Helen Greetham 🐝

YouTube video by Jabbage How to Begin! Starting a New Creative Project 🎮

How do you start a new creative project?! It's really hard! So I decided to procrastinate and make a video talking about that instead... 💪
Also I'm a mole now!
youtu.be/GRHD6Cq7ItM

Made a sign to tap.

Thank you!

I was able to find a physical copy too which is such a lovely keepsake.

Video I have ready to go when people pop up and tell my Sherlock Holmes would never become a beekeeper and therefore I have written him entirely out of character:

Amazing, thank you so much!
Determined to find a good news-agents 💪 but nice to know I have a back-up!

If my information is correct there will be an article mentioning The Beekeeper's Picnic in the Financial Times this weekend!

Err... So, where does one buy the Financial Times?
My local Sainsbury's and M&S don't have the goods. Do I need to ascend to a Waitrose?

Hmm I should really get some promotional stickers for AdventureX, you know, something professional that really shows off the atmosphere and artwork...

Me, 20 minutes later, ordering 50 of these:

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

They even know all the pre-1926 rules to Mornington Crescent (which are deeply disliked by most modern players of the game due to strict limitations on diagonal jumping and therefore generally only used in exhibition matches)

I feel like Cabin Pressure is the tippy top of the BBC Radio iceberg, while some BKP fans are plumbing the depths. They can tell you all about that Dad's Army spinoff where Sergeant Wilson is running an amusement arcade. They have a favourite series of Bleak Expectations.

Core demographics of people who seem to be interested in my game The Beekeeper's Picnic include:
- people who are fascinated by the history of polar exploration
- people who are fans of obscure BBC Radio audio dramas

anon ask: Hello, I just wanted to say thank you for making a lifelong dream come true with your unofficial continuation of Carmilla. As an avid reader of any additional works I can get my hands on, yours did not disappoint! Long have I wanted a sequel titled Laura (along with a prequel titled Mircalla) and I loved everything about what you created — not only did you keep to the Gothic tone of the story, but you also touched on the most poignant and vulnerable themes the novella leaves unexplored such as Laura’s grief and complex feelings about Carmilla. I found your art style to be simply beautiful, and the choice of the black and white color palette with splashes of red was genius. This is definitely one of my favourite works out there and I would without a doubt love to read anything else you might make within the canon should the opportunity ever arise in the future. Thank you again for this visual and visceral delight. answer: Thank you so much for your very kind words!! I wrote Laura to be able to be enjoyed by anyone, but when fellow fans of Carmilla specifically let me know they liked it it means the world to me :') I'm really happy you enjoyed it!

still thinking about this ask I got yesterday. you have to make things for yourself and the random internet stranger who will go crazy for it

Yay! It's me, I'm the team behind it!
(Minus anything you can hear, I can't do music and I definitely can't voice act) 😆
I'm so pleased you enjoyed it and that the length was a plus.

YouTube video by Jabbage Scrappy Little Notebook ^_^

By popular demand, a tutorial on how to make scrappy little notebooks!
youtu.be/6sZ7Jkk20k4

YouTube video by enbylievableginger. The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure! | Full Playthrough | I Cried at the End 🐝

Our playthrough of The Beekeeper's Picnic is now on YouTube!

The TLDR version: fabulous game, a Sherlock Holmes fan's dream, gay, cosy, buzz buzz, the children are darling, monkey mermaid

youtu.be/WfPG5xQsKdQ

Miss Malkin I am trying to develop a game here!

(Not visible, keyboard underneath cat)

Save 30% on The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure on Steam Beekeeper (and former world’s greatest detective) Sherlock Holmes is arranging a surprise picnic for his friend Watson. Unfortunately pesky mysteries keep getting in the way! Explore, find clues and i...

Fancy a taste of summer as the nights start getting longer?
The Beekeeper's Picnic is now 🐝30% off🐝 on Steam!

Described by Kotaku as “Completely and utterly gorgeous, uplifting, and entertaining", it's a gentle mystery game starring retired Sherlock Holmes.
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Starting my New Life as an Agatha Christie Influencer (?)

My September newsletter is here! Sign up to get creative projects and other oddities in your inbox!
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I bought it yesterday and I love it so there was no way I was going to let it go! (Also I don't like to litter the canal)

...going to give it a good wash though.
And my hands.

My new pretty fabric shopping bag blew into the canal, and I waited ten minutes for it to slowly float from one side to the other, and then managed to grab it with a big stick.
Success!

Snoozin' ewes.

(And just because sometimes people take autobiographical comics as the gospel truth - I actually politely deflected and had a brief and awkward small talk conversation.)

Sometimes you just want to find a secluded beautiful spot away from human beings to create *beautiful art*

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post!
#pixelart

YouTube video by Jabbage Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile: A Mystery Game Writer Reviews

m.youtube.com/watch?v=guEW...
Beginning my new life as an Agatha Christinfluencer!

I was given this game early and for free because someone somewhere thinks I'm a mover and shaker in the world of mystery games (I guess?!!), so I did my best to review it!

I think my cat likes me!

I've been really struggling to visualise how many people have bought The Beekeeper's Picnic, so I thought I'd think of it in terms of what venues they could fill.

Apparently they'd completely fill the Royal Albert Hall, including the maximum number of promenaders standing up in the gallery!

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

I firmly believe that victorianweb.org is hands down the best place remaining on the entire internet.

(Followed very closely by www.basilrathbone.net)

A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he worked in Delft & Amsterdam, where he lived 1629-1683.
National Gallery London