A few of Vivid Foundry's devs are sharing their latest of Solace State, including a new scene in our demo! We will be talking about art, narratives, and more. There will also be chats about mechanics development, our recent Ubisoft Indie Series Grand Prize win, and a commented playthrough. Come chat with us! This is the time to ask us questions!
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.
Gabi Kim Passos is Solace State's Lead Programmer, bringing our game mechanics and engine tools to life. Gabi has experience in C, C++, C#, JS, and other programming languages, with a focus on gameplay, AI and UX programming and design in Unity and Unreal. Recently, as lead developer, Gabi launched Yumi and Boom, an animated VR experience.
Julia Pyo is Solace State's Community Manager. Julia nurtures the growth and maintenance of a healthy Solace State community. As a devotee of diction, she also writes copy for Solace State’s social media, marketing materials, and website. Julia has worked in transcription and freelance writing and since 2017, she has concentrated on copywriting and social media marketing at Spark Growth agency. Julia is the 2020 recipient of the Silver Stevie for Marketer of the Year!
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.
Civic Movements, Presevere! Presented by Vivid Foundry
Vivid Foundry and friends discuss grassroots mobilization, civic engagement, and the struggle for Black and Indigenous rights across history. Social movements have always been unevenly experienced in North America; How can we conceptualize ourselves in relation to our social institutions, and what can we do in our everyday capacity?
Solace State has long found basis and inspiration from POC writers, thinkers, and activists for its narrative storytelling. With America in the grip of grief and pain with institutional harm against marginalized folks and visible minorities, this is our time to give back and engage with North American history through the lenses of those who are often silenced. Let's discuss how Black and Indigenous communities have found avenues to build more inclusive institutions, and what each of us can demand from our governance... and from ourselves.
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.
Josh Boykin is the founder of Intelligame.Us, a game culture site that makes connections between games and society. A journalist and critic since 2009, he's spoken at multiple industry events including Game Devs of Color Expo and multiple PAX events. He aims to help people of all kinds see the importance of games and the ways they can help us better understand each other and ourselves.
Thomas Froh is a citizen of Canada's Métis Nations working as a Policy Analyst for an indigenous government. He has a PhD in Literature and a passion for both analog and digital gaming. Currently he is located in Toronto, Ontario.
Schedule
If you miss the livestream, the talk will be replayed during the course of the Steam Games Festival! Watch this space.
Streaming new cyberpunk content for LudoNarraCon! 📺
While we’re all social distancing from home, the Solace State team will be attending the 2nd annual LudoNarraCon, and so can you!
LudoNarraCon is an awesome online convention celebrating narrative games, and it’s hosted live right here on Steam!
We’ll be talking about pretty much everything that goes into our development (besides spoilers of course🤫), including but not limited to:
Our unique music-making process
Designing game mechanics
Lots of writing: Writing about sci-fi, politics, and romance in games!
Lots of art too: character art, 3D art, and UI design!
And, of course we’ll be showing. New. In-game. Footage. Wooo!
Catch our premiere live on Friday, April 24th, starting at 10am PT (1pm ET)! Missed it? Our 4-hour exclusive content will be playing on Steam until Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 11:59pm PT (2:59am ET)!
If you miss it, we won’t be able to answer your questions live, but a recording of our stream will be playing on loop until the convention is over.
Before, during, and after the event, you can always strike up a chat with our team on our Twitter or our Discord.
Limited time demo
You know you want to experience revolutionary choices first-hand! Our demo of Solace State will be available for a limited time from Friday April 24 9am PT until midnight PT on Friday May 1! This is the first time a demo is available on Steam, so don’t wait!
Bonus Level: Panel Discussion
On Saturday April 25th at 12pm/noon PT, our director Tanya Kan will also be participating on a live panel to discuss personal storytelling in games, with Paloma, Miriam, and Gabby! Click the image below to learn more:
Excited to chat with you all!
Team chat, latest game demo, and silliness – live TODAY on Twitch!
TODAY, on Wednesday, June 19, at 7PM ET / 4PM PT, our dev team will livestream our playable demos on Twitch, and talk about how we got to where we are.
But many of you may be curious about who’s behind this game, and how Solace State’s interactive story of resisting injustice in a cyberpunk universe came to be. We hope that we can show you both our playful and thoughtful sides of us!
What will we cover on livestream? Our playable demos from both PAX West 2018 and E3 2019. We'll chat about the game’s design, to the writing and hints of what's to come, to how we got to making our passion in games. We welcome your questions and just want to hang out with some great gamers from around the world!
We'll be streaming here, excited to chat with you all!: https://www.twitch.tv/vividfoundry
