Announced as part of Opening Night Live, Coal Supper and publisher Panic reveal Thank Goodness You’re Here!, a comedy slapformer guaranteed to mek thi spit art thi tea laughin’.
After arriving early for a big meeting with the mayor of a Northern English town called Barnsworth, a traveling salesman decides to have a look around and meet the locals, who are all very eager to give him a series of increasingly odd jobs.
Each completed odd job opens new areas of the town to explore, and his time in Barnsworth becomes increasingly Barmy as the clock ticks down our kid’s big meeting.
Features:
- Bold, beautiful visual design that seamlessly blends side-scrolling action vignettes with top-down exploration in a chock-a-block open world
- Progressively more involved and puzzling odd-jobs to complete: cut the grass, bake a pie, traverse the astral plane!
- Wall-to-wall double entendres.
- Hand-crafted animation and original story based on traditional Yorkshire folklore
- Authentic regional dialects guaranteed to mek thi spit art thi tea laughin’
- Oddly moving original soundtrack
Childhood friends and adulthood collaborators Will Todd and James Carbutt released The Good Time Garden for free on Steam in 2019, establishing a unique house style that pulls influence from dusty VHS tapes of 80s/90s kids’ TV, cold cups of tea, and soggy copies of the Beano. Since then, they’ve been hard at work on Thank Goodness You’re Here!, a delightfully surreal homage to their hometown in God’s country, or Yorkshire, depending on who you ask.
“With our first game, we basically followed our noses as far as a shoestring budget and our spare time would allow – so it’s been an amazing opportunity to run down that rabbit hole with Panic behind us, and we’re excited to show the world what we’ve found at the bottom,” says Coal Supper.
“Coal Supper cold call emailed us a couple of years ago, and we’ve rarely been so immediately smitten with a pitch,” says Nick Suttner, Panic’s Head of Publishing. “We played The Good Time Garden just to be sure, and quickly confirmed that we were all in on seeing what these perverse geniuses would do with the support to make their first full-scale console game. And we’re oozing with excitement to share it with the world!”
Thank Goodness You’re Here is currently scheduled for release next year (2024) on, PC, PS5 and Switch.
