Hello friends!
December is soon upon us, which means things will soon be winding down for Christmas (wtf right?). November ended up being a pretty busy month - let’s get into the highlights:
GameMaker Interview
GameMaker reached out to Ell to see if he’d be interested in having an interview and talking about making games! He talks about his gamedev journey, the inspiration behind APICO, as well as his future plans in game development!
You can read the full interview over on the GameMaker blog website.
Pedagogical Media Prize 2022
We were honoured to be able to say that APICO received the German Pedagogical Media Prize, an award for media that has high educational value for children!
You can read more about the award as well as the other winners this year over on the Pedagogical Media website.
I Can’t Beelieve It’s Not Butter(flies)
APICO had it’s first of three major content update, “I Can’t Beelieve It’s Not Butter(flies)” - AKA the Butterfly Update. This free update brought with it new NPCs, solitary bees, butterflies, alchemy, and all sort of new machines and decorations!
Grab the new update now over on your favourite PC store:
Steam | Itch.io | GameJolt | Epic | Humble
APICO Bee-sides
When Mothense worked on the original soundtrack for APICO, there were a lot of tracks that didn’t make the cut - Moth’s taken the best of these, revamped and remastered them, and now released them as the new APICO OST “Bee-sides”!
Get these wonderful and relaxing new tracks direct in your ears:
Bandcamp | Spotify | Steam
Social Media Meltdown
With Twitter future uncertain, there was a lot of jumping ship across the board by people! We’re still unsure what to do or where to go, but Ell has started a Tumblr now as well as blogs for both games, and we’ve started this shiny new newsletter you’re reading now!
You’ll still find us on Twitter as we won’t be leaving until we’re dragged away kicking and screaming, however you can also find us in the following places:
Discord | Reddit | Tumblr | Steam
Steam Sales
As you might have seen if you’ve got APICO on your wishlist, we were in the Steam Autumn Sale! Don’t worry if you missed it (or if you’re waiting for a lower discount, we won’t judge we’ve all done it) - as we’ll be part of the December Winter Sale too with discounts on the game and the OSTs!
If you want to be notified of when it’s on discount, you can wishlist our stuff over on Steam.
So that’s a wrap on November, bee safe and we’ll see you next month!
Love,
Ell & Jamie <3