About
Picture Perfect is a painting sim made in 4 days for the 2021 Scribble Jam by a team of 3.
I worked on our game design and art.
Media
Figure out what's suspicious about each painting.
And fix it!
But if that's not your style—
—just have fun painting.
Process
Picture Perfect started as a microgame in a WarioWare-style game for the 2021 Scribble Jam.
My teammates and I ended up liking the microgame concept a whole lot more.
Teammate's original microgame concept.
My mockup of a screenshot.
Gameplay ended up being easy to program (wish that was true all the time), so we immediately went to work creating our paintings. By the end of the jam we had a solid pipeline: our programmer-turned-concept artist made concepts and I cleaned them up.
So close to greatness.
Now it's like you're carving it!
Cool pattern, but it's hard to replicate.
One redesign later.
Once a painting is finished it's rated. Depending on the painting, players can earn one of 3 different ribbons for their artistic endeavors.
For only the most, uh, "creative" artists.
Red ribbon, rad painting.
Très magnifique!
But it wasn't always that way. Picture Perfect originally had a traditional star rating system. It got scrapped early on, as I feel like star ratings only recognize perfection, everything else being "incomplete." But more importantly, there's no humor in it!
Congrats, you did it correctly!
Feels like something's missing.
You can play Picture Perfect on itch.io.
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