Greetings, beatlings! We're working pretty much flat out to get something new and wonderful up for you guys very soon. But somehow we found the time to lay down this tasty wallpaper for your visual consumption!



It's available in four sizes, so choose wisely! If you desire a wacky custom size then throw in a comment and I'll see what I can do.

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1280x1024 (tft)
1024x768 (crt)

A new year has begun, and feverish work on Plain Sight has once again resumed! On the art front, we've been working on new level designs for you all to make zoomy spinny robotic trails in. Here's one, now:



It's so new, we don't even have a name for it yet! If you come up with a good one, let us know. Actually, let us know if it's a bad one. It's got to be better than Upside Town (sorry Robin I like it really)



Points go for puns. We love puns.

As you've probably guessed, the Beatnik crew is taking some well earned R&R over the Christmas break. "Stuff" is still going on behind the scenes however it's being done at a much more leisurely pace.

To keep you all in the loop, before the next release we’d really like to improve the networking performance of the game. This isn’t something that we can guarantee will be done within a certain time frame so please bear with us, an update will eventually arrive!

In other news, we’re very happy to announce that Plain Sight will be published on Steam. All the paper work was finished up prior to Christmas so it’s now official, you’ll find Plain Sight nestling alongside other great indie games such as World of Goo and Audio Surf. Oh yes, whilst on the subject of Steam, feel free to join the Plain Sight Steam Group. We’re all on it and, so far, it’s proven to be the easiest way to get in contact with us individually...

Hope you all have a great new years eve - get drunk!

Happy Christmas everyone!

Check out the above Christmas card Declan sent us – it rocks!

To celebrate a (rather minor) update we’ve let a new influx of people into the beta test. Hurrah! Keep an eye on your email inbox for confirmation..

Also, for the beta testers, check out our events calendar for scheduled Plain Sight mash-ups.

Hope you all have a great day!

[EDITORS NOTE: due to our rubbish website CMS (and my inability to untick the 'send as HTML box') all the emails were sent with no formatting -how unprofessional! Well, what do you expect for 21:20 on christmas eve?! Anyway, I resent it and the build is up... ]

Behold! A brand spanking new trailer for your visual consumption. It's very much in the same vein as the old trailer, but with new footage, and a swinging new jazz soundtrack from those fine purveyors of filthy swing Top Shelf Jazz.



Tell your friends, and post it on your website. We don't mind. In fact we actively encourage it!

Hello world.

Firstly, a big THANK YOU to everyone who’s taken part in our pre-beta trial. Especially thanks to those who’ve found show-stopping fun-killing bugs. Don’t worry, they shall be fixed very soon; In the meantime, please keep posting your feedback. If you don’t tell us what sucks, we can’t fix it!

This week the office buzzword is “performance”. By the beta launch all you’ll need is a 486 and a 14.4 modem. That’s it, amazing! You see, we’ve harnessed the power of unicorn dust (also known as dandruff) so now every computer in the world should play the game just fine*. Happiness!

*Mr Bump says this isn’t true.

Whilst we stare blankly at our computer monitors, waiting for our lunch-time takeaway to be delivered, we can reflect upon the good things in life.



Like wireframe skulls, T-Rex monsters,
M.Bisons new twitter account


... and the iminant launch of the pre-beta


Oh, you lucky kittens. Hand plucked from our friends and forums to enjoy the wonders of Plain Sight a whole week prior to the beta launch. What joys and bugs you shall discover.

This is it! This is where it all kicks off. We just got our first piece of fan art laid on us, and it was supreme. Our popularity has been set to stun.

Resident forumite, Ika, has created many masterpieces in the past, as can be attested by this sizeable portfolio, but surely this must be the best among them. Witness and enjoy the hi-res glory of this genius below.

It truly is a work. And that's all that needs to be said, really. But life is not all good times and cider, for now you have given us "The Hunger". This is a strange phenomenon once told to me by a wild-eyed Tony Hart.

He was actually born in 1794, but was able to fend off the mask of death by absorbing the life force from the hundreds of damp water-colours and gluey pasta collages that he received daily during his professional life. "It is the greatest and most fulfilling sensation a man can experience" he said "but it ultimately withers your soul until you depend on it for your very existence".

In short: events have been set in motion. If you don't continue to send us your personal creations...

...We could die.

We have a new website and it is built on the strongest of foundations: art. Our new paint-smith, John G, is working. And it is excellent. I’m giving him a round of applause right now, in fact, we should all give him a round of applause. We should make John happy because we respect his talents and the fact that the rest of us have none.

Here’s what we shouldn’t do: make John cry.

This stupid lovely new hateful website keeps on fighting with Internet Explorer in its many hell-filled guises, and shatters all of John’s hard work into a mess of tables and padding. Ordinarily we’d say “screw this, we’re not going to pander to the big corporations, we’re beatniks!” and then go and shoot our girlfriends in Mexico.

But that just wouldn’t be the ‘video game way’, which more usually involves falling to your death repeatedly, or smacking into invisible barriers. Why anyone would WANT to feel like that, we’re not quite sure, but we subjected ourselves to hours and hours of it anyway. HOURS!

I used to regularly use and even enjoy Internet Explorer. Me and it were the best of buds, hanging out and fishing and playing catch. Now? Well, we’ve barely spoken to each other ever since it got all fat and self-righteous and bought a yacht in the Cayman islands. Twat. I’m severing ties for good this time.

Oh, I know! You know what would make John feel better? Buying up all of our delicious merchandise that’s coming your way right now! He’d love that. He’d love you. In fact I’m pretty sure he’d owe you a life debt and follow you around like Morgan Freeman, pretending to be Turkish. Sweet!

[ROBIN'S NOTE: A few small issues still remain with the site, they'll all be fixed tomorrow.The store is working but not looking very flashy - sexiness will be added asap.]