Dr. Beekeeper

Hi I'm Sean, I make weird games. I'm working on Uprooted — a turn-based strategy RPG where you throw vegetables at nerds — and a Godot add-on to help with making accessible games. Hashtags: #gameDev #indieDev #godot #godotEngine #soloDev #gameAccessibility #indieGames #farmingGames #saveTheBees

Part of me was hoping my game would be ready for the current Steam Next Fest, but now that I've seen the news that it's full of thousands of AI slop games, I guess I just need to hope Valve does something about this and/or the AI bubble pops between now and whenever I submit a demo for next year. 🤞🤞

I've been posting Fun Game Facts every day on the Uprooted account all month, so if you haven't followed that account yet, do yourself* a favor and do so now! More Fun Game Facts every OTHER day for the rest of the month! Here's a no-context screenshot of the game for good méasure. *me

Oh shit I forgot the hashtags. #godot #indieDev #gameDev #farmingGames #ohDamnICanMakeThisEntirePostNothingButHashtags #thisIsTruePower #betterMakeTheNextOneReallyCount #pizza #DAMNIT

Have you ever played a farming game and wished that instead of giving your crops to romanceable townsfolk, you could throw them at people's heads? Then Uprooted is the game for you! Check out the gameplay trailer now! #indieGame #godot #farmingGame #farmingRPG #retroGame #garlic youtu.be/QfeDYJrCzJI

Usually a battle is between you and your opponent, but when you're up against Bacon, the viral food vlogger behind the YourNextFavoriteMeal social media empire, your battle is between you, your opponent, their recording crew, and their thousands of viewers! #screenshotSaturday #godotEngine #indieDev

Working on making some animations more dynamic. Behold: the Before and After of the mighty Melee Attack! #gamedev #animation #sliceToMeetYou #thatsAGoodNameForAPizzaChain #orAPizzaThemedRomCom

Just saw my girlfriend switch from her farm game to a spreadsheet she made for maximizing her profits and I've never loved her more.

I invite defenders of capitalism to consider this person, who apparently sincerely believes that the product he is making has a one-in-ten chance of eradicating all human life, but has apparently not considered even for a moment just not making it

Imagine... Harvest Moon with murder... Somebody should really get on making something like that!

sucks that AI is the next automobile - a tool that will be made all but necessary by dismantling cheaper, safer alternatives that already exist

A farmer is only as good as the crops they grow! In Uprooted, there are dozens of different crops at your disposal, from fruits and vegetables to mushrooms, eggs, paddy crops, and bees! Each with their own stats and abilities. How will you farm? #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #godotEngine #indieDev

What is Uprooted all about, you ask? Well, it all starts with the CTO of a meal replacement beverage startup who won't take no for an answer, siccing his robots on your farm because you refused to sell out to him! Why does a drink company have a robot army? 🤷‍♂️ #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #indieDev

What's your favorite part of county fairs? The fried food? The cell phone carriers handing out branded garbage? The stands selling shirts with cartoon characters dressed up as gangsters? Well you can experience all of that in Uprooted: Meal Replacement Game! #screenshotSaturday #gameDev #indieDev

Happy 20th anniversary to #neilBangingOutTheTunes and happy 7th anniversary to this drawing I have hastily corrected the number on. Also: new hat!

oh wouldja look at that -- we got a whole bluesky account just for the game now! isn't that swell?

No Context #ScreenshotSaturday

Rick Astley has a new single out, if you care. youtube.com/watch?v=wl2H...

Someone was telling me that their uncle has been missing for years, and that I can look them up on Wikipedia. So I immediately did so. And that's how they found out that their uncle was, in fact, no longer missing, but dead.

When I set up my RSS reader app (shoutout to @inoreader.com) I picked a few random feeds from the default categories and such, and since some of them were food industry sites, I now get to see riveting headlines like “Innovation featuring cherry flavors is accelerating” and I'm like "cool, great."

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Everyone should have to work in the service industry at least once

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 31. If this worked I'd be unstoppable. The end! Back to less exciting posts next year.

devs who write crappier code than AI are now putting out crappy code 10x faster

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 30. Whenever you think Bluesky kind of sucks, just remember how much worse it could be.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 29. Social media is great because years ago the odds of running into some weirdo screaming about minorities was comparatively low but now you can experience that constantly in a nice easy-to-digest feed right in the palm of your hand.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 28. Humans can be Sonics, too.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 27. I like to imagine that the Earth is stuck in a time loop and every few billion years it resets, but every other planet just continues linearly, so aliens like to visit Earth every now and then to see if the Earthlings did anything new on the current loop.

The time between Christmas and New Year's eve

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 26. I hope nobody got a new printer for Christmas.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24. If something is true, it must be true in ALL languages!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23. This is a callout for myself. #usGamers #epicGaming #horrorGames

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22. I love when things I drew several years ago are still relevant now, it's such a fun thing to see. It's just a great time all around.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21. Good thing this one I drew a few years ago isn't topical anymore! Ha ha ha!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20. A fun two-parter where I pitched a fun children's show where Mr. Thinks would reach kids about different actions and the tools that could help them in performing those actions. It would've been quality content for children ages 4-9, but unfortunately, Mr. Thinks died.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19. This is the last Curse of the Dragon Prophet cover I drew, back in 2022. Then in 2023 I decided not to do the whole Draw Something Every Day In October thing so I could focus on game development, and skipped it in 2024 and 2025, too. Maybe there'll be more some day...

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18. This is the one where you roll your eyes and say "Oh, look who took a single Art History course in college" but then the joke would be on you, because the reality is that I just spend too much time on Wikipedia and that's how I learned about all these things.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17. I like the title of this one. Much simpler than most of the others, but I think it's a solid goof.