Occupy White Walls

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pretty upset right now. The servers have now been permanently shut down, and while I did get the memo in advance, I'm nothing if not a procrastinator. I tried to get online in the last few hours that I assumed I had left in order to screen record my galleries just to have them for future nostalgia. As a dumb American used to US-centrism, I didn't realize the servers were permanently shutting down on a non-U.S. time-zone because I didn't see the developers specify the timeframe beyond "March 16th," so I didn't think to look up where they were based. It turns out they're based in the UK. Everything I spent nearly 200 hours building in the game now exists only in my memories. It's my fault, but still, quite a bummer... Regardless of that unfortunate situation, I had a lot of fun with my time in this game and I will definitely miss it. I hope somewhere down the line, a similar game will be built in the future. There was a lot to see with other people's creativity, and I really loved the process of building my own galleries. I think I had probably unlocked every build piece and decor and skybox in the game, although there was no way to check that I'm aware of. But there was a time I was so invested that I knew what time I had left to claim the new items from the plaza before they got refreshed. There was something so meditative about the process of building and designing a gallery in this game. Some of the build environments had beautiful lighting and scenery which made it feel like being in my own little private creative island that I could share with others. My first gallery had a beautiful sunset view over an icy ocean, and I made a little cozy cafe and gift shop to go alongside my gallery, which was a large stone building three stories tall, with one of the largest paintings available as a multi-story centerpiece. There were dozens of fountains and sculptures decorating the grounds as well as a few cozy and scenic seating areas. Each room or stretch of wall had coordinated painting themes with complementary picture frame styles. My second gallery was called the Gallery of Light. It was set in the aurora borealis skybox over dark, calm water, which you could see through glass floors and/or walls in some rooms. Each room had different styles of lighting and a lot of bright and contrasting colors in the paintings. There was a rainbow themed dance hall, and the gallery also featured a special exhibit room with different lamps and light sources as a motif. I also had a tower off to the side for an elevated view of the whole gallery. My third gallery was made up of 5 separate buildings in different architectural styles and color themes. The central building was the largest but it had a dark wood + plant theme going on with some grass walls. Outside, there was a courtyard with a huge fountain full of sculptures, flanked on each side by a little meditative path that lead to a small garden seating area. My fourth gallery was the most ambitious and largest, which featured several different themed rooms branching off of different hallways. The southern exit led to an outdoor rooftop bar where you could see a huge view of a starry sky, and it featured space-themed artworks. The West corridor featured a bamboo garden, a wooded cemetery, and an ice cave featuring snow-themed artworks and a sinister looking snowman crawling out of a hole in the wall. The East corridor featured a cozy night-time library, a "cosmic" bathhouse with a skylight ceiling looking up to the stars with a sculpture fountain in the center of the pool, and a black & white hand-drawn style manor house. The North corridor had a maze-like cave system on one side, a cathedral-esque horror & hell themed room with all the darkest artworks I could find and walls made of flesh, and a trippy portal room with a lot of abstract and spiral-themed art and various portals to other galleries. I carefully placed different songs and ambient sounds to be just in the right range to start hearing them upon entering certain rooms. My fifth and final gallery was called Revolutions Gallery and had a circle & looping theme. The gallery itself was built as a huge interconnected circle, split into 4 different segments, with each segment featuring a different combination of wall, ceiling, and floor designs featuring circles. I chose decor with a lot of circular and spherical designs as well. The skybox I chose naturally was the one that featured mostly circular shapes in the sky that slowly revolved in a circle, so you could stand still in one spot and see them pass by the windows. It's too bad the developers weren't able to find a way to fund the servers longer, but I understand. If a game like this ever comes up again it'd be really nice to have some kind of local save option to be able to play single-player and avoid the possibility of such a creative loss.

They added AI slop to this game. I cant reccommend it. How can you make a game about art and not see how stupid that decision is?

I remember playing this when it first started getting popular and I wish my life didn't get so busy where I forgot about this game completely until i saw there shutting off there servers. I guess it would be a good time to explore it one more time.

i miss this game so much im so mad kicking the rocks rn

sad that it's going and that i only re-found it after 6 years after the pandemic but i am going to make the most of it in the two weeks before the servers shut down. devs, i'd give you $3k to keep the servers up for another month if i knew where to send it.

This was a really fantastic game that I stopped playing when they added AI art. Still, I’m very sad to see it go. I used to spend so long just going through the recommend art features, but it was so amazing to see what other people built and to curate your own gallery. I’ll miss it.