.steampowered.com/app/3515580/...

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!

gwenckatz.itch.io/deductopia-s...

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!)

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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!

thinkygames.com/events/think...

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!