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🐝 The Beekeeper's Picnic 🐝

Explore a seaside town in the 1920s and solve cosy mysteries as the (retired) Great Detective in this point and click adventure!

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The game will be available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

🌸 Features!

Visit and explore a seaside town It's the  day of the village fete, a suspicious new neighbour has taken a lease on  a long-abandoned cottage and something strange is happening down on the  beach...

Interrogate and befriend a cast of eccentric characters

Make deductions and decisions. Puzzles often have multiple solutions, some of which may please your neighbours more than others.  What path will you choose? Who will you enlist  to help you?

Shape one of the most beloved literary partnerships of all time by choosing the form which the relationship between Holmes and Watson will take: are they dear friends, platonic partners, found family or a romantic couple?

Phone for help of you get stuck! Your older brother Mycroft is always ready to act as your consultant, just give him a call at his club if you need a hint. 

🌸 Dates for your Diary!

THE KICKSTARTER IS HERE!

From Tuesday 19th September - A 30 day crowdfunding campaign for the project is underway with a chance to get lots of exciting rewards! There will also be a brand new demo released for you to play!

Back the project here!

Steam NextFest!

The Beekeeper's Picnic is taking part in Steam's Next Fest from the 9th to the 16th of October! Keep an eye out for livesteams and other fun!

The lovely new cover artwork is by @gooolabatooo Music by @sandygarnelle

Starting today, Sherlock Holmes is, in all of his respectful, emotional glory, completely and unquestionably in the public domain, which means… Herlock Sholmes has outlived his place in history.

You’ve done good, my dear detective. Rest now.

-When a fake/old friend tries coming back into your life and immediately ask for your help.

-When you did 90% of the project but your partner still asks you for help.

Keep it going!

@anime-and-sometimes-other-stuff for more animation/cinema content.

Art trade I did with @herius-is-drawing !!

(GO CHECK OUT THEIR AMAZING ARTWORK!)

What I did :3 What they did :3

This was a lotta fun doing eachothers Sherlock and John designs ✨✨✨ and thanks you herius for the ADORABLE WORK 🥰🥰🥰🥰

(seriously Archie has such a squishy little face, and I went to squeeze it so hard ahh!)

I just learned that people use the word doylist to describe an out-of-universe perspective for fiction and watsonian for an in-universe perspective and this is my favorite thing I’ve learned today, how great is that, I may just start using this as a fun-fact from now on, apologies to anyone who is going to have a conversation with me within the next few days because I WILL mention it🧍

Do you guys ever just remember that Watson had to fight in the First World War?

This is Sidney Paget (as you said)

This is Walter Paget, his older brother

And these are some of Sidney Paget‘s illustrations of Sherlock Holmes

So while Sherlock may have some resemblance with Sidney too, his design is said to mostly be based off Paget’s older brother

I think at the end of the day some of his own features probably ended up mixing their way into his drawings even if he technically wanted to base him off Walter lol

why are we letting Sidney paget’s drawings influence us so much. He was literally just drawing himself as Holmes

He just did a shit ton of self portraits man

“loosing someone to death and romance are equal tragedies”

Thank you. I will just go cry my eyes out now.

Do you ever think of Holmes alone at Baker Street after Watson's marriage and. And. And Watson's things are gone. Watson is gone, and there is just this aching gap around Holmes in the flat. The dust has not yet covered the space on the shelf where Watson's books used to be. Half of Holmes's home is gone, and he cannot even run his finger along the edge of the pain because there will only be one plate on the breakfast table tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow), but you can't cut yourself on empty space.