A Puzzle Video Game Inspired by Monet

Tuckerfan · Jul 30, 2023

The Master's Pupil.

The Master's Pupil is a hand-painted video game informed by Monet's artworks

Game developer Pat Naoum has launched a video game with backgrounds, creatures and scenery entirely painted by hand, which took seven years to complete.

Available on Nintendo Switch and Steam for Windows and Mac, The Master's Pupil is a 12-level puzzle-adventure game that explores a painterly world through the eyes of French artist Claude Monet.

Naoum painted every background and element seen in the game with acrylic paints on paper before scanning them with a high-resolution film negative scanner.

"The paintings themselves are quite small, the green vines only about five millimetres high, so I used very small brushes along with a wet palette," Naoum told Dezeen. "They were so small, they kept being fuzzy when I used a camera, but the scanner captured more detail than I could even see."

The expressive brushstrokes and handmade quality of the game aims to set it apart from other digital games, which are typically rendered with digital tools.

"I think it creates a sense of realism to the game," said Naoum. "It's not at all 'realistic graphics', but it feels tangible and real, and quite different from a lot of digital styles."

Players complete puzzles based on exploring space and colour mixing, experienced from the perspective of "the eyes and life of master artist Claude Monet".

Recreations of Monet's artworks were painted by Naoum and are uncovered as backdrops and scenes to explore throughout the game.
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