Terrible Magical Artist is an Artist-Simulator where you can attempt to construct a beautiful scene out of the randomly chosen assets at your disposal. Many die trying, only the truly talented ever make anything decent.
That said, having the mouse anchored on the center of the images made it difficult to place smaller items precisely. And with 20 objects, I felt like it could easily get a little cluttered. Took me a while to realize there was a trash can, which is okay I think since it's easy to restart. I don't feel like I would know that minimalism was the theme just from playing this, though.
Be advised that "Web" in this case means the Flash plugin.
Other than that, it's pretty cool. The sound track is relaxing, and I enjoyed making a scene. Doesn't quite fit minimalism, as you're encouraged to keep putting things on the canvas.
I would play a version with animations or something more involved.
I wouldn't have gotten minimalism from it just from playing it. Maybe I could say that a terrible artist just picks random crap and makes art from it? You can make some goofy stuff with the pieces though, which is kind of entertaining.
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I intended for the minimalism to come from a mechanical side with the player having limited resources on their palette, but I can't dispute your opinion if things feel overly complex.
In my opinion... as a game I don't get this... It might be some kind of statement about art, but I wouldn't call it "game".
What you have there is a toy, and a toy can be easily turned into a game: just add some goals. For instance: different object combinations or ways to arrange objects unlock achievements (like a recipe check list).
Tozy, I appreciate your opinion and people can see this as whatever they like, but I think to 'gamify' a subjective experience would do little more than arbitrarily hook the player into wasting more time. If the player's getting bored, I don't want them to try and addict them, I want them to stop playing.
Interesting idea. It would have been cool if some objects interacted with each other, or automatically moved somehow (e.g. the cog could rotate), but I suppose that wouldn't have been as minimalistic.
Colorvade, that's ok too. A toy is not a bad thing. I hadn't thought that (quoting you :P) "...the goal of the game is just to make something not terrible, as opposed to something beautiful, hah." Interesting approach ^^
A canvas snapshot saved as a png would've been a cool addition so you could forever keep your masterpieces with a button push haha. The sea sounds were soothing too.
A clever little toy (hello, fellow Stencyl user!), well worth expanding into an actual game. I'd love to see objects react to one another, or to other stimuli - like Grow or Little Inferno.
That said, having the mouse anchored on the center of the images made it difficult to place smaller items precisely. And with 20 objects, I felt like it could easily get a little cluttered. Took me a while to realize there was a trash can, which is okay I think since it's easy to restart. I don't feel like I would know that minimalism was the theme just from playing this, though.