01 - uDraw GameTablet - uDraw Studio: Instant Artist [DE] (PlayStation3)https://vgcollect.com/item/286773Hardware: PlayStation 3 fat + uDraw GameTablet
Playtime: About 10 hoursI swapped this item and game along with
Pictionary Plus, that I played and reviewed a few weeks ago.
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist seems to be the must-have title to compliment the uDraw GameTablet and I enjoyed this game far more than
Pictionary Plus.
The bundle
uDraw GameTablet - uDraw Studio: Instant Artist was released in Germany on march 6th 2012 by publisher THQ. The game
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist itself is the sequel to
uDraw Studio and was delevoped by Pipeworks Software, a company based in Eugene/Oregon founded in 1999. Bought by Foundation 9 in april 2005 and then bought by Digital Bros in september 2014, and then again bought by Northern Pacific Group in february 2018 and renamed Pipeworks Studios, this company is responsible for developing a few known games such as
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones for PSP,
Devil May Cry,
Devil May Cry 2 and
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening for Xbox360 and PS3 or
Zumba Fitness for Xbox360, Wii and PS3, amongst some lesser known partially licensed titles.
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist is essentially a digital art studio to use the uDraw GameTablet as intended - for drawing.
Logically, the core gameplay-element (is gameplay even the correct term?) is the quite impressive drawing-editor, where you pick your tools, colors and so on and start drawing something. Being somewhat graphically skilled since childhood, this "game" actually appealed to me. It takes a little while to get used to the tablet's attached pen, but I was slightly blown away by the capabilities of this graphic drawing editor. The color palette to choose from offers literally endless options and there are more than enough useful and sometimes funny tools to choose from, such as pen, brush, spray can, paint bucket, and many more. This is where
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist really shines in comparison to
Pictionary Plus with it's own very simplified editor.
You can either use all those functions freely in the free drawing mode, or absolve a digital art course, or try out some of the minigames and drawing puzzles in the so called artist camp section. The drawing-with-numbers puzzle felt specifically relaxing and cozy within this section. I don't know if this was intentional, but one of the minigames (Alien Swatter) seems to be a modern ripoff of the fly swatting minigame in
Mario Paint - C'mon, how dope is this please?
Graphics (menu, layout, minigames) are all humble and basic, and a game like this doesn't require anything more sophisticated. At the end of the day, the player's own paintings and creations are ment to build the graphical heart of
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist. And, given all the different tools and options, it is really possible to create impressive pictures with depth, lighting and effects. It takes some practice though.
Same as with graphics and similar to
Pictionary Plus, the music in
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist is not worth examining in detail. But let me at least point out who's credited with this unmemorable, highly generic drivel: Michael Jones, American freelance composer and sound engineer, who already composed the soundtrack to
uDraw Studio and actually won the 2021 MPSE Golden Reel Award for outstanding achievement in audio editing (game Audio) with his contribution to
Call of Duty: Vanguard. I guess he himself doesn't consider this particular soundtrack as one of the milestones of his career...
Nevertheless and thanks to it's fine working editor, I totally enjoyed playing
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist and am looking foward to getting more uDraw-titles to tinker with this funky uDraw GameTablet.
First game finished in 2026 - on to the next one
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so I'm still looking for a good source for labels to print out by myself. Idealy with the same simple layout as the original ones (and that's where it get's kinda hard online: most labels I found are just pictures... I need lines to write/type on).