Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date? 2 News

So, an update on Scarecrows of Illyria.

The rewrite will happen, and it'll probably be a new (free) DLC, but it's also.... something that has slipped as a priority.

A few reasons:

1) When I started the project with my co-designer, it was in the middle of a family crisis that gradually got worse and worse. It got so bad and my emotional state got so bad that I ended up making some really not great management decisions. I mismanaged the project, from the AI backgrounds (that, at the time, we had every reason to believe were not AI), to not giving the writer the proper notes that my co-designer had given me.

2) The juice just isn't there anymore. Rather than worry over a project that all parties have agreed is the past, I'd rather focus on the future. My co-designer and I have talked. We're fine. They know I tried to make things right. That I want to make things right.

3) Before the story, getting the AI out of the game was the main priority.

So that's the update. A bit more clarity on the situation.

That Lemur is your incentive to buy things.

Hot on the heels of saying that we're only working on one singular project next year..... well, we didn't lie. Exactly. We're not currently planning on working on a second project for 2026 as of now.

But.

Next year is our 10th year of not going out of business, and we would really love to do *something*. Some sort of 10th Anniversary Edition of some game - obviously, with new stuff. New story. New content. It's not our style just to do the same thing over again (*pushes the Black Goat of the Woods Editions under the rug*).

Would people want to see an Army of Tentacles 10th Anniversary Edition or a Paper Shakespeare 10th Anniversary Edition?

Due to the rest of the year getting unbelievably, ungodly busy within the past two weeks, everything has been pushed back. Hamlet and Dino Shakes will still come out this year, but Dino Shakes just is not able to launch next month anymore now that so much medical stuff is going on basically every other week back to back.

"Teehee tehee, I'll just make three small hand drawn games to close out 2025".... yeah. LOL.

The Scarecrows rewrite will come out in 2026. There will be no other projects besides this one for next year. We'll talk about that one..... probably next year. We know that 2026 is our 10 Year, but as of now, we don't really have anything set up for a 10 Year launch.

There's just too much going on, fam.