- Passpartout 2 Turns One Year Old, Let’s Celebrate! 💖 - 4 April 2024
Bonjour my fellow artists 🍷🥖 It is almost time for spring to come in Sweden 🌸I hope everyone is in good health and are doodling their hearts away! Today marks the first anniversary of Passpartout 2(!!!!), and we are so grateful for the support of our nearly 80 000+ artists! To celebrate the 365 earth-spins Passpartout 2 is featured in the Daily Deal on Steam and is on sale with its deepest discount yet of 25%. If you haven't played Passpartout2, don't miss this sale! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1571100/Passpartout_2_The_Lost_Artist/ Happy painting💛 Papa Mattias
- End of the line for Mac 32 bit - 11 January 2024
We're nearing in on 7 years! My how time files. It was a wilder time, with steam greenlight having its final submissions, and us here at Flamebait fresh out of university. It also was a time where Steam supported 32 bit applications for MacOS. 32-bit Mac has since become a thing of the past. None of our newer products include it, and it has at last become time to discontinue it from our very first release as well. If you play on a Mac, don't worry. We still have the 64-bit version, which has been the norm for Mac devices for a decade at this point. With that we bid farewell to our Mac 32-bit version. We will fondly remember your limited addressable space.
- Happy Halloween👻 - 25 October 2023
Bonjour, artisans unbowed! 👻 We've found some weird postcard today! We think it's addressed to you. --- To those of you who're playing Passpartout, you'll find creepy critters are on the loose! Ghastly spirits, ghosts - it doesn't matter, For their devilish headpieces are quite dapper. Appease them with heart and you may find, They'll award you with said piece in kind. ---- We're not sure who the sender is, but we have a good guess. Have fun exploring the Halloween event in Passpartout, and if you're just picking the games up, welcome! Stay spooky! The games are on sale during this Halloween event time! Passpartout: The Starving Artist is 60% off! and Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is 20% off!
- 🎨 The Paint Finally Dried! Passpartout 2 Is Out Now! - 4 April 2023
Bonjour our fellow artists 🍷🥖 The day has finally arrived‼️ Passpartout 2 is available now! Jump over to Steam and start painting right now with a 20% launch discount! ▶️ Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist We’re looking forward to seeing your masterpieces🖼✨ 💰Sale Info Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist is available on Steam for $24.99 / €24.99/ £20.99, with a 20% discount for its launch week. To celebrate the launch of its sequel, the first game in the series Passpartout: The Starving Artist will also have its deepest discount yet at 60% off. For those who wish to fully commit to the artist life, we launched a brand-new “Passpartout Bundle”, offering an additional 10% discount for both games. 🔑Game Key features Easy point & click gameplay Have a chill time exploring and interacting with a beautiful and creative world. Literally drawing your own art, unlocking fancier tools along the way. P…
- Five More Days Until The Paint Is Finally Dry!! - 30 March 2023
Bonjour our fellow artist 🍷🥖 It is getting warmer and spring-like in Sweden🌸Hope everyone is doing well! With only five days until launch, we wanted to share the results of the Ad-poster event we held a few weeks ago! The magnificent posters you created have finally made it into Bull Street and wow did it help bring that place to life!🚗🚙 To be real with you we’re both extremely excited and completely terrified to finally release the game. We’ve worked hard every day for over two and a half years to make a worthy sequel to Passpartout: The Starving Artist. In the end, we’re super proud of the results and hope that you’ll find a ton of joy in painting your heart away!✨ For those of you interested in a bit of Flamebait lore we were only University students when we made the first Passpartout. Now we’re self-proclaimed professionals delivering the sequel after 6 years. But we wouldn’t h…
- What is That?! A Release Date for Passpartout 2 !?? - 14 March 2023
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 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, y…
- 🎨 Imaginary Ads Wanted! Passpartout 2 - 1 March 2023
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 🖼 ↓↓↓ 【Submit your creation 🖼】 We are looking f…
- Closed Beta Test + We Won an AWARD!? - 8 February 2023
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
- 📢 Exclusive Closed Beta Test + Sneak Peak of a New Area! - 14 January 2023
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…
- A Holiday Gift From a Not-So-Secret Santa 🤶 - 16 December 2022
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… ... 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! 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…
- No November News❓ - 11 November 2022
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…
- Passpartout The SpoOooky Artist 🎃👻 - 23 October 2022
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 🎃👻
- 🕵️ Words from a whistleblower: The truth about Flamebait! - 5 October 2022
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 narr…
- We got nominated for “Excellence in Art🏆” + New tools info - 9 September 2022
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 hug…
- 🖼 Mattias sharing his top art picks from the Demo 🎨 - 5 July 2022
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
- 🕰 Demo available now! ! Join our dev stream 🎨 - 13 June 2022
Bonjour, fellow artists 🎨🍷 Gah! It’s finally time! We’re beyond hyped for you to finally get your hands on a demo of the game. It's available for you to try out from today, June 13th @10AM PDT until the 20th! So, check it out while you can! During the event, Mattias (Game Director) and Bengan (Animator) will do a developer live streaming for Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist today (June 13th) at 10 am PDT/ 7 pm CET on Steam. We hope you’ll have a blast with the demo! And please head over to our Discord and shout feedback. We’d love to hear what you think! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1571100/Passpartout_2_The_Lost_Artist/
- 🎨When Can I Play The game??? SOOON!! - 3 June 2022
Hello fellow artists🥖🍷 So many of you have asked “When can I play the game?”, “When’s the Beta?”, et.c… And we’ve channeled our inner politicians for so long by giving the vaguest of answers. By the way, if you elect me I’ll make sure every citizen gets one free baguette per day. Anyways, today we’re politicians no more! (Unless you ask other questions we’re not ready to answer). Very soon you’ll all be able to get your hands on a slice of Passpartout 2 as we’re taking part in the Steam Next Fest June 2022 🎉 The demo will be available to play on Steam June 13th-20th! We’ve been working hard with trimming brushes, mixing paint and wiggling them puppets and we hope you’ll have a blast with it! It’ll be time exclusive so don’t miss this chance to check out the game and give us all the juicy feedback of what you love and hate (or maybe what you’re just luke-warm to). If you can’t wait an…
- Woah❤️ 20k is a Big Number! Thank You! - 2 May 2022
Bonjour my fellow artists!🥖🍷 We recently reached a milestone of 20 000 wishlists for Passpartout 2! We’re grateful and impressed by your wishlisting abilities. It’s amazing to see so many people excited to pick up the paintbrush again. Speaking of brushes we recently did some improvements to the watercolor brush I’d love to share with you. Now I consider myself a mediocre artist at best, so for me it’s important that the brushes in Passpartout 2 help me make beautiful art. So far my favorite is the watercolor brush. It leaves behind this lovely texture that chaotically builds shapes that I can add to, helping me create some pretty sweet art. I especially like using it for drawing water or fire, but I’m sure the creative minds out there can find many more uses for it! I mean, the masterpieces you made with the barebones tools of Passpartout 1 is mind blowing so I can only imagine what…
- Developer Streaming During Steam Simfest: Hobby Edition 2022 - 28 March 2022
Come to watch a developer play Passpartout: The Starving Artist! //Bengan
- A Premature Easter Egg🥚💕 - 7 March 2022
Bonjour my fellow artists!🥖🍷 Today I wanted to share a little easter egg with you! Which I guess maybe prevents it from being an easter egg? Anyways, it'll be our secret egg🥚! Meet MS Karashi, Harry's trusty fishing boat⛵️. He and his daughter Gabrielle used to often go out on fishing trips. Though not so much lately as Gabrielle has gotten older. Now what's the easter egg you ask?! Karashi is actually the name of our marketing wizard Miya's cat🐈! This feline floofball has contributed so much in our work-from-home meetings. Though there is a bit of a language barrier as no one in the office speaks the Meowish language (^_^;) //Mattias P.S. Do you speak Meowish language? then join our Discord and talk with ＠EmberCat🐈#9665
