This is a fantastically peculiar game that makes little sense to people outside of the art scene, like myself. I enjoy the heck out of the game, but I do wish the controls and camera were better. If the game ever gets revisited/remastered, I'd focus on smoothing out those aspects while keeping everything else... nonsensical.
Still worth checking out and playing, because it's funny as heck.
so when are we getting the full fledged "literally just kid pix" spiritual successor to this because whilst its obvious theres some very good and true statements going on in this game, part of me cant help but notice that its also screaming out to be a kid pix style tool,
This game is so cute! i love the colors and the vibes. I also love the prompts, it makes it fun to draw. One thing though is when i try to see my portfolio, around half of them are blank, i dont know why. It makes me sad that i lost so much of the drawings i did, if there's a way to fix this i'd love to know. Otherwise, this game is so fun and i look forward to playing it everyday. I only got it a few days ago and i already have 8 hours on it!
I know this is an old comment, but I thought I'd respond anyway. When I opened my portfolio towards the start of the game, there were eight total pictures and only three of them were not blank. The funny thing is, at that point I had only drawn three pictures! However multiple times (five, if i had to guess) I fell into the void or accidentally entered a door with nothing drawn, which prompted Professor Qwertz to say it wasn't finished and to come back when I was done. My theory is that the game catalogues the unfinished drawings as well as the finished. I would recommend going back through your portfolio if you still have it and checking to see if there are the 50 total finished drawings.
This was adorably and brutally on-point for how art is often graded. A little tough for me to navigate with arrow keys which made exploring the world a little frustrating but did enjoy that I could just walk off the side of the world rather than find the professor's office to turn something in.
I mean the idea is cool and all but from one art major to a dev why isn't there enough weird and totally out there sculptures like say, a rat with very big bullocks like in New York?
And yes this is an actual sculpture straight from Pratt Institute.
This game is super cute and fun for farting around !! however im photosensitive and the professor, the sky and the other static textured objects are incredibly hard to look at so i cant play for very long. is there any way to turn this off ?
If the creator actually trained an AI for this game, it's not great. I'll spam random colors and get a B or A. The drawings I put effort into get Fs and Ds and then I'll add a random dot and get an A. Super limited color pallette didn't feel fun, made things hard to draw. World is fun to explore but I wish movement was faster. Overall I'd only play it with a friend, drawing weird pictures and laughing about them to yourself seems not fun.
Actually this is insanely accurate to being an art student, the only way you can fail is if you don't do the work or outright plagiarize and trace someone else's art.
No, just no. There is no tutorial, no mouse-over information about what buttons do, no nothing, just wonky controls and weird imagery. I am sorry but this was not appealing in the slightest.
If you've ever used mspaint or any other drawing tool it's pretty easy to figure out. Not everything needs a tutorial. And the weird imagery is part of some game's charm. It's pretty easy to see the game's art style on this page as well.
They made a fancy PDF instead of just putting that information into the game. I'd be fine with that if this was a silly game jam project made in a weekend. This had a QA team of more than ten people.I think the game is meant to be a little obtuse on purpose, but at least include the readme in the game files!
Some of it is intuitive. Mouse to select paint tools. WASD to move. Others aren't. Unless I looked at the readme, I wouldn't know pressing x changes the camera angle. (The readme also displays arrow keys for changing the camera angle. It means page up and page down.)
i love the vibe of this game but i'm having a weird issue?? i couldnt open the normal mac file (says i need permission) but i could open the alt mac file- although the actual environment wouldn't load, just the static and the drawing window. i might mess around some more to see if i can fix it bc i would love to play the game as intended ^v^
I like this game. I enjoy exploring the floating island to find more art tools. I also like the drawing part, the prompts, and the overall vibe/aesthetic of the game. The grading seems kind of random, like one time I spent a lot of time on a drawing and got an F. But one time I just wrote "NO." with the rainbow pen and got a B. (I didn't wanna do the prompt lol) But maybe that's intentional, it's hard to say. I also don't like how if you fall off the map your art gets graded and you might not be done. Still a good game though.
what a cute concept. I love the neon pastels and weird vibe. Somehow drawing with simple tools brings out my own creativity. I don't really like the first-person controls, and simply jumping in succession to "fly" got kind of annoying.
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I didn't expect streaming this to get deep but dang. O_O Thanks for a fun game that reminded me of the joy of drawing!
This is a fantastically peculiar game that makes little sense to people outside of the art scene, like myself. I enjoy the heck out of the game, but I do wish the controls and camera were better. If the game ever gets revisited/remastered, I'd focus on smoothing out those aspects while keeping everything else... nonsensical.
Still worth checking out and playing, because it's funny as heck.
so when are we getting the full fledged "literally just kid pix" spiritual successor to this because whilst its obvious theres some very good and true statements going on in this game, part of me cant help but notice that its also screaming out to be a kid pix style tool,
This game is so cute! i love the colors and the vibes. I also love the prompts, it makes it fun to draw. One thing though is when i try to see my portfolio, around half of them are blank, i dont know why. It makes me sad that i lost so much of the drawings i did, if there's a way to fix this i'd love to know. Otherwise, this game is so fun and i look forward to playing it everyday. I only got it a few days ago and i already have 8 hours on it!
I know this is an old comment, but I thought I'd respond anyway. When I opened my portfolio towards the start of the game, there were eight total pictures and only three of them were not blank. The funny thing is, at that point I had only drawn three pictures! However multiple times (five, if i had to guess) I fell into the void or accidentally entered a door with nothing drawn, which prompted Professor Qwertz to say it wasn't finished and to come back when I was done. My theory is that the game catalogues the unfinished drawings as well as the finished. I would recommend going back through your portfolio if you still have it and checking to see if there are the 50 total finished drawings.
This was adorably and brutally on-point for how art is often graded. A little tough for me to navigate with arrow keys which made exploring the world a little frustrating but did enjoy that I could just walk off the side of the world rather than find the professor's office to turn something in.
And yes this is an actual sculpture straight from Pratt Institute.
the benches in the game are actually inspired by the funky benches at Pratt!
This game is super cute and fun for farting around !! however im photosensitive and the professor, the sky and the other static textured objects are incredibly hard to look at so i cant play for very long. is there any way to turn this off ?
If the creator actually trained an AI for this game, it's not great. I'll spam random colors and get a B or A. The drawings I put effort into get Fs and Ds and then I'll add a random dot and get an A. Super limited color pallette didn't feel fun, made things hard to draw. World is fun to explore but I wish movement was faster. Overall I'd only play it with a friend, drawing weird pictures and laughing about them to yourself seems not fun.
Actually this is insanely accurate to being an art student, the only way you can fail is if you don't do the work or outright plagiarize and trace someone else's art.
Even when you find all the colors there's only 6 of them and there are like 3 different shades of purple
I like it.
Any chance we get a sequel?
If I buy the game will i get Steam key?
^ The keys are going for $80 on g2a, I'd love it if I didn't have to be scalped to play this on Steam. I hardly use itch.
Same :(
No, just no. There is no tutorial, no mouse-over information about what buttons do, no nothing, just wonky controls and weird imagery. I am sorry but this was not appealing in the slightest.
If you've ever used mspaint or any other drawing tool it's pretty easy to figure out. Not everything needs a tutorial. And the weird imagery is part of some game's charm. It's pretty easy to see the game's art style on this page as well.
There is a readme.
They made a fancy PDF instead of just putting that information into the game. I'd be fine with that if this was a silly game jam project made in a weekend. This had a QA team of more than ten people.I think the game is meant to be a little obtuse on purpose, but at least include the readme in the game files!
Some of it is intuitive. Mouse to select paint tools. WASD to move. Others aren't. Unless I looked at the readme, I wouldn't know pressing x changes the camera angle. (The readme also displays arrow keys for changing the camera angle. It means page up and page down.)
weird as shit. perfect
Cool game. The overworld controls are a bit weird, but it still works fine and is fun :)
i love the vibe of this game but i'm having a weird issue?? i couldnt open the normal mac file (says i need permission) but i could open the alt mac file- although the actual environment wouldn't load, just the static and the drawing window. i might mess around some more to see if i can fix it bc i would love to play the game as intended ^v^
the same exact thing was happeningg to me! i couldnt use the normal mac one but the alt had the static
Was this in the racial equaliy bundle? I'm sure it was but now I can't download it.
it is! you have to go to your account, library, then search the bundle, it's kinda confusing but I just downloaded this game.
Thank you kindly. I felt like that's the process I undertook earlier, but I tried again and hey presto! Strange, but resolved. Appreciate your help.
I like this game. I enjoy exploring the floating island to find more art tools. I also like the drawing part, the prompts, and the overall vibe/aesthetic of the game. The grading seems kind of random, like one time I spent a lot of time on a drawing and got an F. But one time I just wrote "NO." with the rainbow pen and got a B. (I didn't wanna do the prompt lol) But maybe that's intentional, it's hard to say. I also don't like how if you fall off the map your art gets graded and you might not be done. Still a good game though.
Here's some of my favorite drawings so far:
(I've only unlocked the yellow color lol)
this game's aesthetic is so charming and it captures the creative ability to work with what you're given, good game
I brought this game and I can't use my stylus or Wacom tablet to play it! Does anyone have any tips?
what a cute concept. I love the neon pastels and weird vibe. Somehow drawing with simple tools brings out my own creativity. I don't really like the first-person controls, and simply jumping in succession to "fly" got kind of annoying.