The Painter's Playground
For creation and collection aficionados, The Painter’s Playground offers a game-based sandbox to craft and collect 2D artwork and share it with the online community. Strive to either be the buzz of the arthouse as a creator of sought-after works, or own the most coveted collection - or both!
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February 8, 2018
8 years and 177 days ago
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Very Positive62 reviews96.8%
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Calling All Artists!
The Painter's Playground is a mashup of utility paint program with RPG-leveling up and clicker-inspired gameplay. While there is no fail state, there are certainly measures of success such as creating a painting that commands a high price in the online community, or owning a gallery of coveted works. Whether you are just someone who wants to doodle with a mouse or already have years of experience creating masterpieces with a drawing tablet - there is fun to be had creating and collecting in the zen coastal town of Painter's Port.
Come visit Painter's Port. Stay awhile. You'll be glad you did.
- With slow-burning clicker-inspired progress, you will be peeling away layers for dozens of hours.
- Create works of digital 2D art using a multitude of tools, paints, and canvases. Gain recognition for your efforts through the online community through ‘thumbs up’ artwork appreciation votes and/or selling your work.
- Manage your own gallery to ensure you have the most coveted collection of curated works; buy, sell, and vote on community-created works of art.
- Earn Renown (XP) through painting idle clicker-style, and Bits (money) from gallery sales. Spend these currencies on permanent upgrades, a variety of canvases, new painting tools, paint colors, votes on your favorite paintings in The Community Harbor, and much more.
- Invest Renown into progressing through 50 levels as a career artist. The unlock system caters to creative gamers that enjoy a slow-burning ‘lifestyle’ game.
- Vie for the top spot in a multitude of categories on the leaderboards.
- Enjoy the beautiful IRL hand-crafted oil painted world by renowned artist Russell Murray.
- Explore Oyster Mode to paint with absolutely no limitations.
- Supports Wacom drawing tablets out of the box. (*NOT* Required)
