Quick Look: Passpartout: The Starving Artist

Passepartout*

Shouldn't it be Ben Packasso?

I... Really like this a lot.

Spoilers for a hundred-year-old novel: Jean Passepartout was Phileas Fogg's French valet in Jules Verne's Around The World In Eighty Days.

This looks really chill.

This is exactly what I was thinking!

This is such an odd game to quick look... be curious to see them do it though.

I could watch Brad paint forever...

I want a Bob Ross style series with Brad where he just paints different pictures. That's it. That's all I want.

This is totally a reincarnation of an old prototype by Jon Blow! Pretty cool to see a game idea get revived like this.

The painting tools in this look soo cool!

Brad has a hidden talent painting in this game but unfortunately, he's hiding it too well.

Wow, I think I just found the first part of my master plan in how to get my wife to play video games, I can tell she is going to waste hours with this...really cool!

My favorite part is that Ben considers teeth to be the sole "human element."

I kind of love this, but also extremely hate this. Source: working a day job trying to make art early mornings/late nights

This looks awesome I hope they add an online component like deviant art Sketch This (Which is awesome on phones with a stylus) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adsk.sketchbook

Brad is real good at fake art naming.

Please do a Breaking Brad of this, i could watch him play this all day

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Haha Ben, I think you need to do the maths on the fraction of your French ancestry again.

I appreciate Ben's effort to truly humanize art.

I have always been in total awe of artists being able to draw very detailed and realistic type of paintings. i.e figurative type of art, Odd Nerdrum for example. That stuff is just honestly crazy to me. Totally alien. I'm a hobby musician and have dabbled a bit in minimalistic paintings of sorts, but I have never been able to grasp the technical and figurative aspects of art. It's so technical and it amazes me every time I see a piece of representational art. Like, how did these people get to the point of being able to draw/paint that kind of stuff? It amazes me.

Ben has been really bringing the human element since he joined.

Id really like to see Vinny play this as a special. Using his drawing tablet thing hes always talking about. This seems like it'd be right up his funny improv alley.

@villo: It's true. He has teeth and everything.

Brad would have gotten alot more money if he named the bike picture, 'The Prisoner.

And a festive Passportout to you too!

Also, as 1/127th french, this quicklook offends me.

But also, I missed Brad and I'm glad he's back! More spicier and artful as ever!

This is why I could never call myself an artist.. how could I even attempt to put myself at this same high level?!

I'm going to say "passpartout" like the robot lady all day today now.

Ben and Brad. Struggling artists. Not fans of Verne.

It's a lovely little game which I bought a month or so back, put a few hours into and left it feeling serene.

My first art teacher at school loved my work, no matter what half-arsed nonsense I drew. My second art teacher figured me out within the first week and I spent the rest of that year in the bottom third of the class.

I then dropped art.

Ben understands the key to art is the human element.

George, shouldn't you be writing the winds of winter instead of loitering at an artist's stall?

This looks kind of great!!

Fun QL too, good job Ben and Brad!

I think my new username is going to be National Snail

Now I come to think of it, maybe Ben Pack was my favourite ninja turtle.

@seraphslaughter: I got into watching some of Jazza's videos from this QL. I wonder if that is a deliberate depiction of George RR Martin in this game. If so, that is pretty amazing.

Hits F12: "It makes the Half-Life sound"

This looks lovely.

This video nearly put me to sleep, but in a good way.

this seems really cool. might end up getting it soon.

If I was in the need for a zone out kind of game I'd be all over this but I'm thinking about getting it for the 6 year old. He likes to mess around with paint apps and this will give something resembling structure or goals to play around and turn it into a game.

Ah, The Human Element

@pete0r said:

Now I come to think of it, maybe Ben Pack was my favourite ninja turtle.

I'm really tempted to play this with my drawing tablet...

This looks really laid back, I don't suppose the board that says "Art for sale" in French can be reworded. I have some ideas for what mine would say.

I love how your character moves while you paint.