Organization:Pokémon Art Academy

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Pokémon Art Academy
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North American box art
Developer(s)Headstrong Games
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Tancred Dyke-Wells
Producer(s)Alys Elwick
Keisuke Terasaki
Hitoshi Yamagami
Designer(s)Justin Cheadle
Programmer(s)Michael Jacobsen
Greg Booker
Callum Brighting
Ian Crowther
Matthew Downie
Nikolaos Papadopoulos
Django Verbaant
Artist(s)Jason Howard
Composer(s)Richard Wilkinson
Masaru Tajima
Archie Campbell
Series
  • Pokémon
  • Art Academy
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • JP: June 19, 2014 (June 19, 2014)
  • EU: July 4, 2014 (2014-07-04)[1]
  • AU: July 5, 2014[2]
  • NA: October 24, 2014 (2014-10-24)[3]
Genre(s)Drawing game
Mode(s)Single-player

Pokémon Art Academy[lower-alpha 1] is a 2014 educational drawing game developed by Headstrong Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS . It is a spin-off of the Art Academy series featuring characters from the Pokémon media franchise. The game was made available as both a retail and downloadable release from the Nintendo eShop, and is the first 3DS title with built-in Miiverse support for sharing artwork.

Gameplay

Pokémon Art Academy is an educational art game designed to teach players how to draw various Pokémon characters through 40 advancing lessons. Players progress through three skill levels – Novice, Apprentice, and Graduate – while learning new techniques and art concepts, with additional tools such as pastel and paintbrush being unlocked along the way.[4] The Novice course begins with skills such as drawing head-on portraits, angles, and construction shapes, while later stages introduce shading, hatching, opacity, and freehand sketches. Each drawing can be transferred to a Pokémon Trading Card Game card border upon completion, with the option to add a background image.

The game also includes a Free Paint Mode that allows players to draw whatever they wish, with the option to load templates as reference, as well as Quick Sketch Mode, which requires making a simple drawing with limited tools. Additional templates can be obtained by progressing through lessons, or as downloadable content through special promotions over Nintendo Network. Pokémon Art Academy features Miiverse functionality that allows for drawings to be uploaded to Nintendo's Miiverse Community, as well as take part in art contests.[5] Unlike the main Art Academy series, this title feature non-traditional tools such as layers and an undo function. These digital art tools are usually avoided in past titles to encourage an authentic experience with traditional art, albeit on a digital medium. Since Pokémon Art Academy is focused on teaching drawing Pokémon characters, a series geared toward young children (albeit not specifically), this title is lenient with these digital tools.

Development

Pokémon Art Academy was first announced by Nintendo in April 2014.[6] It was released officially in Japan on June 19 the same year.[7] An English releases were followed for Europe,[8] New Zealand and Australia in July.[9] A North American version was released in the fall,[10] in October.[11]

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic76/100[12]
Review scores
PublicationScore
Famitsu31/40[13]
Nintendo Life8/10 stars[16]
Nintendo World Report8/10[15]
ONM77%[14]

Pokémon Art Academy entered the Japanese sales charts as the number-one selling title of its debut week with 31,080 copies,[17] and by the following August would go on to sell a total of 91,232 copies in the region before falling from the weekly top 20 software rankings.[18] It received a 31 out of 40 total from editors of Japanese Weekly Famitsu magazine based on individual scores of 7, 8, 7, and 9, earning the publication's Silver Award.[13]

The game met with a mostly positive response in Europe, earning a 77% score from aggregate review website GameRankings[19] and a 76 out of 100 average from Metacritic.[12] While Official Nintendo Magazine found the title to be "challenging, fun and educational in the best of ways". The reviewer remarked that the game's lessons advanced too drastically, going from "extremely simplistic" early stages to requiring advanced drawing skills without explanation of proportions or expressions.[14] The magazine also felt that experienced artists may be put off by the lack of tools or layering options, but nonetheless called the game "lovely to play, never punishing you for imperfect work, encouraging and helping you to better your drawing".[14]

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: ポケモン アートアカデミー

References

  1. ↑ Kubba, Sinan (May 12, 2014). "Pokemon Art Academy opens Euro branch in July [Update: NA this fall"]. Joystiq. http://www.joystiq.com/2014/05/12/pokemon-art-academy-opens-european-branch-in-july/. 
  2. ↑ "Pokemon Art Academy". Nintendo. http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/pokemon-art-academy/. 
  3. ↑ "Pokémon Art Academy for Nintendo 3DS - Nintendo Game Details". Nintendo of America. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/pfF0n2KqVPlrFfdOyxK7sqolDaoIuINt. 
  4. ↑ "Pokemon Art Academy - Lessons". Nintendo. http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/pokemon-art-academy/lessons.html. 
  5. ↑ "Pokemon Art Academy - Saving and Sharing". Nintendo. http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/pokemon-art-academy/saving_and_sharing.html. 
  6. ↑ McMinn, Kevin (April 29, 2014). "Pokémon Art Academy Announced For Nintendo 3DS". Nintendo News. http://nintendonews.com/2014/04/pokemon-art-academy-nintendo-3ds/. 
  7. ↑ "ポケモンアートアカデミー" (in ja). Nintendo Japan. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/bpcj/. 
  8. ↑ "Pokémon Art Academy". Nintendo of Europe. https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-3DS/Pokemon-Art-Academy-881830.html. 
  9. ↑ "Pokemon Art Academy". Nintendo. http://gamesites.nintendo.com.au/pokemon-art-academy/. 
  10. ↑ Makuch, Eddie (May 12, 2014). "Learn how to draw Pokemon on your 3DS this fall". Gamespot. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/learn-how-to-draw-pokemon-on-your-3ds-this-fall/1100-6419570/. 
  11. ↑ Moser, Cassidee (August 22, 2014). "Pokemon Art Academy North American Release Date Revealed". http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/22/pokemon-art-academy-north-american-release-date-revealed. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Pokemon Art Academy for 3DS". https://www.metacritic.com/game/pokemon-art-academy/critic-reviews/?platform=3ds. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Romano, Sal (June 10, 2014). "Famitsu Review Scores: Issue 1331". Gematsu. http://gematsu.com/2014/06/famitsu-review-scores-issue-1331. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Gray, Kate (June 16, 2014). "3DS Review: Pokémon Art Academy review". Official Nintendo Magazine. http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/58160/reviews/pokmon-art-academy-review-review/. Retrieved August 25, 2014. 
  15. ↑ Koopman, Daan (23 June 2014). "Pokémon Art Academy Review". http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/37907/pokemon-art-academy-review. 
  16. ↑ McMahon, Conor (16 June 2014). "Review: Pokémon Art Academy". http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/3ds/pokemon_art_academy. 
  17. ↑ Lamoreux, Ben (June 25, 2014). "Media Create Sales: Pokémon Art Academy Tops the Charts". GenGAME. http://www.gengame.net/2014/06/media-create-sales-pokemon-art-academy-tops-the-charts/. 
  18. ↑ "Weekly Top 50 Media Create Charts (August 11, 2014 – August 17, 2014)". NintendObserver. August 23, 2014. http://nintendobserver.com/2014/08/23/weekly-top-50-media-create-charts-august-11-2014-august-17-2014/. 
  19. ↑ "Pokemon Art Academy for 3DS". GameRankings. http://www.gamerankings.com/3ds/792570-pokemon-art-academy/index.html. 

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