Hello friends,
We write this from the precipice of gamescom-con-flu, drained of both social battery and brain power.
We took our magpie for her grand gamescom debut, where she was shown to the public in both the Indie Arena and ID@Xbox, which was a truly insane amount of booth real estate for us (not to be too tiny lil guy about it). A massive thank you to Indie Arena Booth, Wings, and XBOX for their booth support and making our gamescom experience so smooth 🐦⬛ 💕
daisy, catherine and george boarding the eurostar
can you believe people queued 2 hours to play the bad magpie demo?? (they didn’t)
cutest playtester ever
thank you Dorian Chou for the showfloor portrait of George and Daisy
Many journalists were spoken to. Many kölsch were drunk. The photo below is proof that Gamescom crowd sizes are not an exaggeration invented by the Cologne trade press.
it was somehow busier in real life
Thrilled to say we scooped up the following shiny accolades over gamescom:
🪺 WINNER of 'Best Game' at Indie Arena Booth
🪺 NOMINATED for 'Most Entertaining' at the gamescom awards
We dedicated our winning speech to our small but talented team of collaborators back home, as well as Wings for championing us from day dot. Thank you!! <3
Wings CEO Astrid with George and Daisy
It was absolutely insane meeting people who knew what the game was and enjoyed the demo!? We’ve been developing Bad Magpie in secret for years, so watching strangers queue up to play it was a lot to process on three hours sleep.
elite queuing technique - bring a book
Look at the genuinely beautiful art we received on the show floor. Look at it!!!
by @minishmaki
Bad Magpie ( バッドマグパイ) has been selected for the Indie 80 showcase at Tokyo Game Show 2026. We’ll be there from the 17th - 21st September! See you there?
We JUST hit 70k wishlists, isn't that mad!? Thank you, thank you, thank you <3 we appreciate you all so much!
That’s all for us this month. See you at the end of September!
T’CAWWWW!
Team Milktooth
team photo of Catherine, George, Daisy, and Susie