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Every night, you awaken in your studio and paint your masterpiece. 

Or, at least, you try to.

Oh, if only your muse would return.

If only lifting your brush didn't fill your fingertips with agony.


Note: Web version may be laggy. For the best experience, please download and play on your OS!

It Paints Me is a short visual novel about art, love and pain. It features:

  •  3.9k words
  • 3 endings
  • hand drawn artwork
  • original music
  • partial voice acting

Originally created in one week for Scream Jam 2023. The jam version is still up for posterity, but please download and run the latest version (1.2.0) for the intended experience.

Content warnings:  

Violence, death, body horror, chronic illness, grief, dysfunctional relationships.


Art, music, story, programming & sound design by Endysis.

Casting by Phebe Fabacher

Voice Mixing by Mark Mullens

Cast

Sam - Callum Sanders

Marie - Shellah

Sam's Mother - Maria Corcobado


Sam's Father- Ethan Grant

sfx includes recordings by:

fattirewhitey, TiesWijnen, spookymodem, Cell31_Sound_Productions, nuronidas, Foxfire-, daandraait, magnuswaker, sillygrizzlies, thepodcastdoctor, Profispiesser, julianmateo_, nathvandykOWI, michael_grinnell , mydo1







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Or step into the woods for another tragic romance...


It Paints Me now has a fan game by robobarbie!


Updated 1 day ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(246 total ratings)
AuthorENDYSIS
GenreVisual Novel, Interactive Fiction
Made withRen'Py
TagsAtmospheric, Dark, Gothic, Horror, Male protagonist, Multiple Endings, Psychological Horror, Romance, Story Rich

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itpaintsme-1.2.0-COMPLETE-EDITION.zip 165 MB
itpaintsme-1.1-pc-OLD-JAM-VERSION.zip 114 MB
itpaintsme-1.1-mac-OLD-JAM-VERSION.zip 108 MB

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beautiful, sad and scary, wow!

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This was lovely! It reminded me of one of my absolute favorites, The House in Fata Morgana. I was wondering if you took some inspiration from it, which would be incredible because we need more stories like that one! Even your main character reminds me of Michel. Thank you for the experience. I'll definitely play/read whatever else you release.

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It actually is! I wouldn't say it's directly inspired, but Fata Morgana is one of my favourites VNs and some of my gothic leaning works do have little nods to it. ^^

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ahh i love everything about this game! the music, voice acting, such a beautiful art style and the gothic atmosphere reminded me of e.a. poe and the picture of dorian gray. I will definetely play the other games<33

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Thank you so much, it's an honour to be compared to those stories and I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

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This game is beautiful, it definitely deserves more recognition. I found it about 2 months ago and it's still on my mind everyday :3

I'm honoured that it left an impact on you, thank you so much for playing it! ;o;

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i rememeber playing this in school theu day it came out... so good...

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Hauntingly beautiful. I really loved this a lot. So stunning and full of depth.

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Thank you so much for playing! ^^

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Everything about this game was beautifully made. Thank you so much for letting me/us experience it. Truly an excellent piece of art.
The writing and story as a whole, was a bless to read. And don't get me started with the art and voice acting. Absolutely lovely.

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Thank you so much, I'm beyond happy you had a good experience with it!

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Thank you so much! I'm afraid I'm swamped right now, but hopefully in the future I'll be able to tackle localisations!

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hey so what if i cried :( but fr this was amazing, the story, the art, the voices, the music, everything!

Thank you so much!

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even tho there's 0 implications of it in the canonical story, i can't help but feel that whatever we saw will repeat and repeat and repeat. sam and marie's agony, it's a chasm too deep to not be eternal. needless to say i absolutely adored this game

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Thank you so much for playing and leaving your thoughts! It's interesting to hear this since the early concepts of the story had a bit of exactly what you described. I wanted the final story to have some closure though, so I didn't play around with it. :')

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I don't comment much, but this game was absolutely breathtaking. Marie and Sam make me so sad, I can't wait to see more of your work!

Thank you so much for playing! <3

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I am going to try this out! I loved snow white's ashes, so this is gonna be lit

Really moving story for me, really liked the art, and the writing. I liked the voice acting, tho not that much, but then again i am not a voice acting critic. Really good work. A piece of art.

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The art is honestly amazing as well as the voice acting and music and overall the game is great I don't play games much but I got really into this. And I love how the voice acting holds so much emotion, the game is amazing, good job really! 

Thank you so much for playing it! The voice actors really did a fantastic job, I'm glad you enjoyed their performances!

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not only is the art absolutely gorgeous, the music is amazing and i really really liked the clicking sound, it was really nice!! and well, the story is so unbelivably sad yet strangely beautiful in a way. amazing game

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Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed the game! (And the clicky sound, haha)

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the writing and everything! the art! is amazing.

Thank you kindly!

Corto pero increíble! Realmente jugar esto fue toda una experiencia, gran historia, me encantó!

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The way i sobbed when i could embrace Sam

;__;

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The writing, the music, the art, even the satisfying clicky sound for the buttons! So many things come together so well. I enjoyed this beautiful dark tale a lot. You are so talented!

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I'm so honoured you enjoyed another one of my stories, thank you!! (I'm glad you found the clicky sound satisfying too haha)

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Very good visual novel ! The soundtrack is awesome too.

Thank you so much for playing!

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God damn! I loved this game. Every facet of it is pitch perfect!

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Ahh I'm so honoured!

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My special love to: the ambience and storytelling

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Whoa, this game is so cool! :)

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this was absolutely gorgeous. from the atmosphere to the art and story telling. also the va's did a wonderful job. this might be one of my favorite visual novels yet!!

Thank you so much! The VAs really gave it their all, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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Oh my god i loveeeeeee this game, it's so beautiful and I really had a great time playing it. I would 100% recommend it :D

Thank you so much for playing!

this was really great) loved the graphics and the story..

I am really dumb. I enjoyed the game, but I didn't really understand the story. Can someone explain? Is Sam there at all, or is it some sort of demon. What are the icon things that appear during most endings?

I'm not entirely sure if this is correct but from what I understood was sam died but is now kind of "undead" and still is a person but is rotting like a corpse would but doesn't fully understand that. So sam is still technically person even though he died of his illness. Please correct me if I'm wrong though.

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Amazing. The art, sound, writing, everything!

Ending 1 was delightfully twisted, though I didn't see it til my second playthrough cuz I couldn't make that choice at first.. Bravo!

Thank you so much! ^^

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this hurt so beautifully... especially Melpomene...

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What a beautifully tragic story. The game left me feeling the same way as I felt when I first read The Picture of Dorian Gray, atmosphere included, and that's my favorite book of all time. The story, the writing, the artwork, the voice acting.... just wow. This is one of those games that will indubitably stay with me forever. Thank you for creating such a wonderful experience!

I'm truly delighted (and honoured) that this story captured the same feelings for you! Thank you so much for playing it, and your lovely comment!

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I loved this so much! At the start I thought she was the bad one but I understand if you were in her perspective!

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IM SCREAMING i made this itch.io account purely to comment. i love this game so much, its already a new hyperfixation for me... i absoloutely adore the art style, i adore the story and the messages behind the game, its one of the most creative short games ive ever played and i MEAN that. thank you for the new hyperfixation

AH I'm so honoured that you enjoyed it this much, thank you for your kind words!

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hey guys hear me out- sam please give me a chance i promise ily <3
(but seriously though. as an artist i feel the same way as sam in ending 2. i too would never give up my artistic abilities for anything. death or life <3)

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Honestly, I just fell in love with this game. Especially the voice acting and the music/ Even if it was a short game fleeting like a dream, I sure won't forget its beautiful impact.

I'm so happy the game left you with that feeling, thank you for playing it!

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Man, I loved this game before the update, and now I'm loving it even more. Haunting, tragic yet beautiful love story. New ending is cool and the voice acting despite being partial is very well done. The art and the soundtrack are great, too. Definitely gonna buy the artbook. You're doing a great job.

Can't wait for the final release of Kit and The Last Winter Knight!

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Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed what the update had to offer! <3

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Great job on the update to this game! I loved playing through the jam release, but the complete edition definitely feels more polished. The additional artwork and VA is beautiful, fits the game perfectly; I adore the new ending. 

This is such a beautiful and tragic story, you did a great job both pre and post Scream Jam! 

Thank you so much for the kind words (and for giving it another playthrough)! I'm really glad you enjoyed the update! :D

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Beautiful game. It gave me chills. But... can I be real for a second? Sam's corpse... the icon of agony...















SMASH

thank you LMAO

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FR GIRL 😭

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His voice is so sweet and beautiful

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I finally had a moment to replay this now that you've updated it!

First off, playing it while knowing some things about it already [from when I played the original version] made it almost hurt more at the start because that Dramatic Irony hit so hard. The somber tone is just as effective as I remember it and your illustrations, melodies, and soundscapes are so beautiful.

The voicework you added really adds a finishing layer of polish to it all, too. What a fantastic collaboration, huge congrats to the voice cast for putting their all into this. The version you finished prior already felt like a whole and cohesive work of art, it was so chilling and effective, but I'm so glad you were able to really finish it. What an awesome game you made here. Massive, massive congratulations.

Definitely want to nab that artbook+OST bundle on my next paycheck!

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Thank you -so- much for playing it again! I'm glad you got something out of it this time and enjoyed the updates! 

I'm really proud and happy with how the characters were voiced too, I was really lucky to get to work with this cast!

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