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Visiting Fulworth
Today @jeremys-come-to-bed-eyes and I went on something that I might have been classified as a "research trip" for The Beekeepers Picnic, if it had happened a few years ago! As it is, there's no hiding that it was just a geeky fan trip.
I didn't invent the idea of Holmes retiring to keep bees in a village called Fulworth - it gets alluded to a few times in the stories, and there is one story set there, 'The Lion's Mane'.
We know Holmes' retirement home is either a 'cottage' or a 'villa', it's a few miles out of Eastbourne, and it's clearly somewhere where it's possible to walk to the sea for a swim. Sherlockian tradition is that the real-life place fitting this description is the village of East Dean.
So, that's where we went - walking from Eastbourne.
This area is famous for it's white chalk cliffs, which are eroding away very quickly. Here is a path to nowhere!
These cliffs are known as the Seven Sisters. They all have names but the only two I remember are Short Bottom and Rough Bottom.
The beach there is all pebbles - I knew that when creating my game, but I felt like a pebble beach just wouldn't look right all in pixels, so I made it sandy instead.
East Dean is absolutely gorgeous, basically everything I could have hoped for.
Here is the village green - flying a Ukrainian flag in solidarity!
And here is Mr Holmes' official cottage. As far as we could tell its now an office of the local estate rather than someone's house, so we didn't feel too weird taking lots of pictures! The Lions Mane implies his cottage is a little way out of the village, but I'll forgive them for putting it in the centre instead.
(I think that the dates are obviously the dates he lived there as recorded by his biographer - our last information on Holmes is from 1917. I think they made the right call not to try to invent a date for his death.)
A lot of the cottages in the area have this really distinctive mixture of pebbles and brick which I think must be a hallmark of the local area, but I was pleased to see a few whitewashed buildings like the ones I put in the game:
Thank you for reading, please enjoy this adorable foal.
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It's THEM!
I already had some placeholder graphics for a young Holmes and Watson for the prologue, but I knew at some point I'd need to change them,
A) because they were TOO young
B) because I particularly didn't like the Holmes, he was kind of wonky and he didn't have a chin. Sherlock Holmes needs a CHIN.
So I've been beavering away, and here are some new sprites! I'm so happy with these. Arthur Conan Doyle would probably feel I've made Holmes too handsome and I'm afraid Watson is always going to look like a mix of David Burke and Vitaly Solomin to me!
I also made a series of expressions for them! It's really fun deciding which expression they should wear for each line of dialogue. Making Watson's moustache Do Things was especially fun.
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When I was first tasked with drawing these two men of note, I couldn't help but draw inspiration from @beekeeperspicnic's wonderful designs. You really hit it on the nail with their retirement looks!
silly addition below the cut:
#(hopefully the tagging is ok by you)#sherlock holmes#acd holmes#acd canon#holmes and watson#the beekeeper's picnic#description in alt text#my art#described
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I have the Mycroft Holmes Simulator just on my browser that opens up every time I log on.
Today I glanced at it and chuckled, because I misread it as “Microsoft Holmes Simulator”
#Mycroft Holmes#Microsoft Holmes#the beekeeper's picnic#beekeeper’s picnic#Sherlock Holmes#can someone draw this#what would it even look like lol
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One fun fact about me is that I played the demo of The Beekeeper's Picnic by @beekeeperspicnic and it's brought me nearly to tears several times just out of pure like. sentimentality?? affection for these two men and this very specific little world they inhabit? my foolish heart that's been stuck on Sherlock Holmes for going on ten years now? idk man idk
#what i'm saying is i'm so happy people are making things like this game it is so sweet and i love it#moments include: holmes and watson's little conversations in baker street when you look at things.#just kinda being in baker street generally. and then imagining moving away and leaving this long long chapter of a life behind#holmes' little comments on stuff like the solar system in his attic#the moment when you realize holmes will go and watson will (for now) not follow#the echoing of other times they've been apart and all the reasons for it#watson coming back to england and coming straight to holmes' door - he's got a knack for this after all. the aftermaths of wars.#the moment when you re-enter the attic in sussex and see all the portraits on the wall and the light shining in and the bees and the /life/#and what's in the morocco case these days#and the sweet ending#gosh#other holmes#p#the beekeeper's picnic
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Beginning my journey to share every Sherlock Holmes game I can get my hands on with the impossibly charming @beekeeperspicnic demo!
I'm beyond excited for the full release! And would highly recommend playing this for yourself on steam or itch, and to please go support/follow @jabbage on their Kickstarter!
#I did my best to click on EVERYTHING#I played 2 times before realizing I could call Mycroft!!#imagine my excitement when the call went through#now I need to play Mycroft Holmes 1895 simulator 👀#the beekeeper's picnic#indie games#sherlock holmes#ghoulgames#jabbage#Youtube
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Me when I-
Me when my phone doesn't have any funny pictures-
Okay
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So i was watching a trailer for that Jason Statham action flick "The Beekeeper" this week:
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Quite nice. But somehow I always kept returning to the thought how little this project has in common with @beekeeperspicnic. *lol*
In related news, I played through the demo of "The Beekeeper's Picnic" and my gosh, it's just as lovely as I had up for! Getting exactly the amount of "Mr. Holmes" (2015) vibes that I hoped for. So very cosy, thanks for making this! And now please excuse me, I'm off to throw money at someone's kickstarter!
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#the beekeeper#the beekeeper's picnic#quite an apiarist week that i had#by my standards anyway#schroed's thoughts
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4, 5, 8, 18 for the video games asks. :)
4. Do you like to get 100% achievements/trophies?
I usually try, however I’m not always able to - for example, I probably won’t be able to get all achievements from Stardew Valley because two of them involve playing a minigame (Journey of the Prairie King) that I suck at. However, I do try to get all the ones that I can get
5. Game(s) coming out that you’re looking forward to
The port/remaster of the Apollo Justice games, and the Sherlock Holmes game @beekeeperspicnic !
8. A series you haven’t played but are interested in trying
Professor Layton, maybe - at the very least I want to play or watch an LP of the crossover with Ace Attorney. Might play/watch the other games, but I’m not sure. I also have a bunch of standalone/one-off games that I want to try out, like Disco Elysium, Pentiment, and Ghost Trick
18. A game location you really like
Herlock and Iris’ apartment from The Great Ace Attorney!
#asks#video games#autisticwriterblog#stardew valley#ace attorney#apollo justice trilogy#the beekeeper's picnic#professor layton#professor layton vs ace attorney#disco elysium#pentiment#ghost trick#the great ace attorney
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I wanted to try pixel art, but I got lazy
(besides, I messed up Watson, so I don't show it)
@beekeeperspicnic
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Back the Kickstarter!
It is 1920, and in a sleepy Sussex village, an elderly beekeeper (who is definitely not the world’s greatest detective… any more) is trying to arrange a very important picnic for his dear friend Watson. The only problem is that a series of pesky mysteries keep getting in the way!
A retro-inspired cosy point and click adventure and mystery(ish) game lovingly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
With a series of exciting rewards!
📱 Digital Wallpaper Bundle
🐝 Digital copy of The Beekeeper's Picnic
✂️ Printable Craftables
📖 Digital Artbook
🌼 Early Access to the Game
🧑 Resident of Fulworth and Criminal Portrail Cameos
🧑 Digital Portrait Comission
📖 Hand-Bound Code Book
#kickstarter#indie games#the beekeepers picnic#retro games#point and click#crowdfunding#sherlock holmes#cosy
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Between creating the animations and dealing with trying to make these two sit down where I intended them to sit down, these two seconds of gameplay took me several working days to get right.
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Her name is Hodge
#the beekeeper's picnic#points for anyone who can follow the train of logic as to why she'd be called hodge
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Okay! Doing commentary on the demo of The Beekeeper's Picnic in reblog-ish fashion!
I really like the look of the beginning! The music is super nice and calming in an upbeat way!
Oh, btw. Not a critic or trying to be, and in no way an expert on anything game, music or otherwise related.
I believe it's by @jabbage , please correct me if I am wrong, however.
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I am playing ‘The BeeKeeper’s Picnic’ Demo!!
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Sketch by @teaspoonnebula, finished by me. This started as a joke but I found it too charming to leave unfinished.
The area shown is from the game The Beekeeper's picnic @beekeeperspicnic (now with a demo (soon to be on kickstarter)) and I highly recommend checking it out.
Bonus period-appropriate black and white photograph version under the cut:
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