Owen Goss

@owengoss.com

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Canadian indie game designer/dev. Half of Milkbag Games: Fivefold, Kickoff League, Disco Zoo, FutureGrind, Sidewords, SantaCraft, Photobomb. Amateur potter. (he/him) Links: owengoss.com

Screenshot of the itch.io page for Realistic Fishin, which reads: What Players Are Saying "I can't catch a fish" Kevin "It was relaxing enough I suppose" Tom So realistic, it's just like real fishing!
Screenshot of a screen from the Fivefold web puzzle post-game screen. It reads: "Daily Puzzle #247. July 15, 2026. Solve time: 1:27. Next puzzle in 14:40:39" Below the text is a histogram graph showing times along the bottom, and bars above them at different heights showing how many players had solve times of different lengths. A thicker white line shows my time of 1:27 on the graph.
Title: "RAM Shortage" made in Become a Great Arstist in Just 10 Seconds. Glitchy pixel art that is a series of concentric squares defined by jagged lines of different colours, mostly yellows, greens, and reds, with a black background.
Glitchy pixelated image. On the right is a kind of fuzzy purplish column in the foreground. Behind it is are stretched and distorted bands of rainbow colours. The bottom of the image is mostly white.
A photo I took of the total solar eclipse in August 2024. Most of the image is black. In the center is a black circle (the moon) surrounded by a large, bright fuzzy disc of white light. There are a couple of places on the edge of the black disc where light is shining, creating little spots of bright light that break up the rim.
Screenshot of google AI overview that reads: "The final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is yet to be played. The tournament is actively ongoing, running from June 11 to July 19, 2026."
Screenshot of google AI overview search results which reads: "The opening match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup was played on Thursday, June 11, 2026, between Mexico and South Africa at the iconic Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. The game ended in a 1-1 draw." But the current date is June 9, 2026. The match has not happened yet.
Photo of miniature ceramic houses laid out to look like they’re on a street. The houses are white with black doors and have different, brightly-coloured roofs made of woven thread. Some of the houses have tiny lights inside, visible through cut out windows.
A grey and brown handmade mug. It has a white and black moon drawn and carved on the side of the mug, and underneath is written “Copy, Moon Joy”
Photograph of the original XBOX console and controller
Screenshot of a video game showing a top-down view of a pond surrounded by rocks. There are 4 different coloured frogs in the pond, and there are various weapons around. Some of the frogs have their tongue attached to weapons or barrels in the pond.
A very fluffy white cat with grey markings on her face, lying on her back, asleep
Photo of a TV screen showing the integrity capsule in free fall, having just deployed some parachutes. A white long-haired cat has her paws up on the console in front of the tv. She is watching the parachutes.
A video showing a Unity scene. The camera is positioned on a low-poly grey sphere representing the Moon. In the centre of the screen the Earth is visible as a small circle. The Sun is a tiny circle in the distance. As the video plays, a timer counts up reading "Days" from 0 to 28, the Earth spins rapidly while the moon rotates around it. The Earth stays in the centre of the screen, but the light from the Sun on it moves across the face like we see on the Moon from Earth. Meanwhile the Sun leaves the frame quickly and repears near the end of a 28 day cycle.
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.
Screenshot of a live stream video taken from the Orion spacecraft. On the left part of the craft is visible in sunlight. In the distance Earth is visible as a crescent, lit up partially by the Sun.
Close up photo of a long-haired white cat with grey stripes on her face, lying on her back, eyes closed, paws curled in front of her in the air.
Photo of a miniature ceramic town made from a block of clay. It stands about 15cm tall. It is mostly grey/brown with some pale colours in places. Mostly in the red roofs.
Video of a spinning miniature ceramic town on top of a cliff. The piece is hand made and features tiny buildings with red roofs and little windows.
A photo of the components of the board game Magical Athlete spread out on a table. Everything is very brightly coloured. There are lots of little wooden character pieces and dice on top of a rule book. A stack of card is on top of the board in the open box.
Screenshot of Fivefold. It is a 5x5 grid with numbers in some of the grid cells. Some cells have multiple smaller numbers to make notes. In between some cells are dots or pentagon symbols representing different rules that must be followed to solve the puzzle.
A photograph of a card playing mat with a character from the game Crownfell and the word Crownfell across the bottom. The mat has a grid where cards are to be played. Sitting on top of the play mat are two card boxes for the game. One is labelled “Crownfell” and the other “Crownfell: Last Stand”
Navigation menu from the google play console. Listing: Dashboard, Statistics, Publishing overview, Test and release, Monitor and improve, Grow users, Monetise with Play"
A 5x5 grid with symbols in between some of the cells representing rules that must be followed by those cells.
A dual-band image (hydrogen-alpha and oxygen III) of the orion nebula (M42). In the center of the image is a large cloud of gas and dust that is lit from within by bright stars. The cloud is pink, orange, and grey/blue. There are bright stars around it and within it. In the top right is a second smaller area of dust and gas lit up by stars within. This one has more blue in it. Around the two glowing areas are stars and dust clouds.
Exercise photo of a man lying face down on the ground. His arms are stretched out in front of him on the floor and he is giving "thumbs up" with both hands.
Screenshot of Fivefold. It is a 5x5 grid with numbers in some of the grid cells. Some cells have multiple smaller numbers to make notes. In between some cells are dots or pentagon symbols representing different rules that must be followed to solve the puzzle.
A screenshot of the puzzmo mobile app showing a blank crossword grid with the title "Tug of War" and the text "By Owen Goss. Edited by Madeline Kaplan. Created for Puzzmo's second Open Submission Week."
Photo of a fluffy white cat asleep on a couch under a blanket
A photograph of a Costco-sized jar of Kraft smooth peanut butter weighing 2 kg (4.4 lbs)
Screenshot from a CBC News article that reads: "FIFA said in September that tickets released through its website would initially range from $60 for group-stage matches to $6,730 for the final. But those prices are subject to change as it adopts dynamic pricing for the first time at the World Cup."
Screenshot of a Steam forum post. It is a reply to an original post which states: "Probably would sell more if you had added achievements." The new post states: "this. waiting since years to buy this, but still no achievements. Gf gifted it today to me, but i have send it back because still not achievements. :("
Screenshot of a web puzzle game from a browser. The header says “Fivefold” and “Daily”. The main play area is a 5x5 grid. Some of the grid cells are filled in with large numbers of various colors. Some of the cells have small numbers in them representing possible candidates in those cells. On the edges between some cells are symbols, some are pentagons, some are multiple dots. The dots range in number from 1 to 4 dots. These symbols represent rules telling the player information about the relationship between adjacent cells.
A spreadsheet with a lot of data in different rows and columns related to rating the difficulty of some kind of puzzle. There are columns of data related to different measurements, and columns that apply different weights to those values, and a bunch of graphs of different data relating to other data.
Screenshot of an innings details table from last night's World Series game between the Toronto Blue Jays and LA Dodgers. The table shows 18 innings of scores, but it's running out of room and the inning numbers are almost touching each other in the header row.
Astrophotograph of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). A bright ball of bluish-white is followed by a wide trail of orange-white. Inside the orange trail a smaller bluish trail is visible that twists and turns and extends out much further behind the comet. Stars are in the background.
A photo of the inside of a ceramic dome (which looks unsurprisingly like a bowl). You can see many coloured arcade buttons where they camp through the holes in the dome wall. There is a huge mess of different coloured wires connecting the arcade buttons to a Teensy 4.1 microcontroller.
Video of a hand-made ceramic dome covered in multi-coloured LED arcade buttons. The dome is covered in a blue-grey glaze. The arcade buttons are lighting up in sequence. There is a circular cutout at the top of the dome revealing a ring LED below it. The ring LED are lighting up in a circular animation of different colours.
A stacked and processed photo of The Pleiades star cluster. There are several very bright stars in the middle surrounded by wispy clouds of dust that is glowing blue, reflecting light from the stars. There are many smaller and dimmer stars in the background.
Screenshot of my Puzzmo.com profile stats showing a best crossword streak of 700, plus some other notables: “really bad champ”, “flipart champ”, “typeshift champ”, and “played to play”.
A view from the top of a cliff overlooking a forest and marsh. The trees are a mix of greens and yellows. In the far distance, the water of Georgian Bay is visible, with large islands in the lake. The sky is blue with some fluffy clouds near the horizon.
A large limestone boulder, about 2.5m tall, is leaning against another boulder in a forest. The boulders have moss growing on them in places. The ground is covered in brown leaves. Tall thin trees are visible in the background.
A photograph taken from the top of a cliff. In the foreground are some cedar trees on the left. In front, and far below are trees that are starting to change into fall oranges and yellows. In the distance is a large body of water (Georgian Bay), with land and islands on the distance. The sky is a mix of blue and clouds.
Photo of Rhian Teasdale, lead singer of the band Wet Leg, in silhouette on the stage at the club History in Toronto. She is surrounded by fog which is lit from behind and glows white around her. Heads and someone’s phone are visible in the foreground.
Screenshot of the kickoff league season schedule page. It is a table with teams on either side of a column with scores from previous games. Under each score is a button that either says “play now” or shows your star rating for when you played that game.
Photo of a cat, curled up, sleeping, half on a throw pillow and half on a blanket. She is mostly white but has a grey striped face, and a striped grey tail that is very fluffy.
An astrophotography image of a large spiral galaxy: M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. The galaxy is very bright, glowing in the center, with dark dust clouds visible circling it. Many other stars are visible behind it, and some smaller/more distant galaxies are visible as well.
A photograph of three small puzzle books on a desk mat. Left to right they are Abdec, LOK, and Workworkwork by Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design)
Close up photo of a young cat sleeping. The cat is white and fluffy with grey markings on her face.
An illustrated poster. It says "Canada Vacations Unlimited" in the top left in large letters. It depicts a young family overlooking a scene of water and islands. Husband and wife are smiling, while their young daughter points and something in the distance. In the clouds are illustrations of various sports and leisure activities like sailing, fishing, golfing, etc. In the bottom right some small text reads "Canadian Government Travel Bureau Ottawa Canada" A small signature in the bottom left reads "G. W. Goss"
A photo of a board game version of Kickoff League. A piece of plywood has a green checked board pattern painted on it in a 7x10 grid. It is decorated to look like a soccer pitch. Small stones sit on the board. Some are painted with a yellow striped soccer jersey on them. Some a blue jersey. The blue ones have white chess icons painted on top. There is a small round stone painted to look like a soccer ball.
View overlooking a lake. Outdoor furniture in the foreground, an island in the distance. Large, dark, angry-looking clouds are overhead. The leading edge of the clouds is a distinct line.
Photo looking directly down at a ceramic sundial in the sunlight. It shows the time as about 6:20pm, DST. The sundial has two rows of roman numerals indicating hours around the edge. In the center is an illustration of an island and water. Below that are some illustrations of rocks with fossils. It it glazed in patchy yellow and blue. The grey clay body shows through in places.
Photo taken through a telescope of ducklings in the distance swimming in a lake. In the background is shoreline and some small cottages.
Photo of a sleeping kitten. She is mostly white with some grey striping on her face and tail. She is lying on her back with paws in the air.
Photo of a heel of a grey sock that has been darned with grey thread.
Screenshot of my Puzzmo profile showing notables for "Really Bad Champ", "Flipart Champ", and "Typeshift Champ"
Sundial made from grey clay. It has lines and roman numerals carved in the surface that have been filled with white clay to create contrast. There are two rows of roman numerals: one for standard time and one for daylight savings time. A small landscape is carved in the centre and some stones are carved below it.
Testing the 3D printed letter stamps in some scrap clay. There are 5 stamps next to each other in a plastic rail holding them in place. They are mirrored versions of X V I I I. Above them is the clay with XVIII pressed into it.