#eastshade

Eastshade is a gorgeous pastoral RPG about being a painter

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by Amr (@siegarettes)

  • Eastshade
  • Developer: Eastshade Studios
  • Publisher: Eastshade Studios
  • PC

Eastshade seems like a fruit ripened just for a me–an art school dropout with little sense for painting. Escaping to the life of a traveling artist is still a potent fantasy–seeing new places, capturing them, and making a living off your art are all about as fantastical as the setting of Eastshade itself, after all. I expected to come out with a certain appreciation for painting, maybe a with the game’s pastoral landscapes. Instead, I learned  about something else I missed in my truncated art education: the hard material reality of trying to make art for a living.

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