Art Critic by sanojian

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made by sanojian for LD26 (COMPO)
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.

Ratings

Coolness 64% 3
Overall 2.85 897
Audio 2.18 858
Fun 2.23 1158
Graphics 2.76 758
Humor 3.57 68
Innovation 3.26 444
Mood 2.39 1011
Theme 3.98 176

Feedback

martijn
28. Apr 2013 路 21:41 UTC
funny. A restart level button would do quite nicely. Right now I have to refresh the page when I misplaced a block
馃帳 sanojian
28. Apr 2013 路 22:09 UTC
Thanks for the comment. :) I am still way under the deadline so I updated the label to say restart.
thephantom
28. Apr 2013 路 22:41 UTC
cool game , but i can't fully understand the idea though.
FrozenCow
28. Apr 2013 路 23:15 UTC
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
28. Apr 2013 路 23:43 UTC
Those art critics are hilarious, but I had no idea what to do.
zerebruin
29. Apr 2013 路 11:00 UTC
Fantastic! All the artists at our university would absolutely loathe this.
mire
29. Apr 2013 路 11:02 UTC
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.
Infin8
29. Apr 2013 路 11:11 UTC
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.
timtipgames
29. Apr 2013 路 11:11 UTC
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.
DaveDobson
29. Apr 2013 路 13:01 UTC
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.
yetanother
29. Apr 2013 路 17:27 UTC
Potato!
corrigan_sam
29. Apr 2013 路 17:28 UTC
Really fits with the theme. Brilliant
Khaldrin
29. Apr 2013 路 20:30 UTC
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_hater
30. Apr 2013 路 19:47 UTC
this fits the theme very well, congrats.
Jellycakes
02. May 2013 路 19:44 UTC
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
05. May 2013 路 18:34 UTC
Really original and cool, i like it!

P.D.: Am I the only one having issues when clicking on restart level?
Cosmologicon
09. May 2013 路 20:15 UTC
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
12. May 2013 路 20:28 UTC
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
13. May 2013 路 12:19 UTC
Original, but a little buggy =/
Brassawiking
19. May 2013 路 15:53 UTC
Why oh why is the restart button behind the dialog =) Hard game, couldnt pass the first level.