Art Academy, also known as Art Academy: Learn painting and drawing techniques with step-by-step training in the PAL regions and Artistic Taste Classroom DS in Japan, is an art training software for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. Art Academy was originally a two-part training application only available for download via the DSiWare service since 2009. It was later re-released in 2010 as a fully compiled, retail-able DS Game Card with added features, thus also making it available for original Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS Lite users.

The full, retail version includes all ten lessons, plus minor additional features, extra mini-lessons, and an image library for art subject references.

Art Academy is advertised as an art training simulation which can teach and help anyone to develop their art skills and techniques that can be applied with real-life tools and materials. Art Academy also features very realistic, albeit limited, range of art tools which can be freely used whichever way the game’s user, as a player or art trainee, deems to. Although it was made for the Nintendo DS, Art Academy is not a real “game” per se, and so it does not feature any actual gameplay, but it does feature a mode which requires any user of Art Academy to progress through in order to unlock higher levels, similarly to most games. The game, however, features two modes of play: Lessons and Free Paint mode.

Platform

Nintendo DS

Developer(s)

Headstrong Games

Publishers(s)

Nintendo

Genres(s)

NA Release Date

October 25, 2010

MVGL User Score

6.6 by 40 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

2.3333

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