Hello — this is the Valliberum blog

I'll be honest about why this page exists: I'm not good at promotion. Posting to social media feels unnatural to me, and I'd rather spend that energy designing games. But I can write. So this blog is my compromise — a place where I talk about what I'm actually doing, in my own voice, at my own pace.

Here's what's on the workbench right now:

Valliberum Memory Challenges

The flagship digital release: Smiles of Nature, Keep Close to Nature's Heart, and Taxpayer and Friends as a playable video game, coming to Steam. Built for children (toddlers can enjoy pictures and simple color matching) with full competitive modes for older kids and adults — solo, versus the CPU, or a local second player. If you want to playtest early builds, the Discord server is the place.

Printed decks on Amazon

Physical, professionally printed decks of Smiles of Nature and Keep Close to Nature's Heart have been printed and are being sent to the US for Amazon (US, Canada, and Mexico) — plus a coloring version of Smiles of Nature.

Everything else

All of the card games remain free to download as printable PDFs on itch.io. That part doesn't change.

Expect posts here about design decisions, prototypes that worked (and ones that didn't), and progress on the Steam release. Thanks for reading.