Hi Peculiars, Any of you who are especially eagle-eyed might notice that this is the first update in a while, and perhaps wondering why! I retroactively found out that the game engine I used to make The Beekeeper's Picnic has certain... quirks when it comes to pushing through updates into Steam, and when I first began releasing a flurry of updates in the week after the game's release, it caused some people's existing saved games to become unstable or unusable. So, this time around I've done a lot more research into what breaks saves and what doesn't, taken things very slowly and done lots of testing with regards to saves. I expect that updates and little fixes are going to come more regularly over the next few weeks and months as I get a bit more confident with this process! Changes:

• Decreased volume of the crowd at the fair
• Fixed a bug where accessing the brain attic if standing in a particular spot during a particular scene would make Holmes become stuck in a wall on his return to the material realm. The best solution I've got to this is to just prevent the player accessing the brain attic during this moment!
• Added additional code to attempt to coax Toby III not to fly on the map screen very occasionally.
• Added a few missing lines of dialogue audio
  
  [ 2025-06-10 19:55:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Calling all residents of Fulworth! For those of you who like using Steam's community features, The Beekeeper's Picnic community items are now available. This means you can collect trading cards featuring specially-created artwork as you play, and upgrade them with badges (which are a series of increasingly shiny magnifying glasses, and then the super fancy foil badge is a golden bee, oooh!) Cards are retroactively rewarded based on game play time, so if you've already played through the game take a peek in your Steam inventory, you might have already earned some!
You can also decorate your Steam profile with patterns and portraits from the game and get emojis from in the Points Shop. A huge thanks to everyone who has supported the game so far, and I hope you'll have fun with these items.

• Game credits updated
• Fixed an issue where Holmes would sometimes loose his marker on the map.

Update 1.1 Fixed a bug where Toby the Dog would very rudely vanish right when you needed him. Fixed a bug where Holmes could get stuck in a wall while attempting to make a stealthy getaway Fixed a bug which resulted in a possible loop where you would be forced to talk about elderflower cordial with Mrs Kumar forever Some minor changes to music cues Gave Mycroft some new interior dcor items at his club, because he deserves it.

The Beekeeper's Picnic Kickstarter launched yesterday, with the funding goal being met within 24 hours! There are still lots of excellent rewards available though, including... Digital Wallpaper Bundle - A selection of backgrounds for your devices featuring The Beekeeper's Picnic's distinct pixel art style. Printable Craftables - Crafts for you to print at home! Create your own postcard from Fulworth and paper dress-up dolls of Holmes, Watson and Mycroft in a series of outfits! Digital Artbook - A gorgeously designed scrapbook ebook featuring concept art and a 'making of' The Beekeeper's Picnic. NPC Cameos - Work with the developer to create an NPC to appear in the game in a crowd scene or in a portrait. It could be you, a friend or a totally fictional character! * Hand-Bound Code Book Here's a kickstarter reward you probably haven't seen before - a hand-made, hand-bound book containing all of the alpha code of the game! Only three books like this will ever exist! Check out the campaign now!

Hear lots of behind the scenes titbits about upcoming game The Beekeeper's Picnic with this developer commentary of the newly-released demo! [previewyoutube=dvkPGnOfqe4;leftthumb][/previewyoutube]