Brian's School of Minimalism by DustyStylus

made by DustyStylus for LD26 (COMPO)

Renowned art critic, Brian Sewell has been digitized and is ready to offer some criticism on your minimalist artistic offerings. Be warned, he is very hard to please.*

* - in fact, it's impossible to get a better grade than a D-, consider that a 'win' if you get it.

[ edit - whoops, due to a small glitch, you couldn't even get a D- ... fixed now. ]

Web (Unity)	http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47393248/brian.html
Source	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47393248/BrianSchoolMinimalismSource.7z
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=15902

Ratings

Coolness	85%	2
Overall	3.59	184

Audio	4.15	11
Fun	3.28	295
Graphics	3.78	147
Humor	4.37	3
Innovation	3.71	142
Mood	3.56	126
Theme	4.32	25

Feedback

Branch

28. Apr 2013 · 22:46 UTC

doesnt work on my os. could you port it to ms-dos 6.40? :(

bobo72a

28. Apr 2013 · 23:14 UTC

Got D- my first try :D

The comments he made were funny.

KristianGibson

29. Apr 2013 · 06:51 UTC

Hahha, love it :')

Yozz

29. Apr 2013 · 10:26 UTC

Waiting for this game since the first day. Cool!

AlbertoSM

29. Apr 2013 · 10:27 UTC

Is it wrong that I like the title screen better than the actual game? haha!
Love the comments from Brian...hilarious!

Diamonde

29. Apr 2013 · 10:44 UTC

This is hilarious! D- was the best I could do, but I'm happy with it :)

ndssia

29. Apr 2013 · 10:54 UTC

E-!

My art is bad, and I should feel bad.

Very cool :)

anjack

29. Apr 2013 · 11:26 UTC

The perfect game for the self-hating perfectionist!

Great voice-acting! ;)

aquilicoco

29. Apr 2013 · 14:47 UTC

I love the the graphics and comments :)

donan

29. Apr 2013 · 14:48 UTC

Hahahaha, one of my favourite games so far. Really cool idea.

CMaster

29. Apr 2013 · 14:50 UTC

Hah!

Pretty entertaining and bang on theme.

D- isn't too hard to get if you well, make a reasonable stab at recreating a painting.

Mythalore

29. Apr 2013 · 14:51 UTC

Good idea, but I kept failing. :)

Andrew Shouldice

29. Apr 2013 · 15:00 UTC

Brian is my favourite art teacher.

wallmasterr

29. Apr 2013 · 18:14 UTC

Nice animations and audio

mushbuh

29. Apr 2013 · 20:00 UTC

Nice, funny music

Kimau

29. Apr 2013 · 20:02 UTC

Comments are brilliant love the tone and humour of the piece.

bleating

29. Apr 2013 · 20:02 UTC

Easily my favorite game so far

dualtagh

29. Apr 2013 · 20:07 UTC

Haha! brilliant!

graytest

29. Apr 2013 · 20:08 UTC

I love it!

puttputt

29. Apr 2013 · 23:33 UTC

This is so good. I love it!

cahman

30. Apr 2013 · 12:34 UTC

Hilarious! Further confirms I have no understanding of minimalist art.

Mase

30. Apr 2013 · 20:00 UTC

Nice voice-overs. I felt a rush of hope when Brian said "hrmm interesting."

marnaouf

01. May 2013 · 09:50 UTC

His comments while you're making the art made me laugh my ass off.

dstozek

01. May 2013 · 10:19 UTC

I like the voice-overs! Couldn't get higher than E-, though. Solid work!

MinionStudios

01. May 2013 · 15:16 UTC

Ha! Such a crazy game! love the fictional history of the critic.

Beerman

01. May 2013 · 21:42 UTC

Hilarious :D The game's fun, but my favourite part was Brian's funky dance moves on the title screen.

🎤 DustyStylus

01. May 2013 · 21:57 UTC

Thanks for your comments everyone! I wish I could've added more to make the game more of a 'game'. :)

The general rules to please Brian are:
- Ratio of Horizontal to Vertical ~ 1:1
- More than 1 color, but less than 7

And yes, those are totally arbitrary decisions on my part, with no minimalistic artistic background at all I'm sorry to say!

NicoSaraintaris

02. May 2013 · 14:33 UTC

Wow, so many minimalistic masterpieces... Nice game!

TheCze

02. May 2013 · 20:39 UTC

Apparently I suck at art. Great sounds!

SmilingCat

02. May 2013 · 20:41 UTC

Pretty fun, great use of the theme. Brian was a hoot, with all of his comments.

GetFun

02. May 2013 · 20:41 UTC

F-??!??! SHUT UP BRIAN!

btw, it was fun =D great idea