PORTLAND, AUGUST 22, 2023 - Announced today as part of Opening Night Live, Coal Supper and publisher Panic are exalted to reveal Thank Goodness You’re Here!, a comedy slapformer guaranteed to mek thi spit art thi tea laughin’.
Thank Goodness You’re Here! // Reveal Trailer
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 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 Northern England.
Learn more about Thank Goodness You’re Here! at the Panic Games Showcase on August 29 at 10AM PT!
Panic Games Showcase // Premiere
Watch the showcase also on www.youtube.com/@PanicVideo
"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 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!”
Will and James will be at gamescom this week showing a first demo for the game to media and a short demo will be playable on the show floor at PAX West (Sept 1-4) at Panic’s booth!
Thank Goodness You’re Here! will release next year on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and PC.
About Thank Goodness You’re Here!
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!
- 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
For more information on Thank Goodness You’re Here!, visit https://www.thankgoodness.game/. Follow Coal Supper on Twitter.
Find the game on Steam.
Find the game on PlayStation.
For screenshots, key art, gifs and trailer, you can find the presskit here.
For special interview requests, get in touch with pr@popagenda.co
About Coal Supper
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 90s kids TV, Reeves and Mortimer, and soggy copies of the Beano - they have since been hard at work on Thank Goodness You’re Here! A delightfully surreal homage to their hometown in Northern England.
About Panic Inc.
Founded in 1999, Panic is an ancient startup in Portland, Oregon that loves to make nice things and bring people everyday joy. Originally — and still — a Mac app developer, Panic has also become a highly-focused video game publisher that helped release Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game into the world. They now set their sights on even more games such as Nour: Play With Your Food, despelote, and soon-to-be more! And in the ultimate spirit of creating products that bring joy, Panic has also created its very own handheld video game system: Playdate.
For more information on Panic, visit https://www.panic.com/. Follow them on Twitter.