Passpartout: The Starving Artist News

Bonjour my fellow artists!🍷🥖


It’s time to sharpen your pencils✏️ The day we’ve all been waiting for is coming super soon! This is as exciting as announcements get!

✨Passpartout 2 releases on Steam April 4🎨

At this very moment, we’re all smacking our keyboards as hard as we can - ironing out the final bugs to give you all as comfy and sweet an experience as we can. We’ve also finally decided on a price point.
So, allow me to share some details about the release:


🕰 It’ll release on Steam at 10 AM PST/6 PM GMT/7 PM CET
💶 Price $24.99 / €24.99/ £20.99
👼 20% Sale discount for 1 week
🖥 Will officially support Windows and Mac



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As you can see in the announcement trailer there are quite a few new areas and characters you didn’t get a chance to meet in the demo last summer. We can’t wait until you get to try it!🏘


Please tell everyone to wishlist the game. Tell your friends, your grandma, your cat and even your car (smart cars can wishlist games now?)! Everything helps us continue making the games we love💕


Your support so far has been amazing and we’re infinitely grateful! You’ve helped us crack down on nasty bugs. You banded together and made Bull St. a sprawling business zone with a whopping 24 amazing ad posters! Thank you!


Allow me to take a moment as well to share the amazing posters made by you and the community. To be frank we were overwhelmed by how many great submissions we received!





For those of you who missed it, if your poster was selected you’ll be notified by e-mail with info & a steam key around the time of release 📨


Now let's keep the hype up for release! And don’t forget to keep on drawing!


// Papa Mattias

Bonjour my fellow artists🍷🥖



Spring is right around the corner 🌸We’re almost ready to announce our release, but before we do, we wanted to host a tiny creative event 🎨


There's an area called “Bull Street” brimming with savvy business- folk, and there are several blank ad spaces! I thought it’d be fun to invite you to make up three silly or fun ad posters to be featured in the game! This can be anything from a made up fast food chain to an ad for a made up travel agency!🏦





The call for entries is open for six days starting today! Next week on March 8th, we will announce the three ads we think fits best and put them into the game as outdoor ads.

In order to make something that works in this game there are some requirements, so please read the application form before you start! This is also the place you submit your masterful ad creation 🖼


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[h2]【Submit your creation 🖼】 [/h2]



We are looking forward to seeing your wild creations❤️


// Papa Mattias

Bonjour my fellow artists🍷🥖



It's February already! We are so engrossed in game development that we lose track of time.

We’ve just sent an electronic pigeon to everyone who’s signed up, so please check your e-mail! 📬 🕊️





To make sure we select people who really want to play the closed beta we’re doing a second sign-up. You can sign up HERE! 😊

If you miss out on the beta test, don't worry. The game will be fully released this spring! Oh my, that’s so soon!



Oh, and what a surprise, Passpartout 2 was awarded Best Visual Art at the Taipei Game Show!! We are extremely excited to have been chosen for this award out of more than 170 amazing games from all over the world.

We’d like to say 'Thank You!' to everyone in the community who has stuck with us making our weird little games.




//Papa Mattias

Bonjour et bonne année 🍷🥖


Today we have two exciting things to share. We’re planning an exclusive closed beta test. The idea is that we’ll randomly select from our Newsletter subscribers to get the opportunity to check out the latest version of the game‼️  *If you haven't already subscribed to our secret newsletter, sign up here > https://www.passpartoutgame.com. Our hope is that you’ll try to break the game in every way you can imagine and help let us know what mischievous things you accomplished so we can get rid of them before release. But if you just want to chill out in the game that’ll be totally fine as well ☕️


Secondly, I wanted to share some nice progress we’ve been making. It’s called Bull Street and its money-loving residents will hopefully find their way into your heart, or at least your wallet. These business people are on the lookout for clever art investments as well as needing an artist’s hand with various business ventures💰


The main reason I wanted to show off Bull Street is this awesomely endearing heavily trafficked road. JUST LOOK AT THE CUTE CARS GOING VROOM🚙🚗🚕! Uh, anyways, more info about the closed beta will come when we’re ready. The current plan is to run the Beta sometime in February, so stay tuned!






In the meantime, take care and have a good one,

//Papa Mattias

Bonjour my fellow artists!🍷🥖


The Winter Holidays are approaching and the Flamebait team will soon take a bit of a break☃️. Personally I’m most excited about the baby-sized Santa's elf outfit my daughter will be wearing to melt her grandma’s heart🎅. Next year we’ll be back energized to finish up the game for you all!

Today I bring you a Holiday gift, a bit of a secret snack if you will. It’s… [imagine a drum roll 🥁 and pause reading until you feel the drum roll has reached its climax]...


THE COLOR MIXER!🎨 In the world you’ll find recipes for new color palettes that you feed into this marvelous machine. It’ll churn for a while until it’s ready, then popping out a new palette for you to enjoy!


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This means that you’ll be able to unlock several different palettes to find the one you love most! We’ve already shown a few of these palettes on our TikTok which you should totally follow if you’re hip ‘n cool. If there are any colors you’d love to see, please let me know in our Discord community.





🐷A pretty pig I made myself using the pastel color palette. Everything in the screenshot is work in progress and subject to change.





I tried my best shading some sort of metallic ball using the monochrome palette. Everything in the screenshot is a work in progress and subject to change.


That’s all for this month. I wish you all the best and a lovely Winter Holiday🎄

//Papa Mattias