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Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date?

 
Status Update: Summer 2025 [June]Jun 7, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/0fe199273ee8854ac07045beca9ccda9502165ee.gif Friday: Camp Apocalypse Blood June/July: Tentacle Prawn post-campaign epilogue DLC Scarecrows rewrite has been sidelined for the Prawn DLC in light of workload tetris with real life.CAMP APOCALYPSE out FRIDAY!Jun 5, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/07a66f41f0f16bc2b7877aea939f6930ff590110.jpg https://store.steampowered.com/app/3767120/Last_Summer_at_Camp_Apocalypse_Blood_101_Ways_to_Not_Capture_Bigfoot/?curator_clanid=33017070 This Friday the 13th, go back to camp. That's it. That's the slogan since we can't put taglines on actual game art anymore. Also, Scarecrows may end up stalling a bit, as Real Life Stuff(tm) may be rearing its head for the next two weeks.DINO SIM 2025 AI BG GONE!Jun 2, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/bc6fc02be53f0460c0faa8f8efe98eb550ece67b.jpg All of the AI backgrounds for Dino Sim 2022 have been replaced by stock BG. The last one left is Scarecrows of Illyria, and the first half of the first act of rewrite is done.LAST SUMMER AT CAMP APOCALYPSE BLOOD announced!May 27, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/4b45f0436e7544f10b91af75b1d88e2c8c791b4d.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/3767120/Last_Summer_at_Camp_Apocalypse_Blood_101_Ways_to_Not_Capture_Bigfoot/?beta=1 A weird, wonderful narrative based on the last of my college plays: Joe Papp was the first, then came Planetkillerz. I wrote the original play in 24 hours based on misinterpreted homework. The majority of the spine is intact, but it also has been modified for a more "Friday the 13th" vibe.Final few days of the BIRTHDAY SALE! (Pt. 1?)May 22, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/8b396e5c5f64323c7346a9181402a495601e809e.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/2409020/Furry_Shakespeare_To_Date_Or_Not_To_Date_Cat_Girls_2_Prophecy_of_Convenience/ Alas, we come to the final few days of the BIRTHDAY SALE! But Richard III isn't worried. He knows where your destiny lies. It lies in low, low prices. 70% off the CAT GIRLS? sequel-DLC today!Shakespeare's Birthday Sale 2025!May 12, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/f0773cdde99c1f4a89213af6fe6643c6c85ccade.jpg Happy May 12th, everybody! Yes, it is another sale. Yes, it is not April, when Shakespeare's birthday actually is. That was going to be the first of two things, but I started writing before I made the list, so here we are. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/8b396e5c5f64323c7346a9181402a495601e809e.png The second thing is that you may notice our sale strategy is a bit different this time around. We're trying out new numbers, testing out new DLC pricing to see if it moves that needle at all. Ten year ago, Army of Tentacles 1 was greenlit. A year after that, we had sold over 400 copies on Steam. Eight years ago, we decided to make every Shakespeare play into a game. We're two games away from that goal. So, come one, come all, and peruse our fine (90%) anthropomorphic wares. It's what the Bard would have wanted. No, seriously, Shakespeare probably would be writing a furry webcomic. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/90a23201019a33da05b4a23794a6193eb4fca029.png It's ALSO the Critter Collector Fest right now on Steam, and so that means.... well, it really just means another game on sale. But WHAT A GAME IT IS. A full-blown feline battle academy set in a San Francisco ravaged by tech lords (ok, so....), all legally distinct from the most popular creature collector out there! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/1b34f23748334c1d36ff63f30e381c7b201aa268.png Next year is our 10 Years of Not Going Out of Business Sale. Life is nuts.THE MAY SALE!!!!! (2025 EDITION, Late of course)Apr 28, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/86d21bd24154865fde49d1fd6b0359865143896a.jpg Go get your goodies. It's like an Easter Egg hunt. Where you already know where everything is.Super Scary Halloween Spooky Times: Spit's Quest is OUT!Apr 15, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/6cf1a249a04c58b9a9253d3905b74f6b97b3ea26.jpg https://store.steampowered.com/app/1918490/Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Spits_Quest/?beta=0 The first(?) in what should/wants to be a rebooted line of Halloween Retail Saga games is here! It's..... thematically different, but still within the MacBeth storyline. We hope you like it. We spent a lot of time getting the hunting mechanics just right, and the costume mechanics are really what we had dreamt up for the first game, but were unsure of how to actually do it within the limited scope of a VN engine. Anyhow. I just got back from a dentist excursion, so my head is nowhere near where it needs to be if I'm trying to write a proper launch speech. Enjoy the early Halloween stuff.Super Scary Halloween Spooky Times III out on April 15th!Mar 24, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/2c5a3c9ce3fd45ca371c77d84f6163b701661aae.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/1918490/Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Spits_Quest/?curator_clanid=33017070 I wanted it to be April 1st, but real life stuff got in the way. This is a wildly oddly political game. I started writing it straight off the election of last year, when I was wondering why I was working a seasonal part-time job rather than volunteering at a food bank or a call center.Final Week of the SPRING SALE 2025!Mar 17, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/15af2af65b031e22b5a19f0c618d5ee189fd1dcd.png Don't miss these discounts! They won't be around until the next sale! Only a few more days! https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/dd317f5c89198767a4defafbe989ab181c2f8011.png https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/0f16c8c848a5ad20a68a150d4adc37c8b097bfb2.png https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/e816ac4ed26c443d66accc965df4de623deeea02.png https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/5c55ddd6ba13f04a07168278ac9de6c15ea75196.png https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/60ad1abfe418b96826a755c73ae82c4a0cb6120e.png THE STEAM SPRING SALE 2025Mar 13, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/acce4e91a30d63524745eacafc45da5a165f4b99.jpg The Steam Spring Sale is here once again to terrorize your wallet.2025 Update [March]Mar 9, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/c62a1c2abf49583e5727e873ab539583aa50e45b.png Geeks 2: Staying 99 cents, but we will be adding *some sort of* substantial content update to justify the price. As well as a content DLC. Scarecrows of Illyria: The new script and BG patch will probably be hitting before December. Halloween Retail 4: Still on track for maybe before late July. Game #2 2025: May slip to 2026. We'll see. Tentacle Prawn DLC: Possibly December. Steam Visual Novel Sale 2025!Mar 3, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/2494a6a73076b3306195af8dbde6c2262b7abad6.jpg And a few tagalong games as well! You, see, this is what we call 'capitalism'.NINE YEARS OF NOT GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE!Feb 14, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/1988a6f839b9024c534ea2bb9c1bb689c879c1a3.jpg Nine years and two Shakespeare plays away from adapting every single one of the Bard's works into a video game.GEEKS 2: Prince Change Incoming.Feb 12, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/f0eaecd0a3c091866bed827ed7d936ae859ebb89.png There's a price change incoming to Geeks 2. Right now, it's at 99 cents. We're trying to make it free. The reason being because we got all of the AI art out of the game, therefore we don't see the point in selling a game using entirely reused assets. AI has no use in art, and the fact that we let it slip by was naive, stupid, incredibly brazen, and entirely unprofessional. We're going to be publishing some new donation DLC (most likely next month), which most likely will include some new scenes using new assets. New SUPER SCARY HALLOWEEN SPOOKY TIMES announced!Feb 10, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/2c5a3c9ce3fd45ca371c77d84f6163b701661aae.png Gather your team! Hunt some monsters! Make costumes out of those monsters and sell them to the public! We decided to pull the Super Spooky series away from the Furries & Scalies franchise because we wanted it to be its own thing. It's Halloween, it deserves that, right?SCARECROWS OF ILLYRIA update progress update!Feb 6, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/8f1fb30c23f3a6ddbbf701c1b714e946f915ca3b.png All of the new backgrounds are in for Scarecrows of Illyria, and we're having a new writer's room/production meeting this weekend to discuss tweaks to the current story. We just felt like, as we were getting rid of the AI art, we also could update the narrative as well. While we do not want to give an actual date for the new version of the game to actually drop, we do want to express that it should be out before the end of the year. There are just a few other projects for 2025 that came up in the meantime. So the 2025 slate pretty much looks like: - Game 2025 #1 - Game 2025 #2 (which might be ready to have a Coming Soon page up by next week, who knows) - Scarecrows of Illyria rewrite - Tentacle Prawn DLCARMY OF TENTACLES: ASSAULT ON RAINBOW UNICORN ISLAND is OUT NOW!Jan 28, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/e79f862e7175d90e3a06e624c21e54f1db8d6bbb.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/1877720/Army_of_Tentacles_Assault_on_Rainbow_Unicorn_Island/?curator_clanid=33017070 Hooray! A new Army of Tentacles is out! This one has no subtitle! Well, it does, it's just not.... yeah, it's different. As stated before, the VO will come later in either a free DLC or a patch. We might go with a free DLC just to have data on player retention. Given the current political climate, probably could have gone with a title change. https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/2051f400f7e5ac736e9d9d25e12f533d82cd3ce9.jpg We've wanted to do a Trojan War play ever since the first Sexy Centaurs, but always got sidetracked. Now, we present to you..... the Greeks versus the Rainbow Unicorns! Who will become Troy's ruler? Is something rotten in Denmark because there's a Hamlet character in this? Find out in this video game that has a very light but deadly (LBD) combat system! It's the immortal works of Shakespeare together at last with the Cthulhu Mythos!Army of Tentacles: Assault on Rainbow Unicorn Island out next week!Jan 24, 2025 - Community Announcementshttps://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33017070/dd6174258fdf2eae7a5947b689cd866e93b420a0.jpg https://store.steampowered.com/app/1877720/Army_of_Tentacles_Assault_on_Rainbow_Unicorn_Island/ So. Time to talk turkey. Army of Tentacles: Assault on Rainbow Unicorn Island is going to come out next Tuesday. This game in no way should have taken as long as it did to come out. But that's the life of an indie dev company, especially if you want full VO in your game. The game's VO will be patched in at a later date. We already lost one backup of the VO files, and now the secondary may very well perish in the San Diego fires. I'd rather not worry about video game bullshit right now. I'd rather focus on making sure my team is safe and not burning to cinders, or wondering where they are going to live in a few days. I'd rather they focus on that. Hell, they would rather they focus on that. So, VO will be patched in at a later date.Note on bundles for future official Steam Sales.Jan 2, 2025 - Community AnnouncementsLarge game bundles will be disabled for all future official Steam Sales that have the ridiculous Sale Trading Card mechanic. These are just easy targets for those that are just buying and mass refunding games in order to get Sale Cards.

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