Paper Shakespeare: The Legend of Rainbow Hollow News

Paper Shakespeare: Very Naked Hamlet Release!
Next week, Very Naked Hamlet is releasing. Monday, March 8th, to be exact. A Valentine's Day release would have been swell, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Army of Tentacles 3 stickers!
We've submitted a set of four AoT 3 stickers for review, and we'll let you all know when those hit. If they do well, we'll be doing the same for AoT 1. These, sadly, will not be available for the Black GOAT Editions, as those are technically separate products.

Time has flown. It seems like, just yesterday, we were making dating sims based off of the works of William Shakespeare and RPGs out of Lovecraft lore. Old team members left, new team members joined, and we've just generally had a blast making small, weird games for y'all. We're working hard at getting back to more medium-sized RPG/Viz Novel hybrids, and that's sort of what is on the docket to talk about in this news announcement.

Due to reasons that we won't be going into, the main office is going to be moving twice this year. Because of this, as well as other factors revolving around Super Army of Tentacles' assets, we will be moving it to early 2022. We wanted February 15th, as that is the release date of the first AoT, but alas, that also presumably would fall within the range of the 2022 Lunar New Year Sale (maybe not, as LNY 2022 is Feb. 1st).

So, rather than release after Halloween 2021, straight in the middle of the Three Sale Gauntlet (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Winter), which would be an extremely uncertain launch window, we're going to delay Super Army of Tentacles and push up everything else.

Starting with....
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1312380/Paper_Shakespeare_Very_Naked_Hamlet
This game came to us from one of the newer team members, and in the spirit of trying new things, and because we're huge theater geeks if you couldn't tell, we're doing an adults only Shakespeare VN. We write words that are big and adult. But you have to know Hamlet in order to see them.

New Release Date: Late February - March 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349170/Furries__Scalies__Bears_OH_MY_2_Return_to_Kale_Bay
Pushed up because Super AoT is no longer a huge concern this year.

New Release Date: April - May 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512610/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Part_II
New Release Date: June 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512370/Furry_Shakespeare_Dreamin_of_One_Lazy_Dead_Midsummer
Guess who has the coveted Friday the 13th date?

New Release Date: August 13th, 2021


The direct sequel to Furry Shakespeare: To Date or Not To Date Cat Girls?. Direct in pretty much the same way Paper Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date? 2 was. It takes Super Army of Tentacles' spot.

The play it adapts will be As You Like It.

New Release Date: October 2021


The play it adapts will be Twelfth Night.

Someone forgot to include Furries in this one.

New Release Date: Late 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152200/Furry_Shakespeare_Loves_Lizards_Lost
The play it adapts will be Love's Labour's Won, which is a supposed sequel to Love's Labour's Lost.

New Release Date: Late 2021

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Super_Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim
New Release Date: Early 2022

You know, when you're moving cross-country and you have horrible internet that won't be fixed for a few days, and the office is a mess, and you have little contact with the rest of the team, things happen.

Things like not realizing the Steam sale started this morning and you just figured it out via a combination of checking your phone messages and looking on Twitter to see that Steam is trending.

I imagine Ted Lasso giving that speech. Maybe over darts.

Okay, so, brass tacks:

The 2020 Steam Lunar New Year Sale is on now until it's not! Then, when THAT sale is done, boy oh boy oh golly, do we have a surprise for you that's not actually a surprise at all! Our Happy Five Years of Not Going Out Of Business Sale is hitting! Most of our games are on sale this month, including some of our 2019 lot! But not the back half of 2020.

We made.... a lot of stuff in 2020. That was a rush. We have two more Furry Shakespeare games to announce for the back half of 2021, but those announcements will either be around August or September, if those two games don't slip to Early 2022.

We would like to wish everyone a happy Lunar New Year.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512370/Furry_Shakespeare_Dreamin_of_One_Lazy_Dead_Midsummer

Midsummer has been a play that we've wanted to adapt for years. It started out as a "lol this is the perfect dating sim" idea, then sort of merged with the fact that everyone that gets together in camp movies dies by the hands of an iconic movie slasher. Figuring out how to make a game about slashers without really making it a game about flat-out murder was tough, so we sort of went in a Cabin in the Woods angle with it.

Also: is that a new UI for a Paper Shakespeare game? Will wonders never cease?


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1512610/Furries__Scalies_Super_Scary_Halloween_Spooky_Times_Part_II/

This time with 10000% more Christmas. Building upon the mechanics of the first game, and expanding them, this sequel should be perfect for anyone that sees a Christmas commercial on October 31st and goes "why?".

aaaaaaaaaaaandddddddddd.....


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082690/Super_Army_of_Tentacles_Not_A_Cthulhu_Dating_Sim
Super Army of Tentacles just got a brand new trailer!

Won't adding new games affect the other titles?
Just be glad that every new idea that pops into our heads is not being added.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510940/Paper_Shakespeare_Stick_Merchant_of_Venice_Furry_Mode/
Seriously thought we had posted this.

Anyway. We've had some really wacky mental errors recently, from launching a DLC and forgetting to make a dev post, to forgetting to actually put something on sale on the same date as the last thing we put on sale, to writing incorrect discount. Those..... won't happen anymore.

We were going to wait to make this a post alongside all the other 2021 announcements (so next week), but then we decided to see what a DLC dev post does for business. Will it be business time?

Either way, this is the first new batch of content of the year. It was really fun to revisit Stick Merchant of Venice, but from a new angle.