Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Cut paper, and a witch who walks
Every Bestiary insect becomes a Cricut cut file, and Candy Crawl's trailer finally shows someone playing.

Mechanical Bestiary · Candy Crawl · Redline · Ghost Note
If you own a Cricut, today was for you. The Bestiary now saves cut files for all seven insects, at actual size, with cut, score and pen layers. The paper taught us a few things first: antennae need to be 2 mm wide or the blade eats them, and any two cuts closer than 1.5 mm get flagged before you waste a sheet. Nobody has run one on a real machine yet. If you do, I'd love a photo.
Candy Crawl's first trailer was made of panned screenshots, which is a strange way to show a game called Candy Crawl. So the game can now play itself: the witch walks to the nearest candy and steps around ghosts as they wake. The new trailer is real play.
One more catch: on a Series 12 watch, Redline's buttons were being clipped by the rounded corner. Our screenshot checks all passed, because screenshots are rectangles and screens aren't. Every capture is now checked against the real shape of each display.
Thanks
- The paper engineering leans on Carol Barton's 1998 handout for the Guild of Book Workers and on Carter and Diaz's The Elements of Pop-Up.
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