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EST. 2026 • COMMUNITY EDITIONHALLOWEEN / AFTER DARK

THE SWAMPOLOGY

Chronicle

News from the deep, dark, glowing heart of The Swamp.

BAYOU ALERT • FOUR NEW ACCOUNT REWARDS • THE MIDNIGHT MARSH IS OPEN
Halloween in the Swamp — the crowned Crocodile King among pumpkins and glowing mushrooms
FRONT PAGE · THE SWAMPOLOGY CHRONICLE

HALLOWEEN IN THE SWAMP

The fog is rolling in thicker than usual, the glowshrooms are glowing a little stranger, and the Crocodile King has put his crown on over his pumpkin hat. That can only mean one thing: Halloween is coming to the swamp.

This year the swamp is going all in. On October 31, the whole community turns haunted not scary haunted, swamp haunted. Think jack-o'-lanterns floating down the bog, ghost glowshrooms drifting over the water, and costumes that smell faintly of moss no matter how many times you wash them.

Costumed swamp trick-or-treaters carrying pumpkin buckets beneath a ghost glowshroom

And don't forget the Halloween Ledger gift: subscribers claim Friday, October 30, everyone else on Saturday, October 31, one night only. Miss the day, miss the treat forever.

The Crocodile King celebrates Halloween with jack-o'-lanterns and ghost glowshrooms in the swamp

Costumes on. Buckets out. The swamp is waiting and it's watching.

The Swamp Crew
SWAMP NEWS · COMMUNITY UPDATE · OCTOBER 24, 2026

From the Bayou to Your Shelf

The fireflies are buzzing and something big is stirring beneath the moss. Your Swampology subscription helps keep our little corner of the bayou glowing and brings a bigger dream closer: turning our swamp characters into real action figures.

Crowned Gator, Glowshroom Sprite and Firefly Scout are the faces of that dream. Once we have enough support to make production possible, the plan is for anyone to be able to order one. For now, this is a peek at what we are working toward. Every bit of backing helps put more roots beneath the idea. Much love from KB & Lucky.

Explore the Swamp Royalty Pass ↗

Concept preview · Physical figures are a future goal and are not available to order yet

Swampology subscription support announcement with concept boxes for Crowned Gator, Glowshroom Sprite and Firefly Scout
A little backing today, a bigger swamp tomorrow
THE BLACKWATER ALMANAC / DAILY EDITION

The Swamp Horoscope

♡ Open the Love Edition • today’s match for every sign ↗

The swamp already knows your future. It just whispers it slow.

Swamp folklore for fun • daily rollover at midnight Halifax time

Listening to the reeds…

A NOTE FROM YOUR OWNERS / KB & LUCKY

A little holiday magic for every member

A Halloween gift is coming for everyone on October 31 🎃

From KB & Lucky, with love from the swamp — a wrapped gift with three animated cursors, a matching moving profile background, holiday title, badge, avatar frame, click effect and three collectibles

Open from the holiday until its month ends · free for every signed-in account · Halifax time · your claimed rewards stay yours

Holiday gift calendar & rewards

Easter means Easter Sunday · Thanksgiving uses each country’s holiday date · New Year’s Eve gifts arrive December 31

Nightly AI spooky stories ↗
THE DAILY SWAMP / FRESH EDITIONS

Today in the glowing heart of the swamp

AI-written editions and stories from our team. Invented tales are labeled as fiction; community news is based on verified website activity.

Opening the newspaper…

Have a story to share? Write it in the Staff Shack submission form below. Staff can publish their own stories from this desk.

LATEST WEBSITE UPDATES • OCTOBER 26, 2026

The Gator’s Eden and more room to chat

The Gator’s Eden lets you grow a private cannabis plant with a friend beneath your conversation, and enjoy a bigger Friends & Messages board with more space for actual messages.

A plant that belongs to you two

Choose one cannabis plant together from the Swamp Cannabinoid Index. Each accepted friendship has its own private garden, visible only to the two people in that conversation. The plant stays in your messages.

Open our messages ↗

Every message adds water

Messages from either friend water the shared plant. It blooms after messages on seven different Halifax days. Several messages in one day add water without skipping the week, and reading, typing or reacting does not advance growth.

Visit our garden ↗

Quiet days are safe

The plant never dies. Days without messages simply pause its growth, and a bloomed plant stays planted in the ground. Its branching stems, serrated fan leaves, budding flowers and mature colas follow the owner’s plant references. Each entry uses its own existing Cannabinoid Index flower artwork and sampled colours.

Explore the plant index ↗

Our garden keeps growing

Each bloom stays in the two friends’ private collection. Choose the next uncollected Index plant after a bloom. Once all 59 Index plants have bloomed, the garden automatically creates a new game variety from two Index parents, then repeats with another cross after each seven-day bloom. Crosses show their parent names and use both parents’ existing flower references.

See our shared collection ↗

More room for the conversation

The messages board is wider and taller on desktop and phone, and stickers, photos and voice notes share a compact tool row. The Gator’s Eden is accessible only at the bottom of the Friends & Messages page, below the board. Duplicate page links are removed, with the My Swamp menu kept for navigation.

Open the bigger chat board ↗
RECENT WEBSITE UPDATES
Friends, messages and a cleaner Swampology · 2026-10-26

Your friends have a new look, your conversations have more personality, and the welcome page, Game Hub and section menus are easier to explore.

Friend cards that feel like your crew

Friends appear with their player card avatar and frame, their own background, name colour and status. Presence dots glow green online, dim when away and turn grey offline. Active Royalty Pass members display a loyalty crown.

See my friends ↗

Swamp Besties

Use the star on a friend’s card to pin them at the top with a larger portrait. Besties stay saved to your account.

Pin my besties ↗

Chat skins and Night Bog

Choose glowshroom green, royal gold, murk black or mama pink bubbles. Give each conversation a night bog, glowshroom forest or throne room background. Night Bog mode makes the whole section darker and glowier.

Style my chats ↗

Reactions, typing glow and fireflies

React with a crown, gator tooth, glowshroom, firefly or gator. Typing names glow, arriving messages splash, and a friend’s first arriving message of the day gets a sparkle. New messages light up a firefly instead of a number badge. Motion preferences are respected.

Open my conversations ↗

Framed photos and voice waves

Send private photos with a gold frame or record a voice note of up to 60 seconds. Voice notes display a green sound wave. Photos and recordings stay inside accepted friendships, alongside the existing stickers and voice calls.

Open Friends & Messages ↗

Friendship badges, birthdays and figure shelves

Day One marks your earliest recorded friend. Swamp Buddies appears after a month since a conversation began, with messages from both of you. Tap a friend’s name to see their figure shelf. Members can choose to share a birthday month and day for a cake and gold glow.

Visit my crew ↗

A welcome page with a separate feed

The main page welcomes you to the swamp with centered Subscribe, Sponsor and Wishes circles, the holiday clock, What you get and the latest Ledger drop. Game Hub is included in What you get. The community stream has its own Feed page.

Visit the welcome page ↗

Four games together in Game Hub

Swamp Express, The Swamp Empire, Swamp Takeover and Gator Ate My Answer have their own game cards. Gator uses the featured spotlight artwork. The Discord community has its own spot below the games.

Open Game Hub ↗

Gator Ate My Answer leaderboards

Gator joins The Swamp Empire and Swamp Takeover on the leaderboards. Games started includes retained earlier attempts where records are available. Wins, completed games and points come from actual completed results.

View the Gator leaderboard ↗

Cleaner section menus

Game Hub, The Feed, My Swamp, Chronicle and Swamp Tunes bring their related pages together in menus that open from the side. Friends & Messages is easy to reach from My Swamp, and the Store has its own page.

Open My Swamp ↗

Management within reach

The approved management team can open the management menu throughout the site, edit supported community page content and deliver existing reward items to members. Page edits and reward deliveries are saved and recorded.

Visit My Swamp ↗

A tidier About page and Chronicle

The About page has centered Report a concern and Moderator Inbox image buttons. What to do here no longer has numbered markers. The Chronicle masthead and page alignment have been tidied up, and the welcome description no longer repeats its heading.

Read About Swampology ↗

Sign in and keep your place

Sign in accepts a username or attached email, including usernames entered with @. The welcome page recognizes an active session and offers My Swamp instead of asking signed in members to join again.

Open my profile ↗
Latest updates: Sponsor the Swamp & Sparks partner setup · 2026-10-23

Behind the Gate • subscriber-only room calls • early moon and Halloween claims • wishes, codes and private collections

Sponsor the Swamp

Open the new circle beside Swamp Wishes for sponsorship options, starter prices, a private enquiry form and The Sponsor Wall. Lucky’s temporary Sparks Web Development Services section includes a tracked SPARKS referral link and starter kit while his side becomes official. Payments and partner payouts are arranged manually.

Open Sponsor the Swamp ↗

Behind the Gate is the subscriber chatroom

Pass holders have a private King’s Table with gold names, tenure crowns, member figure-shelf previews, subscriber flair and daily King hints. First links and private shop code words land here before the preview gallery. No guest passes.

Enter Behind the Gate ↗

Voice and camera calls stay in the subscriber room

Choose voice or opt into your camera inside Behind the Gate. Mute your mic, switch your camera off or leave the room call. Leaving the chat stops your devices. The connection checks active passes and room membership; private friend calls remain audio only.

Open the subscriber call controls ↗

Room rules, free checks and human moderation

Acknowledge the seven room rules before joining. Free text-rule filters, optional browser speech-to-text checks, warnings, temporary restrictions, private reports and moderator reviews are available. Permanent bans require a human decision and appear in the ban log beneath the room. There is no continuous AI camera or voice monitoring; no call clips or camera snapshots are saved.

Read the room rules ↗

Full Moon and Halloween, a day early

The October Full Moon gift opens for subscribers Saturday October 24 at 8 pm Halifax. The public window runs Sunday October 25 at 8 pm through Monday October 26 at 8 pm. Subscribers open the Halloween Ledger gift October 30; the public opens it October 31. Early and public claims share one entitlement.

See the early claim windows ↗

The King’s Ear and the next-figure vote

Save one wish and one wish vote each month, and vote on the next character. Month-end winners are saved in an owner creation queue. When finished wish artwork is uploaded, its author and voters receive the first 30 days. Future artwork still needs to be created and delivered by the owners.

Open the Wish Box ↗

Private pass, prototypes, colourways and Vault Night

Download your named Early Access Pass, collect a numbered unpainted Figure Zero display prototype and view private black-and-gold figure and background colourways. One subscriber wins a gold display edition each month. Vault Night opens the last Friday from 8 pm to 8 am Halifax for retired files the owners add. New page founder names can be recorded permanently.

Explore the private collection ↗

The Toy Aisle: subscribers get it first

The eight Series 1 virtual figures arrive in Community Corner Club and the Subscribers Club. Active subscribers and the owner passes have the first 24 hours, then the collection opens to everyone. The premiere is enforced on both the collection and its media links.

Open the figure premiere ↗

One random starter figure for every account

Each account receives one randomly selected Series 1 figure on its first eligible visit. It is saved once in the Reward Ledger and placed on the player’s shelf. Reopening the page never rerolls or duplicates the gift. Existing accounts receive the same welcome gift as the collection opens.

Meet my starter figure ↗

Show three figures on your player profile

Every player has a Figure Shelf and a My Shelf button. Display up to three owned figures, explore your collection, read each box’s bio and find uncollected silhouettes in The Toy Aisle. PCs show a wide shelf; phones can swipe through large cards.

Arrange my shelf ↗

All eight supplied action clips, silent on PC and phone

Crocodile King, Madame Murk, Swamp Queen, Gamer Gator, Swamp Mama, Swamp Dad, Baby Gator and Glowshroom Guardian have their supplied 10-second MP4 actions. Hover or tap ACTION to play. Motion stays muted and inline on phones, with still-picture fallback. Separate idle clips have not been generated; the supplied motion loops are used for the display until idle clips are added.

Explore the moving figures ↗

More figures through the Reward Ledger

After collecting three Ledger drops in the month, claim one new Series 1 figure per week. Figure awards also go into the Ledger. Complete all eight to earn the gold-tinted King display variant and Full Set badge. Verified boosters have a secret violet Guardian display variant. First-time unboxing has a short reveal.

Visit the Reward Ledger ↗

The Swamp Royalty Pass and its newspaper club

The subscriber area brings monthly exclusives, personal reward requests, loyalty keepsakes, gold profile honours, voting, the Subscriber Wall and early-access sections together. Plans are $5, $15, $30 or $60 plus applicable tax. Owner and co-owner passes are permanent. Paid automatic checkout still awaits a verified connection; membership requests do not take payment.

Visit Swamp Subscribers ↗

Subscriber page readability repaired

The banner fits its container, headings wrap without being cut off, and dark readable text replaces pale gold writing on light panels. The same treatment applies to the subscriber club inside the newspaper.

See the updated subscriber page ↗

Swamp Community Corner Club is open

Join the newspaper’s new community club for a shared mosaic, living swamp map, voice wall, weekly AMA chair, monthly cookbook, automatic buddy pairings, collaborative reward design, group diary, thank-you wall, anonymous advice jar and the One Tree. Wide scenes use realistic cinematic matte painting. Club activities unlock automatic Reward Ledger collections.

Open Community Corner Club ↗

Grow the One Tree together

Every member can add one care visit and named leaf per Halifax day. Milestones reward all helpers. The club names each tree; every fully grown tree remains in the Grove, grants its helpers a named profile badge and Ancient One background, then starts a new growing cycle with fresh tree artwork.

Visit the One Tree ↗

Official club stickers on player cards

Choose one official sticker from Mama’s Corner, Dad’s Corner or Community Corner in your profile editor. Only clubs you have joined can be selected. Your sticker appears directly on your player card, while your Community Club keepsakes remain in your collection.

Choose my club sticker ↗

Keep your music playing while browsing

Internal section and profile links now stay inside the site without reloading the shared player. Swamp Sessions keeps its audio, room connection and compact playback controls when you visit another page. Personal songs opened in Swamp Express also stay in the shared player when you leave the game. Stop or switch music from the player controls.

Open your music ↗

A cleaner main menu with grouped sections

The Feed, Players, Music, Game Hub, Art & Store, Newspaper and My Swamp now organize the main navigation. Click a section name to open it immediately, or click its separate arrow for related pages. The same grouped menu remains available on standalone pages. Escape or clicking outside closes a dropdown.

Explore the main-page sections ↗

The full site menu is back within reach

The Mudroom and other standalone pages now have a top menu linking back to the feed, players, profiles, newspaper, music, artwork, store, Game Hub, leaderboards, Swamp Express and messages. Players opens the players tab, and the Mudroom’s newspaper return link opens the newspaper.

Return to the full site ↗

Gator Ate My Answer has its own game page

The Mudroom’s adult party game now has a 600-card deck: 100 black question cards and 500 white answer cards. Create a room for up to 24 players, share its room code or link, or invite accepted friends through Swamp Messages.

Open Gator Ate My Answer ↗

Voice chat at the party table

Players can opt into room voice chat, mute their microphone or speakers, and leave voice while keeping the game open. Browser microphone permission is required; direct audio connections depend on the players’ networks.

Open the game’s voice controls ↗

Dirty Swamp Minds: 40 rounds and improved card fit

The riddle mode now runs for 40 rounds with revised adult humour. Card text expands and wraps so long clues remain on the card. Every player can advance a completed round instead of waiting for the host.

Choose Dirty Swamp Minds ↗

Game read-aloud removed

Gator Ate My Answer no longer shows the read-aloud option. Its card designs remain in place with text sized to fit on PC and phone.

Open the card game ↗

New winner backgrounds

Finishing a game awards each winning account one previously unowned swamp cartoon background from the game’s 4K reward pool. Tied winners each receive a reward; once the pool is collected, it does not grant duplicates.

See your profile rewards ↗

Tidier newspaper and corner-club menus

All stories, Front Page, The Mudroom, Swamp Mamas Corner and Swamp Dads Corner now have grouped dropdowns. Click the section name to open it directly, or use its separate arrow to browse its smaller sections. Each corner club also groups its activities inside its own page.

Browse the newspaper ↗

Dad’s Corner Club is open

Dads have their own dock with Ask a Dad, Dad Hacks, Funny Dad Moments, Vent Box, Working Dad, Stay-Home Dad and After-Bedtime Chat. Explore dad advice, quick suppers, books, photo posts, chores, coloring pages, two Crocodile King mascots and dad reward packs.

Open Dad’s Corner Club ↗

Post on the mamas’ dock

Ask a Mama, Mama Hacks, Funny Mama Moments, Vent Box, Working Mama and Stay-Home Mama have posting forms and member responses. Contributions display the author’s player name. Join the club and sign in to contribute.

Visit the mamas’ dock ↗

Swamp Confessions after Dark and The Hot Seat

Mama’s Corner now includes named after-dark confessions and a ten-question Hot Seat. Completing all ten answers unlocks its themed collection of four chair backgrounds, two melting frames and two avatar portraits.

Open The Hot Seat ↗

More rewards for the corner clubs

The mamas’ and dads’ clubs have their own reward packs and activity goals, including profile backgrounds, frames, titles and collectibles. Open each pack to see its requirements and claim the rewards you have earned.

Browse Dad Reward Packs ↗

Mama’s Corner has grown

Mama of the Week voting, moms answering moms, five Dinner in 20 picks, hacks, Me-Time, real mama stories, vents, photo drops, ten swamp chores, printable 4K coloring pages and a moms-only 4K Ledger reward. Three new funny naughty swamp books per day come with their own covers and illustrations throughout the flip pages.

Open Mama’s Corner ↗

Rename your saved songs

Choose Rename saved song in Saved music, give a track a name you remember, search by that name or its original title, and restore the original whenever you like.

Open Saved music ↗

The Queen’s Quarter is open

Three personality quizzes, daily love matches for all twelve signs, a real weekly woman member spotlight, AI Queen letters, a three-look glam gallery, daily self-care and the pink-and-purple Mamas chat.

Explore the Queen’s Quarter ↗

Pink, purple, gold & neon rewards

Four new 4K background exports, four frames and three humanoid avatar outfits in For Her Drops. Her Sign and Him Sign each add twelve sign frames during the weeks containing March 8 and November 19.

See the new drops ↗

The Swamp Horoscope

Find your swamp sign by birthday, read daily fortunes, ratings, weekly and monthly readings, check yesterday’s prediction and collect a fresh seal when your sign is today’s lucky sign. Birthday packs give four matching sign rewards.

Read your horoscope ↗

The expanded Reward Ledger

A daily wheel, live claims, collections, trades, mystery drops, weekly scratch cards, fifty chest treasures, milestones, referrals, art contests, gifts and six collection tiers. Last Chance takes you to the exact story or horoscope edition.

Open the Reward Ledger ↗

Find the newest changes here

Latest Updates now has its own newspaper tab, a homepage panel and direct links in Swamp extras. Older October 17 notes remain in the archive below.

Read all latest updates ↗
EARLIER WEBSITE UPDATES • OCTOBER 17, 2026

Earlier additions to Swampology

Holiday gifts from KB & Lucky

Every member receives a wrapped holiday bundle: three animated cursors, a matching moving background, a holiday title, badge, frame, click effect and collectibles. Open the newspaper gift on the holiday itself, Halifax time. Halloween arrives October 31; the 2026 Canadian Thanksgiving bundle has already been delivered as a late gift.

View my holiday collection ↗

Swamp Wishes & the holiday clock

The oval countdown beneath the tabs counts down to Halloween and can be styled for any listed holiday. Open the Swamp Wishes circle beneath it to create personalized cards, download or share them, and send directly to accepted friends’ private wishes inboxes.

Open the feed ↗

A new puzzle edition every midnight

The four challenges automatically change from one Halifax day to the next, including an open newspaper page. Complete and save the new daily set for four 4K animated swamp backgrounds, two avatars and two animated borders. Earlier claims stay in My Profile.

Two psychedelic borders, ready now

Neon Spore Vortex and Prismatic Bayou Wave are unlocked in My Profile. Daily secret borders use their own dated palettes, motion and original daily artwork. Animation and reduced-motion preferences are respected.

Choose an animated border ↗

Landscape player cards & a new type system

Player cards now show the entire background in a horizontal panel with organized identity, rank, badges and music beneath. Newspaper headlines use Bebas Neue, navigation and cards use League Spartan, body text uses Inter, and stats use Rajdhani Bold.

See your landscape card ↗

A bigger community desk

Bayou Watch now follows first drops, achievements, challenge results, a weekly mood forecast and real community stats. Classifieds welcomes KB & Lucky’s Swamp Found Family. Player Card Showcase has archives, new faces, username stories and AI-written veteran tips. The Haunt Report adds Game of the Week; the Mudroom adds funniest fails and memorable public comments.

Explore the community columns ↗

Fifteen swamp emojis, stickers & comments

React and comment on newspaper stories, clips, screenshots, artwork, member memes and GIFs. Your reactions are saved to your account and help the community desk find appreciated moments.

Join the conversation ↗

Friends, old messages & direct voice

Open Friends & Messages beside Swamp Express for your friends list and saved conversations side by side. The compact messenger and full inbox can start a voice call with an online accepted friend. Accept or decline, mute and hang up; no site-imposed call timer. Direct connections depend on both networks.

Open Friends & Messages ↗

Ten new badges to earn

Collect the Raccoon, Gator, Owl, Cyber Gator, Axolotl, Catfish, Raven, Turtle, Heron and Frog badges through real profile, music, puzzle, screenshot, artwork and meme activity. My Profile shows every earning goal and your unlocked collection. Badges stay earned.

See your badge collection ↗

Create your own memes and GIFs

The Mudroom has a creator right on the newspaper page. Choose a swamp scene or upload your own image or GIF, add captions, preview, download and publish under your player name. You can delete your own posts. Your first shared meme or GIF unlocks the Meme Marsh Raccoon badge.

Make a meme or GIF ↗

Classified member rewards & screenshots

The daily AI spotlight picks from actual site profiles and grants four animated mini banners. Use the screenshot button below the games to preview and share your puzzle board in Classifieds.

Open Classifieds ↗

Three haunt reports every day

The Haunt Report receives three new AI-written fictional swamp dispatches in each daily edition. Look for the BAYOU ALERT fiction labels.

Read the Haunt Report ↗

The Mudroom is open

Funny swamp memes and looping GIF posts get fresh AI captions with the daily edition. Open the Mudroom tab here or visit its own page.

Enter the Mudroom ↗

Save your puzzle wins

Finish a puzzle and choose Save to leaderboard. Your best result appears under your signed-in player name in the newspaper and on the website’s Leaderboards page.

See puzzle scores ↗

Fresh daily editions and your own stories

The Chronicle has a daily edition desk for AI-written news and original fictional swamp tales. Staff can also write and publish their own articles. Community members can send stories through the Staff Shack review form.

Read the latest edition ↗

Four Halloween account backgrounds

Blackwater Camp, Glowshroom Cathedral, Sunken Pumpkin Carnival and Midnight Thirteen Crossing mix spooky swamps, psychedelic glowshrooms and retro camp horror. New and existing accounts can choose them in My Profile.

Choose a background ↗

Nine new profile avatars

Bandana Turtle, Moonlit Heron, Glowshroom Frog, Bayou Gator, Cyber Gator, Neon Owl, Neon Catfish, Midnight Raccoon and Shadow Raven join the existing choices. Selected portraits appear on your player card and exported share card.

Choose an avatar ↗

Two secret scavenger-hunt rewards

Sign in, find all five different skulls in the Community Desk and claim The Thirteenth Vault and Crocodile King’s Forbidden Friday. Both unlock permanently for your profile. Hunt progress saves across visits.

Find the five skulls ↗

A newspaper for the whole swamp

The Swampology Chronicle brings together Bayou Watch, The Haunt Report, the Glowshroom Gallery, the Night Shift, the Staff Shack, Campfire Column, Creature Feature, the Mudroom, Classifieds and the Crocodile King’s advice column. Fictional stories and rumors are labeled.

Explore the Chronicle ↗

Help shape the next edition

Vote for the next background theme, creature, glowshroom colour and reward prediction. Submit headlines, questions, captions, rumors, creator spotlights and member nominations to the Staff Shack for review. Reviewed member nominations can receive Member of the Month votes.

Visit the Community Desk ↗

Puzzles after dark

Play Glowshroom Pairs, Light the Neon Marsh and Bayou Word Scramble directly inside the newspaper. No external pages, downloads or sign-in. The separate five-skull hunt has the two background rewards.

The Boost Board

The Discord community page now includes a staff-reviewed supporter thank-you wall. Discord verification is required for booster acknowledgments. The four secret booster backgrounds remain separate from account and scavenger-hunt rewards.

Open the Discord community ↗

Everyone’s player cards on display

The Player Card Showcase now automatically displays community player cards with members’ chosen avatars, backgrounds and frames. Open a card to visit the full profile; use Show more to browse everyone.

Browse player cards ↗

Meet our crowned mascot

The Crocodile King now welcomes the crew on the main page in his golden crown, using Swampology’s existing royal crocodile artwork. One crown. One crew. One swamp.

Meet the Crocodile King ↗

All six new background artworks are delivered at 3840 × 2160 with looping fog, glow and firefly effects. Profile animation settings and reduced-motion preferences control playback.

Haunted Blackwater Camp with psychedelic glowshrooms
FRONT PAGE / BACKGROUND DROP

Four new nightmares waiting in the fog

Create a Swampology account and unlock all four animated Halloween backgrounds. Already a member? Your account qualifies too. Open My Profile, choose your background and save.

Spooky swamps. Psychedelic glowshrooms. Halloween lanterns. An original 1980s camp-horror atmosphere.

Reward Ledger / The Card Catalog

Blackwater Camp☠

Blackwater Camp

3840 × 2160 • animated effects • account reward
Glowshroom Cathedral☾

Glowshroom Cathedral

3840 × 2160 • animated effects • account reward
Sunken Pumpkin Carnival◆

Sunken Pumpkin Carnival

3840 × 2160 • animated effects • account reward
Midnight Thirteen Crossing✦

Midnight Thirteen Crossing

3840 × 2160 • animated effects • account reward
Behind the design

The Staff Shack

Six new scenes combine spooky swamps, glowshrooms and retro camp horror: four account backgrounds and two scavenger-hunt rewards. Motion layers add fog, light pulses and drifting fireflies.

Read comics, vote on the serial & open the Curiosity Desk ↗