Minimalist AI is very hard to please

[Лаухмэлдэр]

So I am in Act 2 where all the Expressionists and Minimalists are coming to see your art.

At the beginning it was easy to please the minimalists. You only have to draw some simple Shapes and use few colors and few brushstrokes.
But after about 5 paintinge they don't like the pictures anymore. Every painting I create is unoriginal and plagiarized.

The painting the AI likes are easy to create, but they are very very very picky and think everthing's plagiarized. I am stuck at act 2 just because this AI doesn't want to buy any painting.

Even paintings that I have never drawn, with shapes and colors that I haven't used it in their opinion a copy.

Also: I don't know if this is a feature or not, but one can sell one colored painting for 0€. So you can just draw the entire screen blue and sell it for 0€.


All in all I think the minimalist's AI should be reworked and made a bit less picky.


EDIT: It is very annoying and frustrting when you're trying to be creative and draw paintings you've never donw before, and then three minimalists come and call it a copy. Like, I spent about 20 seconds drawing this new painting with shapes I've never used and it is a copy.

[tofu]

Having the same issue here. Hope they fix it.

[CHAo_S]

in punk storyline?

[Лаухмэлдэр]

Originally posted by CHAo_S:

in punk storyline?

Pleasing the Punks in Chapter one results in minimalists and expressionists in chapter two. So yes

[megalolcat]

so im not the only one

[Volty]

i was able to get it, basically you have to give a new approch every time they consider it a copy, so instead of random shapes, i switched to very simplistic characters, like pacman, then i switched to boxes, then i switched to snowmen, as long as what you are drawing stays unique, you should be fine. its pretty poetic that the minimalists need the most creativity. its kinda cool to have an ending that is more difficult. after switching it up try to go back to random shapes and see if they catch onto it again, then you could just loop the different types of paintings that you have been making.

[Kurasu]

The hardest part about the minimalist ending, I find, is that it is almost 100% a switch up of what you had to do to get there: where the punks and expressionists want lots of random colors splattered all over the place, the minimalists want very little, very basic. It's practically a 180 degree shift of what you had to do to get there.

I really enjoy the minimalist direction, so it's actually the one I tend to play the most often; I find the best way to go through it is to alternate between two to three stripes of color across the canvas (I find outlining the stripes can help a lot; outline broad strokes *only*) and drawing very simplistic or very simple shades, using no more than three colors and broad strokes, with very little detail.

Outlining your image with a thin line of color seems to help, as long as the line is smooth and doesn't take too many strokes to do. For instance, a flag, a box, a couple curves. Any more than three colors is risky; more than four and you're almost sure to get rejected for 'complexity' unless that fourth color is only being used to outline the other three.

I also find that if you use clashing colors, they are less forgiving about numbers of colors than if you use complimentary colors. For instance, I have used all three blues outlined in white as stripes, and been OK, but two pink curves, one outlined in orange, one in green, didn't fly.

Go-tos I like doing early game: a big dot of white with a smaller dot of orange in the middle (usually titled 'An Egg'), a brown line with two green curves to make a sprout, and a yellow 'star' drawn with a single line and no outlining.

I uploaded a number of examples for 'minimalist' pieces, including a couple that were rejected so you can get a feel for what is and isn't too much (included: spoiler tags).