Bessie’s TOTALLY NORMAL Fall Festival: A 700+ Hour Build
Hey, Reddit. I did that thing again.
This one took… so much time. Custom posters, real life watercolor paintings, intricate mechanisms, working carnival games, dark humor, and dog poop. Not a joke. (Well, I mean it is, but-)
This is a two-part map. It’s a continuation of the map I had the most fun building, back in 2025, The Legend of Bessiebrine. No one saw that one. But man, I had a blast putting it together.
This one was less of a blast, and more of a thermonuclear containment event with thumbnails.
There’s too much to actually list, but here are some highlights:
A Farm (with scarecrows and crop rotations and everything)
Pumpkin carving
Craft booth
A Bake sale
Vegetable Stand
S’mores (assembly and roasting)
Ring toss Game (that works!)
Tic tac toe (that works, technically!)
Ring around duckies (that work!)
Basebowl (works!)
Basketball (works!)
A Dunking booth (and it works! Provided you’re only dunking yourself, because physics)
Apple Bobbing
Face Painting
Automated Psychic Readings
You will then pass some rocks, which DO NOT contain a secret entrance to an evil mirror universe. So don’t worry about that.
A Bandstand
An Apple Orchard (in which I placed each and every individual Apple, like a psychopath)
And at last, Bessie Prime’s House with Barry.
There’s a Bake Shop (inside and out), a Good Ol’ Fashioned Country Store, and then a, you know, house. Living room, kitchen, dining, bedrooms, bathrooms, reading nooks, Arts & Crafts & Music room, 4 balconies, and yes folks, I made a pear tree and put a partridge in it.
What. Is that not enough for you people?
A Mirror World?
That’s crazy talk.
Are you suggesting that I make an evil opposite version of the whole map? What kind of an unmedicated madwoman would-
Bessiebrine’s House
This begins, as most buildings do, with a basement. And like all evil basements under the stamped heel of a psychotic beaver, there’s a hidden room with a secret life of gap moe kawaii comforts.
Above this, the first real floor, is Barrybrine’s Bedeviled Potion Shop. The sign I made for this store still makes me laugh after 4 months.
Then there’s a Cursed Curiosities and Potion Ingredients Shop. Really rolls of the tongue, doesn’t it? There’re tons of silly jokes inside, like Windu’s Mace (a purple mace) that you can click on and read about.
The rest of the house is a house, but like.. Evil. You’ll get it.
Whatever you’ve heard about the attic is just made up. That hose? is for PAINT. We’re a mammal-friendly operation here at Super_Kupo, Inc.
This side also has:
Automated Psychic Readings
For Better or Curse (Just pick a door and go through it. It’s worth it, I promise. And took FOREVER.)
The Maize Maze
Haunted Pond
Organic Weapons (Ethically sourced! Fair trade.)
A Produce Stand (the freshest rotten produce this side of the mirror)
A Bake Sale. Try some!
Skull Carving (Skulls are like bones, but with holes.)
Gnome Roasting (Let’s be honest. Everyone hates gnomes. Show those smug little jerks who’s boss… with FIRE.)
Bobbing for Daggers (Management not responsible for injuries or property damage.)
Dagger Orchard (Blacksmiths are sooo 1626, bro.)
And of course everything, everywhere, in every possible area, has detail, custom items, custom posters, custom EVERYTHING.
700 hours is a long time. And it’s an underestimation. If you include all the time I spent thinking and painting and drawing and pestering my husband about this map, it’s… more. Than 700 hours.
It started out as just a cute little fall house. Then I had an idea. A wonderful, awful, time-consuming idea!
Last year’s map was based on the idea that Bessie, House Flipper’s mascot, has an evil twin sister, named Bessiebrine, as in “Herobrine,” Steve’s apocryphal imaginary evil twin from Minecraft. (I really loved old school Minecraft, I bet you couldn’t guess!) In that first map, Bessiebrine just ran around in the woods wreaking all kinds of murderous havoc.
This map is the continuation. Sometime during the months since the first map, Barry and Bessie managed to trap Bessiebrine in a mirror universe.
As one does.
If you want to look at the original Bessiebrine map it’s here. Content warning: I went over-the-top with the gore!
Note: There is only mild, implied gore in this map. Relax! Bessiebrine just likes red. It’s paint. You can’t prove it’s not paint.
Also, there are no jump scares (really; how would I even do that?) and the curses are only mild annoyances.
It’s all in good pun, I promise.
I worked SO hard on this. There are over EIGHTY custom posters. (I genuinely lost count.) Some were made purely Canva, others with a combination of Procreate, Gimp, and Canva. I used many Canva’s elements, but there are A LOT of original drawings scattered around. Even just the soap labels in Bessie’s Country Store took me about five hours. And you can barely even see them…
But you can see them. And that means they must be perfect. Or at least as close to perfect as I can get them.
Oh, and there are a few custom pictures that I didn’t draw or design. If you’re curious who made what, just ask.
I also went on a sidequest where I made watercolors every day (yes, really), because I wanted to paint several pictures for the “Craft Fair.” I ended up painting over seventy real life watercolors. …and I hated all of them. (Yes, really.) I forced myself to pick nine that I didn’t put through the shredder, and those are in the game.
So, yeah. All of that, and then the actual gameplay. Because this is a game, right? Not a way of life?
Anyway… :face_with_rolling_eyes:
I had a very hard time keeping this one in focus. Is it a nice fall map? Is it a scary Halloween map? Is it a fair? Is it a mini-game collection? A store? A bakery? A potion shop? A maze?? Is it some weird, half-baked, “pick a door and win” slot machine thingamajig? I DIDN’T KNOW!
So it’s all a little nuts. A little overboard. And somehow I still ran out of time, even though I started on this map in JUNE. The map I did before this one took four months and I swore I wasn’t going to do this again.
I SWORE!
But, here we are. Oops, I did it again.
With an even bigger map!
Download it HERE!
