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Gamedevs. We make Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias but this account is run by Tony

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K. Chen's avatar K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social
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Life sims are a land of contrasts

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony)'s avatar Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) @blacktabbygames.bsky.social
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🥲 What a nice playthrough. There's something so special about watching people earnestly connect with our work. Slay the Princess is a weird game and we were expecting to hit a lot of friction when we released. Thank you all so much for approaching our game with an open heart.

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Starting the incoming art flood with The Princess from #SlaythePrincess

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony)'s avatar Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) @blacktabbygames.bsky.social
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Pictured: the length of Scarlet Hollow once Episode 5 is finished. Bear in mind that the game is hand-drawn (with thousands of illustrations) it's frankly a miracle we're able to move as quickly as we can!

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We're extremely grateful to our fans for being so patient about Episode 5's development schedule. Scarlet Hollow is an enormous game made by mostly just two people. We've been working on both of our titles as hard as humanly possible, and your support is what keeps us going

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony)'s avatar Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) @blacktabbygames.bsky.social
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tl;dr — Scarlet Hollow's funding was in a very rocky spot before we started work on Slay the Princess, and now we're able to comfortably self-fund the rest of development. Back to full-time work on SH Episode 5 pushed to '25 so I don't go fully grey at 32

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New blog post!

All of the things we've had to keep under wraps have finally been unveiled to the public, so we thought it'd be a great opportunity to catch folks up on the workings of our studio for the past couple of years! (things are good)

blacktabbygames.medium.com/black-tabby-...

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Tim Garris's avatar Tim Garris @timothygarris.com
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Really excited to share that I'm the publishing producer on this! I've admired Tony and Abby's work for several years now, going back to when we were indies trading marketing tips over Twitter DMs. I'm so happy to be working with them now to bring Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut to consoles.

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Free update! Stealing disco elysium's marketing strategy >:)

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony)'s avatar Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) @blacktabbygames.bsky.social
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Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut is coming this fall!

🗡️ 35% more Stuff — 3 new routes. 3 expanded routes. A new ending.
🖼️ A gallery w/ over 400 images to unlock.

And we're working with @serenityforge.bsky.social to bring you:

🎮 Consoles.
💬 Subs in 11 languages.
⭐️ A Collector's Edition.

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony)'s avatar Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) @blacktabbygames.bsky.social
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We're making an announcement tomorrow. It's a big one. Watch this space.

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Of course I can die! I'm dying all the time and so are you. But we're both still here, and you can't make me go away.

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This is a bad place. We're supposed to be together, but it keeps making us hurt each other.

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Ty to everyone who left a review yesterday and pushed us over 10,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam. As a token of our appreciation, here is a The Den art, just for you. (IF you haven't left a review close ur eyes don't look at the art OKAY?)

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The finished art from yesterday's livestream, where we designed a new Princess for funsies (there is NOT a clown princess in the pristine cut, the game already has the razor 😉)

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But it's too late now, isn't it? Some things, when honked, can never be unhonked. Everything goes dark, and you're pied.

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It's the last day of LudoNarraCon, and we're LIVE with an art stream to show you how backgrounds and sprites get made for Slay the Princess!

Stream is here:

twitch.tv/black_tabby_...

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so much art. one of these days we will be free

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Dang, Slay the Princess just crossed the threshold into the 250 best-reviewed Steam games of all time. It's still so wild to us that our weird little love story resonated with SO many people. Thank you all so much for playing and for leaving reviews!

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Invader Zim never truly leaves you....

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These are the fleshy threads that bind us together.

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Pristine Cut Update: Not beating the "Slay the Princess is pretentious" allegations. Beating the "Slay the Princess is not a horror game" allegations.

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3,266 new voice lines The base game has 9,500 That's 34% more Slay the Princess coming to you. For free. At a date yet to be announced. But y'all are gonna be eatin' GOOD

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony)'s avatar Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) @blacktabbygames.bsky.social
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no keep drawing princesses. keep drawing princesses forever. it's what the fans want, and we are beholden to their whim. a couple of funny little court jesters. nothing more.

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Hey folks! We've got some Slay the Princess funtime surveys for you so we have a baseline of player data before you all play the Pristine Cut later this year.

Please check it out!

forms.gle/ppfx6vY9Qq55...

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Decided to check our playtime stats and okay, Scarlet Hollow. Terrified to see what that's going to balloon to once Episode 5 comes out.

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony)'s avatar Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) @blacktabbygames.bsky.social
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The Slay the Princess live orchestral album is now up on streaming services!

On top of the music in the game, this also includes The Princess and The Damsel.

Vocals from Amelia Jones
Strings from the Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1icVLs...

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