All of the AI backgrounds are out of Inexplicable Geeks 2.
The only one that is left is Scarecrows of Illyria, and that should be sometime around January.
[ 2024-12-19 09:20:39 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/48504/Winter_Sale_2024_Mega_Bundle/
Every game! Every DLC! For Winter Sale only! Until Summer Sale 2025! Or Winter Sale 2025! Probably those as well!
As always, if something breaks, please let us know rather than refunding right away or writing a bad review or writing a bad review and then refunding after you wrote said bad review.
[ 2024-12-12 22:18:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
Winter is coming....
But it's not here yet.
So buy stuff.
[ 2024-11-27 18:08:34 CET ] [ Original post ]
Select titles 20% off!
This clearly isn't leading into a bigger sale or anything.
[ 2024-11-21 21:02:32 CET ] [ Original post ]
We have added the addition games to the Halloween sale!
[ 2024-10-28 18:26:39 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3262140/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY_Whimsical__Bright_Costumes_2025/?beta=0
For this outfit DLC, we went with something a bit different. It will be out later than usual, just because we're getting all new character art for every character in the game.
[ 2024-10-11 20:01:08 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2762590/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_If_Made_Today/?curator_clanid=33017070
Why on sale so early? We're trying new tactics.
[ 2024-09-27 17:47:09 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3245540/Tentacle_Prawn_Actually_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim_New_Game_Benefits_HD/?beta=0
Our final DLC of the year! Embark on a new journey to right the wrongs of the past, and make sure that weird, nasty time loop from the base campaign of Tentacle Prawn never happen(ed)s (again). Featuring five new part members and a brand new storyline!
Innsmouth is set to fall, because if it didn't, that would be kind of counter-productive and a debbie downer ending, but how it does and what happens AFTER is in your hands!
[ 2024-09-25 14:15:35 CET ] [ Original post ]
Planetkillerz now has no AI background art. This marks our second game which has been purged of AI BG.
To go:
- Dinosaur Shakespeare 2
- Geeks: #RestoreTheMillerCut
[ 2024-09-21 18:29:18 CET ] [ Original post ]
Welp, I misspelled 'Convenience'. Remind me never to make sales promo while woozy from a blood draw.
[ 2024-09-13 17:05:44 CET ] [ Original post ]
Changed/swapped out all of the AI-assisted backgrounds from Thirstspeare. Same game, new art! Check it out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627740/SHAKESPEARE_More_like_THIRSTspeare_amirite/?curator_clanid=33017070
[ 2024-09-12 07:37:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2757940/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls_2/?beta=0
SPOOKY CAT GIRLS 2?! is now out! It's super rad! Universal Monsters as funky cat bois and girls!
[ 2024-09-05 17:08:15 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2757940/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Spooky_Cat_Girls_2/?curator_clanid=33017070
Starting out spooky season right with some ridiculous cat girls and cat boys. Get it while it is hot. Will be launching with our first launch discount in - I think seven years?
[ 2024-09-04 22:02:40 CET ] [ Original post ]
Oh hey, it's another sale but this time acting as a mimic to the summer sale!
look it is post-sdcc. i'm not going to write good.
[ 2024-07-29 20:38:46 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2762590/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_If_Made_Today
[ 2024-07-18 18:38:27 CET ] [ Original post ]
Coming July 18th.
It's topical, as one of the love interests in the game is Mark Antony, and the Romans created July. Never say that you never learned anything from a Furry Sim.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2762590/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_If_Made_Today/?curator_clanid=33017070
[ 2024-07-14 11:41:05 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2511000/Dinosaur_Cousin_Squad
ohmygodthestorepageisup.
I'll be taking a nap.
[ 2024-07-11 17:05:21 CET ] [ Original post ]
Without going into my personal junk, about five to six life events hit me at the end of last year, one of which I had been prepping for. I/We already had decided to only work on Dinosaur Cousin Squad until it was ready for internal beta testers (which should be in the next few weeks), but with everything else that hit, it left me very emotionally drained. That and then you add in the Brain Fog, a loving reminder of my two bouts with COVID-19.
The point is that I'm thinking of moving Spooky Cat Girls 2 to later, if not Halloween 2025. Army of Tentacles: Assault on Unicorn Island, if not out by then, would take its place as the Halloween 2024 game. I do not think there is any reason other than current lethargy that AoT: Unicorns would land on Halloween 2024.
Cat Girls: IMT is looking good, but as stated, DCS takes priority, and even if we barreled through it before SDCC in late July, we still wouldn't feel comfortable releasing it until at least December, if not later (for personal reasons as well as wishlists).
We might do some weird, smaller game after DCS level rough draft is done but before SDCC. AoT: Christmas Edition has been thrown around just cause we were playing Lemmings: Christmas Edition last night. It would probably use the remaining art for Tentacle Prawn that we just never ended up using.
[ 2024-06-07 23:16:23 CET ] [ Original post ]
Our second Rotation Sale of the year. Promo art late, as usual.
[ 2024-05-02 19:48:39 CET ] [ Original post ]
We're going to start doing smaller rotational sales of all our products.
[ 2024-04-22 18:56:57 CET ] [ Original post ]
We're trying out Rotation Sales. So, instead of just selling lots of stuff, we're only selling some stuff at a time.
[ 2024-04-22 17:21:57 CET ] [ Original post ]
Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim 2 is on sale for the first time ever! Boy howdy! Complete the set!
[ 2024-04-04 19:20:00 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2024-03-12 18:00:01 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2024-03-01 03:57:24 CET ] [ Original post ]
Guess who forgot to put up this news update this morning? To be fair: there was a doctor's appointment.
[ 2024-02-03 05:59:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
Unicorns has been delayed due to the world being on fire.
[ 2024-01-11 04:46:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2024-01-05 02:28:02 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2023-12-25 19:27:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-12-21 19:48:44 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-12-07 18:35:50 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-11-30 04:17:53 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-11-21 20:13:02 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923530/Scarecrows_of_Illyria
As always, please report any bugs.
[ 2023-11-16 17:08:00 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1923530/Scarecrows_of_Illyria/
AoT: Unicorns has been moved to January.
[ 2023-11-15 05:54:43 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-11-01 01:17:24 CET ] [ Original post ]
We here at the office hope that everyone has a very safe and happy Halloween!
[ 2023-10-20 08:21:44 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-10-17 00:07:36 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2023-09-21 21:19:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2023-09-17 23:59:42 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2023-09-13 18:38:59 CET ] [ Original post ]
1) 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.
[ 2023-09-02 00:04:08 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2023-08-09 00:28:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2254860/Inexplicable_Geeks_RestoreTheMillerCut/?curator_clanid=33017070 Get it whilst it is hot.
[ 2023-07-21 06:55:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-06-21 05:07:16 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-06-19 17:05:29 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-06-08 14:59:28 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2023-06-03 01:33:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-06-01 02:34:49 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2410350/Dinosaur_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_2_Winter_of_our_Discontent/
Announcing Dinosaur Shakespeare 2!
Dinosaur Shakespeare is back, in DLC form!
Why a DLC-sequel? Besides financial reasons (paying the Steam App ID for a full title wouldn't be that wise right now), a DLC allows us to still put out a sequel while experimenting with new, yet more compact, gameplay styles for a future iteration in a bigger game set with the Dino Shakes universe. It lets us make a smaller Dino Shakes game, while still working on the larger projects of the year.
That and we wanted to.
[ 2023-05-26 21:52:47 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-05-23 18:13:37 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-04-24 19:35:35 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2023-03-07 17:52:08 CET ] [ Original post ]
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/
[ 2023-02-14 22:18:35 CET ] [ Original post ]
There's currently an error where if you lose a battle, you actually win. We're working on it.
[ 2023-01-17 16:42:37 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2023-01-03 05:44:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
Introducing: DINOSAUR COUSIN SQUAD!
Our first platformer - made in GameMaker Studio 2. While we were going to shift the release dates for our current 2023 crop to get this out before Summer Sale, the version of base code that we got earlier last month still needed a fair amount of polish, and we didn't want to have our contractors work through the holidays. Our current investors were cool with the shift, but since it's going to need more time to cook before we can really start work on it, we're going to try to clear our slate of current investor projects before working on this one in full. Earlier in October, we had split up into two teams: Team Army of Tentacles - working on Army 2, Tentacle Prawn, and Unicorn Island - and Team Cousin Squad - working on Dinosaur Cousin Squad only. But because Dinosaur Cousin Squad has shifted, Team DCS has now taken up a new project that will also be officially announced next month:
To Date Or Not To Date Cat Girls? 2 is in development
While Tentacle Prawn is the game where we detail the relationship between our Lovecraft and Shakespeare worlds, Furry Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date Cat Girls? 2 is going to be a more standalone title that deals specifically with the various Furry Shakespeare tales we've been telling so far. For instance, we have an entire group that actually deals with keeping the spirit of the holidays alive. How do they fit into the overall lore? Do they also go to the same college for royalty that everyone else does? What about the Spooky Scary Halloween Spooky Times and Historylands crews? Those are retail jobs. Why do those exist in this world? But the most important question of all: can you date a Monarch Butterfly? Originally, Spooky Cat Girls? was going to be the canon sequel to Cat Girls?, but.... well, not anymore, obviously. Happy holidays.
[ 2022-12-22 18:06:52 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-11-29 21:41:51 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2219720/Furry_Shakespeare_Dashing_Dinosaurs__Sexy_Centaurs_Winters_Tale_2
[ 2022-11-25 04:47:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-11-07 19:34:01 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-10-31 07:35:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2022-10-18 18:14:11 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1919090/Embers_of_the_Zombie_Battlemage_Halloween/
[ 2022-10-13 19:33:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
Steam avatars added for: - both Halloween Spooky Times games - Planetkillerz - Friendswood
[ 2022-10-03 22:23:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2022-09-20 19:21:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-08-09 18:52:45 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-08-04 00:10:31 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-07-18 23:32:21 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-07-16 09:05:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
As Samuel J. Jackson once said, hold on to your wallets.
[ 2022-06-23 19:04:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-05-31 11:33:56 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-05-26 23:30:21 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1962990/Scientifically_Accurate_Dinosaur_Mating_Simulator_2021_Ankylosauridae/ Thus ends the month of stuff. Kittens in SF is hopefully going to be ready and in testing by the surgery date, in prep for a June release, but we'll see.
[ 2022-04-22 09:03:44 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1824590/Furry_Shakespeare_Two_Incredibly_Ripped_Absolutely_Shredded_Noble_Kinsmen Out now.
[ 2022-04-07 21:02:58 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-04-06 02:10:10 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-03-11 20:09:17 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1920890/Paper_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_2_Halloween_Edition Just an outfit pack. Get it while it's hot.
[ 2022-03-08 19:16:01 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-03-07 20:04:02 CET ] [ Original post ]
To celebrate Furries & Scalies & Scarecrows launching, the first two games in the trilogy are on sale.
[ 2022-03-01 21:10:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152200/Furry_Shakespeare_Loves_Lizards_Lost This marks the last of our pre-summer games. Probably. Maybe.
[ 2022-02-21 09:46:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-01-31 09:18:03 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-01-28 20:34:13 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2022-01-16 07:04:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2022-01-05 05:21:33 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2022-01-02 05:58:25 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-12-31 20:50:05 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-12-24 12:08:30 CET ] [ Original post ]
Dino Simulator 2021 goes live on Xmas Eve! We have a new crop of games to announce shortly after!
[ 2021-12-22 18:13:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-11-24 18:13:29 CET ] [ Original post ]
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'.
[ 2021-11-15 18:05:42 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-11-13 16:32:41 CET ] [ Original post ]
19 products on sale! Count'em! 19! Ah ha ha!
From 15% off to 82% off!
[ 2021-10-28 22:51:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-10-21 18:51:17 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2021-10-17 19:03:44 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2021-10-06 00:08:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
Halloween is the best.
I can't find candy in stores anymore. It's not even October.
[ 2021-09-27 19:11:50 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-09-24 21:58:31 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-09-02 17:17:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-08-23 18:22:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-08-13 15:55:16 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2021-08-02 17:03:50 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-07-29 03:27:14 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2021-07-22 23:16:39 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-07-20 17:35:18 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-07-08 18:09:23 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-07-05 05:48:48 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2021-05-25 21:01:41 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2021-05-12 20:33:21 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-05-02 01:23:53 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-04-30 05:22:09 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-04-20 18:45:00 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-03-08 15:10:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-03-03 23:17:48 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2021-02-15 05:12:17 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-02-12 02:59:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2021-01-20 17:47:01 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510940/Paper_Shakespeare_Stick_Merchant_of_Venice_Furry_Mode/
Seriously thought we had posted this.
Anyway. We've had some really wacky mental errors recently, from launching a DLC and forgetting to make a dev post, to forgetting to actually put something on sale on the same date as the last thing we put on sale, to writing incorrect discount. Those..... won't happen anymore.
We were going to wait to make this a post alongside all the other 2021 announcements (so next week), but then we decided to see what a DLC dev post does for business. Will it be business time?
Either way, this is the first new batch of content of the year. It was really fun to revisit Stick Merchant of Venice, but from a new angle.
[ 2021-01-15 08:41:42 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-12-31 18:27:03 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-12-14 17:50:13 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-12-08 01:38:15 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-12-06 15:59:17 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-11-28 02:11:48 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-11-17 03:23:41 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2020-10-28 21:41:49 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-10-17 15:46:20 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-09-29 23:03:53 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-09-23 17:08:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-08-18 18:15:01 CET ] [ Original post ]
Ring in the start of the virtual school year with low, low prices.
[ 2020-07-28 20:58:56 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-07-24 19:18:09 CET ] [ Original post ]
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
[ 2020-06-25 17:36:45 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-06-08 18:22:35 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-06-01 17:14:24 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283060/Furry_Shakespeare_Emperor_Penguin_Lear
[ 2020-05-11 14:14:00 CET ] [ Original post ]
Uploaded all new builds for every game. Misc. tinkering with their folders.
[ 2020-04-16 04:27:58 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-04-09 23:54:22 CET ] [ Original post ]
April Fool's Sale! April 2nd - 16th Joe Papp Inexplicable Geeks Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs Furruies & Scalies & Bears OH MY! Army 3: GOAT
[ 2020-04-02 18:08:01 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-04-01 05:42:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-03-10 20:47:13 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-03-03 21:37:11 CET ] [ Original post ]
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/
[ 2020-02-21 17:47:48 CET ] [ Original post ]
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/
[ 2020-02-13 18:00:22 CET ] [ Original post ]
- 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.
[ 2020-02-13 00:29:46 CET ] [ Original post ]
- 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.
[ 2020-02-13 00:28:57 CET ] [ Original post ]
- 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.
[ 2020-02-13 00:27:57 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-02-01 23:05:56 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-01-31 23:16:15 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-01-23 19:58:47 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2020-01-11 11:48:27 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-12-21 12:30:34 CET ] [ Original post ]
The Final Furry Shakespeare DLCs
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1133660/Furry_Shakespeare_The_Reverse_Hamlet_Championships/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1200640/Furry_Shakespeare_Hamlets/
[ 2019-12-12 23:39:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-12-03 18:21:12 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-11-26 18:09:42 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082760/Paper_Shakespeare_Modern_Warfare Initially started as a playful response to yearly war games, this was going to launch on the 25th, alongside Call of Duty. But, I mean, it's ready, and was 100% eating away at me. I wouldn't be able to have a good weekend if this thing was good to go but not out. So, in reality, I launched a video game out of selfishness. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1031740/Furry_Shakespeare_Outfit_DLC_Halloween Halloween outfits for the main cast of Furry Shakespeare. Also: some juicy lore drops. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1179520/Furry_Shakespeare_Winters_Tale Just a fun little scene with an option to increase your social status among the other characters.
[ 2019-10-18 11:04:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-09-25 06:30:15 CET ] [ Original post ]
PATCH v1.06
- ALTERED: Menu UI so it is now overlayed over all screens.
- ALTERED: Images
[ 2019-09-03 00:52:58 CET ] [ Original post ]
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!
[ 2019-08-28 17:14:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-07-28 03:24:09 CET ] [ Original post ]
PATCH v1.05
- ADDED: New library files for the updated version of RenPy.
[ 2019-07-24 08:24:05 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-07-08 22:11:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
Community Avatars added for the following games:
- Inexplicable Geeks
- Furries & Scalies & Bears OH MY!
- All Paper Shakespeare games
[ 2019-05-25 21:07:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-04-29 11:35:06 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2019-02-22 22:51:50 CET ] [ Original post ]
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.
[ 2018-11-28 09:27:56 CET ] [ Original post ]
PATCH v1.03 - 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!
[ 2018-09-19 22:05:38 CET ] [ Original post ]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/854530/Paper_Shakespeare_Stick_Julius_Caesar_with_a_dagger/ Probably our last stick figure game this year. Most likely.
[ 2018-07-17 01:01:07 CET ] [ Original post ]
- PS:LLL UX [709.42 M]
- PS:LLL S4 UX [72 ]
- Paper Shakespeare: Loves Labor(s) Lost: Charity Scene Pack
Yeah, let's see how long that lasts.
Play as Hero, one of the King's fellow Not Grave Robbers as you explore the lost city of Elsinore, all the while ignoring the six romantic love interests that have been placed in your way so particular-like. It seems that the Princess of France and her three court maidens have also journeyed to this lost city in order to learn its secrets.
Each character that you choose to interact with has their own story for you to explore, and may or may not have a direct impact on other stories. Will you forsake love in order to be the best student/archeologist ever? Or will you forsake the thing last said in order to be the best kisser ever?
Part Adventure game, part Dating Sim. All Shakespeare. It's the world's most epic stick figure Shakespeare dating sim adventure game.
- Engage in witty banter over five acts as you pick and choose which of your fellow compatriots to learn about and totally not flirt with.
- SENPAI HAS NOTICED YOU! Try NOT to be noticed by the King, Princess of France, or the royal court advisor amid your going-ons.
- Learn about the history of the Elsinore Ruins or totally just try to make out with other stick figures.
- OS: x86 or compatible processorStorage: 750 MB available space
- Storage: 750 MB available space
- OS: x86 or compatible processorStorage: 750 MB available space
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