Painting Party is an incredibly entertaining Indie Game, or Community Game, or whatever you want to call it. Regardless of what Microsoft is calling their public created games, Painting Party is a fun and entertaining videogame to play with your pals. Here's why, I don't consider my friends or myself artistic at all, but this game makes you feel like Picasso, because it's easy to make a drawing that you both question, and laugh at. While Picasso may not have garnered many yuks at his rendition of “Guernica,” the ability to make something beautiful is still there. The game is somewhat of a sequel to Let's Draw a Picture Together, a game in which you can paint and do basically the same thing. While the games are really the same, right down to the very engine, (same developer) there are some key bonuses with the game. You can use a color wheel to select about any color you can think of, and that's pretty useful when painting a house, the color brown, since it's not a default. Uh, yeah, that's actually all it adds on.. But I still bought it for 80 Microsoft Points, I mean, come on, it's super cheap! There do exist a few drawbacks about the game, for instance, the ability to share saved drawings with your friends, or undo things you've drawn in multiplayer. There's also a very annoying avatar sitting in the corner of your screen that you can thankfully disable, but it just shouldn't be there. But seriously, it's one of the only Indie Games I've purchased and played for more than five minutes. So here's the thing, try the demo, talk it out with your friends, and get them to try it too. Carve out a niche of paintings to make (we do comics, for example, rage threads) and have fun, that's all the game is about, and trust me, while it may seem juvenile, it's too enjoyable to pass up for being a mature snob. I give it the XBO Code Green.

If you're interested in trying this game out, head over here to add the trial to your download queue.