We're going to start doing smaller rotational sales of all our products.

We're trying out Rotation Sales. So, instead of just selling lots of stuff, we're only selling some stuff at a time.

Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim 2 is on sale for the first time ever! Boy howdy! Complete the set!

While progress on Dinosaur Cousin Squad is going well (despite hitting an error as soon as we booted up the base code for the first time as one complete package), we were able to at least get a good foothold on two of the final four Paper Shakespeare games while waiting on the base code. We are very happy to be able to share the store pages with you today:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2762590/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_If_Made_Today
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2757940/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls_2

Cat Girls? If Made Today isn't a remake, but rather, a reimagining of the game if it was made with the game dev know-how that we have now, and with the storytelling and gameplay that we want to do. This is the first Cat Girls game as if it was completely unconnected to the other games, as the Keegan Quinn/Multiverse BS storyline is over.

Spooky Cat Girls 2?! is another experimental title: it is three spooky games in one. The first is the titular Spooky Cat Girls, the second is a Cthulhu Dating Sim that we've been calling the Dark Souls of Visual Novels, and the third is our Kaiju game.

Neither have solid dates yet, as we need to both launch Army of Tentacles: Assault on Rainbow Unicorn Island, as well as dedicate our time to finishing up Dinosaur Cousin Squad in time for Christmas - or before.

We hope you enjoy.

Until March 14th. So not weekly. Well, technically weekly.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/427930/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim/?curator_clanid=33017070
https://store.steampowered.com/app/592200/Super_Army_of_Tentacles_3_The_Search_for_Army_of_Tentacles_2/?curator_clanid=33017070
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431470/Mythos_Ever_After_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim/?curator_clanid=33017070
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585450/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls/?curator_clanid=33017070
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627740/SHAKESPEARE_More_like_THIRSTspeare_amirite/?curator_clanid=33017070
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082760/Paper_Shakespeare_Cthulhu_Coriolanus/?curator_clanid=33017070

We swear it is the final release date shift.

Guess who forgot to put up this news update this morning? To be fair: there was a doctor's appointment.

January 23rd - January 30th
AoT 1: 52% Off
AoT 3: 52% Off
Mythos 1: 15% Off
Thirstspeare: 15% Off

Unicorns has been delayed due to the world being on fire.

The mad quest to make a game for every Shakespeare play is swiftly reaching its promised end, with the first being Army of Tentacles: Assault on Rainbow Unicorn Island. After that, maybe we can sleep.

Two are scheduled for the end of 2024, but the majority of work on those will commence after Dinosaur Cousin Squad has dropped. We don't yet know when that one will have a Store Page up, but we assume within the next few months. Both games were being prepped while Dinosaur Cousin Squad was being worked on, but DCS progress has hit a few fun new snags, so we might be able to finish before proper level clean-up is set to begin in a few months.

The final two are set for early and late 2025. One is a collaboration, and the other is another new engine, new genre game..... this time: a tRPG deck builder. In layman's terms, a party based tactical RPG with a card system. We've very recently begun pre-production and asset buy on that one.

Store pages for at least two of the final four adaptations will be popping up after Rainbow Unicorn Island drops on the 23rd.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2409020/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_2_Prophecy_of_Convenience/?beta=0

With that, 2023's crop has been fully harvested.

Have a safe and happy end of the year, everyone!

SPECIAL!
Furry Shakespeare: Cat Girls: 50% Off

To celebrate the XMAS DAY launch of the sequel-dlc!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2409020/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_2_Prophecy_of_Convenience

ALL OTHER WINTER SALE DEALS!
AoT 1: 52% Off
AoT 1 BGWE: 69% Off
AoT 3: 52% Off
AoT BGWE: 82% Off
Joe Papp: 15% Off
Joe Papp 2: 15% Off
Dino Shakespeare: 25% Off
Embers of the Zombie Battlemage: 10% Off
Furries & Scalies 1: 15% Off
Furries & Scalies 2: 15% Off
Friendswood: 15% Off
Super Scary Halloween Times: 15% Off
Super Scary Halloween Times Part II: 15% Off
Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs: 25% Off
Midsummer: 15% Off
Emperor Penguin Lear: 15% Off
Love's Lizards Lost: 15% Off
Oops! All Dragons: 15% Off
Furry Shakespeare: Spooky Cat Girls: 15% Off
Two Incredibly Ripped, Absolutely Shredded Noble Kinsmen: 15% Off
Inexplicable Geeks: 15% Off
Kitten in Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy San Francisco: 15% Off
Mythos Ever After: 15% Off
Love's Labors Lost: 15% Off
Julius Caesar: 15% Off
Stick Merchant of Venice: 15% Off
Rainbow Hollow: 15% Off
Paper Shakespeare: Not To Date?: 42% Off
Paper Shakespeare: Not To Date? 2: 15% Off
Very Naked Hamlet: 15% Off
Planetkillerz: 15% Off
Scientific Dino Mating Sim 2021: 15% Off
Thirstspeare: 15% Off

+ Assorted DLC.

December 7 - 21

AoT 1: 52% Off
AoT 1 BGWE: 69% Off
AoT 3: 52% Off
AoT BGWE: 82% Off
Joe Papp: 15% Off
Joe Papp 2: 15% Off
Dino Shakespeare: 25% Off
Embers of the Zombie Battlemage: 10% Off
Furries & Scalies 1: 15% Off
Furries & Scalies 2: 15% Off
Friendswood: 15% Off
Super Scary Halloween Times: 15% Off
Super Scary Halloween Times Part II: 15% Off
Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs: 25% Off
Midsummer: 15% Off
Emperor Penguin Lear: 15% Off
Love's Lizards Lost: 15% Off
Oops! All Dragons: 15% Off
Furry Shakespeare: Spooky Cat Girls: 15% Off
Two Incredibly Ripped, Absolutely Shredded Noble Kinsmen: 15% Off
Inexplicable Geeks: 15% Off
Kitten in Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy San Francisco: 15% Off
Mythos Ever After: 15% Off
Love's Labors Lost: 15% Off
Julius Caesar: 15% Off
Stick Merchant of Venice: 15% Off
Rainbow Hollow: 15% Off
Paper Shakespeare: Not To Date?: 42% Off
Paper Shakespeare: Not To Date? 2: 15% Off
Very Naked Hamlet: 15% Off
Planetkillerz: 15% Off
Scientific Dino Mating Sim 2021: 15% Off
Thirstspeare: 15% Off

+ Assorted DLC.

So, for a few smaller games in the past (including tomorrow's Dinos Shakespeare 2 DLC), we have used AI backgrounds. We had both in-house discussions about it, as well as extensively made sure that the singular artist we used for said games was being ethical in what she fed her AI.

Scarecrows came out, and at the time, we assumed the generated art was made using the same level of care (as their prior art that we used from the same artist was painted), and while we have no reason to believe otherwise and do not wish to slander said artist, we will be working to attain new background art for Scarecrows. This might look like a combination of new and existing art or it might be new art altogether. Regardless, it will not happen overnight.

We will not be using AI art of any kind in any future games. We apologize to both our fellow developers as well as our customers for any ill will gained via our actions.

AoT 1: 52% Off
AoT 1 BGWE: 69% Off
AoT 3: 52% Off
AoT BGWE: 82% Off
Joe Papp: 15% Off
Joe Papp 2: 15% Off
Dino Shakespeare: 25% Off
Embers of the Zombie Battlemage: 10% Off
Furries & Scalies 1: 15% Off
Furries & Scalies 2: 15% Off
Friendswood: 15% Off
Super Scary Halloween Times: 15% Off
Super Scary Halloween Times Part II: 15% Off
Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs: 25% Off
Midsummer: 15% Off
Emperor Penguin Lear: 15% Off
Love's Lizards Lost: 15% Off
Oops! All Dragons: 15% Off
Furry Shakespeare: Cat Girls: 25% Off
Furry Shakespeare: Spooky Cat Girls: 15% Off
Two Incredibly Ripped, Absolutely Shredded Noble Kinsmen: 15% Off
Inexplicable Geeks: 15% Off
Kitten in Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy San Francisco: 15% Off
Mythos Ever After: 15% Off
Love's Labors Lost: 15% Off
Julius Caesar: 15% Off
Stick Merchant of Venice: 15% Off
Rainbow Hollow: 15% Off
Paper Shakespeare: Not To Date?: 42% Off
Paper Shakespeare: Not To Date? 2: 15% Off
Very Naked Hamlet: 15% Off
Planetkillerz: 15% Off
Scientific Dino Mating Sim 2021: 15% Off
Thirstspeare: 15% Off

+ Assorted DLC.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923530/Scarecrows_of_Illyria

As always, please report any bugs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923530/Scarecrows_of_Illyria/

AoT: Unicorns has been moved to January.

Hope everyone had a safe night!

Obviously, AoT: Unicorns is not out. It's my fault. I did not number the lines in the script for easier VO input. I'm a dork.

We here at the office hope that everyone has a very safe and happy Halloween!

Due to increased stress due to family medical issues and my own medical issues, Dinosaur Cousin Squad has been delayed until sometime next year. We're fast tracking a game that we intended to work on for next Halloween in order to fill its place, as well as working on the DLC sequels that we were going to do for early next year.

DCS could potentially be done by the rest of the team, but because it is the first game of ours in a new genre and engine, plus since I originally started making it as a Christmas present for my younger cousins, I'm trying to be as hands-on as I possibly can be. That just is not possible given my current stress levels from real life currently coming at me from all sides.

I promised them this game two Christmas Day's ago. Ugh. Well, it's going to be great when it comes out. This also gives us the chance to give the game a decent lead-in with a Coming Soon page, rather than just putting one up a few weeks before launch during the busiest time of the year.

So there's the trick. The treats are coming soon.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923551/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_The_Myth__Legend_of_Marauder_Shields
Just some short story DLC that adds some lore to the world, new characters and new co-captains!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923551/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_The_Myth__Legend_of_Marauder_Shields

Oh hey, is it final(?) DLC for a game? You bet your bum it is!

Army of Tentacles
Army 1: 69% Off!
Army 1 Black Goat: 68% Off!
Army 3: 52% Off!
Army 3 Black Goat: 82% Off!
Mythos Ever After: 15% Off!

Furry + Paper Shakespeare
Dinosaur Shakespeare: 25% Off!
Very Naked Hamlet: 15% Off!
Joe Papp 1: 15% Off!
Joe Papp 2: 15% Off!
To Date Or Not To Date?: 42% Off!
To Date Or Not To Date? 2: 15% Off!
To Date Or Not To Date Cat Girls?: 25% Off!
To Date Or Not To Date Spooky Cat Girls?: 15% Off!
Friendswood: 15% Off!
Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs: 25% Off!
Super Spooky Halloween Scary Times 1: 15% Off!
Super Spooky Halloween Scary Times 2: 15% Off!
Midsummer: 15% Off!
Planetkillerz: 15% Off!
Scientifically Accurate Dinosaur Mating Simulator 2021: 15% Off!
SHAKESPEARE?! More Like Thirstspeare: 15% Off!
Emperor Penguin Lear: 15% Off!
OOPS! All Dragons!: 15% Off!
Two Incredibly Ripped, Absolutely Shredded Noble Kinsmen: 15% Off!
Kittens in Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy San Francisco: 15% Off!
Cthulhu Coriolanus: 15% Off!
Stick Julius Caesar (with a dagger!): 15% Off!
Stick Merchant of Venice: 15% Off!
The Legend of Rainbow Hollow: 15% Off!

Other
Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY! 1: 15% Off!
Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY! 2: 15% Off!
Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us: 15% Off!

) Dinosaur Cousin Squad/Scarecrows Update: The office is once again COVID free, but I myself am on a new pre-surgery diet and exercise routine to, hopefully, finally get done with medical crud once and for all.

So what does this mean? We're working on Scarecrows as well as the first draft of Dino Squad's 25 levels. But we're going one scene/level a day for each.

Dino Squad is still on track for the end of 2023.

Scarecrows might actually be ready by the end of the month (given testing, etc.).

2) Aot: Unicorns: Halloween release depends on if we have all voice lines in and fully edited by then.

AoT Black Woods Editions up to 82% off!

Very Naked Hamlet is 15% off!

Furries & Scalies 1 & 2 are both 15% off!

The Halloween Retail Sale is still going strong, too!

Guess who has COVID again? That's spooky.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2254860/Inexplicable_Geeks_RestoreTheMillerCut/?curator_clanid=33017070
Get it whilst it is hot.

As Samuel L. Jackson once said: hold on to yer butts.

Due to a combination of factors:

1) Surgery recovery.
2) Family life events.
3) Quality dev cycles for various products. We redid the schedule today, and feel like we have a better grip on when exactly we can work on what specific projects.
4) Dinosaur Cousin Squad being a new genre and a new engine.

Unless otherwise specified, everything already not in production is going to be pushed to 2024. Geeks: Miller Cut, Illyria, and Rainbow Island are all 90% done and still expected to be able to be completed in a relatively short amount of time.

Everything else is non-priority at this point and is going to be 2024.

It's almost that time again! Which means it is that time again!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1112270/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_2__DLC_2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1112281/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_2_Odd_WindowsOnly_EXP_Booster
Enjoy some free DLC.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2465590/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Final_Boss
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923550/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_Huge_Manatees
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2246430/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_Morris_Critter_Beast_Emporium

Final Halloween Times 1 DLC, plus two small Tentacle Prawn DLCs, one adding new classes and the other adding new Critter Beasts.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2457910/Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2022_American_Revolution_1775__1786_Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2023_French_Revolution_1789__1799

So, like, in all seriousness, this is the game that I should be writing on pain meds right now. This one rounds out the three DLC Sequels that are hitting in the year of our Gourd 2023.

The Rest of 2023, in recap....
DLC Titles
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2409020/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_2_Prophecy_of_Convenience
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2410350/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_2_Winter_of_our_Discontent

Full Games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2254860/Inexplicable_Geeks_RestoreTheMillerCut
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923530/Scarecrows_of_Illyria
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1877720/Army_of_Tentacles_Assault_on_Rainbow_Unicorn_Island

What's this? Announcing four new products whilst recovering from surgery? Well, they aren't huge, and half of them are already in various stages of production.

Three upcoming DLC-Quels!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2409020/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_2_Prophecy_of_Convenience
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2410350/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_2_Winter_of_our_Discontent

We're trying to make these suckers the size of full games, but no promises. Experimenting with a DLC format allows us to take both more and safer risks with a pre-established game. We also don't have the budget for three full games at the moment, and we're currently six games away from adapting every Shakespeare play (that excludes the entirety of the Henriad, which we're trying to do as one game - nine plays as one title). DLC costs us nothing, and we had the assets lying around. Some were made specifically for the DLC-Quels, some just were gathering dust.

The third DLC-Quel isn't ready to reveal yet. We were thinking we could reveal all three at once, but forgot that one still needed to be submitted to Valve for verification.

New Games on the horizon!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2254860/Inexplicable_Geeks_RestoreTheMillerCut
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923530/Scarecrows_of_Illyria

Geeks Hashtag is a fun, quick little thing we wanted to get out for this year's SDCC. Lovingly taking aim at things like the Snyder Cut.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1487670/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_2_SDCC_2023_Exclusive_Army_Units

I mean, exclusives are starting to be announced for San Diego Comic-Con, so we thought "why wait until June or even July for our funny-ha-ha pack?".

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727790/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim

Look! A game! I'm amazing! Right before surgery, too! I deserve, like, fifty Gold Medals. Enjoy this quaint jaunt, straddling the lines between the Paper Shakespeare world and the Army of Tentacles world.



Scarecrows of Illyria is coming sometime next month.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/476560/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_October_SURPRISE_Army_Unit_Pack
To celebrate the new patches for Army 1, 1 BW, 3, and 3 BW, here's a small upgrade pack for Army 1. It won't be extremely noticeable, but will help with the final Invasion of Innsmouth.

I'm going to hibernate for 900 years.

FIXED: Various bugs

It's early, yeah, but I'm also gonna be getting surgery bills soon.
This one is also a two-parter, with the main meat - the Barnacle Meat, if you are classy enough to watch Succession - coming next month.

FIXED: Typos

The newest patch for Army of Tentacles 3 went out a few hours ago. It doesn't have any real changes at all minus a few clean-up thingamabobs.

It's unknown if Army 1 will have the same treatment or not.

Here's why:
I know that I promised new features or at least updated features for the games, but that was before my health took a turn for the worse. It seems that the surgery I had about a year ago left me with other festering issues that are just now getting around to being addressed, which includes another surgery in exactly one month.

That + new meds + my current brain fog = I had to hire new contractors to help fix what was broken in the old games, and at this point, Army 3 was able to get back up to working condition.

FIXED: DLC pathcode, typos, etc.

Yes. We know.

Here's a sale anyway.

Well. Just spent the last few days completely redoing the combat system. Why? Because the old one just wasn't any fun.

Still on track, as is Tentacle Prawn. Just getting ready to set everything aside next month to dive headfirst into designing our first platformer.

We may be getting a new level programmer for Dinosaur Cousin Squad, so look out for that update soon. If that happens, we don't yet know how it would affect the current workflow/schedule. Best case scenario is it clears up time and stress so we can work on Furry Shakespeare 2, but that's not even really a thing yet beyond a first draft of the script.

It's literally still snowing here, but sure.

First off, it's really ridiculous that we finally got out the final Army of Tentacles. Yes, Unicorns is coming later, and Tentacle Prawn technically counts as a spin-off in the same way that the Mythos games do, but for all mentally stressful purposes, the trilogy is over.

Yes, that feels weird, considering the series began in 2016 and the recodes are still being worked on. Army 3's recode now only has 20 Arguments, and even though we're working on Dinosaur Cousin Squad exclusively after March ends, not working on any other projects is going to free up time to finish those.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_2
Next up is Tentacle Prawn, which is a mix of Paper Shakespeare/Army of Tentacles.....



Internally, we've been referring to it as Army of Tentacles 4, even though it's... really not an entry in the main arc. It has.... stuff in it, and it really is a true mixture of the two worlds, but it is its own thing entirely.

It's going to go live early April.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727790/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim

Hey, everyone! Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim 2 is out now because my hotel internet works! Happy Valentine's Day?

I feel like I should write a larger post, but I've been in the air for six hours.

The last game in the storyarc that started six years ago and meandered and survived due entirely to whimsy is finally here!

The AoT 1 recode was put on hold, but now it should be starting up again next week. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_2/

"This month" means February.

Army of Tentacles 1's redo is about 50% complete. All of the side quests are finished. Brain fog is not helping my productivity, but I'm doing about two quests a day, plus a quest a day on Army of Tentacles 2.

I know I originally set the release date for February, and then March, but if they both are ready by the end of January, they might be both launching then.

Don't worry. I fully realize my workload as well as my current state of being/mind/health, so it might not happen.

Army of Tentacles 3 is a different story. It's a lot less restrictive than Army 1, both code-wise and VO-wise (because there is no VO). We thought about adding VO to the game, but ruled against it, as that would be money we need for Unicorns and Dinosaur Cousin Squad, and the game's plot relied on a lack of VO.

The biggest change to Army 3 is that we are cutting down the number of Arguments for a leaner, faster experience. With the DLCs, Army 3 has a whopping 70 Arguments to Army 1's, what, 20? I don't yet know how that is going to translate into quests yet. Some quests might be merged with others, I don't know yet. A lot of the Arguments were not even related to quests, and those may be the majority that go. Another feature that is going to take some busywork.... Army 3 has a large party, and it'll be interesting to see what skills change, what stay the same, and what have fun new uses.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2153400/Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2022_American_Revolution_1775__1786

Plus, a few release dates have shifted due to a very nasty flu. Not sure if it is Long COVID or just a really despicable bug.

AoT 2 is now March, and we're still debating when Tentacle Prawn will come out. It'll either release same month as AoT 2 or Rainbow Unicorn Island. We're trying to find a balance between financial sense and thematic sense.

Winter Sale
No one could have predicted this.

Oh, and Dino Sim 2022 is droppig next week. Could be Monday, could be Friday. Or Tuesday. Or the other two. Just in time to miss Christmas as well as Christmas Eve. Blame the Gregorian Calendar and the constant shift of yearly dates for that chestnut.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2153400/Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2022_American_Revolution_1775__1786
Oh, and a 2023 treat....


Army 1 and 3: The Actual Recode(s)
So, later on in 2023, the oft prophecized recode is happening..... the code for both Army 1 and Army 3 broke. The Steam versions still work. So that's the good news. If you buy it this sale, you will be buying a working game. It's just the versions on our end that need to be fixed. Which ultimately means that there will be a patch to both games later on down the line.

I want to make it clear that both games work perfectly fine on Steam. If you were planning on making any purchases of the game or DLC this Winter Sale, feel free to do so.

When the newest update to the engine that we use hit, it scrambled our 2016 Code bases brain. Without going into lengthy explanations, the base code for Army 1 (Utahraptor) was written in such a way that, if you push one domino, the whole thing is gonna crumble. We were young and inexperienced. Shit happens.

While Army 3 came out pretty unscathed, it still uses the Argument/Word Battle code. So we need to redo it as well.

The good news is that both games will have fresher, better code. We will be keeping as much as the base game intact as we can. We're also going to try our best to keep the file size to the same as what it was, even though we'll be adding a few new baubles. They will include:

• Updated Word Battles: Stats and abilities will now have a bigger impact on how they play out.
  
• New Army Units and Art: We'll have actual art for the Army units.
  
• New Level Up/Upgrade screens: For a better, clearer idea of how you're going to shape your army of monsters for the new endgame Invasion.
  
• Updated Shops and Stats
  
• Redone endgame Invasion system
  
• Redone DLC pathcode
  
• New UI
  

Late Autumn/Black Friday Sale
A bunch of products are on sale. Yeah, we know iot is not the official Autumn sale, but better late than never.

New Frontiers

Last Christmas, I started working on a non-VN with input from my cousins, and the restrictions were that I had to do whatever they gave me, within reason. So now the Velociraptor has Telekinesis and the Pterodactyl has the water levels.

It's going to be our first platformer, and our first game in a new engine. No idea when the store page is going up. Our 2023 slate is a bit packed, but we've got a good schedule and we have managed to fit everything in without burning ourselves out.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2219720/Furry_Shakespeare_Dashing_Dinosaurs__Sexy_Centaurs_Winters_Tale_2

We're only eight games away from finishing our mad quest of adapting every Shakespeare play into a video game. Well, more than eight actual plays, but like Rainbow Hollow, we've got some tomfoolery up our sleeves.

So, not only are we planning on a third and final game in the main Army of Tentacles trilogy next year, we're also planning two spin-offs in the Paper Shakespeare universe. Shakespeare and Lovecraft, together at last.

We have sort of an ongoing storyline through all our games, and so far, it's been most apparent in the Paper Shakespeare/Furry Shakespeare ones. There's some reality/multiverse jank that's been threading through the games, which was have been affectionately calling The Multiverse BS (no, we only started calling it that when Marvel started calling their current films The Multiverse Saga). So, the idea here is that Army of Tentacles 2 will end that storyline and the next two games will showcase the consequences of a new reality being born.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727790/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim
It's all led up to this. Kind of. Maybe.

Combining the quest and battle mechanics of prior Army of Tentacles games with the magnanimousness of a college dating sim.

Expect to see it before summer.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1877720/Army_of_Tentacles_Assault_on_Rainbow_Unicorn_Island
Army of Tentacles is over. Long live Army of Tentacles.

The first game, but reimagined as Shakespeare's Trojan War play. Perry, Riley, Webster, Thatcher, Apocalypse Bunny, and more are on a quest to push back the invading Greeks and save their home.

Our first fully-voiced game since 2016. Expect it sometime..... later.

We had a few game announcements to make - we're seriously cutting down on content produced in 2023. But we have some announcements that we *think* round out next year alongside the already announced 2023 games.

But we felt Halloween was not the right time to make those announcements. We want as many eyeballs on us as possible (or as is possible for a small indie outfit), and we felt that Halloween Day was not the day to make such annoucements.

So tomorrow.

BUT.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923621/Embers_of_the_Zombie_Battlemage_Halloween_Real_Werewolves_of_Massachusetts

Here's a small content DLC for Embers of the Zombie Battlemage that we cooked up over the weekend, adding a new Guest Path throughout the entire game. What are Guest Paths? Well, they are like Johnny Handsome in the idea that they are complete character arcs, but for guests. You'll need to figure out what section they'll pop up in each Act, though. We're not giving out Halloween treats in the form of spoilers.

The spooky scary Halloween sale is on now! 31 products are on sale, ranging from 15% to 69% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919090/Embers_of_the_Zombie_Battlemage_Halloween

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919090/Embers_of_the_Zombie_Battlemage_Halloween/

Steam avatars added for:

- both Halloween Spooky Times games
- Planetkillerz
- Friendswood

Stuff on discount
The below games are 15% to 31% off. Because it is spooky season.

- Dinosaur Shakespeare
- Emperor Penguin Lear
- Very Naked Hamlet
- Furries & Scalies 1
- Furries & Scalies 2
- Kittens in Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy San Francisco
- Dino Sim 2021
- Furry Shakespeare: Cat Girls?
- Furry Shakespeare: Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs
- Oops! All Dragons!
- Thirstspeare

Final game of 2022
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2153400/Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2022_American_Revolution_1775__1786

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727200/Kittens_in_PostApocalyptic_Fantasy_San_Francisco_Battle_School_for_Only_the_Most_Awesome_Monsters/

Get it while it is hot.

First off, why the delay?

I finally got COVID-19.

The silver lining here is that most of the teams for the next few games already work remote, and Kittens in SF is basically 98% finished. Which sounds relatively easy, but I have never felt this lethargic and aimless with any other cold or flu that I've had the chance of catching. There are maybe fifteen minute windows where I feel good enough to work on the game, but then those pass and I can't even think straight. Even with those fifteen minute windows, my body is constantly fluctuating between extreme hot and extreme cold.

I can't talk, I can't smell, and while I still retain my sense of taste, it's dull in most areas but extremely punctuated in others. It's super weird.

But wait, it's not all doom and gloom!

While the game may be delayed, it won't be delayed that long, as I'll be out of isolation next week and plugging away to get you, the general public, your yum-yums.

At the very least, I'll probably take this time to finish up work on some future store pages so we can announce some new products in the interim. Who knows.

If you can, please get vaccinated. I have a mild case, but knowing it is a mild case, I would not want anyone to experience a full-on case of COVID. Because I can't even begin to imagine what that feels like. I also am still deep in recovery from a prior surgery, so these two factors combined are..... not great.

The Halloween Retail Season sale is still on if you feel so inclined.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919090/Embers_of_the_Zombie_Battlemage_Halloween

Kinda a reboot of Spooky Scary Halloween Spooky Times, kinda a sequel. This time in a Halloween theme park. It has the usual Guest Events, but now there is a combat section to gameplay as well.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923530/Scarecrows_of_Illyria

What started as a DLC for Furries & Scarecrows has snowballed into its own thing.

We were going to announce these two with a special game that we had been working on for a few months, but that's not ready for a store page quite yet.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727200/Kittens_in_PostApocalyptic_Fantasy_San_Francisco_Battle_School_for_Only_the_Most_Awesome_Monsters/

Game's been delayed until August due to a combination of family gatherings at the end of July. Thought we'd be able to get it out, but it came down to just not feeling comfortable launching it and then leaving for a bit.

As Samuel J. Jackson once said, hold on to your wallets.

Kittens in Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy San Francisco is now launching on July 20th!

Amy of Tentacles 2 has been changed to February 15th, since that is the day that the first AoT launched. Time is a flat circle.

We thought Kittens in SF would be launched by now, so we set up a launch sale. It's not.

Here's the launch sale anyway.

The Army games are on sale for this May 4th.

As well as other dates in May.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1824590/Furry_Shakespeare_Two_Incredibly_Ripped_Absolutely_Shredded_Noble_Kinsmen

Out now.

This month
Two Incredibly Ripped, Absolutely Shredded Noble Kinsmen comes out on Thursday!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1824590/Furry_Shakespeare_Two_Incredibly_Ripped_Absolutely_Shredded_Noble_Kinsmen

Coming soon
Due to an upcoming unforseen surgery, Army of Tentacles 2 and Unannounced Dating Sim-VN RPG have been moved from October to December. Which sucks because Halloween season was the perfect time for both, but whatever. That's life.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_2

We have a replacement Halloween game that we're kicking around.

Kittens in SF is still scheduled for June-issssssssssssssssh, but that also depends on recovery.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727200/Kittens_in_PostApocalyptic_Fantasy_San_Francisco_Battle_School_for_Only_the_Most_Awesome_Monsters

We'll be announcing 2023 probably starting in August. We're in production of our first NON-VISUAL NOVEL. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727200/Kittens_in_PostApocalyptic_Fantasy_San_Francisco_Battle_School_for_Only_the_Most_Awesome_Monsters
This is possibly our weirdest Shakespeare adaptation yet.

It's Othello. But it's also set in a world of monster fighting. Also: collecting. So, monster fighting and collecting. You do both.

This is our first game with a new main gameplay mechanic in six years that's not just choice menu based. It was scary. Hopefully, you all like it. Because we plan on using it for the next few titles.

We've been waiting to show off some of these art assets for years. That's how game dev works sometimes. None of these were originally supposed to be mashed together, but you can't argue with the result.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1824590/Furry_Shakespeare_Two_Incredibly_Ripped_Totally_Shredded_Noble_Kinsmen[img]

We were thinking about this for November, but that thing we were clearing the board for won't be done until April, annnnnnnnd we just got in a battle system for an unannounced game that we are {i}very happy with{/i}, plus we want to give the post-summer RPGs room to breathe....

So. Kinsmen is gonna be our game for Renpy Month, and then we'll work on the final three.

It's a narrative and choice based politics sim. We almost backburnered it because of the crap that is happening in the world. It takes place in the old school Elsinore Academy, but we felt the gameplay was different enough from the past Elsinore Academy games to warrant it.

To celebrate Furries & Scalies & Scarecrows launching, the first two games in the trilogy are on sale.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152200/Furry_Shakespeare_Loves_Lizards_Lost

This marks the last of our pre-summer games.

Probably. Maybe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1811920/Planetkillerz_death_of_a_world_in_five_acts

I rather do like this whole "adapting games of old plays" gig.

Here it is. I'm going back to sleep.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1800080/Furries__Scalies__Scarecrows_OH_MY

Was going to wait until the sale is over, but then again, February is absolutely packed with releases. Thought it best to release now.

Much like Joe Papp (okay, EXACTLY like The Ghost of Joe Papp), this also was a play written in college. I decided to adapt it as a game because it felt like material that I wanted to revisit given I had just received some really horrible news. It helped me process the stuff that I was feeling inside, and the game itself goes over topics like death, religion, and mass planetary extinction events.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1811920/Planetkillerz_death_of_a_world_in_five_acts

If you or anyone you know is approached by anyone from Stegalosaurus claiming to be a part of a Counter-Strike tournament, do not click the link.

It is a scam.

I mean, we wouldn't be in a CS tourney anyway, but not everyone would know that.

This also goes for, I guess, anyone in general. If you get a random, out-of-the-blue message about CS GO, don't fall for it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_2

We've updated the Army 2 store page. Changed the name of the game as to avoid super confusion. Does this mean we're no longer doing the other Army of Tentacles game?

Well, for that, you'll have to wait and see, but we figured out how to make it so both Army 2 and our other Furry Shakespeare RPG build up to a final AoT game (in the main storyline, I guess). We're very excited.

Happy new year!

Happy new year's eve!

Stay safe out there tonight. There are gonna be a lot of drunk drivers. Do not be one of them.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1806200/Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2021

Happy holidays, everyone!
Merry Christmas to those that celebrate!

We'll be rolling out store pages for the 2022 crop soon, but here's a preview of our intended releases:

1. Another adaptation of a play I wrote in college, much in the same vein as Ghost of Joe Papp. Expect it Early February/Late January.

2. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1800080/Furries__Scalies__Scarecrows_OH_MY
Launching right before our 6th year of being in business/not going out of business.

3. A Furry Shakespeare RPG with a fun new combat mechanic. Late May.

4.


Six years and the third game later, behold the second game in the Army of Tentacles trilogy. Taking place parallel to the events of the first two games, you are thrust into the role of the B Team - the misfits responsible for ending the world if Perry and their crew failed to do so.

October.

5. A Furry Shakespeare Election Sim just in time for the November USA elections.

So, two RPGs and a few dating sims.

Dino Simulator 2021 goes live on Xmas Eve! We have a new crop of games to announce shortly after!

Thanksgiving is over.
You know what that means.

It's the official Steam Autumn Sale! Go, go, go! But that's not all....

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1800080/Furries__Scalies__Scarecrows_OH_MY
Up first in for our 2022 slate is the third Furries & Scalies & Bears game. It's going to be a semi-return to form, as Furries & Bears 2 was a massive departure from the gameplay department of Furries & Bears 1. There's a bit of farming. It'll be a thing. Still VN format.

We plan on four games in 2022, as opposed to the slew of context that has been put out in 2020-2021.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585450/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls
Sometime this week. Expect Wednesday but bunker up for Thursday.

No idea what 'bunker up' means. I assume it is related to 'It's Happening'.

Spoopy Cat Girls!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585450/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls
The spooky cat girls have been submitted for approval of the Midnight Society/Valve. Depending on when the game ultimately gets the green light to release, it could be before USA Thanksgiving (the 25th) or directly after, in early December. It could be as early as late next week.

Milestone silly old game!



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1806200/Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2021
We set an end-of-the-year milestone for ourselves, and we just completely blasted through it with the Halloween sale.

So here is your dinosaur game.

Well, not here *now. Here later.

19 products on sale! Count'em! 19! Ah ha ha!

From 15% off to 82% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512610/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Part_II
Up next:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585450/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152200/Furry_Shakespeare_Loves_Lizards_Lost

If we hit a specific total games sold goal by or before the end of the year, we've decided that we're going to produce a special goofy game for y'all. It will involve dinosaurs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512610/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Part_II

After that.........

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585450/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls

Also, maybe, depending on where it is..............

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152200/Furry_Shakespeare_Loves_Lizards_Lost

We have added a fancy new biz Twitter to our dev page on Steam. Follow us for all the sporadic game updates you can handle!

Halloween is the best.
I can't find candy in stores anymore. It's not even October.

Doing things isn't easy.
Video games are hard, as someone once said I forget who, but it's an actual quote. I think it may be from an executive. I dunno.

Being a niche indie company is hard.

Hired a new writer for Spooky Cat Girls?'s classroom scenes when it became clear that it would not make a reasonable launch date for October. It was either launch directly before the Halloween sale (and this was hoping Valve would accept the final build on the first submission, never something a designer should bet on) or delay it, and we chose to delay it. We feel December also fits in with the theme of the chosen play.

Super Army of Tentacles has always been my baby, but it's gone through so many changes, due to gameplay as well as personal reasons, that I feel a disconnect with it. Rather than make a tentpole game that I do not want to make, I handed it off to another team member for a 2023 release. This would be the first Army of Tentacles game not helmed by me, which is exciting as I 100% trust my team and think it is time that we all grow in that fashion. We've been alive almost five-point-something years now.

In the place of Super Army of Tentacles, I plan on making a new, full VN-RPG Army of Tentacles game. I feel much more confident about this one, and it will launch at the same time that Super Army 2022 would have. That will be announced soon, maybe with the other 2022 games. Maybe not. Who knows.

Making games is hard.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585460/Furry_Shakespeare_Oops_All_Dragons
Only two more games to go this year. Maybe a few Halloween surprises.

This is a sort of sequel to Sexy Centaurs in the same way Emperor Penguin Lear was.

Moved all the Joe Papp games into the Paper Shakespeare bundle, and now they make up two more Merchant of Venice games in the list of Shakespeare games we're making/have made.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512370/Furry_Shakespeare_Dreamin_of_One_Lazy_Dead_Midsummer
Out now.

This one is very near and dear to us, and to me, because it was an idea that I had been mulling around way back in the wee year of 2017. So it was important for us to put an idea together for Midsummer Night's Dream that resonated. The concept of the summer camp slasher movie seemed like a fantastic juxtaposition to the play's theme of young (and naive) love.

Next up: Oops! All Dragons! might be rearing its head for a late August launch, as the spine of that gameplay loop is already done.

We decided on this sale when it was looking like COVID was getting under control over here, and people would start returning to work in-person. I still remember last year, seeing the ads for Halloween stores that were opening and wondering "why the heck would people go to a store during a pandemic where they know for a fact that an entire body has touched the wares?".

Still. It's a magical time of the year where we get ready for the final three months of the year. Halloween Retail Season doesn't just mark the coming of the next big holiday, it marks the beginning of the end. So get out those wallets and celebrate the way Capitalism wants you to!

So, we're putting the finishing touches on Midsummer, and without going into the gory details, a large chunk of the gameplay was vaporized from existence: the weekly slasher competitions. We still have the endgame slasher segment, and we have changed the game's story to put focus on an endgame segment rather than multiple slasher sections. We feel this is important as an announcement because our store page used to have language directly implying multiple sections throughout the game.

The silver lining here is that we feel that the focus on a singular slasher section rather than multiple improves the general gameplay and story, as well as the "unique aspect" of such a section existing in the story itself. It was either that or delay the game for something that we now feel would have hurt the gameplay rather than added to it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1701430/Mythos_Ever_After_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_RX___Other_Soundtracks_from_2021
So, it's not only the soundtrack for Mythos RX, but for every single 2021 game as well! As long as it does not have a dedicated OST DLC of its own, it is in here!

There are even some from games that have yet to be released!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579950/Mythos_Ever_After_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_RX
Mythos Ever After: A Cthulhu Dating Sim RX is out today, on what would be the first day of a physical San Diego Comic-Con. My goal with this game was to make a short, inexpensive, and generally fun title that encompassed all of the "stuff" that normally goes on at an in-person pop arts convention.

Like Super Halloween Times, it does get a bit dark in places because some of the content is based on real stuff. You know, besides all of the monsters.

All data points to a 99-cent game selling, but like most of the stuff we do, it's an experiment. Of course, experimenting is hard to do when you're a small indie dev working on niche titles, but the risk on this particular title was pretty low. So we went for it.

Enjoy.

As well as a post-sale sale!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627740/SHAKESPEARE_More_like_THIRSTspeare_amirite

Thirstspeare is out now! Venture forth as you, a young indie dev, must make a video game adaptation of Shakespere's first play, Two Gentlemen of Verona!

It is less meta than it sounds.

The first of two small summer games. The next is Mythos Ever After RX, launching on the 20th, which is what would be the first day of San Diego Comic-Con, were it being physically held at the center this year.

Recently, we got a new web hosting service, and as such, have a new tech support e-mail:

support@stegalosaurus.com

Good news as well! We're now in the permanent new office, and as such, won't have to do the delays that we thought we were going to have to do!

We also are hard at work pre-planning the planning phase of the store pages for 2022's other two games, one of which is another RPG to go alongside Super Army of Tentacles. There's discussion on whether or not we should release the new RPG next to Super Army of Tentacles, and if we do that, SAoT will probably move to October. But there's also the fact that an unexpected expense means our plans for Said RPG could mean it is now 2023, and we would just continue chipping at our Shakespeare slate with smaller games.

Get it while it's hot. Also: wear sunscreen.

Yes, this would have worked so much better as a May 4th announcement. Missed that golden opportunity. Hey! Guess what? We're actually gonna stick to schedule this time!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585450/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585460/Furry_Shakespeare_Oops_All_Dragons

As well as two smaller games:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579950/Mythos_Ever_After_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_RX

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627740/SHAKESPEARE_More_like_THIRSTspeare_amirite

To celebrate the release of Furries & Bears 2, we're throwing a tiny sale for anthro creature games!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349170/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY_2_Return_to_Kale_Bay

So.
Dunno if this announcement is really warranted. Just want to let people know what is going on.

Super Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim has three main mechanics: skills/attributes, Word Battles, and Armies.

Well, it did. See, I started work on the project when things were.... let's say, different in the USA, and that, in turn, fueled the direction of the thing. We had already wanted to do something new with AoT 1's army mechanic, but do it better than the first game. Do it with all the game dev we had learned over the years since we've started. So I felt that my internal anger was a good fuel for said mechanic. Who doesn't love a good 'throw out the bad guys' story?

While the main story of the game is still 'the humans somehow occupied Monster Land', after recent events, I just don't feel good about a mechanic where you pre-meditatively build up militias to take over areas. We talked about this, and the bottom line is that we feel that even though the Army mechanic would have been solid, it would have taken away from the main gameplay loop of the first two games. Even though there was a final Invasion mechanic in the first game, the way you recruited your army was never the focal point. The focals were the Word Battles.

At the end of the day, real people make games, and we don't want to be making a game that we feel isn't up to snuff or is pushed in two different directions. This is the last in the trilogy for us. We know more now and want to do it right, as both a stand alone title and a series cap.

This also allows us to put greater focus on the idea of reactivity to your choices in the world's hubs. Which is cool.

I'm writing this because, even though it wasn't the selling point of the game or even showcased in screenshots or the trailer, it was in the initial store description and there were shots of it in the trailer and on the screenshot gallery. We've already updated the gallery, but will also be updating the trailer shortly.

This really doesn't affect the already delayed release date of 2022. If anything, it clarifies a release date. If anything, at max what it means is this will release post-summer 2022, but I honestly don't think that's a concern.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349170/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY_2_Return_to_Kale_Bay

We hope you enjoy the sequel. We thought it would be the last FASABOH!, but we have something in the back of our heads that itching. As always, depends on how well this one does.

This dev cycle was odd, as this sequel is not under the commission that the original was. It's entirely on our own. It was weird going back to a world that was, at the start, not entirely ours.

Meant to post this sooner, but I have been super sleepy thanks to the COVID shot. I am very glad that I got it, though. Furry Shakespeare has a DLC that is 20% off starting tomorrow, not today, and that was an error on our part.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1312380/Paper_Shakespeare_Very_Naked_Hamlet
It's here. The oddest game we've ever made, and probably the only of its kind. Unless it does well.

Four new animated stickers!

Live now in the Points Shop!

Paper Shakespeare: Very Naked Hamlet Release!
Next week, Very Naked Hamlet is releasing. Monday, March 8th, to be exact. A Valentine's Day release would have been swell, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Army of Tentacles 3 stickers!

We've submitted a set of four AoT 3 stickers for review, and we'll let you all know when those hit. If they do well, we'll be doing the same for AoT 1. These, sadly, will not be available for the Black GOAT Editions, as those are technically separate products.

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Time has flown. It seems like, just yesterday, we were making dating sims based off of the works of William Shakespeare and RPGs out of Lovecraft lore. Old team members left, new team members joined, and we've just generally had a blast making small, weird games for y'all. We're working hard at getting back to more medium-sized RPG/Viz Novel hybrids, and that's sort of what is on the docket to talk about in this news announcement.

Due to reasons that we won't be going into, the main office is going to be moving twice this year. Because of this, as well as other factors revolving around Super Army of Tentacles' assets, we will be moving it to early 2022. We wanted February 15th, as that is the release date of the first AoT, but alas, that also presumably would fall within the range of the 2022 Lunar New Year Sale (maybe not, as LNY 2022 is Feb. 1st).

So, rather than release after Halloween 2021, straight in the middle of the Three Sale Gauntlet (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Winter), which would be an extremely uncertain launch window, we're going to delay Super Army of Tentacles and push up everything else.

Starting with....
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1312380/Paper_Shakespeare_Very_Naked_Hamlet
This game came to us from one of the newer team members, and in the spirit of trying new things, and because we're huge theater geeks if you couldn't tell, we're doing an adults only Shakespeare VN. We write words that are big and adult. But you have to know Hamlet in order to see them.

New Release Date: Late February - March 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349170/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY_2_Return_to_Kale_Bay
Pushed up because Super AoT is no longer a huge concern this year.

New Release Date: April - May 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512610/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Part_II
New Release Date: June 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512370/Furry_Shakespeare_Dreamin_of_One_Lazy_Dead_Midsummer
Guess who has the coveted Friday the 13th date?

New Release Date: August 13th, 2021


The direct sequel to Furry Shakespeare: To Date or Not To Date Cat Girls?. Direct in pretty much the same way Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date? 2 was. It takes Super Army of Tentacles' spot.

The play it adapts will be As You Like It.

New Release Date: October 2021


The play it adapts will be Twelfth Night.

Someone forgot to include Furries in this one.

New Release Date: Late 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152200/Furry_Shakespeare_Loves_Lizards_Lost
The play it adapts will be Love's Labour's Won, which is a supposed sequel to Love's Labour's Lost.

New Release Date: Late 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Super_Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim
New Release Date: Early 2022

You know, when you're moving cross-country and you have horrible internet that won't be fixed for a few days, and the office is a mess, and you have little contact with the rest of the team, things happen.

Things like not realizing the Steam sale started this morning and you just figured it out via a combination of checking your phone messages and looking on Twitter to see that Steam is trending.

I imagine Ted Lasso giving that speech. Maybe over darts.

Okay, so, brass tacks:

The 2020 Steam Lunar New Year Sale is on now until it's not! Then, when THAT sale is done, boy oh boy oh golly, do we have a surprise for you that's not actually a surprise at all! Our Happy Five Years of Not Going Out Of Business Sale is hitting! Most of our games are on sale this month, including some of our 2019 lot! But not the back half of 2020.

We made.... a lot of stuff in 2020. That was a rush. We have two more Furry Shakespeare games to announce for the back half of 2021, but those announcements will either be around August or September, if those two games don't slip to Early 2022.

We would like to wish everyone a happy Lunar New Year.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512370/Furry_Shakespeare_Dreamin_of_One_Lazy_Dead_Midsummer

Midsummer has been a play that we've wanted to adapt for years. It started out as a "lol this is the perfect dating sim" idea, then sort of merged with the fact that everyone that gets together in camp movies dies by the hands of an iconic movie slasher. Figuring out how to make a game about slashers without really making it a game about flat-out murder was tough, so we sort of went in a Cabin in the Woods angle with it.

Also: is that a new UI for a Paper Shakespeare game? Will wonders never cease?


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512610/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Part_II/

This time with 10000% more Christmas. Building upon the mechanics of the first game, and expanding them, this sequel should be perfect for anyone that sees a Christmas commercial on October 31st and goes "why?".

aaaaaaaaaaaandddddddddd.....


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Super_Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim
Super Army of Tentacles just got a brand new trailer!

Won't adding new games affect the other titles?
Just be glad that every new idea that pops into our heads is not being added.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510940/Paper_Shakespeare_Stick_Merchant_of_Venice_Furry_Mode

So, Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice is getting a new DLC with new art and a new frame to the text of the play. It's going to be the same text of the play, and you will still have the options of choosing Modern or Shakesperian versions of said text.

We thought about making a new game, Furries of Venice, and we also thought about Furry alt outfit DLC for Joe Papp 2 (since it would 100% work in context of that game). But we ultimately decided to experiment and see if the stick figure games retain audience.

It will drop about the same time we announce the first of the three new 2021 games. It will be the same price as the base game.

We do hope that you all have a good end to the year.

We apologize for the error in the discount sale where we put down 75% for the Army 3 GOAT, but somehow, we only wrote down 15% when inputting the actual discount data on our end. This is something that should not have even been an "easy error to make", and we will be reviewing all of our discounts more closely in the future, sometimes even multiple times leading up to a sale.

We once again apologize for the inconvenience.

There was an error with Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY! going on sale late, so it will join the last discount sale of the year tomorrow, and it will go until the 22nd.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/947080/The_Ghost_of_Joe_Papp_101_Ways_To_Kill_Writers_Block

The sequel/rewrite to Ghost of Joe Papp is out now! This is perhaps our most meta-game yet.... as it's literally about writing a game/play. Co-written by K. Teagan Clark, this sequel/rewrite of The Ghost of Joe Papp, a 2017 release adapted from a college play, was both super fun to do and super frustrating. Hopefully, that frustration is fun to play through.

I started this project to see if I still had a playwright in me, and to try to evolve the main story from where it was in 2017 while still keeping the core intact.

The next game, and the first game of 2021, should be announced in early January, and is co-written by my sister. It is the Midsummer Night's Dream adaptation in our mad quest to adapt every single Shakespeare play to video game format.

Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY! 2 has been moved so that it is launching either closer to or directly after Super Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim.



One half of the reasoning behind this is because we wanted to give it more time to cook, and we had a much clearer vision for the two Furry Shakespeare games that were going to be our post-Army of Tentacles Winter 2021 games.

One of which is To Date or Not to Date Cat Girls? 2. The other is one that we had been talking about since 2016 and are all very excited about. We just didn't know what it was until now. We couldn't see it.

As these are games for an investor, we wanted to knock them out as soon and efficiently as possible while still launching good games. It's also that the Furry/Paper Shakespeare series has generally been more profitable than Furries & Scalies, so that's another reason. Had we all the time and money in the world, all three would be coming out before summer 2021, but that workload would eventually hurt Army of Tentacles 2021. Yes, one could bring up the claim that having an investor has affected us, but only in the sense of what products come first (and that honestly is the ideal situation). We're still making what we want to make next year. We still have creative freedom.

From everyone here at the office to all of you, have a very happy end of the year. Stay safe. Wear a mask. Have lots of Zoom parties with friends and family.

New graphical art update to Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim as well as the GOAT Edition!

Other patch notes:

- Added names to credits page
- Altered hub menus

Will break saves.

Go hog wild. Absolutely nuts.

Happy Halloween!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431470/Mythos_Ever_After_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1414170/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_2_USA_Election_2020_Swimsuit_Edition

Both just in time for Halloween, and our first new Army of Tentacles game since 2017!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/476560/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_Updated_Graphical_Tomfoolery/

Wow, is this really an updated background pack for 2016's award winning classic, Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim? You bet your bottom dollar it is! Wait, it didn't win any awards? Make up some in your mind! Imagination is fun!

This pack will replace all existing background assets for the base game. The GOAT Edition will receive this as a free DLC, rather than a patch update.

Altered pathcode to a few screens

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Super_Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim
What is it?
Behold! The final entry in the main Army of Tentacles series, which can be played as either a sequel to Super Army of Tentacles 3, or as a standalone title entirely! The title was almost going to be Army of Tentacles 2, but we thought that a fresh coat of paint was the best route. The title we landed on is an amalgamation of the first two games.

Will there be a GOAT Edition and/or Cheat Mode?
No.

How standalone a title is it?
There are going to be things that definitely resonate with and will have different meanings for returning players, but the story is written with new players in mind. It 100% works as a sequel, but is written more like a parallel story to the main storyline that the first two games established, if that makes sense. You won't need to know who this is or why that is going on.

2021 Games
With that, 2021's titles are pretty much announced. It was honestly just going to be Super Army next year, but then Hamlet and Furries/Bears 2 slipped. We might do a Halloween game, but other than that, this is the lineup.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431470/Mythos_Ever_After_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim

What's this? A new Army of Tentacles game? Without any RPG elements? Just a straight dating sim? Are the GODS THEMSELVES JUST AND WISE?

Well, here it is. Just in time for North American Halloween.

A note on release dates changing to 2021
A few of our smaller games, plus Furries/Bears 2, have changed to 2021. This isn't due to the sudden addition of Mythos Ever After: A Cthulhu Dating Sim, but rather, because our artists and writers need more time, and we need further assets that we didn't really account for in the budget. We figured that, if the games are delayed anyway, they might as well be clear off the current foreseeable (or at least further off than, say, January) release schedule.

And launching today....
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177650/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date_2

We also might try for a small Cthulhu dating sim for Halloween. Set in the Army of Tentacles universe.


It is makes Halloween, great. If not.... Christmas?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/828760/Paper_Shakespeare_The_Legend_of_Rainbow_Hollow

I always wanted to do a self-drawn game, as well as an adventure point-and-click. Hand drawn as quick sketches, then scanned into the computer, and then re-done in the computer paint programs, this one was an experience. Not sure it's an experience I'd do again, but I'm glad that it finished.

It also was the first try at a real puzzle game, and as such, I am super interested in hearing what works and what doesn't.

The Shakespeare play that it is very thinly based on is actually five: the five "Problem Plays" of the Bard's portfolio, and it also kind of ties all of the past Stick Figure Paper Shakespeare games together.

The game uses a new, more simplistic version of Army of Tentacles' Argument System, for a combo of puzzles and word battles. We might be using this in the future, but with a version that is a bit more buffed up.

So, enjoy.

CHANGED: The code for for Cheat Mode works

Ring in the start of the virtual school year with low, low prices.

Announcing the final 2020 games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349170/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY_2_Return_to_Kale_Bay

Sequel to the first Furries/Bears, but can 100% be played as a stand-alone story.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1312380/Paper_Shakespeare_Very_Naked_Hamlet/

A silly little game where you need to know the entirety of Hamlet. It's like those learning to spell good games, but with sexytimes and Shakespeare. It was also a big back-and-forth for us, as it has text-based sex scenes baked in that go further than we've gone in a base game.

Release date changes
Paper Shakes: Date? 2 is going to launch sooner, as Furries/Bears 2 has taken priority as our late year game. This doesn't mean that it will be less of a game. We always were going for a November release date as a "LOL it's a stress-free election game during a real election", but realized that it doesn't really matter if it comes out then or not. Plus, I had an urge to deep dive into it.

Paper Shakespeare: Lizards is now 2021 due to various stressful factors that this year has brought to the team. It's a rather odd change, because it's a smaller game, but we feel that we do not want to push the issue and make it a rushed and stressed work environment for people.

ALTERED: Species names

Okay, so here's the deal:

The Army of Tentacles 1 remaster is hitting some snags. The easiest to work on right now is that it is getting way too big file size-wise - bigger than the original size by far. So I don't think it is fair to drastically change the file size for an existing userbase. Which leaves the project with three options:

1) Release it as a separate, free DLC instead of a free patch
But, if we're going to do this, we would have to throw in the new backgrounds as well (since there's absolutely no point in having DLC for DLC), and by then, we'd basically be selling the same game as a paid DLC. Which, while it is not unprecedented for a DLC to overhaul a base game's mechanics, it wouldn't serve the original purpose of the remasters, which was for every pre-exisiting and future user to have a retooled game.

2) Only upgrade the resolution
This way, we'd still be able to sell the new backgrounds as an "HD 4K OMG LOLLERS" DLC for those that want a bit more of the game's backgrounds but still like the base game.

But that would potentially still increase the base game file size for existing users.

3) Make a new Army of Tentacles game entirely, scrap the upgrade patches altogether
Obviously, if this happened, it would probably be the same price as the original game ($4.99) and use the art from either AoT 3 or [OTHER SECRET IN-UNIVERSE PROJECTS].

While this would be the easiest option, as of now, it's not the most ideal for us.

[h2]Going forward...[/h2]
No idea what we are going to do yet, but we will let you know when we do have one.

Plus, check out all of our 2020 games and DLC!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1112230/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283060/Furry_Shakespeare_Emperor_Penguin_Lear
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082700/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1106950/Furries__Scalies_Friendswood
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349180/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY_NSFW_for_Charity
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085960/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_Oedipus_TRex

Upcoming games....
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177650/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date_2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/947080/The_Ghost_of_Joe_Papp_101_Ways_To_Kill_Writers_Block
https://store.steampowered.com/app/828760/Paper_Shakespeare_The_Legend_of_Rainbow_Hollow

[h3]Army of Tentacle Free Upgrade Patch[/h3]
The base template for the new Argument System is done. You should be able to see it in the upcoming Rainbow Hollow game. Skills are not in.

The majority of the work (all the new elements) won't be done until all of the 2020 games are pretty much polished up.

Would like to get AoT 1's patch out before the end of the year. AoT 3 will take a bit more work, considering it is the bigger game of the two.

[h3]Army of Tentacles 1 Paid GFX DLC[/h3]
Will be retroactively made the base for AoT 1: GOAT.

Here are some previews of the new backgrounds, from our artist, Raka TB:




The DLC will most likely launch alongside the free upgrade patch.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1112230/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times

This one was weird for me. Yeah, it's anthro animals and dragons, yes, there are still remnants of the dating sim formula that has worked well for us, but it's also filled with real stuff that happened to both Amber and myself working the past decade for retail. A majority of that, for me, was in this or that Halloween seasonal store.

So there's content in it. Just to tell you know.

Anyhow. We have a few more unannounced games to announce, which are smaller and we feel easier to "pump out" alongside our bigger lineup that we feel we can get done by the year's end - Joe Papp 2, Rainbow Hollow, Paper Shakespeare: To Date or Not To Date 2, and Lizards Lost.

Also: stay inside if you can. We're nowhere near the end of this virus junk.

June 1st, 2020 - June 14th, 2020

There's no fancy graphic here. We just moved, and timezones are fun on your biology.

Army of Tentacles 1
Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2
Army of Tentacles 1: GOAT
Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2: GOAT
The Ghost of Joe Papp
Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us
Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY!
Furry Shakespeare: To Date or Not To Date Cat Girls?
Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs

All at various discount.

Oh, and:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1112230/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times
Coming sometime in the next few weeks.

ALTERED: Sound files

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283060/Furry_Shakespeare_Emperor_Penguin_Lear

Work has begun on updating the entire codebase of both Army games to fit in with where things stand now. "Where things stand now" means two things:

1) Where the company stands/how far we've come
2) So that past Army of Tentacles framework/quality matches up with new additions to the franchise

When we started out in 2016, we didn't quite know everything there is about game development. We still don't. We made mistakes, both financial and judgmental. Some big, some small. We know better coding tricks now, and we are more equipped to deal with the makings of a game. I think that anyone that has followed us over the past four and a half years has seen that we've grown as developers.

We can't promise the Army 1 and Army 3 remasters - of which both would be free patches - this year. We have a bit on our plate, but it is also clearing up rather quickly.

While we would love to have both patches hit in unison, Army 1 will probably hit first. There will most likely be a paid graphical upgrade DLC for Army 1 that will come sometime after the actual patch. Possibly. It all depends on if it seems worth it or not.

What to expect in both games:

Army of Tentacles 1
- New resolution (1920x1080)
- Completely reworked code base
- New UI
- New attribute and leveling system
- New shop/quest system
- Completely reworked Army system
- New party skill system
- New Argument system

Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2
- New map screen
- Completely reworked code base
- New UI
- New attribute and leveling system
- New shop/quest system
- Completely reworked Army system
- New party skill system
- New Argument system

These will, of course, break any current saves. It is being coded as to save currently popped achievements. Work has already begun on the UI.

Have a nice day/night/timezone.

Uploaded all new builds for every game.
Misc. tinkering with their folders.

So, William Shakespeare supposedly wrote King Lear during a plague.
Well, now you get the Furry version:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283060/Furry_Shakespeare_Emperor_Penguin_Lear
With this game, I tried to combined the Furry Shakespeare: Cat Girls? and Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs mechanics.

A note about sales:
None of the 2020 games will be on discount for the Summer, Winter, Autumn, or Halloween sales. If you want to wait for a sale, that's cool; just know that none of the 2020 games (past or future) will be on sale this year.

April Fool's Sale!

April 2nd - 16th

Joe Papp
Inexplicable Geeks
Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs
Furruies & Scalies & Bears OH MY!
Army 3: GOAT

You'd think that self-isolation would be great for an indie dev, right?
Forced to be inside?

Well, yes and no. More no than yes.

Release dates are all sorts of wacky right now. Halloween Times is going to hit its mark, but Rainbow Hollow may slip. I recently moved to Boston, and as such, have not been able to fully focus on game development. I'm taking a few days for myself until my work computer arrives late this week. Even then, I'm all out of sorts and discombobulated from both being in a new city, and not being able to get my bearings because of COVID-19 and the mess it caused. Oh, and I feel like I'm getting sick. No, not COVID symptoms, more like weird stomach stuff.

I've got a schedule, but it is pretty tight, and when push comes to shove, it doesn't look good for the experiment known as Rainbow Hollow getting out anytime soon. I'm much more confident of getting Halloween Times out before summer, and even then, it is going to miss April completely for a May launch. Maybe. We'll see.

In the coming weeks, we'll be putting up a poll and a forum thread about what people liked and disliked about the first two Army of Tentacles games. Take into mind that we would be revamping the quest, inventory, and attribute/stat systems regardless of comments and criticism.

Stay safe out there.

Sale this week:

Army 1
Army 3 Black GOAT
Assorted DLC

Until next week.

UPDATE ON THE REMASTERINGS: I'm still 50/50 on redoing the first two games in the framework of a future Army title (or even just in general), but if there is a future Army game, that probably will jump to a greater number.

FIXED/ALTERED: Images

This has been an interesting first two months for us.

First, Dragongate becomes Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date? 2, then Paper Shakespeare RPG gets revamped into Paper Shakespeare: The Legend of Rainbow Hollow. It's been a lot of Paper Shakespeare shenanigans.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177650/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date_2
Now, PS:TDONTD?2 (Or just PS: Date 2) has undergone a massive art overhaul, with the previous art moving to a different game that we hope to announce sometime in December. There's a new trailer, too.

Also, until the 6th, there's a Steam Visual Novel sale going on.

A few reasons for the name change.

'RPG' was a fun title to give the game, and the new Argument System worked incredibly well with the Paper Shakespeare universe, but at the end of the day, we just couldn't figure out how to make it all fit together perfectly. We wanted stats and abilities that we weren't sure worked. We wanted an item and money system when we didn't have a working stat system.

We saw that we already had a "point-and-click" puzzle mechanic in place, so we decided to streamline things and make the puzzles the star gameplay mechanic. So we had to ditch the 'RPG' in the title as to avoid confusion and potential anger.



The game also went from a fun little side project, to something that we ripped our hairs out thinking about programming. Other things came up, other investors bought into our visions of sugar plums and whatnot. Suddenly, we didn't have time for the side project.

With this simplified version of the game, we can get it done and put it out into the world as something fully baked. Not half-baked.

We fully intent to come back to a Paper Shakespeare RPG in the future, but only when it can be done right, and have more of our attention.

Expect a new trailer to be on the store page soon.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/828760/Paper_Shakespeare_The_Legend_of_Rainbow_Hollow/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082700/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date/

Also: the previous two games in the Elsinore Academy trilogy are on sale for Dino Shakes' launch!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/702940/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/947060/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls/

The Army of Tentacles series

This finalizes setting up all our games in the new version of Ren'Py, plus moving around our flag files.

Starting at 10am.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1112230/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times

Announcing our last(?) game of 2020 (probably not, but right now, there's really nothing on the docket).

Sort of kind of based on my time working Halloween stores for the past decade (but not really), but.... you know.... with talking animals and dragons.

Oh, and Kaiju.

Piggybacking off Friendswood's management gameplay, we're hoping to have a more robust system in place. It won't be a full-on management sim, but it will be cool as ice. But cooler than Vanilla Ice's 1991 masterpiece, Cool As Ice.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1106950/Furries__Scalies_Friendswood/
It's out early.

I know that release dates have been timey-wimey lately, and we're going to get better at that. An idea is just to not give a release date at all, just a release month.

New RenPy updates
Next week, we'll be systematically patching all our games again with the new engine updates. Nothing major.

LUNAR NEW YEARS SALE
STEAM'S LUNAR NEW YEAR SALE! NOW UNTIL JAN. 27th!

Another official Steam Sale? Already? Okay, uh, sure, I guess.....

FURRY SHAKESPEARE: 10% OFF
DASHING DINOSAURS & SEXY CENTAURS: 10% OFF
FURRIES & SCALIES & BEARS OH MY!: 10% OFF
VARIOUS ARMY OF TENTACLES GAMES: 10 - 70% OFF!

Pre-Summer 2020 Games
Just a reminder of our products line for pre-summer 2020:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1106950/Furries__Scalies_Friendswood
Friendswood is set to come out early February.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082700/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date
This one has been hard to crack. How do you end a trilogy, let alone one that is about dating sims? I rewrote the structure to this one, primarily because I was getting too angry and cynical about what this game is a metaphor for: climate change. It's a very different game in tone from our previous dating sims. We do hope you enjoy it. It's still the same style game, but it's also a bit different.

Our third, unannounced game....

We'll most likely be putting up the store page for this bad mamma-jamma after Friendswood launches.

For a variety of reasons, Dragongate's name is now changing to....

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177650/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date_2/

We feel that this name better suits the content of the game as it has evolved in the development cycle, as well as where it fits in the Paper Shakespeare timeline.

We will be changing the rest of the storefront in the coming days, with new screenshots and a new trailer that reflect where the game now sits.

It is still the game that we set out to make in Dragongate and it is still the game that you wishlisted, so don't be worried about that.

We cannot wait to show more.

Oh, and there should be more game announcements for the rest of 2020 *nervously looks at calendar* end of neeeeeeeeeeeeext weeeeeeeeeeek? Don't hold us to that.

We're sprucing up the audio on all of our games. Taking out some artifacts.

Also.
Happy holidays from all of us to all of you.

Well, actually, it ends on January 2nd.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152210/Dashing_Dinosaurs__Sexy_Centaurs_Winters_Tale
Our first(?) free game is out! I had the hankering to make a holiday game while waiting for 2020 art assets, and so here we are. Using mostly pre-existing assets, it was a learning experience. Mainly, if I were to do a free game again, it would be less characters.

It primarily utilizes the format set up in Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs, but with more of an evolved gameplay set-up.

With that, our 2019 product list is all but done, except for the Furry Shakespeare DLC out sometime next week. Just in time for Friday the 13th.

Speaking of 2020 art assets...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177650/Dragongate_The_Fantasy_ElectionDating_Sim
This one was going to be announced with another game, but it was felt that Dragongate should breath on its own.

One day, you all will get fancy graphic sales JPGs again.

Today is not that day.

Also, some game announcements next week with the release of Winter's Tale and the final Furry Shakespeare DLC.

On sale today:



Army of Tentacles Franchise

11/1/2019 - 11/11/2019

• CHANGED: Location of DLC flags
  
• CHANGED: Location of quest flags as so they do not pop during inappropriate dialogue choices
  

We at the office have been working on the new foundation code for Super Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim, and are so happy with its progress that we have decided to tear out the combat system for Paper Shakespeare RPG and replace it with the new update to the Army of Tentacles series' Argument System. Honestly? It works better with the theme of the game, and means that we can get it out sooner.

We are still hard at work on a combat system for a later RPG.

What will be included in the new system?
A much more code-friendly system means that stats will greatly affect the word battles, as well as giving us the the opportunity to make much cooler skills that affect the battles in much deeper ways.

Will you be putting Argument System 3.0 in the previous two Army of Tentacles games? Say, before the new Army of Tentacles comes out?
I would love to say yes. Let's get into why it might not happen, or might take a while to happen.

Because of the way the original Utahraptor framework (the thing that holds all our systems together in RenPy) was written, it would require a complete code overhaul, and that means an overhaul of two separate games. In that case, we're basically redoing Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim and Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2 from the ground up.

Even with an existing script to work off of, we're also talking all of the DLC, the works. Everything would be redone. Every scene, every quest, every Argument, every mechanic. Then we'd need to actually take the copy-pasted Argument System 3.0 and make sure it would have the things required for that specific game.

We're also talking about doing this at no cost to the user, just a simple, free patch. Sadly, we have to weigh that in as a factor, as we do have other games on the slate. We're talking about a 2016 game and a 2017 game, after all. Would we improve the art and resolution for Army 1, to put it in line with the other two games in the trilogy? Would we do art but just leave the resolution the same?

Is it unfair to any new or existing players to leave Army 1 and Army 3 as is if the new one is going to be, for lack of any other term, badass?

The Summary
Paper Shakespeare RPG is getting a cooler combat system. Dunno yet if the previous Army of Tentacles game will get a facelift.

We're very excited to show you the next step.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/947070/Dashing_Dinosaurs__Sexy_Centaurs

Around Early January/Late December, we'll formally announce the rest of our 2020 games. We're finally getting Mythos Ever After: A Cthulhu Dating Sim done up, and have a new investor for two new Furry/Scalie dating sims.

This is the reason why we shifted PS RPG to 2021, but we'll talk about that more down below....

RPGs in 2021

We're going back to our roots for 2021, and announcing a new VN-RPG hybrid. Two, actually. With Paper Shakespeare RPG, that rounds it out to three.

We are currently developing the systems that they will work off, and basically scrapped what we had so far for PS RPG in order to make something that could work peacefully with two of the three games.

Why two of the three? Well, because two are traditional RPG combat, and one is combat via conversation.



Yes, we're finally getting around to the third and final chapter in our current (and very weird) Army of Tentacles trilogy. We won't be formally announcing with a store page until next year.

It is going to be a standalone game that doesn't need the first two in order to feel complete, and yet will act as a sequel and final entry in the trilogy to those that have played the games before.

So, next year is gonna be three Furry/Scalie Dating Sims and then Joe Papp to round it out. 2021 is in development, but not active production.

We look forward to sharing more about all our upcoming projects soon!

Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs: August 28th.
Why?: Game is done and in full run testing right now. An October release date was originally set because of all the obstacles this year, but we are fairly confident that we can release late next month.

Paper Shakespeare RPG: Unknown.
Why?: We can talk about why this was changed early next year (possibly, if not sooner). Originally, this was meant to be just another small Stick Figure Shakespeare game with "traditional" combat elements, but we may be doing something else next year that has taken its place.

PATCH v1.94

- ADDED: New library files for the updated version of RenPy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082700/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date
The final game in the Elsinore Academy Dating Trilogy!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082760/Paper_Shakespeare_Modern_Warfare
Why another Stick Figure game? Because one day, we were reading a quote about how only Call of Duty could tell gritty war stories in video game format. So here's a gritty war story in stick figure video game format.

Gritty may not be the right word.

PATCH v1.93

• ALTERED: Pathcode, main script file
  
• ADDED: Segmented code files up
  

Summer Sale 2019

Begins at 10am PST.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/828760/Paper_Shakespeare_RPG_Saga_of_the_Five_Kingdoms

Hopefully/probably not our only RPG in development for next year, but certainly our most experimental. It feels good to be going back to the role playing game genre again.

Why hand-drawn? Because.
Well, really, because it continues the storyline that we set up with the very first Paper Shakespeare, but more importantly, [spoilers]. We wanted to fully explore the stick figure version of the Shakespeare dimensions that inhabit the universe that both Paper Shakespeare and Army of Tentacles reside in.

It'll most likely be $4.99, with no real set release date yet.

As of this morning, we are no longer selling the QUEST and OUTFIT packs.

It did not make any sense to continue selling them as individual DLCs after Black GOAT had come out. We initially were selling them alongside Black GOAT for customers who might only want those specific DLCs bundled together, but the amount of copies sold were very little. So, in an effort to cut down on our number of products (specifically DLC since we do know that we have a lot and some people may be put off by that), we asked Valve to retire those two products.

This does not impact anyone who already has them in their library.

Announcing the final(?) two games of 2019, since Mythos Ever After is up in the air at this point. A lot of stuff has been going on with that one, and right now, it's coming down to just how long we want to wait for the artist we want to be free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/947080/The_Ghost_of_Joe_Papp_101_Ways_To_Kill_Writers_Block

Finally getting around to the Ghost of Joe Papp rewrite. This one is going to be a lot more interactive, and with an emphasis on actor management.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/947070/Dashing_Dinosaurs__Sexy_Centaurs

An adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, but with dinosaurs and stuff. It's also another theater game.

PATCH v1.92

• ALTERED: Menu images
  
• ALTERED: Scope of Ogid New's ability
  
• ALTERED: Heal code
  

ALTERED: Enemy flags

https://store.steampowered.com/app/947060/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls/

You thought that it couldn't be done. The immortal works of William Shakespeare together at last with Furries.

Not really a sequel to Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date? as much as a side adventure in a different Shakespeare dimension.

2019 Plans

We had some plans for this year that got derailed, so without going too much into it, we're going to be doing pretty much what we did last year with some smaller products.

This is....

The Year of the Furry Shakespeare Dating Sim/Other Genre Game.

Expect a few other announcements next month, plus a few Paper Shakespeare games.

I would have liked to announce our next two games together, but the other one is taking some time to cook before we put up a store page.

ALTERED: Font names

FIXED: Typos in currency flags

The Lunar New Years Sale

You know the drill.
Everything is discounted.

Now excuse me as I copy-paste this to every single one of our games.

Starts at 10am PST.

ALTERED: Archiving

Starts at 9am.

First, you could date Cthulhu.
Then, you could date Shakespeare.

Now, we bring you.... the ability to date a dragon.

The ultimate dating experience.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/845960/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY/

We're excited to see how it does, given how it is our first contracted game.

Was coming next month. Now January.

ALTERED: Shop code

Till mid-November.

PATCH v1.85

- UPDATED: Base code for RenPy 7.1

NEW GAME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/854530/Paper_Shakespeare_Stick_Julius_Caesar_with_a_dagger/

The final Stick Figure Shakespeare game of 2018 is out. Yummy yummy. Go get it.

Also.

Schedule has changed a bit. We were steadily working on a game for December, but a few things happened:

1) Our artist suddenly got a bigger contract and could not complete it until later next year.

2) We got contracted to do a game. It's exciting and a challenge for us, as it is a type of game that we have never worked on before.

So, in the place of:


(Which we are going to get out as soon as it is ready)

We have:


It's a very different game for us, but we feel that we can infuse it with our style as well as do the theme justice. You will be meeting anthropomorphic animals and dragons. That's the deal.

We've done Lovecraft. We've done Shakespeare. Time to do Furries.

Just a quick update. Expect Furries' store page in a month or so, with Mythos' store page by at least summer.

As for other 2019 stuff, we're kind of mulling the idea of an Army of Tentacles prequel which would serve more context for the final Army of Tentacles as well as some of the stuff in Army 3. The final Army game is still in the oven, we've just been sidetracked with smaller projects.

December 2019, if all goes well, should be another medium sized game.

Welp. Hope everyone has a nice day/night!

- CHANGED: Images

- FIXED: Typos

- ALTERED: Argument images

Have you ever wondered "hey, maybe I'd like to FOLLOW this studio/company/bunch of meddling kids to get notified by e-mail if they make new stuff"?

Or even "man, this current store page on Steam looks super lame"?

Well, now there's a NEW DEVELOPER PAGE.

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/STEG_GAME_DEV

Never say we didn't do anything for you. Besides make video games.

- ALTERED: Codebase to be more up to date with the new version of RenPy.

The rest of 2018
https://store.steampowered.com/app/854540/Paper_Shakespeare_Loves_Labors_Lost/
A retelling of Love's Labor's Lost, set in the To Date Or Not To Date? corner of the Paper Shakespeare universe. It's stick figures, and by default, I guess it's considered a dating sim?

Project Wildcats: Will be the full-fledged Cthulhu dating sim that a lot of you were asking for. No DLC needed to romance Elder Gods here.

Expect it in November/December. We wanted Halloween, but that's not possible for a few reasons.

Hypothetical Winter Game #2/Project Kitt: Depends on where we are post-summer. If it's a go for 2018, expect it in November/December.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/704670/Inexplicable_Geeks_Dawn_of_Just_Us/

So, yeah, we don't really know what the future of announcements is gonna look like yet. We may keep the same format of just announcing a game on every page, but then when it releases we may..... not?

We don't know yet. It's going to get quite busy if we have ten games and announce on all their pages.

PAPER SHAKESPEARE: STICK MERCHANT OF VENICE

https://store.steampowered.com/app/852750/Paper_Shakespeare_Stick_Merchant_of_Venice/

Alongside Geeks, we wll also be coming out with a smaller game that exists within the Paper Shakespeare universe.

There was a lot of internal discussion about whether or not a smaller game would hurt either the Paper Shakespeare series or the SGD brand, or both. Ultimately, we decided to put it out there just to see. It will be our first game with no charity DLC, instead opting to give some of the profits from the game itself to charity.

It is also our last game until the autumn season.

- FIXES: Typos
- CLEANED: Code

Also, here's the announcement for Game 2/3 for 2018:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/704670/Inexplicable_Geeks_Dawn_of_Just_Us/

Lovecraft. Shakespeare. Now Superheroes.
We'll get to puppies eventually.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/702940/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date/

Next one probably won't launch at midnight. We'll see how things pan out.

Expect to hear about Game 5 next week sometime.

April Fool's? We might be launching early? Paper Shakespeare could launch as early as Wednesday. We've cleared up the earlier scheduling conflict/error and all signs point to this being a strong possibility.

The game is 100% ready, so that's not an issue.

In the future, we will be looking harder at how we publicize our release schedules/dates.

• FIXED: Typos
  
• ALTERED: RNG Conversation image placement
  
• ADDED: New dialoge options for Jenny Weaver
  
• ADDED: New dialoge, clarity
  

• FIXED: Dual images
  
• FIXED: San Diego locking on the Orphan Time quest after certain dialogues
  
• FIXED: Flag errors leading to repeatable quests
  
• ALTERED: Quest dialogue for clarity
  

As we are quickly approaching four games, we thought it best to clarify the categorization and order that our games will be bundled together by:

Army of Tentacles: Ultimate H.P. LOLcraft Deluxe Platinum Non-Award Winning Pack

Will only be adding one new game, and that would be the third and final Army of Tentacles VN-RPG. Since the UHPDPNAWP is Black GOAT Edition only, we will probably be making a new bundle specfically for Army Next (not its real name) at the outset.

The Ancient Texts Pack

Will include all games adapted from previous writings from members of our company. The two first included will be Joe Papp and Game 5 (which will be announced shortly after Paper Shakespeare's launch).

The 100% WAIFU Pack

Will be all the dating sims. Yes, we said plural.

Buy Every Game We've Ever Made (thank you)

Will be every game we've ever made. No collections, no DLC, just every base version of every game that we have ever made. Obviously, everything that is not "counted" towards the previous lists ends up here.

A note on packs: Each game that gets some sort of Ultimate Edition later on down the line will have that version replace the base version (along with all DLC for that game) in the bundle.

- CHANGED: Pathcode

Paper Shakespeare Delay: Due to an error on our part concerning scheduling, Paper Shakespeare is now delayed from April 2nd to April 16th.

• CHANGED: Tutorial art
  
• FIXED: Images not hiding
  

- ADDED: Additional code to incorporate Renpy's update into newer patches without complication

Announcing our fourth game and second new IP!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/702940/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date/

Set in a universally acclaimed university for budding royalty, Paper Shakespeare drops you in a world full of waifus and husbandos straight out of.... well, Shakespeare.

It's as traditional a dating sim as we could make. So it's gonna be weird.

Project Red Notebook may slip to June, which is murky because that's right before the Summer Sale usually happens. If it slips to July, we'll let you know. May is probably a pipe dream, but we'll see.

- ALTERED: Image sizes for DLC

I feel that we need to make an official announcement about this, lest people start going "hey, they said they were going to do X and aren't. Unreliable devs! Pitchforks!".

Originally, the plan was to always bundle the base versions of the Army games with the Black GOAT versions in any future discount sale, but after having both internal as well as external discussions, we feel that it is in everyone's best interest to keep them separate.

We honestly thought that people would want to have the option of both discounted products during the same sale, but found that it just ended up being really confusing. We also didn't/don't want to run the risk of someone buying the same exact product during a sale.

It also comes down to choice: if someone is looking to buy Army 1 to test it out, they are going to buy Army 1, regardless of the price of the GOAT Edition. And if someone is going to refund one of our games based on a test run, it is really not in our best interest for it to be the higher priced one. Refunded DLC is much better than a refunded fully priced game.

As for official Steam sales such as the Summer and Winter sales, both will be on sale at the same time.

- ALTERED: Jump paths

- FIXED: Instance where Cthylla's quest scene would play twice if you talked to Cthulhu post-quest

• FIXED: Broken images
  
• ALTERED: Image file paths
  
• FIXED: Typos
  

- Cleaned up enemy code.

- RECODED: Call of Koithulhu due to a memory/image leak issue with Isle of the Cat Girls DLC.

THIS WILL BREAK THE GAME FOR ANYONE WITH A SAVE POST-KOITHULHU INSTALLATION.

We apologize for the inconvenience. This was the most efficient solution to the problem that we could have went with.

We will be better at this in the future.

• ALTERED: Images
  
• ALTERED: Flags and pathcode for every Waifu Quest for the Isle of the Cat Girls quest
  
• FIXED: Images
  

- FIXED: image leak that was causing random games to crash upon the second update for the Isle of the Cat Girls quest.

A bit ashamed that this patch is so late. I just moved, and the entire last week was spent packing.

So, we've been in existence a while. February 15th is our official two-year anniversary, but since Army 3 GOAT just landed, we felt like extending the sale to incorporate the launch week discount.

As with Army 1 GOAT, now that Army 3 GOAT is out, we're trying to figure out how to best do future sales of the Army of Tentacles series. Well, at least the first two games.

We have ideas for the third. We're busy developing it. Nuturing it. Growing it. But it won't be this year. We're gonna try to get through our next two games first, and then see where we are post-summer.

- CHANGED: Requirements for endgame

• ALTERED: Pathcode
  
• ALTERED: Credits images to include IOTCG artists
  
• FIXED: Issue with the "Leslie Nope" acheev flagging early
  

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592816/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_III_Isle_of_the_Cat_Girls/

And that ends the DLC run for Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2!

Stay tuned for news about Game 4/Ibsen.

- FIXED: Cheat Mode leaks

- FIXED: Flag leaks in San Francisco after Act 1

• FIXED: Flag leak in New Vegas area
  
• ALTERED: Flag paths
  

• ALTERED: Flags
  
• ALTERED: Unicorn image
  

• ALTERED: Linux build code
  

• FIXED: Call labels unaffected by Cheat Mode
  
• ALTERED: If statements for simplification/clarification.
  

Are out.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592814/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_Winter_Outfit_Pack_I_Midterms_2018/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/694780/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_Winter_Outfit_Pack_II_War_of_the_Old_Gods/

... and one smaller extra one...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/785820/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_Outfit_Pack_Midterms_2018_Sketches/

Next month: the final Super Army of Tentacles 2 Quest DLC.

There seriously, for various reasons, will not be this much DLC for Army 3 Actual or probably anything else we do. This was an experiment. A fun and informative one, but an experiment in game making none-the-less. We're happy that you all liked them, though.

• DELETED: Redundant scenes
  

• FIXED: Two DLC leaks that would mess up the New York and New Vegas areas of the game
  
• FIXED: Broken flags
  

- FIXED pathcode related to Mac and Linux versions

The final two outfit packs - .99 cents and $1.99 - are releasing over the new two weeks. Rejoice! For the final countdown to Isle of the Cat Girls has begun!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/694780/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_Winter_Outfit_Pack_II_War_of_the_Old_Gods/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_2

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592814/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_Winter_Outfit_Pack_I_Midterms_2018/

• ADDED: New epilogue screens and flags
  

• UPDATED: Entire codebase to the new version of RenPy, and built with new options for more Steam optimization
  

• FIXED: Paths that could break flags (SF quest, act 1)
  
• CHANGED: Location of certain image code
  

And in case you missed Army of Tentacles Numero Uno the first time around...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/770380/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_Black_GOAT_of_the_Woods_Edition/

Happy 2018!
There's more DLC to come this month! The final two outfit packs for Army Numero Two, as well as some much requested Cheat/Easy Mode DLC. You know, for those of you that don't like saying things to bad guys.

• FIXED: Typos
  
• FIXED: Background images not working correctly (epilogues)
  

• FIXED: Typos
  
• CHANGED: Image path root file to consolidate room in the main script file
  

• ADDED: New calls related to outfit flags
  

• FIXED: Flags that needed clarification within the code as to avoid potential errors
  
• FIXED: Typos, Grammatical errors
  

STEAM WINTER SALE


WHAT'S UP FOR 2018?

A few things. I'm not going to go into a bunch of medical mumbo jumbo, but it looks like I'm out of the woods in terms of a long recovery. That is as specific as I feel I need to be.

On to the fun stuff:

FUTURE NON-OFFICIAL SALES: With Army 1: Black GOAT coming out next month, we've been having internal discussions about how to handle discounts on Army 1 going forward. Right now, we're thinking of having Army 1: Black GOAT be the primary product to go on sale, and Army 1 Vanilla just won't.

We don't know if there will be less sales next year or not. So far, sales are not hurting us, but we also don't know how many people are holding off from buying because of frequent sales.

PROJECT WERNER HERZOG: This is Army 3. Werner Herzog was the codename. Army 1's codename was Tumnus.

WINTER OUTFIT PACKS 1 & 2: Will be out sometime next month.
ISLE OF THE CAT GIRLS may be moved up due to fun new life obstacles.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592816/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_III_Isle_of_the_Cat_Girls/

ARMY OF TENTACLES: (NOT) A CTHULHU DATING SIM: BLACK GOAT OF THE WOODS EDITION: Launches after the Winter Sale. This is simply the base game plus all the DLC, nothing new. It will most likely be replacing all the Army 1 content in the Non-Award Winning bundle.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/770380/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_Black_GOAT_of_the_Woods_Edition/

PROJECT UPDIKE: Will probably be formally announced around the time Isle launches.

PROJECT RED NOTEBOOK: Just started formulating the team for that one. Would love to get it out alongside Updike, but time (and funds) will tell.

HYPOTHETICAL D&D DLC FOR THE GHOST OF JOE PAPP: Again, this is up to funds. It would be by Halloween.

• FIXED: Typos
  
• Significantly reduced image file sizes
  

• FIXED: Typos
  
• DELETED: Redundant flags
  
• FIXED: Following currencies are once again allowed: Argentinian Peso (ARS), Costa Rican Colón (CRC), Israeli New Shekel (ILS), Kazakhstani Tenge (KZT), Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD), Polish Zloty (PLN),Qatari Rial (QAR),Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH), Uruguayan Peso (UYU),Vietnamese Dong (VND)
  

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592816/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_III_Isle_of_the_Cat_Girls/?beta=0

Here it is, folks. Your filthy, filthy Cthulhu romance DLC.

Just in time for Valentine's Day (dear god let that be the truth).

• VARIOUS: Code rework
  

• FIXED: RNG Flags
  

http://store.steampowered.com/app/696310/The_Ghost_of_Joe_Papp/

The Ghost of Joe Papp (possible) Early Release

Due to the looming need for surgery and medical care (plus the ever-evaporating idea of managable health insurance) - and honestly, a wee bit of nervousness of getting lost in the current of the Steam Winter Sale - Game 3 might be releasing on Monday.

Monday, Monday.

We'll be working overtime over the weekend to get the game in order.

The game, right now, is fuly playable, but we've got maybe 2% branching paths left to go down. Maybe 1%.

I don't know percents. I use websites to calculate sales discounts.

If it's not out Monday, it's not out Monday.

• ALTERED: Endgame scene for persistent new game
  
• ADDED: Scene with Tankhammer in Act 1
  

• DELETED: Redundant code
  

• FIXED, KOITHULHU: Broken code
  
• FIXED, KOITHULHU: Typos
  
• FIXED: Images not vanishing
  

• CHANGED: Location of quest dialogue to World Hub.
  

We are pleased to announce that the store page for THE GHOST OF JOE PAPP is now live!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/696310/The_Ghost_of_Joe_Papp/

• ALTERED/FIXED: "Apocalypse Bunny Saves Christmas" is now open during Act 1.
  
• ALTERED/FIXED: "Black Friday Blitz" is now open during Act 1.
  
• ALTERED: Star Spawn argument language has been changed as some users have found the wording problematic.
  

• FIXED: broken image paths
  
• FIXED: Typos
  

• FIXED, APOCALYPSE BUNNY SAVES CHRISTMAS: No longer leaks into the base game.
  
• FIXED, APOCALYPSE BUNNY SAVES CHRISTMAS: Endgame flags getting mixed up with regular quest flags.
  
• FIXED: Flags for accessing DLC quests.
  
• ALTERED: Pathcode for certain quests flags to pop
  
• ALTERED: Cthonian argument.
  
• ALTERED: Cady's skill, "Gaia", now has a chance to protect against 20% of damage. Also acts as a one-time heal after combat.
  
• ADDED: New dialogue.
  

It has come to our attention that Black Friday Peter, an XMas DLC character, shows up during the base game. We have isolatd this to some rogue code pertaining to quest structure. As with all bugs that do not hit with every game, it will take time to fix.

The XMAS DLC acheevs are still bugged.

We hope to have a new patch out this weekend.

What's this, you say?
Christmas DLC on Halloween?
ON Halloween?
ON IT?

Well, they when in Rome....

For various reasons (surgery costs, etc.), the X-Mas DLC is out as a special treat for you tricksters.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/717260/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_IIV_Apocalypse_Bunny_Saves_Christmas/

The two acheev images for this DLC are giving us trouble. We are working on getting them to show.

Have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

• FIXED, KOITHULHU: Error where the flag to end the main Koithulhu quest would activate but the quest log image would not change to COMPLETE.
  
• CHANGED: certain character art
  

• FIXED: broken flags
  
• FIXED: Typos
  
• FIXED: Enemy images
  

The original title was Children of the Old Gods.

We thought of a better one.



Featuring three new quests and bosses.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/717260/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_IIV_Apocalypse_Bunny_Saves_Christmas/?beta=1

2018: the plan for now

Below is our at-the-moment plan for next year. A few new DLCs, a few new, smaller VN-RPGs. With the surgery coming up, we as a company will probably not be taking on a "Next Step" project. This means that the final Army of Tentacles may be taking a break to 2019. We already have some ideas for a few fun but light games.

• New Game+ Benefits 2 sometime in February. We'd like to hit Valentine's Day, but with production up in the air, who knows.
  
• Game 4: Untitled Literature-Based Dating Sim. Think of those "What If Literary Characters Had Facebook?" books and memes. It will be something along those lines. But with more waifus. So Dawson's Creek Meets Great Literature. April 2018?
  
• Game 5: Either will be Untitled Superhero Slice-of-Life, which would be based on a play like Joe Papp, or Untitled Horror Comedy Halloween VN-RPG. The latter, we'd try for Halloween 2018.
  
• New Game Charity DLCs: Following the release of each new game, we're going to have more Charity DLC.
  

• FIXED: Flag pathcode
  

The Halloween expansion is out now!
Two new quests! New bosses! Halloween and Twitch Con sets!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592815/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_II_Call_of_Koithulhu/

Twitch Con offical booth news



Come on down to see us!

• FIXED: Certain boss fights
  
• FIXED: Screens file pathcode
  
• FIXED: Typos
  

• FIXED: Typos relating to the screens file.
  

• FIXED: Typos
  
• REWORKED: Credits

• TRUNCATED and REWORKED certain characters menu trees
  
• FIXED typos
  

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592815/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_II_Call_of_Koithulhu/?beta=0

The second quest pack, but more importantly, the Halloween quest pack. It's almost here.

TWITCH CON NEWS

SGD will be the first ones presenting at the GameDev table at Twitch Con. We're in with a real good group of creators, and it's going to be a good show.



We're for sure showcasing Super Army 3, but are also mulling over the idea of showing a small portion of the Ghost of Joe Papp alpha.



When: Friday, October 20th, 1pm - 3:30pm
Where: Twitch Con, Long Beach Convention Center
Where ON THE SHOW FLOOR: Creative Corner, CCC64

See you there!

Our Child's Play/Desert Bus for Hope charity outfit pack is out, thus ending the Army of Tentacles charity DLCs. Every future game will most likely have some sort of charity pack, either outfits or quests or whatnot. It depends on the game.

Around September, we'll probably roll out a Desert Bus-supporting DLC for every game.

Here is ours for Army 3. If you love Transformers but have always wanted to know what they would look like if drawn by someone who draws like a serial killer, this pack is for you.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/694800/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_Charity_Outfit_Pack_Old_Gods_for_the_Children/

• REWORKED Dana Khan's dialogue tree
  
• REWORKED Dana Khan's quest flags
  
• FIXED typos
  

We were planning on having the Charity Outfit Pack out with today's sale, but our artist is having computer issues and I'm haviny my own issues.

So sometime this week? We realize putting out a DLC during a sale is awkward, but getting it out sooner than later is better for us.

Sale on Army 3 goes until the 29th.

• FIXED errant flags
  

So, regarding my recent medical discovery, my upcoming surgery, and the financial/biological factors involved, here is what we've decided to do:

• MERGED choice labels for certain scene menus
  
• DELETED extraneous scenes and scene menus
  
• CHANGED tutorial screens
  
• ADDED two banter scenes
  
• FIXED typos
  

Bryy here (I mean, it's always safe to assume that I'm the one writing these things because, 90% of the time, I am). Update on the rest of the year.

Earlier this morning, I ran into some medical issues - some old war wounds that decided they would like to wish me a late happy birthday. Nothing major, and even the definition of the surgery I need is minor. Which is a let-down, as I totally would have been cool with looking up the classification and finding that it just passes for MAJOR SURGERY.

However, having had this surgery at least once in my lifetime, I can tell you that the recovery process is rather long and hard on the body.

But on to the meat.
What does this mean for the rest of the year?

• CHARITY DLC #3: DESERT BUS: Moved from this week to most likely next week due to doctor visits.
  
• SPOOPY! SALE: Expect it to be moved to late this month and downsized to Army 3 only. There will still be an Army 1 sale in mid-October.
  
• HALLOWEEN QUEST AND OUTFIT PACK: Still on track for October 13th.
  
• NEW GAME+ BENEFITS 2 EXPANSION PACK: Depends on recovery. If the surgery is in November, expect NG+B2 in January. If December, expect February.
  
• The Ghost of Joe Papp: Same as NG+B2. Depends on recovery. If the surgery is in November, expect Joe Papp in January. If December, expect February.
  

• FIXED pathcode names for the Gnome Mistakes boss
  
• FIXED some errant pathcode for Gnome Mistakes' secondary quest
  

• RECODED THE ENTIRE OUTFIT CLOSET MENU. Outfits are now easier to get in and out of, and it is easier to revert to your normal skins.
  
• REPATHED OUTFIT LOCATIONS. Please see the Store pages of each respective outfit pack to see where they are now located within the Outfit Menu tree.
  

We're just now starting work on our third game (and second IP), The Ghost of Joe Papp.

While we can't really reveal anything about it at this point, we can say that it is going to be far less intense than either Army games were. It will have less RPG elements than Army 1 or Army 3 had, even though there will still be gameplay mechanics to interact with. It's still going to be a game within your control. There will be objectives, your characters will be able to do things based on your command, etc.

It's just going to be different, which we feel is good. Not every single one of our games should feel the same in style nor should they be the same in execution.

It will be $4.99 - $8.99 range.

The next you hear about Joe Papp will most likely be when we put the Coming Soon page up on Steam in late October/early November.

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Timeline for the Rest of 2017

SEPTEMBER: Army 1 Charity DLC and Army 3 Charity DLC #2
OCTOBER: Army 3 Halloween Quest and Outfit Pack
NOVEMBER: -
DECEMBER: Army 3 New Game+ Benefits 2 Quest Pack, The Ghost of Joe Papp

HALLOWEEN

The next quest pack, the Halloween Pack (name tbd), will feature two quests as well as two outfits packs - for a total of 28 outfits..... total.

Twitch Con is right before Halloween this year, and while the original plan was to have two separate Halloween DLC packs, we thought combining them made more sense. The Twitch Con pack will be more game-related.

All of the Halloween outfits are in various stages of completion.
The Twitch Con outfits come next.

After Twitch Con, the new character art for the new quests will be hammered out. We have 3 new bosses (4 if you count branching paths) and a host of new characters to interact with.

Expect the Halloween DLC to drop on Friday the 13th.

POTENTIAL NEW CHARITY DLCs

One for Army 1, one for Army 3. We're discussing making a DISASTER RELIF pack for Army 1 (with the profits initially going towards Harvey and Irma relief) as well as a CHILD'S PLAY/DESERT BUS FOR HOPE outfit pack for Army 3.

Once again, all profits would go towards various charities around the globe. We wouldn't see a cent.

Those would drop this month, presumably.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/594540/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_I_God_Makes_Gnome_Mistakes/

Our first quest pack, GOD MAKES GNOME MISTAKES, is out now!

• FIXED: stray pathcode that would lead to an error in the outfit menu at New Game+.
  

• ADDED: Tutorial screen for Skipping (press and hold CTRL)
  

So, a bit of a preface.

Over here in the studio, we're looking at the state of the world this year, and how everyone is all ungodly, unfathomably angry. We're seeing a resurgence of some really icky stuff. It's hard to be a creative when the world is burning down around you.

We can't just sit around putting out our video games like nothing is going on. But what we can do is put out a DLC where all profits go to a few global charities and/or human rights services.

We humbly submit to the Midnight Society.... Nazis Are Stupid And Dumb.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/698130/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_NAZIS_ARE_STUPID_AND_DUMB/

We're pleased to announce the first of three quest packs, God Makes Gnome Mistakes, is launching September 1st! It dives a bit more into the backstory of the Time Vortex crisis, and elaborates on just how powerful they actually are - and the damage to the fabric of time-space that they can cause.

The base campaign talked about the Time Vortex issue, but other than a simple summary that they "spit things out", we really never delved into what they actually were.

So we decided to make a quest pack to flesh out this portion of the story.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/594540/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_XPACK_I_God_Makes_Gnome_Mistakes/

We are right now working on a Halloween-themed DLC, which will also include an outfit pack. That will hopefully hit on Friday the 13th, but if not, then it'll come in right before the Steam Halloween Sale.

After that, we hope to start work on a "New Game+ Benefit 2" of some sort. That would be December-January.

That would end the Super Army of Tentacles 3 story. But as always, DLC is optional and is not required to fully experience the game.

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STEALTH DLC:

Valve has not approved it yet, which is why this news update is not a double-whammy, but we have a smaller DLC coming later this or next week that will benefit various charities and services around the globe.

• ADDED: Changed the main menu image for New Game+
  
• ADDED: New images for the quest log
  

• FIXED: Shops had a bug in which they error'd out if certain flags were hit in a specific order
  
• FIXED: Various broken jumps
  
• FIXED: Various typos
  

• Various typos
  

• Added two new scenes at the ship hub for when Tankhammer and/or Phaze join your party.
  
• Added a new scene for entering Downtown Boston with either Janet or Tankhammer.
  

• Typos
  
• Deleted extraneous code
  

• Enemy WIS checks rebalanced
  
• Enemy WIS check errors fixed
  
• Extraneous paths deleted
  

The last of the summer outfits are here.... and this batch is a little weird. A gritty reimagining of every party member.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592810/SUPER_ARMY_OF_TENTACLES_3_Brian_Tries_To_Draw_Outfit_Pack/

We have plans for September, October, and December as well. Our aim was to make a New Game+ Benefits 2 type post-story expansion, but we realized that a lot of the quests that we wanted to do didn't quite fit. It expanded upon elements of the story but at the cost of watering down the expansion's story.

So, while we still want to focus on three entirely different aspects of the story, we're going to split them up into two quest packs and one post-story expansion. This also brings the price down for all three, and doesn't "force" anyone to pay for content that they'll never see nor go for. For lack of a MUCH better term.

It also allows us to get the content out to you quicker. What was six sidequests and one story quest now becomes two, two, and three. Also, two Halloween outfit packs are in the works.

As for future non-Army of Tentacles games? We have ideas, but as of now are focusing on these three quest packs. An actual Army 3 probably won't be around for a while, as there are other stories and IPs that we want to get out. The next few games probably won't be as intensive, mechanics-wise, as Army 1 or Army 3 were.

Hope everyone has a nice day.

Due to 1/2 technical snafu and 1/2 misunderstanding, the Birthday Flash Sale scheduled for the 18th is no more.

Our next discount will be for the entire franchise, during our SPOOPY SALE in either late September or early October.

• Secondary Ignus Ross dialogue option removed from his conversation hub
  
• New York main hub has been truncated as to remove repetition.
  

• Base Oscar drop changed from 5 to 2
  
• Opening music track changed back to original
  
• Fiixed jumps for some RNG conversations
  

ARGUMENTS:

- Some replies truncated.

- Some replies altered.

UI:

- Main Menu title graphic changed slightly.

- Added a new main menu for when you have beaten the game once and hence unlocked New Game+.

GENERAL:

- Typos.

GENERAL:

- Fixed a few images

QUEST:

- The Godmeet: Abhoth's portion has been clarified as to facilitate an easier resolution

GENERAL:

- Typos

GENERAL:

- Typos

- Menu code cleanup

GENERAL:

- Flag paths reworked

- New Summer of Steam 2017 acheev added.

STATS:

- Wisdom checks rebalanced

GENERAL:

- Outfit menus reworked

We're in the double digits for patches now! We're so fancy.

UI:

- New Quest Log UI to better facilitate clarity of quest types

ENEMIES:

- Technomage has been rewritten

- The Enemy RNG System has been reworked as to make Dexterity's function more apparent

GENERAL:

- Typos

- Deleting extra flags of the same function

IMAGES:

- Changed Sable White and Dana Speech 2

QUEST:

- Clarfied Abhoth's dialogue concerning her related quest

DIALOGUE:

- Typos

- Ein Mozart Nixon now has conditional dialogue at San Diego Harbor

- Thatcher's dialogue in New Vegas is now conditional

- All stray Ogid and Riley sayer code has been fixed

It's that time of the year again, when the sale dates that were leaked months ago come to fruition! The Steam Summer Sale! Boy howdy, do we have some crazy low prices for you!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/592200/Super_Army_of_Tentacles_3_The_Search_for_Army_of_Tentacles_2/

SUPER ARMY OF TENTACLES 3 is on sale for 10% off! Gee wilikers! That's an ENTIRE DOLLAR.

You didn't really think we'd be heavily discounted less than a month after launch, did you?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/427930/Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim/

Army of Tentacles is 40% off!
The OST Bundle is 40% off!
Black GOAT Edition is 50% off!
Both Halloween and San Diego quest packs are 10% off!

Until July 5th! Everything must go!

GENERAL:

- Code clean-up.