The Painter's Playground

It's not quite Photoshop but a novel, relaxing "game" with redux painting tools, where you progressively unlock colors, tools and canvases, exhibit and buy and sell artwork in the community market, including other players' works of art. Two works that I'm personally proud of include my Gordon Freeman and Dr. Evil portraits. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1222674616 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1221956021 Also, that's my awe-inspiring "Mind your own Bee's nest" masterpiece that can be seen in the game trailer.

Based on the other reviews it looks like they gave away a lot of free keys, doesn't it? Note to self: Next time this dev sells something, see if they're giving it away on another site somewhere before buying it. On topic, this is a nice little piece of software. Perfect for my needs. I'm a beginner to digital art, want to become a better digital artist and this gives me a little bit of incentive to practice. The more you paint, the better tools can buy and the higher level you get. The higher level you get, the more tools you have access to. IMO "the art collection" thing isn't well implemented. It would probably be better as part of a minigame, semi-separate from this, where you're investing or something and you've got an AI that trends for certain types of paintings. Otherwise I have no incentive to buy anyone else's stuff. In any event, the community is too small for all that to matter. Don't buy this for any social/community aspect since that seems to be non-existent. If you're like me, not good enough to create digital art that anyone would want, and just want some incentive to practice then this game is perfect and worth full price. I don't see any other reason to buy it…

This review has been a long time coming. This software is absolutely amazing, and anyone with any skill level can use it. It harkens back to the old days of Microsoft Paint, right down to the charming spray paint tool. Anyone who remembers using paint back in the '90s will be perfectly at home here, and although the community isn't as active as it once was, it is still quite a good one with dedicated members. Pixel art is one of my favorite styles and this program makes it accessible even on the worst hardware ( I have an old HP with an AMD A4, 4GB RAM, and a stock integrated gpu, as well as a top of the line ASUS, and Surface Go, and it works great on all of them). Well worth the price of admission!

i officially will start doing the daily challenge this day forward

give it a try! I very much enjoy coming back to view other people's haphazard artwork. The community is like five people, but it's there.

best pixel art game ever