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Stamp-sprite-based art program name

jessenator

jessenator

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I can't for the life of me figure out the name of this program I used. I'll throw out what I remember, but it's been bugging me that I can recall the name.
Back in Jr High one of my art teachers had some arty program on his (probably LC AIO) Mac that was completely sprite/stamp based— no brushes or anything that I can recall. Its styling was sort of that early '90s fantasy/fairy elements, but I recall it was mainly subterranean… lots of animated color swatches. Lots of crystalline looking things. Not too much in the way of humanoids that I remember, maybe a few. Mostly it was sprites (the mythical creatures), fairies, moss, vines, crystals, other foliage, etc. 

Most of its premise, I think, was decorating a cave… I want to keep calling it kaleidoscope, but that's the appearance manager control panel. 

Anyway, not pressing, but wondered if anyone else here had used that program before. This would be 1995–96ish.

Edit: lots of prism type objects and such as well.

 
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Scott Baret said:
A long shot here, but could it have possibly been Storybook Weaver from MECC?
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Interesting! Never heard of that one, but it looks cool, and definitely a game I would've like to play at that age.

The one I'm thinking of was almost purely "art" mode, with no real game/interactive elements beyond placing stamps. (That I remember anyway). It was all fantasy, no real world environments.

I don't recall if it was a demo version or a special, educational release, but it had a timer built into it. That's another feature. And there was only one background, possibly because it was a demo...

 
One of the magazines put out a "Games" CD that had a crap ton of shareware games and commercial game demos on it in that time frame. It was most likely one of Macaddict's monthly issue CDs, but a MacWorld "Special Edition CD" keeps nagging at the back of my mind. That's probably your best bet for tracking down titles. The CD may be in the garden?

 
Glad you found it, have fun! Around that time I set up Solarian II, Patriot Command and BMOW's fabulous Tetris Max up on the Quadra 630 in the rug rat's room from that GAMES CD for Wednesday family game nights.. My wonderful ex got some mileage out of Tetris Max and so did the kiddo on other days of the week. Thanks, Big Tomato! :approve:

 
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