Passpartout: The Starving Artist News

Bonjour my fellow artists🍷🥖



This is a bit of a personal one. Sometimes it’s easy to forget when looking at something from the outside that there are actual people making games. People with their own lives with ups and downs. While I try to be consistent I also run into the unexpected. And this time the unexpected put a bit of a delay in writing the post 📨


The unexpected this time was something wonderful. My wife and I finally welcomed our first daughter to the world🌍✨. Trust me that I’m practising great restraint in not filling this post with cute baby pics (because dang, she cute). I’m trying to hold off on sharing pics of her online since, well, she can’t consent quite yet.


But! What about the game?! What’s going on with Passpartout?! Rest easy! While I’ve been away for a short while I’m now back and the rest of the team has been taking great care of the game in the meantime. For those who missed it, we finally revealed that the Passpartout 2 release window is in spring next year! So hopefully you’ll finally be able to get your hands on the game soon!


Until next time I leave you with a teaser for one of our new characters. Meet Flash, our radical jokester⚡️. Arguably the funniest in the punk gang - if you love tired dad jokes or infuriating puns that is. Speaking of dad jokes I feel I have to practice now, I mean, it’s every dad’s duty to embarrass their kid with bad puns, right?






Take care and have a good one,

Mattias

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We're bringing back our Halloween version of Passpartout again this year, so you can unlock all of those wonderful SpOOOooOOOky hats and enjoy the Halloween aesthetic which is running from Monday 24th October to Monday 7th November!





What is the event🎃👻?


WE GOT GHOSTS!
They have invaded your studios, wearing strange hats, and if you manage to please them, you get the hats!




Brought back 14 Halloween HATS!
As previously mentioned, the ghosts are all wearing wonderfully bizarre hats, from horse heads to zombie and frog hats! Unlock them while you can during this event!



Spookified environments!
We got cobwebs in the corners, cauldrons creating delightful horrifying brews, carved pumpkins and a whole host of different things in each of your art studios!








Also, the game 50% off during the Halloween event time 🎃👻

My name is Kalle and I’ve been spending the last six months as an intern at Flamebait Games and I can tell you… while hacking this newsletter… that the Flamebait crew is a bunch of crazy wild cats and has no limits whatsoever... I’m telling you this because it needs to come out. Telling the truth is my new life goal. Prior to this, it wasn’t. I was a storyteller working with film, books and music - telling made-up stories all day long. Late in life, I found a way into the gaming industry and applied for an internship at Flamebait with the aim to expose them. To unveil their secrets. Because it has to be something, right? And wow… I mean WOW😲!


First of all, as an intern, you expect to get simple tasks like making coffee, sorting papers, and maybe hosting an Instagram account for a week or two. Flamebait… made me work! I’ve been forced to make character designs, and quests and write narratives and dialogues from day one. I hosted game tests and analyzed the results. They are actually listening to what I have to say and are, at this very moment, implementing my designs into Passpartout 2. I am an intern, for christ's sake! Yes, I’ve been writing professionally for 20 years but still: an intern! Why don’t they want my coffee ☕️?


I have broken the game several times - no punishment! I have on one occasion accidentally knocked a glass of water out of the lead artist's hand without retaliation. They are suspiciously kind. Or simply decent human beings🤔.


Anyways - I guess you knew this already. What a lousy whistleblower I would be if I didn't disclose anything new. So I made a screen recording of me testing out our new tools🎨, making a self-portrait exclusively for you. I don't know what kind of trouble I will endure for unveiling this. If they choose the Flamebait way… they probably will offer me a job or something…



On a more serious note, I would like to say that I am super proud of being part of this game and I hope that my involvement added a nice flavour to Passpartout 2. You’ll soon be able to see for yourselves.


Yours sincerely

Kalle Carmback, Game Design intern.

Bonjour my fellow artists🍷🥖



It’s been a while since the last one. First, the team took a well-deserved break for summer and after that, I was away in Germany for Gamescom and Korea for Busan Indie Connect! Busy times, but so much fun!!



Showing the game in Korea was a joy beyond what we could’ve ever imagined. We were met with such warmth and kindness and got to hear a few personal stories from playing the first game that truly moved us. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and tried the game!







In other exciting news, we got nominated for “Excellence in Art🏆”! No, win for us this time around but we’re super happy just to be on the radar with our cute puppet vibes! Though I have to say that the “Excellence in Art” should really be awarded to some of our players.



Next time around I’ll be showing you some of our new tools we got cooking. In the meantime, I want to show you a huge addition to the game you’ve been dreaming of since you got to lay your hands on the demo. This feature is a game changer that can truly spin your world 🌀






Until next time, happy painting!


/Mattias

Bonjour our fellow artists!🥖🍷



First of all, thank you so much for checking out the demo❤️! Your feedback and good vibes have given us mountains of energy to keep on cracking away at the game!


The one thing we were most excited about for the demo was of course to see all the art you cool cats would create. And oh my, you did not let us down! I was thinking I’d share some of my favourite paintings.🖼




I’m sure there’s plenty that I’ve missed, so why don’t you head over to Discord and share your art so that I can stare at it in pure amazement and awe. Also, a quick note that we’ll be heading off for summer vacation so the team will be a bit quiet for a few weeks🌻.


The Flamebait gang wishes you a lovely summer! I’d recommend picking up a piece of paper and a pen and just doodling away in the lovely sun☀️. Or, at least that's what I’ll do🎨!


/Mattias