ARTIST ALLEY

Brought to You By: Soap, Kyo, Sock & Aris

👩‍🎨 Tamagotchi a starting artist to become the artist alley mogul 👩‍🎨

FULL SCREEN IS RECOMMENDED!

Your little artist friend is having a hard time making it as an artist. With overwhelming amount of rent, bills, and student loans, they are struggling to make money selling art merchandise at the artist alley. Help your little artist friend navigate the artist alley life—from gathering inspirations to tabling at conventions.

Edit (12.01.2025): Changed PC UI size to work better on smaller screens. Add the apartment rent amount on the calendar.

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How to Play

At Home, you can delegate task to your little artist friend to prepare for the upcoming convention.

• PLAY, PAUSE, SPEED UP the game's pace by using the media control under the clock
• Watch TV (TEEVEE) to gain inspiration points
• Make Designs (DWAW) to use inspiration points and create design
• Use PC (USE PC) to order merchandise of select design. Choose merchandise type (e.g. Sticker, Charm, etc) and amount carefully so you don't spend all your money making the merchandise!
• Sleep (EEP) to sleep all days until the convention.

At Convention, you can watch your little friend happily sell the merchandise to various customers at the alley.

• Different customers have different tastes in designs. Be sure you have what they like!

Conventions are on every SUNDAY. Be sure to check the Calendar and Inventory so you are fully prepared for the convention!

On every 26th day, the greedy landlord visits to take the rent money! Be sure you have enough money for the rent. If you don't... the little artist friend will go broke and kicked out of the apartment. And it will be a GAME OVER for your little friend.

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GitHub Game Off 2025 - "WAVES"

In our game Artist Alley, the player character prepares merchandise to sell at the artist alley in a convention center. Convention centers are well known for being crowded events, bringing together waves and waves of people. We wanted to create this feeling of being in the booth as the waves of customers perused the artist alley booths, looked at merchandise, and either bought them or walked away.