A game where you play as a man or woman who was sentenced and convicted of a serious crime, leaving you with prison with nothing but your hyperactivity and four walls to keep you company. In mind-numbing drudgery, you eventually resorted to scratching out your thoughts on the walls around you with a concrete-sharpened toothbrush.

At first it was just mindless venting. But then you got better at it. Over time, you started looking at the inmates around you, the perspective of the cell, and drew. And drew. And when you finally got out, you found you were still enjoying it. So you kept doing it, and eventually it got you attention: admirers of your unique style and background. But you got opposition too.

It wasn't long before people were calling your art sick, deranged, inappropriate, offensive, and a host of other labels. It ended up working. One by one, art shows stopped sending you invitations, and your works were quietly taken down. Eventually your progress dried up. In this game, you play as that artist in attempts to get recognised despite your convicted background and without selling out.

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A sim//management game where you act as the artist's conscience, keeping them fed and influencing their decisions on when/what to draw and what topics to explore. You also act as their financial manager, directing which outlets they approach and how they sell their work to make a living. At the end of every day, they will go to bed and you will see the thoughts running through their mind before they fall asleep. These are things you need to address to keep them sane and content with what they do, like feedback from the artist to their mind. The goal is to gain popularity without getting on the wrong end of controversy and spread your artwork as best you can despite the odds.

Art by Kago Shintaro: http://wewastetime.com/2013/01/13/kago-shintaro/

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