Let's Play: Cyberpunk choices with the Solace State team
Want to explore hidden possibilities within a militant biotech society? This Saturday 4PM - 6PM ET* (updated time!!), join the devs for a fun-filled introduction of our intimate choice-driven cyberpunk game, and play along with us, right here on our Steam page! Let's make choices together as we narrate our let's play! Hear more about the process of our game's development and what's new and unique about Solace State.
Who's partaking in the Let's Play livestream? Tanya Kan, Director and Executive Producer Julia Pyo, Community Manager Ashley Cooper, Game Writer
You can also download our free time-limited demo from Sept 12 through Sept 21!
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the event will be replayed during the course of PAX x EGX and Game Devs of Color Expo!
What other events are happening during PAX x EGX? Check out this calendar! There's also Game Devs of Color's Gradient Convergence coming up!
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
Music Making: Electronica in Solace State
This Sunday 3pm ET, join Lex Metcalfe and Tanya Kan as they talk about the process of creating original Solace State music, including the club remixes! It'll be happening right here on our Steam page! Learn about never-before heard Solace State OSTs, and dance your stress away this Sunday. If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution!
Who's partaking in the Let's Play livestream? Tanya Kan, Director and Executive Producer Lex Metcalfe, Composer and Sound Designer
You can also download our free time-limited demo from Sept 12 through Sept 21!
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the event will be replayed during the course of PAX x EGX and Game Devs of Color Expo!
What other events are happening during PAX x EGX? Check out this *updated* calendar! There's also Game Devs of Color's Gradient Convergence coming up!
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
Dev Q&A and chill workday: Find your Solace!
This Sunday Aug 30 at 3pm ET, join the devs of the award-winning game Solace State in a chill hangout about gamedev and lifestyle, and answer your fabulous questions! It'll be right here on our Steam page! See a sneak peek into the everyday of our game's development, and what's new and unique about Solace State. The stream will run until the end of the Indie Arena Expo!
Who's partaking in the Chill Work and Q&A livestream? Tanya Kan, Director and Executive Producer Gabi Kim Passos, Lead Developer Julia Pyo, Community Manager
You can also download our free time-limited demo from Aug 27 through Aug 31!
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the event will be replayed during the course of the Indie Arena Booth @ Gamescom!
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
The Vision of Solace State: Art, design, and storytelling
First time with Solace State? This Friday 5pm ET, join the devs of Solace State as we lift back the curtain to show you the artistry, design decisions, and writing the challenging narrative! It'll be happening right here on our Steam page! We will be sharing about the history of Solace State's visual look and narrative themes, and give you some juicy hints about the cyberpunk world and relationships within it!
Who's partaking in the Let's Play livestream? Tanya Kan, Director and Executive Producer Seage Howlett, Character Artist Ashley Cooper, Game Writer (just added to our livestream!)
You can also download our free time-limited Solace State game demo from Aug 27 through Aug 31!
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the event will be replayed during the course of the Indie Arena Booth @ Gamescom!
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
OST Music: Hypnotic electronica to club anthem remixes!
First time with Solace State? This Saturday 8pm ET, join Lex Metcalfe and Tanya Kan as they talk about the process of creating Solace State music, and stay for the club remixes for the second half of the evening! It'll be happening right here on our Steam page! Learn about never-before heard Solace State OSTs, and dance your stress away this Saturday night. If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution!
Who's partaking in the Let's Play livestream? Tanya Kan, Director and Executive Producer Lex Metcalfe, Composer and Sound Designer
You can also download our free time-limited Solace State game demo from Aug 27 through Aug 31!
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the event will be replayed during the course of the Indie Arena Booth @ Gamescom!
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
Let’s Play Solace State: Make cyberpunk choices with our team
First time with Solace State? This Thursday 5pm ET, join the devs for a fun-filled introduction of our quirky team, and play along with us, right here on our Steam page! Let's make choices together as we narrate our let's play! Hear more about the process of our game's development and what's new and unique about Solace State.
Who's partaking in the Let's Play livestream? Tanya Kan, Director and Executive Producer Gabi Kim Passos, Lead Developer Seage Howlett, Character Artist Julia Pyo, Community Manager
You can also download our free time-limited demo from Aug 27 through Aug 31!
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the event will be replayed during the course of the Indie Arena Booth @ Gamescom!
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
Solace State Attending Twitch Indie Discovery Show Tomorrow!
Solace State is excited to announce that we will be featured at Twitch’s own Indie Discovery Show tomorrow as part of Summer Game Fest!
(Doesn’t Chloe just look fabulous with these colours???? She was made for this event.)
New trailer! New music! Ask us questions live on Twitch!
The event will be live at 4-6pm ET / 1-3pm PT TOMORROW (Tuesday July 28), on the Twitch Gaming channel: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchgaming
Oh, and our free demo will be available for limited time again, until 11:59PM ET on Friday, July 31st Sunday, August 2nd, by popular demand!
Can’t make it? Don’t worry! Talk with the developers any time on our active, friendly Discord server:
Solace State Festival goodbye Q&A
Herald in the final hours of the Steam Game Festival Summer Edition in style! Join Tanya Kan as she shares the latest in Solace State development. Talk to her about music, arts, and the latest build that she's testing!
Tanya Kan is the Director and Executive Producer of Vivid Foundry, creating dramatic games that reflect the social issues of our time. She has a degree in Political Science and Cinema Studies, and a certificate in Game Arts. Tanya has been working in the Interactive Digital Media industry for over 7 years, and is currently developing the award-winning Solace State, a game about youth finding human connections in the midst of a biotech militarized city-state.
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the talk will be replayed during the course of the Steam Games Festival! Watch this space.
Solace State OST Music Workday
Join musician Lex as they produce completely new tracks for Solace State's OST! Some of you have asked what's to come for our game's music, so here's Lex with our process! On Saturday June 20, 3pm ET / 12pm PT, go behind the scenes and see never-before-shown elements of our work. We will be treating this as a fly-on-the-wall process for our work, so there's bound to be many exciting experiments!
We will primarily be focusing on modifying parts of Alden's theme song! It's a work in progress for one of our lead characters; He's the old frame of the game's protagonist, Chloe! This is sure to be full of juicy drama, both aurally and in our storytelling.
About our speakers
Tanya Kan is the Director and Executive Producer of Vivid Foundry, creating dramatic games that reflect the social issues of our time. She has a degree in Political Science and Cinema Studies, and a certificate in Game Arts. Tanya has been working in the Interactive Digital Media industry for over 7 years, and is currently developing the award-winning Solace State, a game about youth finding human connections in the midst of a biotech militarized city-state.
Lex Metcalfe - Lex Metcalfe is a Sound Designer and Composer for digital games based in Toronto. Since 2016, they’ve been exploring the melding of sound and game design through client work and personal projects. Working with developers to breathe life into games, their focus is on world building and designing soundscapes that fit the universe of the project. Check out their Bandcamp!
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the talk will be replayed during the course of the Steam Games Festival! Watch this space.
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
Solace State joins 2020 Steam Games Festival Summer Edition!
Solace State is an emotional 3D cyberpunk social hacking narrative game for PC on Steam and an unannounced console. You play as Chloe, a young hacker who seeks to reconnect with her friends in a militarized biotech state. Characters will remember how Chloe treats them intimately and in the broader political sphere, impacting how factions and cultures thrive or fall apart.
We are sharing our new time-limited demo—it’ll only be available to the public until the end of the Festival! The demo features a playable scene where your choices can impact a violent confrontation in a marginalized community and shift power dynamics. In playing the demo, you will discover parallels to complex, social issues of our times. We have new content since last month! The game demo is about 35 minutes long to play!
Talk schedules
On Tuesday June 16th at 7-9pm ET / 4-6PT, we will livestream new interviews with the team about the art and mechanics development, our recent Ubisoft Indie Series Grand Prize win, and a commented playthrough. Come chat with us! This is a Q&A, too!
On Wednesday June 17th at 7-9pm ET / 4-6pm PT, we will talk and amplify Black, Brown, and Indigenous writers on civil rights, philosophy, and grassroots movements. Our game is rooted in themes of people from all walks of life confronting the erosion of their rights, so we are amplifying how important these writers are to society and governance, and to Solace State’s narrative. As a studio with ethnically diverse and under-represented developers, we know that we must continually work against systemic racism and oppression.
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
