V-Art- VR Painting Studio
I made this game as spin-off of another project that unfortunately got canned, but I thought the painting aspect was pretty cool so I decided to release it as its own standalone game. It’s a simple lighthearted painting simulation with several different brushes all with their own physics-based behavior, so you can really mess around with them and see what kind of cool effects you can create.
Really, there’s no pressure to create anything ‘good’ or ‘professional’. It’s just a fun way to mess around with different colors and textures. Plus, there’s an optional DLC if you want to support me that lets you paint on a 3D character model. I’ll just say, it’s pretty fun to see your creations come to life on a more tangible canvas.
But again, just to be clear, this game isn’t meant to be a professional tool for artists, there are better tools for that.
Still, though it’s not a professional tool, I think you’ll be able to create some amazing pieces of art.
It’s not the most advanced painting game out there, but it’s free and it’s a fun way to explore your creativity. Give it a try and see what you can come up with.
Some notable features:
-Physically controlled arms and objects really connect you to the canvas, or, mess you up when your hand wibbles, you choose
-Dynamic paint wetness that dries over time
-Simulated brush texture gives your strokes character
-Spray paints and blobs that drip when they pool up
-Mix paints on your palette so you can pretend like you aren’t already living in a simulation
-Some of the paint dried up, so we recycled it into goo. By this, I mean for some reason you can drip goo onto your canvas. Or just play with it like slime, everyone loves slime
-Paint all the walls and floor to give your studio a personal touch
-Display your created works upon the walls like your own miniature art gallery
-An inexplicable cellular device that allows you to capture stereoscopic renders of your work
-Import your own brush textures for unique styles
-Add custom stencils so you can follow along with that one Bob tutorial where he starts with a perfect circle for the sun
-An ancient flatscreen television from the past that has been retrofitted with the latest YouTube playing capabilities, so you can watch Mr. Ross paint faster than you while you try to keep up
-Menus
-Paint inside the safety of your studio that you’ll notice, has no doors. This is intentional and not cause for concern. Alternatively, drop the walls (literally) and behold a lush grassy field powered by the future technology of GrassFlow™. Do note, you will still be trapped inside the studio despite it appearing as if you may actually walk into the wilderness, we apologize if the simulation appears too real.
-Seamless autosave relieves you of the stress caused by imminent data loss. Or overwrite your work so you can live with all your happy little accidents
-A mysterious orb
-Strange dystopian future where painting supplies are dispensed out of thin air from manually operated vending machines powered by lever action
-Am I talking the features up too much? Probably.
Steam User 3
As someone who knows basically nothing about painting, this game is everything you could want out of a VR painting simulator:
Intuitive painting for even a complete beginner
Easy to understand color mixing
An easy-to-use video player for playing Bob Ross videos to follow along to
And a straightforward way to export all the (terrible in my case) art you can make
I Imagine that someone with a bit better understanding of how painting works could get much more out of V-Art as well. I personally used the Vive wands and painting felt very natural, but I imagine it would be even better with more modern VR controllers. For what it's worth, I was slightly involved in the testing of this game and the dev was very responsive and open to discussing feedback.
For the low price of Free you have no reason not to give this a shot, so download this right now.
Steam User 1
I hate painting in real life and I have very little experience in painting pictures. But I decided to give this free VR game a go, and while I can't paint particularly well, I really enjoy having a go at painting some of my old favourite cartoon characters, trying to match up mixing the colours and getting the right layer build up and correct proportions of the character. It's tough! Especially being a novice. But I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
The added bonuses are I can copy url links of my favourite YouTube music videos and play them on a big telly in the background of the studio while I paint my pictures, then I can save my paintings, and clean all the mess a the touch of a button. Brilliant!
It would be great to have more brush and tool options, but I really can't complain for a free game.
Well done to the developer!
Steam User 0
Was going to test this really quickly, but I had so much fun that I ended up spending almost an hour creating a mess and then managed to launch the canvas far into the field, lol. I wish it was possible to paint over the screen, though.
Steam User 2
V-Art- VR Painting Studio is a free to play VR painting program. It worked on my Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. Has a youtube player but you have to have the urls of what you want to watch in clipboard. You can paint art in VR, if you know how to paint in real life. Get your Bob Ross on here. The brush are rather stiff and weird.
Maybe try this for free, if you know how to paint or wanting to learn.
Steam User 0
I was impressed with how realistic the painting felt; I'm definitely going to recommend it to my friends.
Steam User 5
ONCE AGAIN CAW CAW, CROW IS THE FIRST PERSON TO REVIEW A GAME ON STEAM CAW CAW.
CAN YOU PLAY THIS GAME WITHOUT VR HEADSET CAW CAW???? WELL YOU CAN MONKEY AROUND IN THE MAIN MENU CAW CAW. YOUR FINGERS WILL HAVE A LASER SIGHT, IT'S KIND OF NEAT CAW CAW.
NOW THEY NEED TO ADD THE LADIES ON TWITCH WHO ARE PAINTING THEIR BODIES IN GLITTER CAW CAW. ADD THAT AS A PAID DLC CAW CAW. CROW SELLS YOU GREAT MONEY IDEAS, SELL IT FOR 99 CENTS OR SOMETHING.