- We're In The Pixel Expo Showcase! - 14 August 2026
Ayyy we're also in the Pixel Expo showcase! What a busy week!If you're living in Western Australia, you can also check out our super secret new game prototype irl 👀
- We're In The Cat Appreciation Sale! - 8 August 2026
Cat welfare is near and dear to my heart, as someone with two rescue cats (who actually feature in the game!), I'm always super appreciative to the dev cats team for putting on this sale. The team is also deep into development of the next game, but we're planning on doing a content update sometime before the end of the year... More info will be coming soon!
- We won??? - 25 July 2026
Still feels a little surreal to say this, but I Eat Paintings When Guards Aren't Looking has won the Innovation in Game Design award at the WA Screen Culture Awards!I guess that makes me an award-winning game designer now, which is a sentence I'll probably need a little while to get used to.Making games is never a solo effort, and I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who supported this weird little idea from its earliest sketches through to release. Thank you to everyone who playtested, gave feedback, shared the game, cheered me on, or simply believed in it.Most of all, thank you to my wife. She was the narrative designer on the project, and her influence is woven through every part of the game's tone, humour, and personality. The game simply wouldn't be what it is without her creativity, and I'm so proud we got to make something this delightfully strange together.I'd also like to congra…
- I Eat Paintings Nominated For The WA Screen Culture Awards - 13 July 2026
I'm incredibly excited (and still a little shocked) to share that it's been nominated for a WA Screen Culture Award! It's an absolute honour to be recognised alongside so many amazing creators from Western Australia's screen and games community.Thank you to everyone who's played the game, shared it, cheered me on, or encouraged my strange little museum-munching goblin along the way. You've all helped make this nomination possible.Now if you'll excuse me, I have to resist the urge to celebrate by eating the certificate! 🖼️🍴
- We're in the ANZ Indie Showcase! - 8 May 2026
Happy weekend everyone, I hope you're ready for some games!You can find us and other games from our corner of the world, all in the one fest! If you have a fav let us know on our socials :)Thanks!
- Yet another UX fix! (Build 1.0.4) - 23 April 2026
Done: - Show some indicator that the list can be scrolled when longer than the page - moving found objects to the bottom of the list (so unfound stuff always lives at the top) - fixed controller support for longer lists (by adding simple buttons to top/bottom) - Made hints not tied to missed clicks - fixed a few more typos (sorry, they just slip in lol) - when you went to hit next level in a replay run, it would jump to the end sequence, so I added a "reset or view" popup (same as the level select) to avoid messy sequence issues. I think this is the last of the launch feedback I got, but if I've missed anything, please let me know!
- Hotfix - Build 1.0.3 - 14 April 2026
- Potentially fixed zoom issue on ultrawide monitors (please let me know if it's not actually fixed, I had a real hard time testing this one since I don't have an ultrawide monitor) - Fixed L15 intros not playing correctly
- What? You want to actually read things? Well fine, here you go! (Build 1.0.2) - 13 April 2026
Hi All! I've been working on some quick fix patches for some of the early issues identified by players (thanks so much all for reporting issues and giving feedback!)I've added the following: The view button when loading a finished level (through level select) takes you to a still playable, but not restarted version of the level, so you can search for the cats without resetting your progress Resetting a level no longer locks the one after it (the levels have memory now! no more simple logic for them!) The save system has had a minor update to account for this new tracked level state Dropped the levels on some of the music, and set the music level lower by default on the options Added some highly requested changes to the level end screen (and a new achievement!) And the big one: The object list has had a big overhaul! Previously, found objects would become inaccessable after discovery whe…
- We're in the Hidden Object Fest! - 9 April 2026
Hi All! I'm very excited to share that we'll be participating in the Hidden Object Fest on Steam for the next few days! Did you think I pushed to launch 2 days before my birthday for funsies?? Ahahaha! Hopefully we catch the eye of a few perceptive players and share the weird and wonderful world of "I Eat Paintings When Guards Aren't Looking"!QoL patches - they're coming! but not before I turn 29. Keep your eye out for some small hotfixes here and there, but major revisions to the hint interactivity and post-finish veiwing of levels is coming soon!As always, if you have spotted a bug or have an improvement suggestion, please share them with me here or via the forums! Happy snacking!~ Rin
- I Eat Paintings is Live! - 8 April 2026
We're Live!!!I'm so delighted to push go on launching I Eat Paintings When Guards Aren't Looking! I hope you all have a lot of fun playing with this!A word of thanks!I'd like to say a huge thanks to the content creators that have played (and will be playing) the game around the launch, you all have made a huge impact on the wishlists and interest in the game!Post launch: I'm planning on pushing some quality of life updates, in particular around the behavour of levels after you've completed them and some UI funkyness for hints. If you have feedback for me please let me know on the forums or through this form!Leave a review!If you've played the game, reviews help so much for helping show more people the game! It would really help our little duo team
- 338,400 Seconds Till Launch! - 4 April 2026
We're getting so close to launch! How exciting! (and terifying!) There is 3.9 days or 94 hours or 5,640 minutes or 338,400 seconds left to go!I'm happy to confirm the final build ended up being 15 paintings and 19 cats! I even hand-painted 10 of them myself, just to make sure there was a cat in every painting for all you competionists.Also! Don't forget to poke your favourite creators if you think they'd get a kick out of the game! It's hard to get people interested in weird little "more art than game" indie projects, so every share helps!Chat again soon!~Rin
- Release Date Announcement & Demo Live! - 11 March 2026
We now have a free demo on Steam! This includes three full levels of hidden object puzzling across famous historical paintings, cryptic cravings, and deeply questionable dining decisions.What's in the demo?3 levels to sink your teeth intoThe full rip-and-swallow experience (point, click, consume)A hint system, in case the paintings are fighting backAt least one cat in each painting. It's hidden obect game genre law!Release date confirmed: 8th April 2026 That's exactly one month away. If you've been sitting on that wishlist button, now is the time.We'd love to hear what you think! Drop your feedback in the comments or hop into the community hub. What was satisfying? What was confusing? Did the riddles make sense, or did they just make you hungry? Tell us everything.And if you know a streamer or YouTuber who'd enjoy eating art crimes on camera??Share the demo their way. We reckon this one…
