Hi everyone! TK here. As many of you know, we're a small team creating this passion project, so we really appreciate all the playthroughs, wishlists, interest and questions that you have for our experimental game!
It's been a lot for just one person - me - to shoulder the business and financial risks, while working on the game and its marketing. As a result I've really come to value some time offline to stay grounded. As you may know, the Western game industry this year is facing financial difficulty the past 9 months with a lot of studios struggling to stay afloat. In this environment, I'm especially thankful for everyone who has shown interest or even just thought "hey, this looks nifty"!
The kind thoughts are encouraging and they help remind me of my passion: The desire to tell stories and to make art: starting from my subjective window of the world, but also suffused with narrative interviews with folks from different career paths and perspectives. I don't think I want to make a game for 'everyone', but I also don't need to. Studios, many with far larger budgets and established pipelines, already bring to life many universally appealing games, and I enjoy the heck out of them! But I did make this game for people who know what it feels like to be lonely in their queerness, or their immigrant and hyphenated identities, or their trauma, or want to learn more about what that's like. It's something I've wanted to do all my life. So I'm so glad it's out, and I am thankful that you're here!
Ah, who would I be if I didn't ramble after such a long time behind the scenes and not being very online?
Events! Sales?
Solace State is invited to the Access-Ability Steam event this year as an alumni of the 2023 showcase! Be sure to check out this year's showcase of 20 games here.
Here is the coverage from Access-Ability of Solace State last year:
As per Steam's sales rules, unfortunately we weren't able to line up a sale with Access-Ability, so soon after Solace State's LudoNarracon's May 9-16 2024 sale!
However, a sale will be coming soon later this month for Pride. If you wishlist the game, you'll get a notification about the sale!
Livestream!
Join Lady Arcaders online on Twitch this afternoon Sunday June 9th at 2pm ET! Zokubun from Lady Arcaders will be chatting with me while playing Solace State! Who knows, I might leak something about what I've been working on lately. I also have a massive amount of postmortem thoughts now!
Join the livestream here: https://twitch.tv/ladyarcaders
Thanks! See you then. Peace and love always.