Bonjour, my fellow artists! 🍷🥖

We’re releasing an update today that will mostly focus on a whole lot of minor fixes that we’ve been working on for a long time. It also includes the addition of a new brush that has been requested multiple times in our Discord community. See the full list below.

• New brush! The Norlic brush, inspired by the request of one of our most active community members! This new brush allows for easier and more detailed blending of colours, available in Benjamin’s art supplies store!
  
• Automatic language selection on start-up.

• Rotating the sword pieces during the quest to get Shakespeare's skull should no longer result in a non-functional, square sword.
  
• Wiped away stuck bids.
  
• The colour of palettes should now be the same both while looking at them in the toolbox and while painting. You were not going crazy.
  
• Save file thumbnails will always appear.
  
• Fixed the rotation pivot of various interface elements.
  
• Fixed issues with flickering real-time light sources.
  
• The traversal UI no longer looks funky.
  
• Various buttons that sometimes stopped working will now always button properly.
  
• Selling a painting would sometimes result in all inputs ceasing to function, this is also now fixed.
  
• Players should no longer occasionally be whisked away into a boarded up house when loading a save file.
  
• The Australian sun has been tamed.
  
• The sound of the museum roof being lifted is now originating from the museum roof rather than at the centre of the world.
  
• The painting interface should now be a more suitable size for any canvas you decide to put on it.
  
• Passpartout would sometimes become afflicted with rapid onset glaucoma when rotating the canvas, causing his strokes to miss the target. He has been healed.
  
• The Teleshop interface should now always go away when you want it to.
  
• Increased the frame rate of some animations that would appear stuttery.
  
• Characters disconcertingly teleporting around the world should no longer be seen, even on ultra-wide monitors.
  
• Console input hints should no longer be visible on PC.
  
• The destroyed masterpiece now obeys the standard model of particle physics.
  
• The palette now contains all the colours of the palette when shown in the toolbox preview.
  
• Drawing on wallpaper does not completely screw up the wallpaper painting interface.
  
• When playing in ultra-wide resolutions all dialogue boxes should still be fully visible.
  
• The texture of the car that you draw on should no longer degrade in quality over time.
  
• It is now possible to change the quality settings of the game without discouraging customers from buying your art.
  
• Drawing on a golden silk canvas that has already been drawn on will no longer completely remove the old drawing.
  
• A hole in the ground into the infinite abyss has been filled.
  
• A lantern poking out through a wall is now properly aligned with the wall.
  
• The shop interface no longer pops out of existence. Well, it does, but you can’t see it happen anymore.
  
• The new canvas star icon should now act more predictably.
  
• Anti-Aliasing should now be active when you expect it to be.
  
• The intro house painting experience is now less sad because at least there will always be paint applied to the canvas even if Passpartout’s hopes and dreams are shattered.
  
• Various performance improvements.
  
• Various localization mistakes were fixed.

Happy painting!

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%.

Now… To the most exciting stuff… Which we should probably have put on the top, you know, for engagement and stuff. Anyways…

This summer! Passpartout 2 is coming to Mobile & Tablets!
Finally you will be able to enjoy drawing on mobile and Tablet. Of course, you can draw with the touchscreen!

Here is a sneak peek of the mobile version we are currently making. Wow, look at that UI being all adapted and stuff!

We’ll open a mobile app pre-registration soon! Stay tuned for further announcements!


I am so hyped to finally get the mobile version out to all of you!

Happy painting,
Papa Mattias

Bonjour my fellow artists 🍷🥖


It has been a while! I hope everyone is doing well in the freezing winter. Or, if it’s warm wherever you are, we are super jelly please send heat.

Oh!
Today is Valentine's Day. So we have a sweet announcement to make.


We’re changing our relationship status from “it’s complicated” to “partner” as we can ecstatically announce we’re officially in a relationship with Wacom💛

Passpartout 2 is now chilling inside the circuits of the Wacom One[estore.wacom.com] as a free demo to try! In addition, US, EU, and UK customers can also purchase the Passpartout 2 at Wacom Estore[estore.wacom.com]!

Supporting tablets hasn’t been easy and we’re grateful for the help we’ve received from Wacom to make their devices work well with Passpartout 2. Of course, the game supports other tablets as well and we made a Handy Guide[www.flamebaitgames.com] if you need help with your setup.🎨


Also, I must tease that we got some more exciting Passpartout related news coming. Teasing just to build suspense, you know, because I’m cheeky like that. Per usual we’ll announce that when ready. ❤️‍🔥



Happy Painting!

Papa//Mattias

Hello!

We were made aware of an issue with the game when loading certain older save files. This patch fixes so they load properly.

A special thanks to all in the discussions forum who helped us pinpoint the issue!

Hey! We wanted to publish a patch to follow up on our latest content update. This patch addresses:

- The studio looked a bit too well baked on the outside, so we turned down the heat somewhat.
- Adrienne should no longer improvise with lettering when making posters in polish
- Fixed an issue where a saboteur drew some extra lines on your fine art if you played on a low frame rate. This will retroactively fix paintings made since patch 1.0.2 and on (since october-ish).
- Someone (me) forgot to add the localization for the new things in Japanese. This has now been un-forgotten.

This is the final update for the year as we in the studio head into our blankets for the holidays. With that, thank you all for playing!

See you all next year!

Hey! We were made aware that an issue slipped past us that prevented players from using the Popup Table once bought. This hotfix addresses that.

Apologies for the inconvenience this caused! We'll continue listening and improving upon this content update. Hopefully it's smoother painting for you all from this point on!

Bonjour my fellow artists!

From the snowy landscapes I’m super stoked to announce our biggest update since the launch of the game. Say bonjour to:

Sit down, grab a hot cup of tea as we explore what the update has to offer.

The studio is entirely remade. We wanted the studio to feel more special and like a historical part of Phénix. It also always felt a bit cramped to us (or what cheeky real estate agents would call “cozy”) so we made it larger to give you some breathing space.

We want the studio to feel like a home, like it belongs to you. So from this patch you can customize your studio by choosing your interior decoration style as well as flooring and wallpaper.

Now to the cool part. This is an art game after all. In the studio you’ll be able to draw your own wallpaper pattern - making the studio completely unique to you! Honestly can’t wait to see what wallpaper designs you’ll cook up!

A studio of this size surely needs a little companion, don’t you think? Well there seems to be a feline fellow roaming around town. That bed of yours does seem like a perfect cozy spot for a cat, doesn’t it?

Finally, we’ve partnered with POSCA to bring their pens into the world of Passpartout! The POSCA pen has always been the main inspiration for the Round Brush so now we’re finally able to call the round brush by its true name: The POSCA Round Tip.
You’ll also find the POSCA Chisel Tip in Benjamin’s store as a new tool as well as a few new canvases. Hope you’ll like it! ❤️

Let me know what you think of the update. Are there any decoration options you’d like to see in the future?

In the meantime I wish you all a very warm happy holidays. We’ll be back after the new year.

Cozy painting!
//Papa Mattias

Bonjour our fellow artists 🍷🥖


It's been a pretty exciting year! We released Passpartout 2 on Steam in April and on Nintendo Switch in November🎂


It was almost three years ago that we started developing the prototype of Passpartout 2, and it is with great thanks to the community that we have made it to this day. Thank you very much!


Nominations for the Steam Awards are open today! If you could, please nominate us as your cool ”SIT BACK AND RELAX” game!☕


Oh, and don't miss the Autumn sale going on at the same time as the Steam Awards event!

It's getting colder, so please stay warm. Happy painting🎨🌟


Flamebait Team

We found the languages that got lost after the previous update. They have now been returned to their home in the settings menu.

This patch also contains some improvements to how settings are loaded and applied, which should help users who experienced issues entering that menu.

Hello all! This is the resident code-wrangler speaking. With Passpartout 2 coming to switch soon (yay!), we've been working hard these past months to bring all improvements made to make it run well on the Switch console back to PC! This includes:

• Significantly improved loading times for new games
  
• Performance improvements, especially when running the game on Low/Medium settings
  
• Some 120 fixes, big and small!

I noticed a mistake I made that affects the size of the application & patches that I needed to correct. This means this patch will be larger than you'd expect from a update without new content. Future patches (I hope) will only be large if they contain new content for y'all. ^^

We've also taken a deeper dive into tablet support. It's a bit tricky with all different brands and models around, and we've found there's almost always some steps required of the user to ensure it works correctly. To better the experience, we've changed the default settings of the game to be more brand agnostic, and added a new website accessible via the Settings menu that can act as a guide to setting up your particular model. We hope to update this site as we get more details from you users if there are any other steps needed for models out there.

Here's a highlight of fixes for this patch:

• You can no longer accidentally break quests that require characters to walk to specific locations by simultaneously doing another quests that asks the characters to be elsewhere.
  
• You can no longer interact with the invisible easel at the docks.
  
• When designing the flag for the community, now the correct characters are referenced in dialogue.
  
• Characters should no longer forget where their home is, even if it changes.
  
• Passpartout has now abandoned their ghostly self, and can no longer walk through certain objects & walls.
  
• If you hustle a painting to a customer and steal the painting as they pay, the customer will now forcibly take a refund.

That's all from us this time!