Download Passpartout: The Starving Artist for iPhone and iPad (App Store)

Try yourself as an artist with Passpartout: The Starving Artist from the small Swedish studio Flaimbait Games. In 2015, a team of five developers released a prototype and now, two years later, they have presented the final version of the colorful story.

Passpartout: The Starving Artist

With Passpartout, you will put on the shoes of an aspiring artist struggling to survive in beautiful but brutal Paris. The first steps are not easy, because the young talent has to live and work in a dilapidated closet. Despite the difficult life, the artist must create paintings and sell them all over the world. It’s not as easy as it sounds. You will have to face an avalanche of criticism and an even greater avalanche of bills to pay. Life in Paris is not cheap – baguettes for breakfast and wine for dessert alone will cost a pretty penny. Nevertheless, the young painter continues to create in the hope that his work will someday be sure to decorate the walls of the Louvre.

Drawing

The main aspect of the game, of course, is drawing. Creative space includes an easel with unlimited canvases, an almost inexhaustible supply of paints, and a brush. The very process of creating canvases is similar to painting in Microsoft Paint. Initially, you only have one brush at your disposal, but its thickness can be varied using the mouse wheel. It’s very simple – choose the desired color from the palette and paint on the canvas.

Get ready for the fact that your first attempts may be, to put it mildly, far from ideal. However, do not despair. Keep practicing and Van Gogh’s glory awaits you!

Criticism

Practice alone is not enough to become a professional artist. You need to convince people around that their life is incomplete without your paintings. In order to find buyers, you have to name your canvases and put them on display. Be prepared for the fact that the audience will not immediately accept you, and, looking at your masterpieces, the audience will cough meaningfully.

Public criticism is very diverse – from really constructive to downright absurd. Satisfy the requests of potential buyers, and you are assured of success. By selling your paintings, you can buy a spray brush and move your paintings from a dilapidated warehouse to a first-class gallery. The acquisition of new tools is a rather lengthy process. However, with each new brush, you will have additional options for creating paintings.

Copying

Keep in mind that buyers don’t like repetitive stories. If you managed to sell your painting for a big price, don’t even hope that you will be able to sell a copy of it again. You will simply be bombarded with accusations of plagiarism, and to save your reputation, you still have to destroy the ill-fated copy.

The only drawback of the game is monotony. I drew a picture, named it, sold it – and again in the same circle. The plot is very simple – you need to become a famous artist, and for this you need to draw pictures. There are no other branches in the plot.

Should you play Passpartout: The Starving Artist?

In terms of gameplay, Passpartout: The Starving Artist is very entertaining. Besides, you are not just playing, you are creating something. For creative people, there is an unpaved field of opportunities here. However, the negative side of the game is the monotonous process and the lack of variety. You are only given a limited set of tools, with which you will not particularly overclock. It is not even possible to put the canvas horizontally. In addition, the canvas on the screen is very small and it is very inconvenient to draw on it. Passpartout gives the impression of an innovative game that is not yet complete.

So, is Passpartout: The Starving Artist worth playing? If you are a fan of Microsoft Paint, the answer is yes. Otherwise, it is worth waiting until the developers bring more variety to the game, which is so lacking.

Download Passpartout: The Starving Artist for iPhone and iPad (App Store)

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