Hey! So I was a guest on a gaming podcast by Tomasz Niemiec where we shared our thoughts on indie games, curation, and how Octocurio got started. If you’d like to hear me go through the five stages of fright (deer in headlights —-> rambling rhino) then have a listen below. 🙃 The podcast is in English but the intro is in Polish.
In the podcast I actually blanked on how the octopus came about, in case you were interested in a little back story… I was stuck for a long while thinking of a name for my gamedev studio, and while driving by a rum shop (bar/pub) I saw a giant sign advertising pickled seacat (seacat = octopus here) and a light bulb went off. That’s how Pickled Sea Cat came about. When I later created an indie game website I stuck with the octopus theme for the avatar and then for the name, an octopus in charge of curios (curious objects).
The back of the shop with the name is in the picture below but after some years it’s almost completely overgrown and you can barely see anything. 🙈
