Yorkshire Gubbins

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• Patch Notes·10 Aug 2024Official

  SteamOS & Linux Patch

  Hi all! This is is a thing I thought I'd fixed some time ago but turns out it never got published. Oops. So from now on when you try to launch the game on Steam Deck or Linux, you won't get a missing executable error. I've also set what I hope are more useable default controller configs. Mouse Only seems to work fine! Thank you for your (extreme) patience.
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• Announcements·31 Oct 2023Official

  The October State of the Gubbins Announcement

  Hello (and for people reading this today, happy halloween). A few months back I said that I would make an announcement in October, and that it would either be announcing an new episode, or, if it all went wrong, announcing that there was never going to be another episode. I made a lot of bad decisions as a game developer, for sure. Almost seems like being the kind of person who can't make good decisions is what attracts people to game development in the first place. But of all of my bad decisions, the one that's caused me the most anguish was not understanding that Yorkshire Gubbins was already, very much like Ken in the Barbie movie, enough. But to me it simply wasn't enough, and so I sold the game as something that I was going to add more content to. I set the price based on what was already in the game, which only seemed fair (did I mention bad decision making), and I didn't want to do a crowd-funder, but I felt that adding more content would be something that would make me a much better adventure creator than if I spent years working on one huge first game. I promised that I would keep adding content as long as the money didn't run out. And then the money ran out. Yet I still felt like I owed you all at least one more episode. When we last spoke I truly believed that I'd found a way of working that would let me make a new episode AND have a job AND have a life. It was definitely the most promising way of working I'd found yet. I made more progress than ever before. I was feeling very optimistic that at long last the monkey was going to get off my back. But, ultimately, the amount of time and energy that I'm free to decide how to use myself is never going to be enough for the magnitude of work that's required if I'm going to deliver something I'm proud of. So, it's been six years of me sweating over this unfulfilled promise. I can say, categorically and conclusively, I have tried literally everything to make something happen, and so have no choice but accept the ...
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• Patch Notes·27 Jun 2023Official

  The Pre-Announcement Of Infinite Doom

  Hi friends, I wanted to let you know that in October of this year (on the 6th Anniversary of the original release of Yorkshire Gubbins) I'm going to make An Announcement. But I don't know what the announcement is going to be yet. This isn't a joke. I'm like a ferret. Never trust a ferret. Or me. I do have an episode in progress right now. I am doing everything I can to make progress on it each and every day, in the hopes that it will become something you get to download and play and everyone gets the Happy Ending. I hope The Announcement is "A New Episode! Soon! Free!" But at the same time because I'm doing "everything I can", and I mean that literally, it does mean that if this project fails it's not clear to me how it will ever be possible to complete a new episode. At least, not while I have a full time day job. So the Sad Ending version of The Announcement will be "I'm sorry but there will never be any more Yorkshire Gubbins, it's just not possible". Not so much admitting defeat as accepting reality, as bitter as that might be. Either way, The Announcement will represent closure. I hope it's the happy ending, and that's what I'm working towards, but one way other another it ends. It ends this year. Those of you who've stuck with me, despite all the disappointments and false starts: Thank you for your patience of infinite... er... patience. -- Charlotte (Personal Assistant to Gerardo Eggbert)
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• Patch Notes·22 Apr 2021Official

  The Aye Fair Lady Update

  We did it! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30767507/4719bebf6ef37446700490c472b04d2eb3c8e7c5.jpg It's been too long, but thanks to the supporters I've finally been able to ship a long awaited big update to Yorkshire Gubbins. Aye Fair Lady has been added, the musical episode, as well as every episode being updated to run on the Aye Fair Lady version of the engine. In effect this is a huge graphics & ui overhaul for every episode, but Verb School has had a bit more love with refreshed art assets. I've also added keyboard shortcuts for the verbs, the most requested feature. Another big improvement is the ability to swap between episodes without abandoning your progress. Good for if you're stuck and want to play something else, I hope. Speaking of hope, work will now be beginning on a brand new Gubbins episode. Progress will be slow as I have a full time job now, but I'm very confident the development is sustainable. And that's good news. I hope you enjoy the refreshed Yorkshire Gubbins, and thank you for all your support!
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• Press Coverage·20 May 2018

  Aye Fair Lady is a free musical adventure from Yorkshire Gubbins dev

  I get angry. I get angry for a number of reasons, but a few times a year I get angry because video games aren’t as funny as I wish they were. Especially the games that are really Trying Hard to be funny. So, when I encounter a genuinely funny title, it makes me happy to recommend it. Obviously, there’s not a formula that always works. Well, except for the formula of “accents plus robots” because that works every. single. time. So Aye Fair Lady works for me. It checks both aforementioned boxes. It’s Mandatory Singing Day. And Steggy forgot to leave town. There’s only one thing to do: Put a stop it this tyranny forever. If you’ve played the game Yorkshire Gubbins before, you know what you’re getting into here. If you haven’t played Yorkshire Gubbins — go get correct, son. (more…)
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