AAAART ART ART

A first-person gallery game

ARTARTART.

Find something you love.
Make room for it.

Get the playtest
An enormous mountain of hundreds of framed paintings filling the delivery room.
378 PAINTINGS / ONE ROOMStaged in-game photo

A modest collection.
By our standards.

The basics

From a pile of paintings
to a place of your own.

Art Art Art is a game about collecting and curating real artworks. Dig through deliveries, pick your favorites, and turn an empty gallery into an exhibition. The choices are yours: what to hang, where to put it, and what you’re willing to sell. The curatorial vision is yours. So is the pile on the floor.

  1. 01

    Unpack.

    Order artworks, open your delivery, and see what turns up. Inspect each piece before deciding where it belongs.

  2. 02

    Make it yours.

    Carry, rotate, frame, and hang your finds. Place lights and build a room around the work you love.

  3. 03

    Open the doors.

    Invite visitors, see what catches their attention, and choose which offers to accept. Then start your next show.

A look inside.

Screenshots & in-game photo studies
A small framed portrait in sharp focus against a heavily blurred mountain of paintings.
PHOTO STUDY / A LITTLE PERSPECTIVEThe rest of the collection can wait.
An oblique close-up of a painted portrait with a very shallow plane of focus.
PHOTO STUDY / LOOK CLOSERWe spent a while looking at this one.
A second view of the staged 378-painting pile filling the receiving room.
PHOTO STUDY / THE OVERVIEWWe may have misunderstood “a few pieces.”
First-person view of a framed Rousseau painting and an orange unpacking knife.
01 / SPECIAL DELIVERYThis seemed manageable at the time.
An empty gallery with concrete flooring, a wooden bench, and pools of light on the walls.
02 / YOUR GALLERYAn empty gallery. Briefly.
A visitor in the gallery sharing a reaction to the exhibition beneath the spotlights.
03 / THE AUDIENCEEveryone has an opinion. We did invite them.
The Special Delivery order menu showing artwork inspiration cards and an artist brief.
04 / SPECIAL REQUESTSOrder something promising. Wall space is a later problem.
First-person view of a wrapped painting on the receiving room floor with an unpacking knife.
05 / HANDLE WITH CAREA surprisingly important part of being cultured: cardboard.
Inspecting a painting with an on-screen warning that cutting will damage the artwork.
06 / A CLOSER LOOKThe knife has no formal training in conservation.
Exhibition review showing a Rousseau painting, a list of artworks, and visitor offers.
07 / CURATORIAL DECISIONSSome offers are harder to accept than others.
Exhibition results showing a sold painting and the credits earned from the show.
08 / AFTER THE SHOWA painting found its person. You found some floor space.
The Your gallery, your way progression menu with four columns of gallery skills.
09 / ROOM TO GROWDevelop your eye. And a few other useful skills.

Version 0.2.0 / development playtests

A work in progress

Come make a mess.

Pick your platform. These are early builds. Some rough edges are artistic choices; the others are on us. Please keep the whole extracted game folder together.

Windows

64-bit
Download for Windows

ZIP · 253 MB · playtest-beta003

Extract the ZIP and run ArtArtArt.exe. This earlier playtest predates the new granular graphics controls.

Mac

Intel + Apple silicon
Download for Mac

TAR.GZ · 261 MB · process-check001

Extract the archive and open ArtArtArt.app. Includes Performance, Balanced, and Custom graphics options. Not notarized; macOS may block opening.

Older Mac? Start with Performance in Pause → Settings, then adjust the effects you want. Hardware performance is still being tested. Linux is experimental; no Linux download is included here.

How to get started

W A S D to move, mouse to look. Esc opens the menu, settings, and the full controls guide.

Choose Get started from the pause menu for a guided introduction. Order your first delivery, hang a few favorites, then open an exhibition from the gallery desk.

Controller support is included. Use Start / Options → Controls to see the controller map.