Art Critic

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.23
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.18
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.57
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★64%
HTML5 game. You are up and coming in the modern art world. Try to match the artistry of past masters of the craft. Can you withstand the withering criticism? Can you even understand it?

GOAL: Match the painting in the upper right.

Controls: One button. Just click the mouse. Like, minimal.

Comments20

martijn
martijn28 Apr 2013, 21:46
funny. A restart level button would do quite nicely. Right now I have to refresh the page when I misplaced a block
sanojian
sanojianauthor28 Apr 2013, 22:14
Thanks for the comment. :) I am still way under the deadline so I updated the label to say restart.
thephantom28 Apr 2013, 22:46
cool game , but i can't fully understand the idea though.
FrozenCow28 Apr 2013, 23:20
Awesome. I was also looking at incorporating Mondrian, but in the end couldn't make it work.
Since I needed to restart quite a few times, maybe put the restart button under the critic. I know I know, it makes the critic less annoying, which is the whole purpose!
Anyway, good idea.
unclechristmas
unclechristmas28 Apr 2013, 23:48
Those art critics are hilarious, but I had no idea what to do.
zerebruin29 Apr 2013, 11:05
Fantastic! All the artists at our university would absolutely loathe this.
mire
mire29 Apr 2013, 11:07
It took me a while to figure out how to place blocks where I wanted them, and then I wasn't able to figure out how to place them correctly in order to progress to the next stage. Maybe that's the point? Modern art is all subjective bullshit, man!

Actually it would be hilarious if the critic just randomly picked players to like.
timtipgames
timtipgames29 Apr 2013, 11:16
Those comments are just hilarious. Together with the sounds it was really fun to play. Unfortunately the gameplay itself isn't really exciting to me because one needs to wait a lot and there's not much control. Nevertheless I love the idea to have a virtual character comment on your art. If the gameplay was somehow more interesting it would be even a better entry than it already is.
Infin829 Apr 2013, 11:16
Nice concept, though the combination of timing, bouncing and rotating cursor really gives a headache. I continued playing at first, when I'd alr lost.

Also troll art critic is hilarious and misleading.
DaveDobson
DaveDobson29 Apr 2013, 13:06
Very cool - it took me a while to get a hang of the controls -- er, control. I did like that there was some tolerance for missing. Very clever gameplay - I haven't seen anything like this before. The art critic is hilarious.
corrigan_sam29 Apr 2013, 17:33
Really fits with the theme. Brilliant
Khaldrin
Khaldrin29 Apr 2013, 20:35
I liked the concep - fits the theme. Controls were a little difficult though, the tiles ended up everywhere but where I wanted them to be. The collision detection seems a little off sometimes. But the commenting art critic is absolutely hilarious. Great entry :)!
Tater_hater30 Apr 2013, 19:52
this fits the theme very well, congrats.
Jellycakes2 May 2013, 19:49
It was alright, a bit difficult to match the painting, I a gave up on the first level. But the guy was pretty funny and I got the theme. Nice work!
Ludipe
Ludipe5 May 2013, 18:39
Really original and cool, i like it!

P.D.: Am I the only one having issues when clicking on restart level?
Cosmologicon
Cosmologicon9 May 2013, 20:20
I had troubles clicking Restart and Next. Finally figured out you have to wait for the guy to move for it to register.

Cool idea but really hard, for a lot of reasons. The controls are so unforgiving, you have to hit it just right. And if you miss your opportunity it's a long time before the piece you need comes around again. I got to level 3 but I just can't get past it.
ethankennerly
ethankennerly12 May 2013, 20:33
When the art critic says random sentences about a random composition of colored rectangles, I was tickled! If you continue to develop this, I started hoping that there would be some way of judging the composition beyond replicating the image in the top right of the screen. The controls felt haphazard and unrelated to the premise of creating art.
kill0u
kill0u13 May 2013, 12:24
Original, but a little buggy =/
Brassawiking
Brassawiking19 May 2013, 15:58
Why oh why is the restart button behind the dialog =) Hard game, couldnt pass the first level.

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