Fixed various issues.

- Moved to a new version of RenPy.

- ADDED: Version/patch to the main menu

- FIXED: if/elif statements around the Ulthar Shrine.

- FIXED: Typos

- FIXED: Some flags from not popping in DLC

- CHANGED: The context of some Arguments to be less mean-spirited.

- FIXED: Various bugs

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.

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.

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/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!

Milestone silly old game!

19 products on sale! Count'em! 19! Ah ha ha! From 15% off to 82% off!

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.

- FIXED: Typos

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.

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.

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.

Redid the credits.

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.

The art update will now be a free patch instead of a paid DLC. Expect it sometime within the next week.

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.

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

What is it?

Will there be a GOAT Edition and/or Cheat Mode?

How standalone a title is it?

2021 Games

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

As well as the launch of our next game... https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177650/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_or_Not_To_Date_2 The final three months of 2020 are going to see Very Naked Hamlet, The Ghost of Joe Papp 2, and possibly a stealth Halloween game.
Stealth as in we're gonna try to get it out by Halloween, but if we can't, we can't. I was busy taking the last week a half to recode Army of Tentacles: New Game+ Benefits, and got the itch to make a pure dating sim in the Army universe.

NEW GAME+ BENEFITS RECODE - New flags - New dialogue - New pathcode This one was fun to do. It got me thinking that maybe I should do a straight up Army of Tentacles dating sim as a full game. No RPG, no nothing. Just straight up wacky dating sim set in the AoT universe. I mean, Halloween is coming up....

Expect a full recode of New Game+ Benefits in next weeks patch. All acheevs, flags, etc., will still be in game, but all saves involved with the New Game+ Benefits DLC will be invalidated. So, if you are planning on playing New Game+ Benefits, or doing a replay, I would hold off until the patch. We're about 20% done with the recode right now, it's just a busy week. Who knows, maybe it will get done sooner.

- ALTERED: Archive code in options.rpy Source code is now accessible from the Steam folder.

- ADDED: Failsafe flags for party menu

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 - ADDED: Menu flags for the end of each Argument to make sure that the proper menu shows

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

- images touch up

- General code touch up

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.

Going forward...

Plus, check out all of our 2020 games and DLC!

DELETED: Both achievements revolving around Chris Avellone's character.

Army of Tentacle Free Upgrade Patch

Army of Tentacles 1 Paid GFX DLC

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.

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

- ADDED: Extra flags for various clarity regarding menus

Patch, 4/16/2020

Upgrade/Update news

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.

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

LUNAR NEW YEARS SALE

Pre-Summer 2020 Games

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.

Army of Tentacles Black GOAT Franchise 1/7/2020 - 1/21/2020

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

Stealth Free Game

Investor? The Next Year

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?

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?

The Summary

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

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 v1.28

ARMY OF TENTACLES 1 BLACK WOODS: 60% ARMY OF TENTACLES 3 BLACK WOODS: 60% Starts tomorrow at 10am.

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.

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.

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 v1.27

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

This graphic is wrong. 2016 - 2019. That's four years.

The Lunar New Years Sale

- ALTERED: restructuring of some flag sync code - DELETED: Beta branches

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: Code, archived.

Till mid-November.

Expecting a big, fancy graphic for Halloween? Well, too bad. We're recovering from Twitch Con. The plague has struck us. Everything is 10% - 65% off! Follow our Steam Dev Page for upcoming games and deals! I mean, that counts as scary, right? Not having a fancy graphic?

PATCH v1.23 - UPDATED: Base code for RenPy 7.1 - ALTERED: Pathcode for calls

NEW GAME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS!

- ALTERED: Rest code so it is more uniform with the rest of the code

• ALTERED: Argument images

- DELETED: Extra files

- FIXED: Dev code leak - ADDED: New level up code - ADDED: New chargen screens

- CHANGED: Backgrounds

- FIXED: Typos - FIXED: Broken code

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.

• FIXED: Certain fight code leaks

- Changed location of some code

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

The rest of 2018

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.

- ALTERED: Images

PAPER SHAKESPEARE: STICK MERCHANT OF VENICE

- DELETED: Extra code

- FIXED: Typos - CLEANED: Code Also, announcing our second pre-summer game and our second of three new games for this year: http://store.steampowered.com/app/704670/Inexplicable_Geeks_Dawn_of_Just_Us/ We've done Lovecraft, Shakespeare, and now we're gonna do Superheroes. Weird superheroes.

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.

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

The Ancient Texts Pack

The 100% WAIFU Pack

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

- 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.

- 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.

- CHANGED: Effects images

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.

- General code cleanup.

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.

• ALTERED: Linux build code

Army of Tentacles 1 New Years Sale

- DELETED: Redundant code

Futue Patch Schedule

- FIXED pathcode related to Mac and Linux versions

- FIXED error with the pathcode for the Cheat Mode Acheev. Will require a new game to obtain it.

- ADDED: New acheev for Cheat Mode

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

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.