Have you ever found yourself using Photoshop and thinking to yourself ‘this is far too useful, I’d like something that’s not only pointless, but fiddly to use and with less features’? Then congratulations, RPaints is for you!
This feature-dry paint clone allows you to create low-res images using square brushes. You can paint in Green, Red, Blue and Yellow by holding down the appropriate face button on your controller. Actually, in the trial version, you can only use Green, Red and Blue because the Y button is constantly assigned as the ‘BUY NOW’ button. If you want more colour than the four available, you can use the right analog stick which seems to select colours in an arbitrary way. You can also save and load if you buy the game.
Additionally, there’s….wait, that’s it. There are no more features. Paint using the analog stick, change colour, clear the screen. Those are the features, and even those don’t even work well. Painting using the analog stick doesn’t even give analog control, letting you only move the cursor in 8 directions, and at set speed, which means you have no precision at all.
This title is clearly amateur work, and while everyone has to start somewhere, everyone does not need to publish and attempt to charge for it. Not only that, but not even at the lowest price available. It’s purchaseable for 400 points, and has less features than the copy of MSPaint you may well have for free already. If you really need to play a console-based painting game, then buy Mario Paint for the SNES. It was made in 1992 and still outstrips RPaints by a long, long way.
RPaints was created by Remyremrem and is available for 400 points.
This title was 400 points at the time of writing this review but has since been reduced to 80 Points.
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If you flick onto the menu, it’s entirely possible to lose the cursor off screen too.
My 4 year old discovered that. 2 minutes of “make it come back, daddy” make me sad…
Also, no Rpants joke?
I’m disappointed
Haha. I was ‘this’ close to saying that RPaints is RPants, but I thought I’d ripped into it enough.
What I find so cheeky is that he’s trying to charge 400 Points for this.
You guys laugh now, but when this guy updates the game to be the next Photoshop CS…400 pts will seem like pocket change.
Seriously though, I think this demonstrates a possible issue with ComGames (if that term makes you shudder, you aren’t alone, but I need a short alternative)…some of these softs are not feature complete enough to be on the service. It seems that the peer-review process doesn’t factor this into account. Most of the games, despite being very simple, are feature complete. This seems very, very basic.
And y’know, I’m not against basic software. It’s just that this seems like a tech demo. If this game had 8 player online with voice chat, then hey, you got yourself an online pictionary game. Let everyone draw at the same time, and you have a collaborative drawing game (could add objectives such as “draw a house”, and everyone works together).
Just one more thing feature…is all it needs.
But anyways, allowing these sorts of “games” on the service only degrades the service in the eyes of everyday gamers, and hurts the efforts of those making games for the service (whether good or bad, you have to admit that most of the games released thus far feature decent functionality and features).
Yeah, pretty much that’s the problem with CC at the moment. There’s too much shite to wade through to get to the good stuff. That’s one of the main reasons we set up this site; so that people can separate the wheat from the chaff.
Hopefully we’ll be upgrading the site soon to aid that better.
If peer review had a ‘quality’ rating, and the service allowed you to filter based on that setting, rather than on ‘popularity’ (which I bet is just trial downloads) then the service would be much better. That way, you don’t prevent people from putting their games online, it just makes the poor ones less likely to found.
And that’s the reason I visit this site every day.
RPaints should never have been allowed on the service, it ruins the whole thing for me. Until there is some sort of quality rating from the community Microsoft needs to make sure they don’t kill CGs right away. If you don’t know sites like this one you’ll download a dozen of trashy games and then you’ll stop going to Community Games at all because it’s just not worth the effort. Who wants to play through tons of garbage just to find the handful of gems? And I think developers should put more emphasis on the need for content review, because in the end they are the ones who will suffer from mediocre sales cause all their customers are gone if this stays the way it is.
Hello Remyremrem, I came across your game RPaints and i was wondering if you are going to upgrade it to work with the Vision Camera? I know it is just a simple application, but adding Vision Camera support to ‘write’ or ‘draw’ in the air would be a nice add-on. Getting it to ‘calibrate’ to a writing tool (finger) may take a creative avenue to work properly. I thought I’d just ask/suggest it. Thanks!
Vision camera isn’t available to CG games.
AnonymousTipster said: “Hopefully we’ll be upgrading the site soon to aid that better.”
Just wondering, do you plan on having reader-reviews? I was planning on doing some of my own reviews to post on my own site, I wouldn’t mind sharing them for this site as this looks like the de-facto Community Games site (with a site like GamerBytes being the ultimate XBLA site).
Hey everyone! We do plan to add more brushes and the possibility of temporarily painting on real pictures that are already on your Xbox 360.
FYI the cursor button brings it back to the center.
This game is meant to be simple, but very easy to use.
nrXic said: “Just wondering, do you plan on having reader-reviews?”
Our first plan of action will be to allow our review team to attach numerical scores to their posts. This should mean it will be possible to search games by score.
User-reviews will definitely be something for our team to discuss, but there are certain caveats with that (see Metacritic user reviews).
At the moment, we’re trying to incrementally improve the site as and when we can. Once the first wave of improvements are complete, we can look at the next.
Oddbob is in charge of the site upgrades, so he’ll know what is and isn’t feasible.
wow, this makes “Art Alive” from sega genesis look like TEH photoshop of the future!
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