Helen Greetham 🐝🔜 AdventureX
@jabbage.bsky.social
Writer, illustrator and technologist, founder of www.thewonderroom.uk
🐝My cosy mystery videogame The Beekeeper's Picnic is now available!
In the spare time I wish I had, I'm an amateur bookbinder & 19th century weird speculative fiction aficionado.
🐝My cosy mystery videogame The Beekeeper's Picnic is now available!
In the spare time I wish I had, I'm an amateur bookbinder & 19th century weird speculative fiction aficionado.
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I'm so excited that The Beekeeper's Picnic is part of the official selection - looking forward to seeing all of you at #AdvX25!
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Tough decisions as a game developer.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Tough decisions as a game developer.
I adore this team-up!
Step into the shoes (and hooves) of the sharpest sleuths — Casebook 1899, The Beekeeper’s Picnic, and Lord Winklebottom Investigates are now bundled together… and the price is CRIMINALLY good!
@jabbage.bsky.social
@cavemonsters.bsky.social
#PointAndClick
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@jabbage.bsky.social
@cavemonsters.bsky.social
#PointAndClick
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Save 34% on Greatest Detectives on Steam
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November 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I adore this team-up!
Beekeepers and plague doctors: sharing a united desire to wear snazzy protective headgear.
You can get The Beekeeper's Picnic and retro medical adventure The Plague Doctor of Wippra for a special low price as part of this bundle for AdventureX! #AdventureX
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You can get The Beekeeper's Picnic and retro medical adventure The Plague Doctor of Wippra for a special low price as part of this bundle for AdventureX! #AdventureX
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Save 26% on AdventureX 2025 Pixelated Past Bundle on Steam
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November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Beekeepers and plague doctors: sharing a united desire to wear snazzy protective headgear.
You can get The Beekeeper's Picnic and retro medical adventure The Plague Doctor of Wippra for a special low price as part of this bundle for AdventureX! #AdventureX
store.steampowered.com/bundle/62595...
You can get The Beekeeper's Picnic and retro medical adventure The Plague Doctor of Wippra for a special low price as part of this bundle for AdventureX! #AdventureX
store.steampowered.com/bundle/62595...
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Newt facts!
Our local rough-skinned newts have been in a toxic arms race with the garter snakes and are deadly poisonous. But the snakes are immune and just get drunk on it.
Our local rough-skinned newts have been in a toxic arms race with the garter snakes and are deadly poisonous. But the snakes are immune and just get drunk on it.
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Newt facts!
Our local rough-skinned newts have been in a toxic arms race with the garter snakes and are deadly poisonous. But the snakes are immune and just get drunk on it.
Our local rough-skinned newts have been in a toxic arms race with the garter snakes and are deadly poisonous. But the snakes are immune and just get drunk on it.
Come and play The Beekeeper's Picnic at #AdventureX and obtain a newt fact!
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Come and play The Beekeeper's Picnic at #AdventureX and obtain a newt fact!
You too can use @polygontreehouse.bsky.social's 'No GenAI' badge and slightly confuse a reviewer on PC Gamer! 💪
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November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
You too can use @polygontreehouse.bsky.social's 'No GenAI' badge and slightly confuse a reviewer on PC Gamer! 💪
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I'm about to go to the press night for Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas.
I made a bingo card for myself
I made a bingo card for myself
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I'm about to go to the press night for Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas.
I made a bingo card for myself
I made a bingo card for myself
I wish this wasn't £150...
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I wish this wasn't £150...
SCENE: Library. Jabbage is seeking a book called "Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird"
Stranger: Excuse me, you look really pretty.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: (following) I wanted to pay you a compliment.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: You're not actually pretty.
Me: ...Ok!
Him: Bitch!
Stranger: Excuse me, you look really pretty.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: (following) I wanted to pay you a compliment.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: You're not actually pretty.
Me: ...Ok!
Him: Bitch!
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
SCENE: Library. Jabbage is seeking a book called "Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird"
Stranger: Excuse me, you look really pretty.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: (following) I wanted to pay you a compliment.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: You're not actually pretty.
Me: ...Ok!
Him: Bitch!
Stranger: Excuse me, you look really pretty.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: (following) I wanted to pay you a compliment.
Me: Thank you! (Keeps walking)
Him: You're not actually pretty.
Me: ...Ok!
Him: Bitch!
I quite like being an outsider artist, but sometimes I'd quite like to pop inside and warm my hands for a bit.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I quite like being an outsider artist, but sometimes I'd quite like to pop inside and warm my hands for a bit.
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Final colourized version poster for @girls-can.bsky.social's #LaurierBology departmental seminar!
#SciArt
#SciArt
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I feel like 2025 is my year of discovering that I really like 'time loop' games, and it's also a year that have seen a lot of really good time loop games.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I feel like 2025 is my year of discovering that I really like 'time loop' games, and it's also a year that have seen a lot of really good time loop games.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
I didn't have the capacity to zoom up to Harrogate this weekend and then exhibit at AdventureX next weekend, so I'm going to be feeling huge Thought Bubble FOMO this weekend! Have fun everyone! Say hello to the Turkish Baths for me! Buy lots of comics!
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I didn't have the capacity to zoom up to Harrogate this weekend and then exhibit at AdventureX next weekend, so I'm going to be feeling huge Thought Bubble FOMO this weekend! Have fun everyone! Say hello to the Turkish Baths for me! Buy lots of comics!
Time for some sophisticated drinks...
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Time for some sophisticated drinks...
I keep seeing academics posting AI-generated comic pages that are supposed to help convey their research to a general audience, and they're invariably awful. It breaks my heart a little.
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I keep seeing academics posting AI-generated comic pages that are supposed to help convey their research to a general audience, and they're invariably awful. It breaks my heart a little.
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
"So, tell me why you're interested in this job?"
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"So, tell me why you're interested in this job?"
I have tickets to the press night of this and I PROMISE that I'm going to enjoy the wonderful silliness of it...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I have tickets to the press night of this and I PROMISE that I'm going to enjoy the wonderful silliness of it...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
I'm entering 24+ hours of the electricity in my home being non-functional, and friends it is not very fun.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm entering 24+ hours of the electricity in my home being non-functional, and friends it is not very fun.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
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New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Reposted by Helen Greetham 🐝🔜 AdventureX
Been playing The Beekeeper's Picnic by Afoot Games, and it's so delightful. Sherlock's VO does a good job of being sarky at you when you do something like "pick up a house",
The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
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The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
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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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September 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Been playing The Beekeeper's Picnic by Afoot Games, and it's so delightful. Sherlock's VO does a good job of being sarky at you when you do something like "pick up a house",
The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
s.team/a/2248890
The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
s.team/a/2248890
Hear me out - as a fizzy drink fan I've got a fancy retro soda syphon. I've got an antique silver tray for it to live on. I've got cute little glasses.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hear me out - as a fizzy drink fan I've got a fancy retro soda syphon. I've got an antique silver tray for it to live on. I've got cute little glasses.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
Reposted by Helen Greetham 🐝🔜 AdventureX
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
As a British writer making a game in a sci-fi setting, I'd better hurry up and learn how to spell 'corridor'.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
As a British writer making a game in a sci-fi setting, I'd better hurry up and learn how to spell 'corridor'.
As an example of not passing the threshold to be seen as a 'proper' practitioner - a few years ago I met someone in a social setting who told me they were running a symposium in Oxford about comics. I told them about my work making educational comics and expressed interest in submitting an abstract.
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As an example of not passing the threshold to be seen as a 'proper' practitioner - a few years ago I met someone in a social setting who told me they were running a symposium in Oxford about comics. I told them about my work making educational comics and expressed interest in submitting an abstract.
I'm so pleased BlueSky folks are having this conversation today, I think I needed the reminder that it's very normal and in many cases preferable to have stable work outside of creative endeavours.
When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm so pleased BlueSky folks are having this conversation today, I think I needed the reminder that it's very normal and in many cases preferable to have stable work outside of creative endeavours.