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:

Knife and Card

The flagship project: a collection of my card games turned into a playable video game, coming to Steam. Solo challenges and competitive modes against the CPU or a local second player. Some of the games are pure memory challenges; others mix in RPG-like battles, chess pieces, maps, and probabilistic guessing. 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 are coming to Amazon in the 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.