What drew me to Budget MS Paint was at first the title, because having used MS paint is I think a shared experience by a number of people. But what struck me even more when I got to playing is that it is also very reminiscent of PictoChat featured on the Nintendo DS. Its this familiarity that to me made the experience feel like I was playing rather than using a piece of software to draw. Although you have to bring your own creativity to really enjoy the game, this is what makes it fun. Like with PictoChat, I found myself mindlessly coloring in the whole canvas with color and testing the limits of the provided brushes. Exploring, I found that the color of the dots could not be controlled, similar to the rainbow brush, but I think that this ultimately made the brush more fun to doodle with. I can see myself creating some fun art with this program, because even though the color options and brush size are limited, I know that creating can be even more fun when you have those limits. It reminds me of art challenges I see all the time where artists only use around 3 or5 colors to create a piece. While I was playing, I didn’t so much tell myself a story but rather thought about what I could create with the very saturated colors and dots that could be a serious work of art. Which, is a difficult task to do with colors and brushes that don’t let you adjust their saturation without making a final drawing hard on the eyes.