Bug's Museum of Fine Art

Welcome!

You're Bug, a well-traveled little buddy with a passion for art. The problem is, there are no art museums designed for critters of your size.

BUT THAT'S OK!

As an accomplished artiste, you decide to open your own museum with reproductions of classic artwork. You paint the reproductions yourself - as you have limited space, your creations are much more pixellated than the original. They're still recognizable, though! Probably!

To play, use the reference images to create your own pixel versions of classic paintings. Once you're done, you'll get a score based on how well your art matches the painting. A higher score means more points, and more points means you can open new wings of your museum!

Use your skills to create the best museum possible!

BEFORE YOU PLAY (important, please read!)

This is an HTML game. IT ONLY WORKS PROPERLY IN CHROME. It's playable on mobile or desktop, but we recommend playing on desktop with a viewport width of at least 1160px (so everything displays at its very best!).

The game uses your browser's local storage to save game state, so you'll be able to return and continue work in the same browser, even if you close the game. To start the game back from scratch, just head into your browser's dev tools and delete the local storage 'gameState' item.

Some meta comments

We were originally intending to allow users to send their paintings to a "hall of fame" so that they could see theirs and others' artwork - however, that fell out of scope as the jam wore on. Also, we were worried about... less than PG-rated pixel art (though there's only so much damage you can do with like 100 px!).

Given more time, we'd have also liked to implement a more sophisticated image scoring mechanism, as it stands now, it's pretty rudimentary. Game jams!

Also, we elected not to opt out of graphics consideration - the whole point of the game is that you're copying famous paintings, but the rest of the graphics and design are wholly by us. Allowing ourselves to be rated in graphics is not misrepresenting what we have accomplished on our own during the jam, but please speak up if you disagree!

--CREDITS--

All art (aside from the paintings, of course) and music created by kristinamay

Game is written using sveltekit, with code mostly by bkelly

All paintings are in the public domain.

(SPOILERS FOR ART)

Most art provided by the Met (metmuseum.org), with the exception of the Hokusai, Harunobu, and Seurat (Art Institute of Chicago - artic.edu), the Monet (National Gallery of Art - nga.gov), and the Da Vinci (from Wikimedia Commons).