Passpartout: The Starving Artist News

Courtesy of LG Studios, Passpartout and their paint addled friends now speak Turkish! Now like never before you can navigate those menus to start a "Yeni Kariyer". So, if you ever wanted to get critiqued in Turkish, now's your chance!

Thanks yet again LG Studios for localizing the game for us!

Happy Painting!

Heya!

We were made aware of an issue on Linux systems where the mouse cursor would go invisible after finishing a painting. As this is less than ideal when you want to... you know... click on things, we're addressing that with this patch:

Changes:
- New dazzling cursor for the game to entice the Linux OS to switch back to it
- Fixed the painting brush cursor not correctly rendering in negative on Linux system

The new cursor has also been added for all other operating systems since we love all of you equally and don't want to play favorites.

Happy Painting!

For those who like keeping track, recently a PC update featuring stability improvements hit Steam with a promise of a Mac followup. After a bit of elbow grease, it's now ready for release!

[h2]Patch Notes:[/h2]
- Updated the game engine, shoring up the occasional quirk the game might've had
- Got with the times and committed to 64-bit version. 32-bit versions will no longer be available.
- Replaced incompatible shaders with new ones. They were getting rusty anyways.
- Patched up any other graphical errors

This will ensure the game keeps running for you all in the foreseeable future on current devices. As for future devices running the new line of processor chips, that's a problem for future us to tackle.

Happy Painting!

Have you felt that tingling anticipation of starting Passpartout?

Opening up that configuration window and meticulously setting up the perfect resolution and nigh-redundant keybindings?

Eagerly pressing play with that yearning to paint on those minuscule canvases, only for it to trip itself up before the main menu shows, prompting the PC to shut down the game?

Are you one of many running an Intel Laptop not necessarily designed for gaming but capable of it?

Then this update is for you!

With the help of some very patient people reaching out to our support, we've identified the issue to a graphical problem with Intel integrated graphics.

As telling people to jam new hardware into their devices is pretty bad support practice, we've opted to update the game itself instead.

[h2]So what's the update?[/h2]
It's a big one in a sense!

To fix the problem we have updated the game engine (from the ancient Unity 5.3.8 to 2019 LTS for those curious), so the game may prove more stable on other devices as well.

This will show as an impressive amount of Megabytes to download, but functionally the game is still the very same it used to.

The most significant change you might notice is that the initial config screen is gone (no longer supported by the engine), so now you configure resolution and quality in the settings menu in-game instead.

Note also that this update is strictly for PC at the moment. Mac will get some attention soon enough. ;)

Happy Painting!

Are you ready for spoopy times? Yes? GOOD!

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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 Saturday 24th October to Saturday 7th November!

But just in case you are new to this event, what is there in it?

WE GOT GHOSTSSSSSSS!
They have invaded your studio's, wearing strange hats, and if you manage to please them, you get the hats! COoOooOl right?!


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!
Yep 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!


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