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Helen Greetham 🐝

@jabbage.bsky.social

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Writer, illustrator and technologist🐉🐝 On a mission to slow down, be curious and make stuff! Fellow of the HEA, Rep'd by Prospect Agency, founder of www.thewonderroom.uk 🐝My videogame The Beekeeper's Picnic is now available!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · Aug 22

I'm so excited that The Beekeeper's Picnic is part of the official selection - looking forward to seeing all of you at #AdvX25!

store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 3h

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:

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 7h

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

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 2d

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)

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Marty Tina G. ⚢ @geezmarty.bsky.social · 4d

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

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!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 4d

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

Scrappy Little Notebook ^_^

YouTube video by Jabbage

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Ginge. @enbylievableginger.bsky.social · 24d

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

The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure! | Full Playthrough | I Cried at the End 🐝

YouTube video by enbylievableginger.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 8d

Miss Malkin I am trying to develop a game here!

(Not visible, keyboard underneath cat)

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 8d

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.
store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/...

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...

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 9d

My September newsletter is here! Sign up to get creative projects and other oddities in your inbox!
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Starting my New Life as an Agatha Christie Influencer (?)

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 11d

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!

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 13d

Snoozin' ewes.

Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 13d

(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.)

Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Satorl @satogamedev.itch.io · 14d

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

mockup of a point and click gameabout columbo, he is talking to a dog, he says "Youre a real friendly boy, arent you? oh, youre a girl"
on the bottom half you can see columbos inventory, he has an egg in his pocket

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 14d

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!

Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile: A Mystery Game Writer Reviews

YouTube video by Jabbage

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 18d

I think my cat likes me!

Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 19d

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!

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20d

#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

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 22d

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

(Followed very closely by www.basilrathbone.net)

The Victorian Web: Linking Scholarship, Teaching and Learning since 1994

victorianweb.org

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Helen Greetham 🐝 @jabbage.bsky.social · 23d

Finished! This is definitely my favourite binding I've done, and the chunkiest! The typeset I created incorporates illustrations from a 1946 edition by William Sharp.

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