Helen Greetham 🐝
@jabbage.bsky.social
Writer, illustrator and technologist🐉🐝
On a mission to slow down, be curious and make stuff!
Fellow of the HEA, Rep'd by Prospect Agency, founder of www.thewonderroom.uk
🐝My videogame The Beekeeper's Picnic is now available!
On a mission to slow down, be curious and make stuff!
Fellow of the HEA, Rep'd by Prospect Agency, founder of www.thewonderroom.uk
🐝My videogame The Beekeeper's Picnic is now available!
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Helen Greetham 🐝
@jabbage.bsky.social
· Aug 22
I'm so excited that The Beekeeper's Picnic is part of the official selection - looking forward to seeing all of you at #AdvX25!
store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/...
I quite like being an outsider artist, but sometimes I'd quite like to pop inside and warm my hands for a bit.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I quite like being an outsider artist, but sometimes I'd quite like to pop inside and warm my hands for a bit.
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Final colourized version poster for @girls-can.bsky.social's #LaurierBology departmental seminar!
#SciArt
#SciArt
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I feel like 2025 is my year of discovering that I really like 'time loop' games, and it's also a year that have seen a lot of really good time loop games.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I feel like 2025 is my year of discovering that I really like 'time loop' games, and it's also a year that have seen a lot of really good time loop games.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
Forgotten City, Pentiment and Expelled were all so enjoyable.
I haven't even got to The Blue Prince yet but I hear so many good things.
I didn't have the capacity to zoom up to Harrogate this weekend and then exhibit at AdventureX next weekend, so I'm going to be feeling huge Thought Bubble FOMO this weekend! Have fun everyone! Say hello to the Turkish Baths for me! Buy lots of comics!
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I didn't have the capacity to zoom up to Harrogate this weekend and then exhibit at AdventureX next weekend, so I'm going to be feeling huge Thought Bubble FOMO this weekend! Have fun everyone! Say hello to the Turkish Baths for me! Buy lots of comics!
Time for some sophisticated drinks...
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Time for some sophisticated drinks...
I keep seeing academics posting AI-generated comic pages that are supposed to help convey their research to a general audience, and they're invariably awful. It breaks my heart a little.
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I keep seeing academics posting AI-generated comic pages that are supposed to help convey their research to a general audience, and they're invariably awful. It breaks my heart a little.
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
There are so many incredible non-fiction comic creators out there who would love to work with you!
"So, tell me why you're interested in this job?"
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"So, tell me why you're interested in this job?"
I have tickets to the press night of this and I PROMISE that I'm going to enjoy the wonderful silliness of it...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I have tickets to the press night of this and I PROMISE that I'm going to enjoy the wonderful silliness of it...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
...but if I'm allowed one little moment of pedantry...
I'm entering 24+ hours of the electricity in my home being non-functional, and friends it is not very fun.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'm entering 24+ hours of the electricity in my home being non-functional, and friends it is not very fun.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
Writing my game code by quill pen on parchment by the light of an oil lamp, like my ancestors.
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New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Reposted by Helen Greetham 🐝
Been playing The Beekeeper's Picnic by Afoot Games, and it's so delightful. Sherlock's VO does a good job of being sarky at you when you do something like "pick up a house",
The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
s.team/a/2248890
The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
s.team/a/2248890
The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure on Steam
Beekeeper (and former world’s greatest detective) Sherlock Holmes is arranging a surprise picnic for his friend Watson. Unfortunately pesky mysteries keep getting in the way! Explore, find clues and i...
s.team
September 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Been playing The Beekeeper's Picnic by Afoot Games, and it's so delightful. Sherlock's VO does a good job of being sarky at you when you do something like "pick up a house",
The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
s.team/a/2248890
The clear "they proper fancy each other" vibes between Holmes and Watson is very sweet as well.
s.team/a/2248890
Hear me out - as a fizzy drink fan I've got a fancy retro soda syphon. I've got an antique silver tray for it to live on. I've got cute little glasses.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hear me out - as a fizzy drink fan I've got a fancy retro soda syphon. I've got an antique silver tray for it to live on. I've got cute little glasses.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
Now all I need is a tantalus but instead of brandy, it's got coca cola syrup in it.
Reposted by Helen Greetham 🐝
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.
As a British writer making a game in a sci-fi setting, I'd better hurry up and learn how to spell 'corridor'.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
As a British writer making a game in a sci-fi setting, I'd better hurry up and learn how to spell 'corridor'.
As an example of not passing the threshold to be seen as a 'proper' practitioner - a few years ago I met someone in a social setting who told me they were running a symposium in Oxford about comics. I told them about my work making educational comics and expressed interest in submitting an abstract.
November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As an example of not passing the threshold to be seen as a 'proper' practitioner - a few years ago I met someone in a social setting who told me they were running a symposium in Oxford about comics. I told them about my work making educational comics and expressed interest in submitting an abstract.
I'm so pleased BlueSky folks are having this conversation today, I think I needed the reminder that it's very normal and in many cases preferable to have stable work outside of creative endeavours.
When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm so pleased BlueSky folks are having this conversation today, I think I needed the reminder that it's very normal and in many cases preferable to have stable work outside of creative endeavours.
I got to see Peter Cushing's Star Wars slippers today.
November 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I got to see Peter Cushing's Star Wars slippers today.
When I did my master's degree I kept a log/notebook of my thoughts and progress every day. Now I'm having a go at keeping a game dev log!
Every time I work on the game, I write what I've done, why, and what I hope to do next.
I think it solves three problems:
Every time I work on the game, I write what I've done, why, and what I hope to do next.
I think it solves three problems:
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When I did my master's degree I kept a log/notebook of my thoughts and progress every day. Now I'm having a go at keeping a game dev log!
Every time I work on the game, I write what I've done, why, and what I hope to do next.
I think it solves three problems:
Every time I work on the game, I write what I've done, why, and what I hope to do next.
I think it solves three problems:
My October newsletter is out, with a little itty bitty tiny sneak peek of the new game I've got in pre-production!
www.thewonderroom.uk/blog-2/tiny-...
www.thewonderroom.uk/blog-2/tiny-...
Tiny Books and the Museum of Everything — The Wonder Room
Hello newsletter friends! Let's get the big news out of the way - since I really like talking about my creative process and that's going to get increasingly difficult if I don't at least share the va...
www.thewonderroom.uk
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My October newsletter is out, with a little itty bitty tiny sneak peek of the new game I've got in pre-production!
www.thewonderroom.uk/blog-2/tiny-...
www.thewonderroom.uk/blog-2/tiny-...
Time to reflect back on #ALTC25! I was very honoured to be selected for the conference committee this year, which meant I had a whirlwind time dashing around chairing lots of incredibly exciting sessions!
Read more at...
www.linkedin.com/posts/heleng...
Read more at...
www.linkedin.com/posts/heleng...
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Time to reflect back on #ALTC25! I was very honoured to be selected for the conference committee this year, which meant I had a whirlwind time dashing around chairing lots of incredibly exciting sessions!
Read more at...
www.linkedin.com/posts/heleng...
Read more at...
www.linkedin.com/posts/heleng...
I was a member of the Oxford University Star Trek Society and it was majority women studying STEM subjects who were also into textiles and fibre arts.
We got together to watch Star Trek, drink supermarket own brand soft drinks and/or knit.
We got together to watch Star Trek, drink supermarket own brand soft drinks and/or knit.
MY ANCESTRESSES DID NOT BIND THOSE KIRK/SPOCK ZINES BY HAND FOR THIS SLANDEROUS ASS OMISSION
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
October 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I was a member of the Oxford University Star Trek Society and it was majority women studying STEM subjects who were also into textiles and fibre arts.
We got together to watch Star Trek, drink supermarket own brand soft drinks and/or knit.
We got together to watch Star Trek, drink supermarket own brand soft drinks and/or knit.
Reposted by Helen Greetham 🐝
A shout out to some of the amazing artists whose work I’ll be bringing with me to @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social this weekend!!!
October 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A shout out to some of the amazing artists whose work I’ll be bringing with me to @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social this weekend!!!
Might sound obvious, but I find thinking "What is the most fun thing for the player?" Is a great way to make difficult decisions or get out of a creative block.
What's your number one personal game design principle? And even better - does it have a cool name?
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Might sound obvious, but I find thinking "What is the most fun thing for the player?" Is a great way to make difficult decisions or get out of a creative block.
Reposted by Helen Greetham 🐝
It's official! Women-Led Games returns for our The Game Awards partnered edition in December! 🎉
Submissions are open from now until Oct 27th!! 🗓
Apply here: forms.gle/GTXSsTrCXju2...
Submissions are open from now until Oct 27th!! 🗓
Apply here: forms.gle/GTXSsTrCXju2...
October 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It's official! Women-Led Games returns for our The Game Awards partnered edition in December! 🎉
Submissions are open from now until Oct 27th!! 🗓
Apply here: forms.gle/GTXSsTrCXju2...
Submissions are open from now until Oct 27th!! 🗓
Apply here: forms.gle/GTXSsTrCXju2...
Reposted by Helen Greetham 🐝
absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago