Please (Don't) Touch the Art
A downloadable game for Windows
Congrats! You’ve just been hired as the curator of the illustrious Diane Inglethorpe Angostura-Renesmee Fine Art Museum. Go you!
There’s only two issues.
1.) You are in no way, shape, or form qualified to be a museum curator.
2.) The art in this particular museum is, uh…alive?
About
Take on the role of an uncultured and unprepared art museum curator in Please (Don’t) Touch the Art, a management sim-slash-visual novel where the only thing less ready for a make-it or break-it museum exhibition than you is the artwork itself.
Get your quarrelsome gallery of talking paintings and moving statues to stop fighting before the grand gala, or watch the museum crash and burn around you – the choice is yours!
Features
- 8 idiosyncratic and historically (in)accurate characters, each based on a real-life art piece
- 11 point-and-click minigames
- 50 hours of gameplay (if you replay it 50 times)
- 800+ endings (or more! Or less! We're writers, we don't know math)
The Team
- Hart Crompton - Design and Narrative Lead, Artist, Proofreader
- Will Ridenour - Producer, Narrative Designer
- Andrea "Bella" Bell – Producer, Audio Designer, Artist
- Summer Fletcher – Narrative Designer, Proofreader
- Kyle Hubbard – Narrative Designer, Artist
- Shane O’Neal – Narrative Designer, Artist, Trailer Editor
- Brian Urrutia – Narrative Designer
- Colin Kiddine – Icon Asset Artist
- Will Hinz, Zora Rosenberg, Brandon Suzuki, Shara Tran – Playtester, Additional Writing
- Matt Cerami, Eliot Howard, Elizabeth Nyman – Playtester
- Corgtholomew Motivationly Posterson – Morale
Additional Attributions
The following works were licensed under CC BY 3.0 or CC BY 4.0.
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Wow, this was a really unique game. I enjoyed the variety of tasks and conversations. The art had a lot of character and emotion. The only thing I would've preferred is clean language and the option to fast forward to choices.
funny little visual novel with an interesting and well-researched topic/concept. the perfect length. charming, will play again :)
(I played the version 1.1.2-win; no idea what’s new in 1.1.3-win which’d come out in the meanwhile)
Absolutely beautiful game. Stunning art, and I don’t mean the museum pieces! The humour is just up my alley, too. I really love the options right at the start. I couldn’t finish it as the constraints of time and how much you can do stress me out, but that’s a me thing.
The game runs well enough on Linux via WINE, with at least one text rendering issue (the ə renders properly in dialogue, but in History appears as a “tofu” character - an X in a box). Having encountered font problems with games run in WINE before, I suspect that’s the reason. Ren’Py can easily export for Linux and Mac as well, with no configuration needed, and I’m sure these download options would be appreciated.
It’s also a bit confusing when checking History at that one painting at night - you can’t tell who said what. I think you can add character portraits to History somehow? Or just naming different characters differently could be helpful.
All in all, a wonderful game with great writing. I’ll definitely give it another try later.
Game of the Year 2069.