Oil Paint is a walking game that looks like an oil painting in motion. Every leaf, tree trunk, patch of snow and ribbon of aurora is drawn with brush strokes, about 1.5 million of them a frame, and it still runs at around 200 fps in a browser tab. Its maker, Blendi (@BlendiByl), says he made the first version with Claude Fable 5.2 in under an hour. It is free and open source:
How to play
There are two walks so far: a snowy ridge under the aurora that ends at a cabin, and an autumn forest of beech, birch and oak that ends in a clearing. Two buttons in the corner switch between them. There is no sound and no objective; you walk and look.
Click the scene, then look around with the mouse, move with WASD, sprint with Shift, jump with Space, zoom with the scroll wheel and hide the hints with H. Gamepads work too.
The first load is about 9 MB and needs a browser with WebGL2. On a slower computer, add ?quality=low to the address.
Why it looks like a real painting
Most painterly effects are filters laid over a finished frame, so the strokes slide across the screen when the camera moves. In Oil Paint every stroke belongs to an object in the world: the strokes on a leaf stay on the leaf. Walk or turn and the paint stays where it is, as if you had stepped into the canvas.
Make your own
The code is MIT-licensed and the art is CC0, so you can play it on patch.gg or clone it and turn it into your own game.
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