Furry Shakespeare: To Date Or Not To Date Cat Girls? News

We at the office have been working on the new foundation code for Super Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim, and are so happy with its progress that we have decided to tear out the combat system for Paper Shakespeare RPG and replace it with the new update to the Army of Tentacles series' Argument System. Honestly? It works better with the theme of the game, and means that we can get it out sooner.

We are still hard at work on a combat system for a later RPG.


A much more code-friendly system means that stats will greatly affect the word battles, as well as giving us the the opportunity to make much cooler skills that affect the battles in much deeper ways.


I would love to say yes. Let's get into why it might not happen, or might take a while to happen.

Because of the way the original Utahraptor framework (the thing that holds all our systems together in RenPy) was written, it would require a complete code overhaul, and that means an overhaul of two separate games. In that case, we're basically redoing Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim and Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2 from the ground up.

Even with an existing script to work off of, we're also talking all of the DLC, the works. Everything would be redone. Every scene, every quest, every Argument, every mechanic. Then we'd need to actually take the copy-pasted Argument System 3.0 and make sure it would have the things required for that specific game.

We're also talking about doing this at no cost to the user, just a simple, free patch. Sadly, we have to weigh that in as a factor, as we do have other games on the slate. We're talking about a 2016 game and a 2017 game, after all. Would we improve the art and resolution for Army 1, to put it in line with the other two games in the trilogy? Would we do art but just leave the resolution the same?

Is it unfair to any new or existing players to leave Army 1 and Army 3 as is if the new one is going to be, for lack of any other term, badass?

Paper Shakespeare RPG is getting a cooler combat system. Dunno yet if the previous Army of Tentacles game will get a facelift.

We're very excited to show you the next step.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1031740/Furry_Shakespeare_Outfit_DLC_Halloween

Some world lore, and outfits. Spoopy outfits. I hear kids use the word 'spoopy' now.

I'm not that old, I just wanted to make the joke.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/947070/Dashing_Dinosaurs__Sexy_Centaurs

Around Early January/Late December, we'll formally announce the rest of our 2020 games. We're finally getting Mythos Ever After: A Cthulhu Dating Sim done up, and have a new investor for two new Furry/Scalie dating sims.

This is the reason why we shifted PS RPG to 2021, but we'll talk about that more down below....



We're going back to our roots for 2021, and announcing a new VN-RPG hybrid. Two, actually. With Paper Shakespeare RPG, that rounds it out to three.

We are currently developing the systems that they will work off, and basically scrapped what we had so far for PS RPG in order to make something that could work peacefully with two of the three games.

Why two of the three? Well, because two are traditional RPG combat, and one is combat via conversation.



Yes, we're finally getting around to the third and final chapter in our current (and very weird) Army of Tentacles trilogy. We won't be formally announcing with a store page until next year.

It is going to be a standalone game that doesn't need the first two in order to feel complete, and yet will act as a sequel and final entry in the trilogy to those that have played the games before.

So, next year is gonna be three Furry/Scalie Dating Sims and then Joe Papp to round it out. 2021 is in development, but not active production.

We look forward to sharing more about all our upcoming projects soon!

Dashing Dinosaurs & Sexy Centaurs: August 28th.
Why?: Game is done and in full run testing right now. An October release date was originally set because of all the obstacles this year, but we are fairly confident that we can release late next month.

Paper Shakespeare RPG: Unknown.
Why?: We can talk about why this was changed early next year (possibly, if not sooner). Originally, this was meant to be just another small Stick Figure Shakespeare game with "traditional" combat elements, but we may be doing something else next year that has taken its place.

- ADDED: New library files for the updated version of RenPy.