The only threat to your kitten is mismanagement of resources, as I found no enemies on this dead rock, and you yourself quitting the game. Somehow, MewnBase feels like a relaxing survival game, one where death rarely occurs and the crafting is easy to execute quickly. Similar to many survival games, you must balance your food, oxygen and power levels to survive each day, finding artifacts to research more things to craft to make life easier.

Playing as a cat in a cute spacesuit, your mission is simple: survive on a desolate planet. MewnBase, on the opposite end of the spectrum, is a 2D survival game also by a solo dev in Steve Forde. Now, for something with a little less metaphor.

By the end, you’ll have a bunch of drawings that hopefully mean something to you, rather than mean something to the AI. Or, you can give Art Sqool a try for yourself. Art Sqool is hard to process if you’re unfamiliar with the college arts, and the above gives a first-hand look at it through their lens. I strongly encourage you to read the article by Jeff Ramos, linked above. What they do with that directive is up to them. All that the AI requires of them is to draw and submit. They have been given no serious checkpoints, no outline of where they need to go or what they need to do. The game’s world feels like a confusing mess of shapes and sounds because the student is in a new environment, unfamiliar to them. The grades felt arbitrary because art isn’t something that can be graded in a hard metric system - it’s full of personal meaning and interpretation. It is, at it’s core, a game actually about being an art student, something I wasn’t entirely. The above article is as close to explaining what I believe to be the understanding of Art Sqool. It wasn’t until I did some research that I understood exactly where the game was trying to lead me. I couldn’t find the way to submit my art for a good 20 minutes. The art and sound direction unnerved me in its fuzz and obvious distortion. I submitted another piece after exploring for a bit, trying to find anything for me to latch onto, with little success. The world is a bizarre poly-scape of different coloured shapes, some with eyes and some without. After you submit an art piece, you’re given a grade - one that is seemingly arbitrary in comparison to the work given, as I could not for the life of me figure out the correlation of what this snarky AI was trying to get from me. Made by Julian Glander, it gives you a professor of art in an AI, a sketchpad and tasks you with submitting art pieces within a given theme or mood. Art Sqool is a 3D game that I struggled to understand in the hour or so that I attempted it.

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