I've been going swimming recently. Which is weird, because I have always hated swimming. I was bad at it - I got 0 points of 15 in highschool for my swimming performance. I was afraid of water - of depth, of lakes, of the sea - any place in couldn't touch the bottom with my feet. The panic, to be stuck in the middle of a body of water and not have the strength to get back to shore, paralysed me. I could never breath right and every attempt at swimming felt like I was close to drowning.
I've been going swimming recently. I breath wrong and I'm scared. But I go swimming nonetheless. I do my lines back and forth - my feet never touch the ground, but I barely even notice anymore. This summer I swam in a lake. I went far from the shoreline. The sun was strong and kids were playing and it was really nice.
#illustration #art #comic #swimming
Have you been to London lately? In Shoreditch, a part of the city full of street art, vintage shops and cozy cafés, the Bear has found a new home 🐻🌟 A 3d mural created by the wonderful Graffiti artist Will Impey. All of this is made possible by the cool people at Wonderful Things, a London based creative agency ✨️
I pinch myself a lot, just to make sure I'm not dreaming 👀
Oh and of course! Get "The Bear - A Story from the World of Gra" NOW on Android too!!!!!
🌟🐻 Exciting News! 🐻🌟
We’re so excited to share that our game, The Bear, has been named an App Store Awards 2024 Finalist for Cultural Impact! 🎉✨
💖 We founded Mucks! Games just about a year ago with a dream: to create beautiful, story-driven games with social impact.
Social impact can take many forms. The word impact might sound bold, grand, and immediate. But The Bear—an interactive bedtime story—is different. It’s quietly impactful. Designed to be gently soothing, this game is intentionally crafted to lull you, the player, into a state of calm and sleepiness. 🌙
With The Bear we wanted to make something meaningful and poetic —a soft, kind experience meant to reconnect you with that tender, intimate moment just before going to sleep. 🌟🛌
This kind of subtle impact isn’t always easy to explain. That’s why it means so much to have The Bear recognized with this honor.
A huge shoutout to everyone who poured their heart into making this dream a reality. Lots of love from the Mucksmäuschen 🐁
Here’s to more soft, meaningful stories that touch lives in unexpected ways. 🌿🎮
#TheBear #CulturalImpact #AppStoreAwards @appstore
We are thrilled to share that THE BEAR - A STORY FROM @world_of_gra has been one of the finalists in the category “Social Impact” at the Apple Design Awards 2024. 🎉
“Even if THE BEAR didn’t win (…) it was absolutely amazing to be part of this crazy event. We are so honoured to have been chosen as one of the finalists this year, from all the thousands of apps and games that come out each year!” the @mucksgames creators crew states.
🛏️ The team around @claradeitmar , Julius Dorsel (@justufus ) and @luziekehle created THE BEAR as an interactive bedtime story with a calming design and gentle storytelling that can affect players in a meaningful way. The game also won this year’s German Computer Game Award (@deutschercomputerspielpreis ) and was recently published.
We congratulate the whole team and are excited to see where WORLD OF GRA 🌍 will lead us next! Enjoy your time in California! 🏄♀️
➡️ If you want to be part of their and THE BEAR’S journey, click the link in bio for more!
#indiegame #wwdc2024 #animationsinstitut #appledesignawards #gamedev
Mucks! Games has big news: We are elated to share that “The Bear – A Story from the World of Gra” is a finalist of this years Apple Design Awards in the category Social Impact! 🌙💫⭐️🌟
It is difficult to put into words what this means to us – Not even a year ago we founded Mucks! Games to follow our dream of creating games that do a little more than just entertain. In a rushed presentation for a local event we decided on three core values that would be the identity of our games: They should be beautiful, story-driven and have a social impact.
It is now a little over a month after the release of our first game “The Bear”, which was nominated for “Best Story” and “Best Graphic Design” at the German Computer Game Awards, covering the first two of our three core values: beautiful and story-driven.
Seeing “The Bear” now in the category Social Impact at the Apple Design Awards, reflecting our third and arguably most important core value, is absolutely incredible. We created “The Bear” as an interactive bedtime story – seeing that its calming design and gentle storytelling can meaningfully touch players - and having its social impact recognized like this - means the world to us.
We are so honored to see “The Bear” amongst such amazing finalists this year. What an incredible list to be a part of! We are so excited to meet some of the other teams at #WWDC and be inspired!
#appledesignawards
🌟⭐️🐻 Available now on the App Store 🌟⭐️🐻
The Bear - A Story from the World of Gra, an interactive bedtime story for mobile! ⭐️☀️🌟
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It is finally here 🌟⭐️🌒🐻🌟⭐️
The Bear - A Story from the World of Gra is OUT NOW! Available on the App Store for iPad and iPhone ⭐️
Download and first chapter are completely free, so go check it out! 🌟🌟🌟
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