- About that Goat - Our vision with our games - 22 July 2020
At Valiant, we make meaningful games that promote the underrepresented, instill hope and favor the journey. But what does that mean? Without further ado, tune in tomorrow at 4 PM CEST/ 7 AM PSD for another episode of... About That Goat From the creators of Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey, Midvinter and Kaleidocraft and publishers of Zestrea, comes a brand new telenovela about girl gamedev's! YOU, our fans, are the love interest and the resulting children are the games we make. Starring Laura the Professional Dragon and Queen Anna Hedgehogheart, this unique new Valiant production will Blown. Your. Mind. What to expect: we will play Pendula Swing, talk about our life, studio, industry and struggles a lot and tell you uncensored stories about indie survival. Includes plans and updates for Kaleidocraft, tons of design chat, lots of brainstorming and the occasional drama when one of us w…
- About that Goat - Valiant talks about Fun in Games - 21 July 2020
Now that we have established what the goat is, another question has been tantalizing our brains. What is fun, even? Without further ado, tune in today at 4 PM CEST/ 7 AM PSD for another episode of... About That Goat From the creators of Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey, Midvinter and Kaleidocraft and publishers of Zestrea, comes a brand new telenovela about girl gamedev's! YOU, our fans, are the love interest and the resulting children are the games we make. Starring Laura the Professional Dragon and Queen Anna Hedgehogheart, this unique new Valiant production will Blown. Your. Mind. What to expect: we will play Pendula Swing, talk about our life, studio, industry and struggles a lot and tell you uncensored stories about indie survival. Includes plans and updates for Kaleidocraft, tons of design chat, lots of brainstorming and the occasional drama when one of us won't have her way :D…
- About That Goat - pilot - 15 July 2020
Once upon a time yesterday, Anna and I met to plan for our Valiant doom. You see, as a super tiny gamedev studio, you cannot think about success like this: Instead, success for us is calculated in how much time we can survive, like this: And we came up with a strategy: We Need a Goat! DO NOT LAUGH, THIS IS SERIOUS. We desperately need a goat. But its way too complex to explain this using the written word, so we will apply the strategy: Stream-A-Lot (tm). Without further ado, tune in tomorrow at 4 PM CEST/ 7am PSD (sorry, US based friends! It's ok, we will record and publish on YouTube!) for the pilot episode of... About That Goat From the creators of Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey, Midvinter and Kaleidocraft and publishers of Zestrea, comes a brand new telenovela about girl gamedev's! YOU, our fans, are the love interest and the resulting children are the games we make. Starring La…
- Customization, favorite shapes, achivements & more languages! - 25 June 2020
Artists! For those of you how saw our Steam Games Festival Goodbye stream, you already know waddup. For those of you that didn't, you can.... 1. Watch our last Kaleidocraft Steam Games Festival stream right here: Please note that, besides the latest updates, we also told very accurate and historically proven stories about Midsommar. We also drew our 2020 Swedish Midsommar in a very realistic way. 2. Read the TL:DNR about our very first Kaleidocraft Early Access update (0.7.3), which includes: The ability to customize your artist avatar, like so The ability to favorite shapes, for extra quick use Finally, thanks to the awesome work of awesome translator friends, whose names will all soon be listed in credits, Kaleidocraft can now be played in More Languages, with even more on the way! ....oh, and! Enjoy, dear artists! Laura & Anna
- Kaleidocraft's last Festival stream - come say Good Bye! - 22 June 2020
Artists! It was a pleasure to participate with Kaleidocraft in the Steam Games Festival - Summer Edition! Tonight, we'd like to say good bye in our last Festival stream, starting at 8pm CEST/ 11am PST. We plan to sraw a good bye landscape but, as you have seen, we never know where the muse takes us. More importantly, though, we plan to tell you about our first Early Access update, which is coming Really Soon (tm)! And for those of you who watched us and/ or played Kaleidocraft, we'd love to hear your thoughts!
- About that wallpaper of yours - patterns and tiles in Kaleidocraft - 20 June 2020
Artists! We just had a quick morning stream today, and promised one more for the evening! Tune in at 6 pm CEST/ 9am PST to watch a lonely* Lara make patterns and tileable art in Kaleidocraft! As usual, the stream will be available on Steam and on YouTube. Meanwhile, we just uploaded our recordings of our past streams right here on the Community Hub! Do you have a favorite? You can pick from**.... Colorful Mandalas! Cute animals! Super wacky portraits! Recreated famous art See YOU this evening! *Lara is lonely because Anna is in some Swedish wilderness with her family **This morning's stream with wholesome words will be available, too, as soon as we have pleaded with the tech gods and make it watchable
- Yesterday, cute animals! Today, mandalas! Come watch Kaleidocraft this evening! - 19 June 2020
Artists! After the super creepy French dude Anna did on Wednesday in Kaleidocraft, I (Laura) had huuuge emotions about our commitment to draw cute animals. But... we did it! We really, really did it! See? In case it's not clear, that is a Baby Octopus. We also made a Hedgehog and a Ladybug. The hedgehog was.... edgy. We recorded everything: Today is Mandala time! Vibrant, colorful, psychedelic mandalas! We stream at 7pm CEST/ 10am PSD and hope you'll be there! Laura & Anna
- Time to AWW this evening? NOT a guarantee with Laura & Anna in Kaleidocraft! - 18 June 2020
Artists! We are creating all sorts of things this week in Kaleidocraft and streaming our process live for the Steam Game Festival. Yesterday, we set out to make portraits and ended up making Hedgehogs of Notre Dame and creepy French dudes with a missing teeth and wearing Adibas t-shirts, as one normally does when making art, rite? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We did it all live on Steam and YouTube - and made sure to record, so you can watch the entire stream here: We would like to take this opportunity to say: no real dudes or hedgehogs were hurt in any way, much less emotionally, during the making of this video, and we apologize for any possible resemblance that may cause any creepiness or emotional sadness. Today starting 5pm CEST/ 9am PST, we will be making cute animals in Kaleidocraft! Given our happenings of yesterday, tho, I would not go Aww just yet. WHO KNOWS where the muse will take us? We will…
- Kaleidocraft portraits - aka draw me like one of your French girls stream - 16 June 2020
Artists! It is time for another Kaleidocraft live stream for Steam Game Festival Summer Edition. Tune in on Wednesday June 17 at 9pm Stockholm/ 12pm Pacific Time to watch Anna and Laura stream Kaleidocraft hopefully much better this time around. For the second stream, we will create funny portraits. Or French girls. Or funny French portraits... we do not know. There may be cats. We listen to your wishes on Discord! Click Discord banner to join! Missed our first stream (warning! Our sound went... south...)? You ¨will soon be able to watch it on our YouTube channel: Laura & Anna
- Kaleidocraft - it's all about the Paint! - 16 June 2020
Artists! For the very first Quick Pitch for Kaleidocraft, we want to tell you All About the Paint! Because you know I'm all about that paint, 'Bout that paint, some treble Why Paint? There's overwhelming research showing the benefits of creating art for mental well being. In fact, Kaleidocraft was born because we were simply playing and relaxing in Adobe's Illustrator. The more the world took a turn for the uncertain - read, corona virus and the Black life Matters protests - the more we wanted to offer a relaxing game that celebrates creativity and imagines a kinder, gentler universe. Kaleidocraft puts you in the shoes of an artist in a futuristic, Start Trek like universe (we hope the artist room rekindles some memories for Star Trek fans). You make art using a holographic Paint app. You can showcase your favorite art on your wall, you can use it as a wallpaper, and you can also share…
- Kaleidocraft Live Stream Schedule for the Steam Game Festival - Summer Edition - 16 June 2020
Artists! Come draw with us as we celebrate games during the Steam Game Festival - Summer Edition! We have a nice plan to make all sorts of art with you in Kaleidocraft: We hope that, during the streams, you will feel free to ask us for New shapes, color palettes and features! Kaleidocraft is an Early Access game and we NEED you, creative artists! See you on the live stream! Laura & Anna
- Kaleidocraft streaming schedule! And boy, do things get funky sometimes! - 15 June 2020
UPDATE! We accidentally drew Hedgehogs of Notre Dame and creepy French dues in Adibas t-shirts. And dared to write about it, here! Today, at 5pm CEST/ 9am PST, we hope we will draw Cute Animals but.... you never know! Tune in to watch - we will broadcast right here on Steam, and also on our YouTube channel! Kaleidocraft live stream schedule for Steam Game Festival Summer Edition We planned many streams for you, artists! We will make a separate event for each, so you can tweak and tune at your leisure, but meanwhile, here is the complete schedule: Older News Artists! We are planning a grand debut with Kaleiodcraft live streaming for Steam Game Festival Summer Edition. Tune in on Tuesday June 16 at 7pm Stockholm/ 10am Pacific Time to watch Anna and Laura stream Kaleidocraft live for the very first time! After that, we will stream almost every day during the Festival! Because we aim for an…
- Kaleidocraft crew at the office! - 6 June 2020
Artists & Creators! Please stay tuned for a new world specifically made for you: Kaleidocraft! Craft kaleidoscopes, mandalas and more in a utopian universe where a twitter like wholesome social media truly welcomes you. Great art is rewarded instantly, with love, followers, new shapes, colour schemes and decorations for your holographic room. Enjoy your exposure, for realz! We are gearing up to welcome you to Kaleidocraft on June 16th, with the occasion of the Steam Summer Festival. We intent to keep the lights* on at the office** for as long as possible, each day, every day during the Festival, so you can play by yourself or with us. Click THIS LINK or the banner below to access our Discord server whenever you are ready. We'll keep the coffee*** hot! We are so very hyped about the Steam Summer Festival! How about you? *We are based in Sweden, where it's almost never night in June. So w…
