Ste Curran (https://mindset.game 🟨🔺🔵)

@stecurran.bsky.social

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Game Designer, speaker, presenter. Host @onelifeleft.com and @singmaraoke.bsky.social. Once investigated by the ICC for playing Pokémon Go at The Oval. Currently working on Mindset 🟨🔺🔵.

Crowd shot of Robyn singing at the O2. A strobe blitzes the arena into white-blue light.
Shot from the Simpsons. Ralph Wiggum having his heard broken by Lisa Simpson: "Watch this, Lise. You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart rips in half."
OR playing the piano in a grocery store with a number of cats
Linkedin Spam: "Ste - I've been working with a few keynote speakers recently and they're all struggling with creating content that sounds like them. How are you managing it these days?"
Popstarz: STORM DAY
A hand showing decorated nails, one of which has a playable Mindset GO! level. Credit to Galina 35 on the Mindset Discord.
A screenshot from today's Daily Run, showing Harry the farmer at the bottom of a series of green platforms, pink ladders and blue hens. A golden goose in a cage lurks ominously in the top left of the screen.
The Maraoke poster, purple and black. It says YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS REWRITTEN ABOUT YOUR FAVOURITE GAMES SING LOUD JOIN THE CROWD FREE ENTRY APRIL 10TH. Come along. You won't regret it. It doesn't say that. I am saying that.
Robyn on stage at the Hackney Empire
Logging in to Riverside.fm with Firefox produces a notice that says "We work with Chrome, Edge and Safari"
A screenshot of Chuckie Egg. Harry the farmer stands on the bottom platform perplexed, about to begin his quest for eggs. All that stands in his way: some blue chickens and a massive golden goose.
A photo of Stockport's Wembley Record, as displayed on Sky a second ago. Look I am a big believer in alt text but I am not going to transcribe this because it was hard enough looking at this and even harder BEING THERE
A clip from the BBC News opinion piece on the byelection result: "A final thought that will be part of the conversation in the hours and days after this by election – the suggestion of significant "family voting" as it is known. The group Democracy Volunteers reported what it called "concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton" - which it defines as "where two voters either confer, collude or direct each other on voting". Manchester City Council insisted "no such issues" were reported by its staff at polling stations. Labour Party Chair Anna Turley told the BBC the reports were "obviously extremely worrying and concerning" and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed the by-election was "a victory for sectarian voting and cheating"."
The LUGE 2026 instructions pop up. WELCOME TO LUGE 2026 1. Left / Right / Shift to brake 2. Avoid hitting wall for high score
Photo of a Robyn ticket from 2007. £6. There is no record of this show on setlist.fm.
A screenshot of LUGE 2026 showing a rainbow collection of vector capsule racing on a white vector track. I've added a pause function now so you, too, can take screenshots, assuming you can hit shift-P while racing which honestly is pretty tricky and I should have thought this through.
Quick screenshot of LUGE 2026 showing me racing some ghosts. It's a vector based arcade game, clean white lines denoting the circuit and a red lozenge racer travelling at speed, and about to crash into a wall because I'm taking a screenshot. Apparently taking that screenshot was too much for my Mac btw, because the screenshot area is still highlighted despite the screenshot moment having passed long ago and I'm gonna have to reset. I want to say it was worth it. I want to believe it was worth it.
A Maraoke poster. White on hot pink, as is the way. It reads: "THE MOST ROMANTIC THING YOU CAN DO ON FRIDAY 13TH FEB IS ATTEND MARAOKE AND SING SONGS WITH ME BECAUSE IT IS MY BIRTHDAY* 13/02/2026 LOADING BAR N16 0PH *IT IS MY BIRTHDAY ON THE 14TH BUT YOU ARE USUALLY BUSY THEN"
A Stackword tower, grey blocks on a sky blue background showing a series of letter blocks piled on top of each other. The base is the word TOONS; the S has been removed to form TOON, then an O to form TON. Switched out the O for an I to get TIN and then an F to make FIN and, appropriately enough, that was The End.
Maraoke lyrics projected on the wall of a basement in South London: Who’ll scour eBay for the Lucky Done Caper That’s one bid from Frank Cifaldi
A screenshot of my game, stackword, in which you add, remove, or change letters to build a tower of words, row by row.
A plateful of Christmas cookies, decorated by me and my six year old daughter for the school fair tomorrow. One of them is a Mindset design; another says GOTH because I don’t know you give me a black icing pen and what am I meant to do
The Lumines Arise logo which does all of the above
Screen showing an Amazon Echo display. The question at the top, asked by me when I was discussing it with my daughter over dinner: "Is pepper a fruit or a vegetable?". Alexa's answer: "According to an Alexa Answers contributor: It is a vegetable as it isn't a fruit"
Troy, a ginger tabby, sit with one paw folded on a copy of The Observer, in which Mindset is running from today.
A close-up portrait of Maurice, a two-year-old grey-white tabby who has soft fur and sharp claws and a stocky body, wearing a golden tiara.
A screenshot of Mr Resetti making his return in the new Animal Crossing New Horizons update, announced today
A photo of me in front of the Alice in Wonderland display at the Blackpool Illuminations. One of the painting-the-roses-red card soldiers looms above me, goggle-eyed, paintbrush in hand.
Sooty display, part of the tableux at the Blackpool Illuminations. This year it's missing the top left back panel.
A cheap battery charger and a cheap battery, post explosion, charred and warped
A fridge full of Hartwall's OriGINal Long Drink. There is only one can of gin & red grapefruit remaining and I'm saving it for a special occasion.
A screenshot from Facebook showing me unfollowing Taylor Swift. It is over :(((
A screenshot of me, Simon and Charles recording One Life Left on Twitch.
Me beneath a sign that reads I AM FAT CAT AND I DECIDE ALL. I’m in Munich btw
A Venn Diagram showing My Day and Good Times. On the left: graphs, computers, scheduling and trying to predict the future. On the right: snow, sleep, cake, holidays and cricket. And in the middle: Maraoke, Mindset and cats. I am grateful for all three.
This week's Everyman, The Observer's cryptic crossword. 5D is highlighted. "Resents '80s film's outlook on life (7)"
Brutalism courtesy The National Theatre
A picture from an issue of PC Gamer from sometime in 2000. Ste pouts at the camera. STE CURRAN: Specialist in: Arcade (somewhat true), first-person shooters (completely made up) Current favourite game: Pseudonyms This month: Took to discussing himself in the third person. No, really.
Mogwai on stage in Crystal Palace. They’re the best band.
A release image for Mindset GO! It says "Mindset GO! Out Now!" next to the Mindset logo, a modified Venn diagram. Below, a cat lurks by some sortable shapes. There are cats in the game; also shapes.
The button in App Store Connect that will release Mindset GO!.
A Tomy Waterfuls arcade machine in all its lurid glory. Hit a button to power chaotic floating rings around a screen, like you used to in the 1980s except now consuming a lot of electricity instead.
A partial screenshot from my phone, showing an email that has just arrived. The sender is "App Store Connect". The email reads "Review of your submission has been completed. It is now eligible for distribution."
A warning sign on a Pac-Man air hockey machine. It reads "Do not hit pick with excessive force". A picture shows a stick figure crying as a puck hits him with excessive force.
The logo for Mindset Go!. It shows two interlinked circles, one blue, one black. On the edge of the black circle are two smaller shapes, a yellow square and a red triangle.
A Maraoke poster for a show in Shoreditch on the 1st of August. 80s themed, you know the kind of thing, sort of Tron vs a microphone.
Screenshot from just after the last ball of the third Test between England and India. Mohammed Siraj stares into space. He cannot believe what has just happened and neither can I.
Olivia Rodrigo, on stage at Hyde Park BST. Red lighting, night-time ambience. Are those drones overhead? There were drones present, watching us, so maybe.
Section of a movie poster that boasts "AND ACADEMY AWARD WINNING CREATORS OF THE SPIDER-VERSE FRANCHISE"
A screenshot of a mobile ad for Microsoft Copilot.
A screenshot of Mario Kart World showing a penguin in a crown and my name at the top of a leaderboard
A close up of part of a cardboard educational times table wheel. At the top: "LEARN TIMES TABLES!" Underneath, a grid of times tables, beginning 1x2=2, 2x2=4 etc. I'm not going to write them all out but imagine your surprise when you get to the third column and: 3x4=12 4x4=8 5x4=10 etc. Oh no.
Me under some graffiti that reads KISS ME IN GREECE
View of The Oval from the first tier of the Lock / Laker stand, and the back of a loud man making a work call: ROUNDERS? NO IT’S CRICKET, A GAME FOR GENTLEMEN NOT HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.
A can of lonkero in the park, as God intended
A poster that reads "STE CURRAN IS SAVING THE GAMES INDUSTRY (AND SO ARE YOU)". The text is printed over my stupid face. It finishes with the details: Nordic Game 2025, on Wednesday at 5.15PM.
Ollie Norwood takes a penalty for Stockport County against Wycombe Wanderers.
Ollie Norwood takes a penalty for Stockport County against Wycombe Wanderers.