ART SQOOL

I wanted to enjoy this game but in all honesty it feels like an exercise in frustration. The character moves at a glacial pace, 90% of the actual art tools you can use to vary your work are scattered in locations that take forever to get to, and the visuals and audio are downright abrasive at times, everything is static-y and distorted in a very unappealing way. There are no tutorials whatsoever, so I found myself discovering things I probably should have known from the beginning, like the ability to move and resize the drawing pad or how to get the art you make judged. The "A.I." is only a seemingly RNG-based system that will repeatedly give you entirely different grades for the exact same piece submitted twice in a row. I'm 99% certain you could reuse the same drawing and win the entire game in an hour. It could be said that the game nails the sense of difficulty you have in an art class of adhering to arbitrary prompts for a professor that really does seemingly give you random grades, but to that I have to argue that you can make a similar statement with a game that doesn't feel like a practical chore to play. This is probably what people who hate indie games think all indie games are. Save your money unless it's on sale or you have some friends and booze to enjoy it with, it can be fun with a group of people when you draw really stupid things.

Try making more levels and making the drawing pad more in depth. Its abstract and stylish but, sorry, not worth $12. Doesnt seem like its finished.

This game made me think about getting an art education.

I don't remember how I got this game (was probably included in a bundle or something), but it's rather mediocre - to say the least. Oh, and regarding the dev's decision not to sell the game on steam any more, because of... "reasons", I only have three words to say: BLACK CRIMES MATTER

Hi-rez 3D exploration/drawing game. You are a newly enrolled student at Art Sqool. You have an AI instructor that gives you drawing assignments. Search the landscape for drawing tools. Draw. Get graded. The gameplay consists of two elements: wandering across a collection of floating islands looking for components for your drawing pad (ink colors, brushes, textures) and drawing in your drawing pad using your mouse. You don't absolutely have to search for components, but more components allow for more complex drawing. You can continue to explore until you walk into a door or off the edge of an island; at that point you're graded on what you've drawn so far. If you've drawn nothing, you are told your drawing "needs work" and you're placed on an island, not necessarily the same one you left. The tools are scattered around the islands, and are re-scattered each time you re-enter. The drawing assignments are largely subjective in nature, and I believe are drawn from a pool of assignments. Assignments include "Draw a picture for someone you don't like", "Draw the first and second place winners in a pie eating contest", "Draw a box 24 inches by 12 inches by 8 inches. What's inside the box?" I don't think the grading process takes into account anything more than the number of colors, lines and line types in the drawing; more seems to be better. Moving around is done by pointing the camera and pressing W. Note that the camera is locked in the plane; you can't look up or down. This can be awkward when you're close to the edge of an island. Some islands can be reached from other islands by jumping, but this is a lot harder when you can't see what you're jumping onto. The drawing pad represents a very stripped down version of MS Paint. Drawing is done with the mouse using clickable combinations of colors and brushes. You start with black ink, a thin-line brush and an undo button. No brush sizes or gradients or zoom or other controls. I don't know if you can play the game with a digitizer pad. Not really sure what the game is aiming to be. Perhaps a parody of the idea of institutionalized art instruction. Perhaps a scavenger hunt for finding all the tools. Perhaps it's supposed to be a zen drawing activity, and you get out of it what you put into it. Or perhaps this is the developer's My First Unity Project. Reaching the end of the game appears to involve submitting 50 drawings, and somehow I'm not feeling the passion, so I can't tell you what's at the end...maybe another musical animation and a diploma. Got it in a HB bundle. I bought the bundle, eager to see what Art Sqool was all about. After running around for a while in the pastel landscape I'm rather glad I didn't buy the game on its own. At this writing the developer has pulled it from Steam, so I don't know what he originally wanted for it. Whatever it was, my sympathies go out to whoever paid it.

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this game isnt worth money, its ugly bright and feels cool only for the first couple of minutes. visuals are tiring