{"author_link":"\/author\/colorvade\/","author_name":"Colorvade","author_uid":"22146","comments":[{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:28am","epoch":1367205780,"text":"This is a nice little toy. :D I enjoyed it enough to screenshot my masterpiece(?). http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crowbeak\/8690626023\/in\/photostream\r\rThat said, having the mouse anchored on the center of the images made it difficult to place smaller items precisely. And with 20 objects, I felt like it could easily get a little cluttered. Took me a while to realize there was a trash can, which is okay I think since it's easy to restart. I don't feel like I would know that minimalism was the theme just from playing this, though."},{"author_name":"StuStutheBloo","author_uid":"20822","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:44am","epoch":1367206740,"text":"Solid! I turned the moon into a face."},{"author_name":"daniel","author_uid":"12606","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1367206920,"text":"Very pretty game! Also I am a truly a terrible magical artist, game is right! :P"},{"author_name":"lulzfish_4","author_uid":"5606","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:48am","epoch":1367206980,"text":"Be advised that "Web" in this case means the Flash plugin.\r\rOther than that, it's pretty cool. The sound track is relaxing, and I enjoyed making a scene. Doesn't quite fit minimalism, as you're encouraged to keep putting things on the canvas.\r\rI would play a version with animations or something more involved."},{"author_name":"McDonaldsWizard","author_uid":"22461","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:52am","epoch":1367207220,"text":"I wouldn't have gotten minimalism from it just from playing it. Maybe I could say that a terrible artist just picks random crap and makes art from it?\rYou can make some goofy stuff with the pieces though, which is kind of entertaining."},{"author_name":"harleylaurie","author_uid":"22210","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:55am","epoch":1367207400,"text":"Fun little game, wish I could have more than 20 pieces though :("},{"author_name":"gokuhd","author_uid":"5379","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:18am","epoch":1367208780,"text":"This is my "masterpiece" http:\/\/goo.gl\/ZbEJd xD. I really didn't have a clue about what I was doing but it was fun."},{"author_name":"Colorvade","author_uid":"22146","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:23am","epoch":1367209080,"text":"Thanks to everyone for taking the time play, rate, and share!\r\rI intended for the minimalism to come from a mechanical side with the player having limited resources on their palette, but I can't dispute your opinion if things feel overly complex."},{"author_name":"Tozy","author_uid":"1831","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:35am","epoch":1367220600,"text":"In my opinion... as a game I don't get this... It might be some kind of statement about art, but I wouldn't call it "game".\r\rWhat you have there is a toy, and a toy can be easily turned into a game: just add some goals. For instance: different object combinations or ways to arrange objects unlock achievements (like a recipe check list)."},{"author_name":"Greg Power","author_uid":"21691","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:16am","epoch":1367223060,"text":"If it needs explicit goals to be a game, leave it as a toy. It's brilliant as it is. \r\rA candle was lit in memory of the fossilised beast, curled around a rock. Nearby a leaf settled by an upturned pumpkin."},{"author_name":"rujo","author_uid":"12028","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:38am","epoch":1367227980,"text":"not really a game but very funny and fits quite good the theme"},{"author_name":"Cory Martin","author_uid":"3043","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:23am","epoch":1367230680,"text":"This is so much fun to play around with."},{"author_name":"Colorvade","author_uid":"22146","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:51pm","epoch":1367246760,"text":"Tozy, I appreciate your opinion and people can see this as whatever they like, but I think to 'gamify' a subjective experience would do little more than arbitrarily hook the player into wasting more time. If the player's getting bored, I don't want them to try and addict them, I want them to stop playing.\r\rThanks again to everyone for playing."},{"author_name":"Colorvade","author_uid":"22146","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1367246820,"text":"Also I hate not being able to edit all these typos I'm making."},{"author_name":"bigbazwa","author_uid":"7362","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1367254140,"text":"I had fun making a terrible work of art. :)"},{"author_name":"sparkleswirl","author_uid":"22944","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1367263980,"text":"Found this on the Stencyl forums. Loved it! My art is so terrible and magical."},{"author_name":"brxtr","author_uid":"1400","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1367265720,"text":"Interesting idea. It would have been cool if some objects interacted with each other, or automatically moved somehow (e.g. the cog could rotate), but I suppose that wouldn't have been as minimalistic."},{"author_name":"evelyn-jolli","author_uid":"22069","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:22am","epoch":1367295420,"text":"kool gam"},{"author_name":"Tozy","author_uid":"1831","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:02am","epoch":1367297820,"text":"Colorvade, that's ok too. A toy is not a bad thing.\rI hadn't thought that (quoting you :P) "...the goal of the game is just to make something not terrible, as opposed to something beautiful, hah."\rInteresting approach ^^"},{"author_name":"kbm0","author_uid":"20498","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:19pm","epoch":1367334840,"text":"Loved it! Super simple concept, yet very well done, I liked playing around with it! Good job!"},{"author_name":"multitude","author_uid":"21762","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1367365440,"text":"COOL - that was very different from the other games. i enjoyed playing this"},{"author_name":"MrShoestore","author_uid":"20984","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:11am","epoch":1367366760,"text":"The execution for this was solid. had a nice vibe. The objects interact would be cool as brxtr posted"},{"author_name":"JohnnySix","author_uid":"20903","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1367529480,"text":"A canvas snapshot saved as a png would've been a cool addition so you could forever keep your masterpieces with a button push haha. The sea sounds were soothing too."},{"author_name":"Ryusui","author_uid":"12635","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 2:26am","epoch":1367634060,"text":"A clever little toy (hello, fellow Stencyl user!), well worth expanding into an actual game. I'd love to see objects react to one another, or to other stimuli - like Grow or Little Inferno."},{"author_name":"ZYXer","author_uid":"20509","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 2:30am","epoch":1367634300,"text":"Awesome game. It's nice to be creative for once in a LD game :D"},{"author_name":"lotusgame","author_uid":"19058","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 5:46pm","epoch":1367862060,"text":"Cute toy :) I liked to have to choose in a little list of objects rather than the complete list, that's give you a reason to be so terrible :p"}],"images":["ld26\/22146-014cf674fcb7dd6bc82e612c46431d49.jpg","ld26\/22146-992945784d23c609934dbb682153f65b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.stencyl.com\/game\/play\/18693","text":"Web (Flash)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/24294238\/Terrible%20Magical%20Artist.stencyl","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26158","g_author":"22146","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26188","g_title":"Terrible Magical Artist","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"644","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/22146-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/22146-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Terrible Magical Artist is an Artist-Simulator where you can attempt to construct a beautiful scene out of the randomly chosen assets at your disposal. Many die trying, only the truly talented ever make anything decent.\r\n\r\nA commentary on modern art.\r\n\r\n\r\n(not really)<\/p>","title":"Terrible Magical Artist"}