A downloadable game for Windows and Linux

Collect Stamps

Every stamp is hidden behind a puzzle called a "nonogram." Use the hints along the left and top to reveal the picture on the stamp. There's multiple books to be filled, so solve as many as you can!

For New Players and Longtime Fans

If you've never solved a nonogram in your life, have no fear. There are many tools available designed to help you along while solving the puzzle, as well as a tutorial to help ease you in. If you're a long time puzzler, you can turn them off and let your logic skills loose!

Gameplay Features

  • No time limit or rankings. Take as long as you like to solve puzzles.
  • No Guesswork! All puzzles can be solved using logic alone, and don't require any guessing.
  • Blue hints help show you where you can logically work out a move, while Red hints help show you where you've made a move that doesn't fit in. Or, turn off hint suggestions entirely!
  • Many support options to help move you along when you're stuck, like showing all mistakes in a puzzle, revealing the correct solution on a chosen line, and visualizing possibilities based on the hints of the line of your choosing. Use these features as much as you like, or don't use them at all! There is no penalty for using these features.
  • Save puzzle at any time and come back to it later. You can save as many as you like (but you should solve them at some point.)
  • Choose between having the game automatically mark off hints for you, or marking off hints yourself.
  • Additional features such as undo/redo, placeholder markers, counting the number of marks in a line, and more!
  • Skip any puzzle you don't like! You'll only need to solve a certain amount of puzzles to progress.

Optional Challenges

  • Want to really test your skills? The optional "Timed Mode" will give you a certain amount of time to finish the puzzle, and deduct time for mistakes made.
  • Achievements for how many puzzles you solve, as well as certain other actions taken in-game.

Additional Features

  • Keyboard and mouse support, as well as support for many popular gamepads.

⭐Known Issues/FAQ⭐

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Fox Stamps Demo - Windows 48 MB
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Fox Stamps Demo - Linux 53 MB
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Since you posted on bsky about not enough people playing it, I went ahead and downloaded the demo and played all the way through it.  Took maybe 2 hours to get through all 30 puzzles plus the 20 blobun mini puzzles as well. I will preface my thoughts with this: My favorite nonogram games have been Jupiter's "Picross" series, and Score Studios' Piczle Cross. I haven't played Squeakross, though my understanding is that a lot of folks are comparing your game to that one due to it being both very recent and very good.

So here we go.  Things I like:

  • Mouse controls work exactly as I expected, no issues there.
  • Game runs smoothly, graphics and motion are pleasant and not distracting.
  • Cursor speed with gamepad controls feels just about right by default.
  • Multiple music options are a plus (though I didn't really explore the options until after I had cleared all the puzzles in the demo)
  • Color solutions - I really like the additional color detail put into the pictures once they have been cleared.
  • Overall, this is a great way to play picross.

Things that I think need to be improved before the final release (with a brief explanation):

  • Controller key binding - My personal default (on a PS5 controller) is to hit X for fill, which matched with the game. However, my preferred button for marking a tile as non-filled would be Square.  Here, that defaulted to Circle, and I did not see a way to change it in the options.
  • Analog controller sensitivity - I mostly used the d-pad on the controller to move around, but at one point i found myself using the analog on the puzzle select menu, and it seemed a little too sensitive for up and down movement.  I pushed right with just a hint of down angle, and it would also move the cursor downwards. 
  • Selected row/column blocks the view on larger puzzles - I found in the 15 tile or larger puzzles, that the highlighted row grew a little too high, and partially obscured the numbers in the adjacent rows, making some of them harder to read. Having the highlighted row be larger is a pleasant visual effect, but not if it impairs the functionality of the game.  I'm not sure whether having a transparency effect would help, but it definitely caused some issues for me.
  • Non-standard grid sizes - my personal feeling is that nonogram-style puzzles should keep to multiples of five for the grid size. If the puzzles don't fill all the rows of the grid, that's fine, you can have columns or rows with zeroes.  It's just easier for my brain to locate and to count if everything is gridded in fives.  That way I can focus on the puzzle itself instead of having to use some of the cognitive load to remember that it's 12 instead of 10 so I have to be extra careful, count both ways, etc.

Other things that I would personally like to see added at some point (and maybe they are already being discussed amongst yourselves as possibilities for the full release):

  • Themed puzzle sets - Other than completing the puzzles and moving to the next one, there didn't seem to be any kind of overarching theme to either of the two sets of puzzles.  There were a few food items, some animals, etc.  I'd like to see the pages have themes in the full game (even if the game doesn't necessarily reveal the theme until you clear them all).  
  • Multiple fursona characters - Seeing the one character (Jess?) after each puzzle was fun, but also a little disappointing since the puzzles listed the creator's name as well.  It would be fun for that alter to be the one to cheer you one when you beat one of their puzzles!
  • Animated solution pictures - If I recall, Nintendo's old Picross DS did this, it was a lot of fun seeing a few frames of animation on the pictures. (For example, the car driving out of frame).  This would probably be too much extra work for now - but if the game really takes off maybe consider adding it in a future patch.
  • BIG PUZZLES!  Sometimes you just want a large puzzle, whether it's one of the mosaic style where you fill in a bunch of smaller puzzles to create the picture, or just one extremely large single puzzle.
  • Progression / Cool unlockables - I'm not sure whether adding an in-game currency is the answer, but using that as an example... giving coins for completing puzzles and using those coins to unlock additional sets of puzzles can gives a sense of progression and accomplishment.  Coins could also be used for buying things like new background styles, new music tracks, etc. (You don't even need to use coins, maybe just complete 50% of a set of puzzles to unlock a new set, and if you do 75% or 100% of a set, you get cool bonus stuff).  Rewards are fun :-D

I really hope you find this feedback helpful, and I look forward to buying the full game when it releases!

🦨thank you for checking out our game and leaving this big amount of feedback about it! I'm gonna try to address all of it but I might miss some

the mouse controls for a lot of elements was added just before the demo went live, so I'm glad to hear that they're working out, though we'll definitely be improving them later. the multiple music options actually was added *after* the demo came out because people didn't like that it had just one song, but we didn't want to put it on shuffle by default because the other songs either aren't done or aren't even for this game. maybe we shoulda though...

controller/keyboard binding is gonna come in the final version ideally. mainly we didn't want to implement it and then have to delete everyone's configuration later if we changed the inputs/added new ones. on that same menu we're gonna put about analog stick sensitivity. we were gonna just have a general setting in the meantime, but then we uh, didn't. I think we forgot, oops

we noticed that zoomed hints can obscure other hints on larger puzzles, and though you can toggle it off and on, it's not an ideal solution. having it be semitransparent might be a good idea though, we're gonna look into that. similarly, we do have an option to force the grid lines to be 5x5, but an interesting amount of people have talked about the non-standard grid sizes, so we've been wondering if maybe we should stick to multiple of fives (though some people seem to like the challenge? I think we don't play the same way others do though because it doesn't trip us up, but we are just one player of the game)

we've thought about the puzzle pages having themes, but we've been really interested in keeping what the puzzle is a secret until it's solved which is why, unlike Blobun, you don't even get to see the puzzle name or who made it so there's no expectations on what the puzzle is gonna be. this is gonna be one to consider

what's funny is that you accidentally revealed an oversight. Piper is all over the game, but she only introduces herself in the tutorial itself. if you don't *see* the tutorial though, you never get to know who she actually is or why she's there. we're definitely gonna have to figure out a way to solve this one

for animated puzzles and big puzzles, the file spec Roxy designed is actually ready to do this and it's something that we want to do, but it also depends on how well this all goes. speaking of things we didn't have time for, each solved puzzle is gonna count towards unlocking more puzzles/pages in the final game, but it's something that we ended up not having time to implement in the demo. we figured that it was short enough that it should be ok

thank you for your feedback! some of this we were already aware of, but some of it is like, hmm. much to think about

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I did not do the tutorial so had no idea the character was Piper.  Glad to have learned a new thing :-)

I tried the demo and it was like I just instantly was drawn to the game. It just has such a charm right off the bat that not many games have. I loved the tutorial and it's a fun way to introduce people to nonograms.

The main problem I had was that when I tried to download the Linux build on the Itch.io app it said "Upload 18726154 not found" and wouldn't let me install. I was able to get the app image working though by installing through Itch.io website, so it was more of a hoop to jump through not a massive issue.

Either way this is going to the top of my wishlist because it just has that much charm.

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🦝heck yea, glad that you're liking it! we're not really sure about the appimage thing, will have to test it out later (we have the itch client but hardly ever use it oops)