Starving Artists

Starving Artists is an award-winning, turn and resource management game for one to four players.  Using some of the world’s most beautiful works of art, players complete these masterpieces using transparent cubes in an attempt to become famous artists. It takes about 40-60 minutes (approximately 20 minutes per player).

How to Play

Starving Artists is played over a series of turns. Each turn represents a new day. On each day, you must choose between: buying new canvases, painting the canvases you already own, or working in order to get more paint. If at the end of the day, you’ve completed a masterpiece, you can sell it to earn more paint and food. If you don’t spend your days efficiently, you won’t be able to feed yourself, and you’ll have to give up on your dreams.

As an aspiring paint-by-cube artist, your life centers around the paintings you must complete.

In order to complete those paintings, you take two actions each day. You can buy new canvases from the market, paint canvases in your studio using your paint cubes, or work to collect new paint cubes.

At the end of each day, you can sell your completed paintings. But, you’ll be competing in the limited marketplace for paintings with anyone else who wants to sell. If there’s not enough paint to go around, you’ll have to make do with less.

Specs

1-4 Players

Ages 12 and up

Play Time: 40-60 Minutes